Forced marriages for girls are rising across Africa and Asia, according to U.N. officials, as is child trafficking. Aid workers in Kenya said that many families were sending their teenage girls into sex work to feed the family. Why is it, frustrated children’s advocates ask, that bars, gyms, restaurants and subway systems are now operating but not schools? Mr. Williams said leaders who “really believe in education” should use those resources on schools, and he questioned why they were not. Her mother is a maid and her father sold small sculptures before the pandemic robbed him of a job.

Source: New York Times September 27, 2020 15:22 UTC