Making The Right Of Education A Reality

Children in Brazil begin to work at a very young age in the fields with their parents. Wages in Bahia, a poor area in the northeast, are extremely low and children often have to work to supplement their parents' income. As a result, tens of millions of children are unable to receive a formal education. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted in 1989, stipulates that education is a required right of all children. UNICEF is encouraging governments to implement a policy ensuring the education of all children within the next decade.