The research entitled Faith and a Future by Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), focused on how children from religious minorities in Burma, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria and Pakistan are treated.
It found that despite a child’s right to freedom of religion or belief under international law, students still face verbal, psychological and even physical abuse from students and teachers. It revealed that in some cases are subject to a biased curriculum that fuels religious hatred.
Cecil Chaudhry Jr, Executive Director of the National Commission for Justice and Peace in Pakistan told Premier religious discrimination is impacting many Christian students.
He said: “We do not have the right to study our own religion in school, whereas Muslims do have Islamic studies as a compulsory subject.
“We are given the option of taking up ethics as a replacement to Islamic studies which often you don’t find that provision because most of the schools don’t have a teacher to teach ethics.”
CSW said perhaps the most extreme example of biased education occurs in Na Ta La schools in Burma, where Christian children from ethnic states are regularly forcibly converted.
Chaudhry added: “There has been hate material that has creeped into our textbooks that is biased towards different faiths, and that all creates an environment of religious intolerance…
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