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Conflict keeps 27 million children out of school, with girls at high risk of abuse – UN report

Sep 19, 2017, at 10:09 am

New York, Sept 19(Just Earth News): Some 27 million children are out of school due to conflict, with girls facing a heightened risk of sexual and gender-based violence, the United Nations said in a report released on Monday, calling on States and international organizations to integrate all uprooted children into the education system where they live.

Girls worst affected as conflict keeps more than 25 million children out of school – UNICEF

Apr 25, 2017, at 05:02 am

New York, Apr 24 (Just Earth News): To help raise awareness on challenges that children affected and uprooted by conflict face in accessing school, UNICEF has been working with Muzoon Almellehan, a 19-year-old Syrian refugee and education activist.

Thousands of children out of school as classrooms shelled in eastern Ukraine – UNICEF

Feb 08, 2017, at 05:50 am

New York, Feb 8 (Just Earth News): With thousands of children forced out of school in eastern Ukraine due to last week's surge in fighting, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and its partners have strongly condemned the indiscriminate shelling of schools, and called for all sides to immediately recommit to the ceasefire signed in Minsk in August 2015.

In war-torn Syria, three million children out of school or at risk of dropping out – UNICEF

Oct 25, 2016, at 04:44 am

New York, Oct 24 (Just Earth News): With the start of the school year and the number of school attacks exceeding 4,000 in war-ravaged Syria, more than 1.7 million children there remain out of school and another 1.3 million are at a risk of dropping out, according to new education data.