Little more than 60% of all refugee children are able to go to primary schools, versus 90% among all children globally.
GENEVA (AN) — More than half the world’s 7.1 million school-age refugee children fail to receive a basic education due to host nations' lack of resources, the U.N. refugee agency said.
As many as 3.7 million refugee children between the ages of five to 18 are out of school, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reported on Friday, pointing to a critical lack of money, classrooms and teachers.
Conflict, climate, environmental degradation and uneven development are major factors in the US$7.9B appeal.
Some 52% of all refugees and others who needed international protection came from Afghanistan, Syria and Ukraine.
Amy Pope will become the first woman to serve as director general of the International Organization for Migration.
The figures show an 'intolerable' loss of life amid more reports of government-led rescue delays and obstacles to NGOs' search and rescue efforts, the U.N. migration agency said.
Fourteen cases remain under investigation by U.N. investigators, who have met with authorities in Israel.
The chair of the talks called for optimism despite divisions among plastic-producing nations and those urging restraints.
The number of people facing high levels of acute food insecurity has increased every year since 2019.
The group of organizations that reviewed the U.N. agency recommends several ways of strengthening its neutrality.
