Challenges in the discharge of State obligations on educational right of children during Covid-19: Nigeria and Ethiopia in focus
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2021-10-31
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Vishwakarma University, India
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Covid-19 has metamorphosed into a deadly pandemic across the universe since its outbreak in December, 2019. It continues to threaten human existence and particularly children who are vulnerable by their very nature. At a point, it interrupts children’s right to education across the universe. Efforts of governments towards discharging their obligations on educational rights of children under the laws met series of challenges. Nigeria and Ethiopia, like their counterparts across the globe, resorted to total lockdown and stay at home as part of the measures to contain the spread of Covid-19. This has consequently impacted negatively on the educational right of children in the two countries. Against the foregoing backdrop, this paper, relying on doctrinal method of legal research, seeks to examine the challenges in the discharge of State obligations on educational right of children during Covid-19 using Nigeria and Ethiopia as a case study. The paper x-rays the extent of the effect of Covid-19 on the children’s educational right in Nigeria and Ethiopia by investigating the adequacy or otherwise of the various measures put in place by the governments to cushion the effect of the pandemic on the children’s educational right. The paper also examines the various challenges faced by the governments in the two countries while discharging their obligations towards educational rights of the children. The paper concludes that the efforts put in place by the two governments to cushion the effect of Covid-19 on the educational right of the children were inadequate. For future purpose, the paper recommends, amongst others, provisions of adequate facilities in educational institutions and adequate training of teachers in technical-know-how required for virtual learning at period of lock down.
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Vishwakarma University Law Journal