School of Hard Knocks - Launched Sept 5, 2016 - Full multimedia experience: audio, stills, text and or video: Go to zReportage.com to see more - Senegal has prosecuted only a handful of cases involving children who are trafficked and forced to beg by abusive teachers in Quranic schools despite a decade-old law outlawing the practice, according to Human Rights Watch. Known as tallies - an Arabic word for pupil - an estimated 50,000 street children, as young as three-years old are sent up to hundreds of kilometres away from home to big cities, including Senegal's capital, Dakar, by their parents to gain religious instruction at ''daaras'' - but they end up begging on the streets. ''The abuse being meted out by these so-called teachers is on display every day and in plain view for all to see, and yet the police and judiciary have consistently failed to open investigations and hold them to account,'' said Corinne Dufka, West Africa director at Human Rights Watch. ''The suffering of the tale is a blind spot in Senegalese society.''
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Aug 8, 2015 - Dakar, Senegal - Boys participate in class at an NGO-supervised Daara. Groups like Boolo En Faveur Des Enfants are working to change the conditions of the schools and the treatment of the children.
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Jul 7, 2015 - Saly, Senegal - Children sing during a class in a Koranic school. As of 2014, there were an estimated 50,000 talibes in Senegal.
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Jul 7, 2015 - Saly, Senegal - Girls sit at their desks in conventional Koranic school classroom. Students, who often come from disadvantaged backgrounds, cover their education, room, and board by begging.
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Jul 12, 2015 - Saly, Senegal - Girls participate in a Koranic ceremony.
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Jun 25, 2015 - Dakar, Senegal - Talibes play with education materials in a daara in the periphery of Dakar.
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Jul 3, 2015 - Dakar, Senegal - A talibe extends his hands to ask for money in a wealthier part of Dakar, Senegal.
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Jul 12, 2015 - Saly, Senegal - Boys participate in a Koranic ceremony.
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Jun 30, 2015 - Dakar, Senegal - A talibe walks through traffic to beg for money in Dakar's city center.
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Jun 30, 2015 - Dakar, Senegal - Talibe on a street in Dakar city center.
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Aug 8, 2015 - Dakar, Senegal - Boys study the Koran in a monitored daara.
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Jun 25, 2015 - Dakar, Senegal - Talibe on a street in a neighborhood on the outskirts of Dakar
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Jun 25, 2015 - Dakar, Senegal - A child washes clothes on the terrace of a daara on the outskirts of Dakar.
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Jul 7, 2015 - Saly, Senegal - The Koran in a traditional Koranic school.
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Jun 25, 2015 - Dakar, Senegal - Talibes watch television in a daara on the outskirts of Dakar. These so-called educational centers accommodate from 30 to 100 boys.
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Jun 25, 2015 - Dakar, Senegal - Wooden boards, used to teach the Koran, lean against a wall in a daara on the outskirts of Dakar.
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Aug 8, 2015 - Dakar, Senegal - A little girl in the arms of a governess at the Children's Rehabilitation Center Maison Rose, coordinated by the NGO Boolo in Faveur des Enfants, which aims to recover the Talibes from the streets and overseeing Daara's.
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Jun 25, 2015 - Dakar, Senegal - Two talibes talk through the window of a daara.
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Jun 25, 2015 - Senegal - Children sleep on the floor of a daara. 10 to 15 boys will often share a room.
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Jul 7, 2015 - Dakar, Senegal - Children line up at a traditional Koranic school.
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Jul 12, 2015 - Saly, Senegal - Children eat lunch in a Koranic School.
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Aug 1, 2015 - Cap Skirring, Senegal - A boy stands in the rain.
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