Over 20 pct of Iran’s children do not go to school - rights defender
Twenty two percent of Iran's children do not go to school, activist in the field of rights of children Farshid Yazdani told ISNA news agency.
According to international laws, every person under the age of 18 is referred to as a child, he added. School-age children in Iran amount to 14.7 million, of them 11.6 million have registered in nationwide.
According to statistics, 1.5 million children of 3.1 million children who do not go to school are breadwinners of their families, he said.
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