A Unicef report warned that extensive gaps in education can
contribute to long-term economic and social crises. It stated that South Sudan
has the highest proportion of children not receiving an education, followed by
Niger, Sudan and Afghanistan.
Children living in conflict have an average of 38p spent on
their education per month, new research from War Child shows. The charity said that half of all children
out of school worldwide live in conflict zones. Each child living in conflict
has an average of 38p being spent on their education per month.
The number of
children forced out of education during 2015 due to conflict was high. In
northern Nigeria Boko Haram forced nearly 1.2 million children to flee their
homes due to their terrorist activity. Over 1,100 schools were attacked or
destroyed by the group with 600 teachers allegedly murdered, while 19,000
teachers fled, according to War Child, while in Yemen 1.8 million children have
been forced to leave their classrooms due to fighting.
Half of the 4.4 million people who have fled Syria during
the crisis to neighbouring countries are reportedly children. While a million
refugees have travelled to Europe to escape the conflict, thousands have died
on the journey across the seas and some 500 children have reportedly drowned.
War Child claims a pledge made by world leaders in 2000 to
provide all children with basic education by 2015 has not been fulfilled.
16 million babies were born in warzones, which accounts for
one in eight births worldwide last year.
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