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A lost generation of children in the Middle East and North Africa? Empty A lost generation of children in the Middle East and North Africa?

Post by confuzzled dude Sun Sep 06, 2015 10:41 pm

Many Syrian children who would have been entering primary school when civil war broke out in 2011 have received no formal education, UNICEF spokesperson Juliette Touma told VICE News. In a country that for many years boasted one of the highest literacy rates in the region, children are growing up without adequate instruction. Others, in Syria as well as Yemen and Iraq, risk being indoctrinated by curriculum that has been adjusted to reflect the sensibilities of militants.
Violence and accompanying chaos have kept more than 13 million children from attending school, the UN's Children's Rights & Emergency Relief Organization (UNICEF) revealed in a report released on Thursday. In four countries alone — Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Libya — almost 9,000 schools have either been destroyed, heavily damaged, or are occupied by displaced civilians or armed belligerents. According to UN data, attacks directly targeted more than 200 schools last year.

In each of the aforementioned countries and Sudan, between two and three million children are out of school.

Syria's neighbors have also struggled to provide schooling for a surge in child refugees. Some 700,000 are left without any formal education in Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey. Arabic-speaking children, many of them traumatized by war, have had great difficulty learning new languages in Turkey or in Iraqi Kurdistan, where many have also fled.
https://news.vice.com/article/warzones-risk-creating-a-lost-generation-of-children-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa

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