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New report warns of ‘massive human tragedy’ for refugee children
A new report from UN global fund Education Cannot Wait (ECW) warns there are 224 million children and adolescents now in desperate need of education support: around 72 million are out of school because of conflict, crisis, and other emergencies.
Yasmine Sherif, ECW’s Executive Director, spoke to UN News’s Abdelmonem Makki about the fundraising challenge of helping the huge influx or refugees fleeing into Chad from Sudan, as well as the continuing crisis for girls’ education in Afghanistan.
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News in Brief 16 May 2023
- Dozens feared dead in Myanmar in aftermath of Cyclone Mocha
- Call for more funding to support countries dealing with Sudan exodus
- WHO praises Benin and Mali for reaching trachoma milestone
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78 million children don’t go to school at all, warns UN chief in call for action
A staggering 78 million girls and boys around the world today “don’t go to school at all” because of conflict, climate disasters and displacement – while tens of millions more receive only sporadic teaching - UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Thursday.
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Digital ambition: How one Afghan student plans to get girls back to school
Somaya Faruqi is one of the lucky ones. She managed to escape from Afghanistan in August 2021, just as the Taliban overran the country’s capital. Today, while the 20-year-old engineering student pursues a degree in the US, her former classmates back home have been banned from the classroom. In support of this week’s Education Cannot Wait conference in Geneva and its call for learning support in emergencies, Somaya has been speaking to UN News’s Daniel Johnson.
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UN-backed initiative reached 4.6 million children in ‘crisis within a crisis’
In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic devastated education systems throughout the world, making the year even more difficult for youngsters already embroiled in emergencies and protracted crises, according to a new UN-backed report launched on Tuesday, coinciding with World Teachers Day.
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FROM THE FIELD: Teaching Chad’s scientists of the future
The study of science could have a “transformational” impact on young people living in different conflict areas across the world according to the UN’s Education Cannot Wait programme.
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G20 countries urged to stop ‘COVID generation’ from being locked out of the classroom
A group of 275 former world leaders, economists and business leaders on Wednesday, urged the G20 group of leading industrialized nations to help stop the pandemic from leaving tens of millions of children from becoming known as the "COVID generation", denied a proper education.
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Learning can counter COVID-19 crisis and give hope, says UN education partner
In an emergency, education isn’t perhaps the first priority that springs to mind, when it comes to helping people in crisis.
In fact, it’s increasingly understood that keeping children in an organized learning environment, is among the best things that you can do, both for students themselves, and their families.
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News in Brief 23 July 2020
- COVID threats and opportunities for Arab region: Guterres
- Temporary Basic Income proposal: UNDP
- School funding boost for 900,000 youngsters