ARMED CONFLICT DESTROYS HOPE OF EDUCATION FOR MILLIONS OF WORLD'S CHILDREN -- UN REPORT

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ARMED CONFLICT DESTROYS HOPE OF EDUCATION FOR MILLIONS OF WORLD'S
CHILDREN -- UN REPORTNew York, Jul 12 2013 9:00AMClassrooms, teachers
and pupils will continue to be seen as legitimate targets unless there
is tougher action against human rights violations, an overhaul of
global aid priorities and strengthened rights for displaced people, a
new report by the United Nations educational agency warns, urging
action on behalf of 28 million children out of school in the world's
conflict zones.

A new paper launched today by the UN Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) Education for All Global Monitoring
Report shows that half of the 57 million children out of school live
in conflict-affected countries and that urgent action is required on
several key fronts to address their needs.

Globally, the number of children out of school has fallen from 60
million in 2008 to 57 million in 2011. However, the report underscores
that the benefits of this slow progress have not reached children in
conflict-affected countries; they now make up 50 per cent of children
who are denied an education, up from 42 per cent in 2008. More than
half of those struggling to get an education in conflict-affected
countries are women and girls.

The paper is being released in partnership with Save the Children to
mark the 16th birthday of Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl
and education rights activist shot by the Taliban in October 2012. The
day has is being commemorated as "Malada Day," and, in her first major
public appearance since the incident, Ms. Yousafzai is set to address
the UN General Assembly in New York as keynote speaker of the world
body's Youth Assembly.

The paper, Children battling to go to school, shows that 44 per cent
of the of the 28.5 million children affected live in sub-Saharan
Africa, 19 per cent in South and West Asia and 14 per cent in the Arab
States. The vast majority -- 95 per cent -- live in low and
lower-middle income countries. Girls, who make up 55 per cent of the
total, are the worst affected, as they are often victims of rape and
other sexual violence that accompanies armed conflicts.

"Education seldom figures in assessments of the damage inflicted by
conflict," said Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO.
"International attention and the media invariably focus on the most
immediate images of humanitarian suffering, not on the hidden costs
and lasting legacies of violence. Yet nowhere are these costs more
evident than in education."

The UNESCO chief said that across many of the world's poorest
countries, armed conflict continues to destroy not just school
infrastructure, but also "the hopes and ambitions of a whole
generation of children."

While the 2011 Global Monitoring Report exposed the hidden crisis of
education in war zones, two years later, the new paper declares: "The
crisis of education in conflict is no longer hidden: there is no
excuse for not helping to bring it to an end."

The 2013 paper also shows that the share of humanitarian aid for
education has declined from 2 per cent in 2009 to just 1.4 per cent in
2011. Not only does it receive a small share overall, but it also
receives the smallest proportion of the amount requested from
humanitarian aid of any sector: in 2010, of the modest amount
requested for education in humanitarian crises, just over a quarter
was actually received, leaving a funding gap of around $220 million.

"The decline in humanitarian aid for education is especially bad news
because funds are needed more than ever," said Pauline Rose, Director
of the Education For All Global Monitoring Report.

"There are more refugees now than there have been since 1994; children
make up half of those who have been forcibly displaced. Nowhere is
this more painfully visible than in Syria today," she said, adding
that those girls and boys "face a disruption of their learning process
at a critical time -- and the risk of a lifetime of disadvantage as a
result."

The UNESCO panel compiled testimonies from a few young boys and girls
to vividly illustrate this point, including a 16-year-old Syrian
refugee living in Lebanon who has been unable to graduate because of
the war raging in his home country. Aware that schools are being
targeted and children are being killed on their way home from their
classes, he says in the report: "Now students do not go to school
because when they did, there were shells… this war stopped me from
graduating and now my future is destroyed." Jul 12 2013 9:00AM
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