MILLIONS OF CHILDREN DENIED EDUCATION DUE TO CONFLICT – UN WARNS

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Date: 23 Sep 2013 19:00:00 -0400
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MILLIONS OF CHILDREN DENIED EDUCATION DUE TO CONFLICT – UN WARNSNew
York, Sep 23 2013 7:00PMSome 28.5 million children in countries
affected by conflict are being denied access to learning, with tens of
thousands of schools attacked or occupied by armed forces, heightening
the risk they will never go to school or will drop out, the United
Nations and its partners warned today, calling for urgent action.

"We're here today because education should never be a casualty of
crisis…or a cost of conflict," UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) Executive
Director Anthony Lake
<"http://www.globaleducationfirst.org/3024.htm">told the Education
Cannot Wait event, held on the margins of the UN General Assembly's
annual general debate.

"Education cannot wait for battles to end…or disasters to be averted…
or funding to be available. Education cannot wait…because children
cannot wait."

More than half of the world's 57 million primary-school-age children
who are out of school live in countries scarred by war and conflict
and are denied the right to an education, compared to 42 per cent in
2008. According to non-governmental organization (NGO) Save the
Children, conflicts, fighting and displacement in countries such as
Syria, the Central African Republic, Mali, and in the Democratic
Republic of Congo have largely contributed to this increase.

Today's meeting was convened to support Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon's Global Education First Initiative, launched one year ago,
and chaired by former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, UN Special
Envoy for Global Education.

"We must make an intentional and deliberate turn from past policy
responses to humanitarian crises where education has typically been
underfunded," Mr. Brown said.

"Today, with nearly one million Syrian refugee children, we have the
opportunity to take immediate action and demonstrate that we can not
only prioritize but deliver on the promise of education for all –
education without borders - providing hope and opportunity even in the
most dire circumstances."

The meeting called for more planning for emergency prevention and
integration of emergency preparedness and recovery in education sector
plans and national budgets; prioritizing education in emergencies by
increasing humanitarian aid to education and improving the way it is
delivered on the ground; and protection of children, teachers and
education facilities from attacks.

Participants included UNICEF, the UN Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the UN High Commissioner for Refugees
(UNHCR) Save the Children, Global Partnership for Education,
International Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE), the Global
Coalition to Protect Education from Attack, and Plan International.

"Education must be built into peace building – not bolted on – and it
must be tied with longer-term development," UNESCO Director-General
Irina Bokova said.
Global Partnership for Education Chief Executive Alice Albright noted
that education in emergency situations is severely underfunded,
accounting for merely 1.4 per cent of humanitarian aid.

"We should at least double this amount, make it more effective, and
improve coordination among Governments, donors and humanitarian
agencies," she said, stressing that quality education requires
investment and planning to give children living in some of the
toughest parts of the world hope and a chance to shape their
futures.Sep 23 2013 7:00PM
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