Results from a baseline survey on the Right to Know, Right to Education conducted by the Civil Society Coalition for Quality Basic Education (CSCQBE) shows that almost 80 percent of teachers and parents in Malawi have not read the African Charter on Child Rights.
CSCQBE Executive Director Lexon Ndalama said in Lilongwe that knowledge of instruments was key to claiming and promoting children’s rights to quality education and participating in school governance.
“National and international instruments have important functions like setting out rights, defining universal principles and norms for the status of children,” he said.
Right to Know and Right to Education is a project aimed at promoting the child’s right to quality basic education through access to information and participatory rights.
The project is being implemented in Swaziland, Zambia, Kenya, Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania and Malawi.
Source African Press Agency
