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'Wake-up call' data shows 63 million adolescents out of school – joint UN agency report
Jan 20, 2015, at 02:08 pm
New York, Jan 20 (IBNS) One in five adolescents worldwide is not in school, which means that some 63 million young people between the ages of 12 and 15 are denied their right to an education, mainly because they are marginalized and poor, a joint United Nations agency report has found as pressure mounts to include universal secondary education in the post-2015 global development agenda.
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