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U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees: Refugee Education in Crisis - More Than Half of the World's School-age Refugee Children Do Not Get an Education
August 29, 2019
GENEVA, Switzerland, Aug. 29 -- The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, issued the following news release:

Of the 7.1 million refugee children of school age, 3.7 million - more than half - do not go to school, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, says in a report released today.

The report, Stepping Up: Refugee Education in Crisis, shows that as refugee children grow older, the barriers preventing them from accessing education become harder to overc . . .

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