A classroom at a school in Margibi County, Liberia, December 2025. A new treaty to recognize the right to early-childhood care and education and to guarantee free public education from pre-primary through the end of secondary school could help prevent global child labor. HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Peter lives near Monrovia, Liberia’s capital, with his mother and three younger sisters. He attended school through ninth grade, but after his father died his…
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