South Asian madrasa students face widespread corporal punishment
By DW
03 April 2021 |
8:23 am
Despite recent efforts to curb abuse, students in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan still face violence in classrooms. Some laws have been passed to ban the practice, but advocates say legal efforts are still not enough.
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