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12 mn children out of school: UN
12 mn Children Out Of School: UN. Poverty, gender discrimination and violence are keeping more than 12 million children in the Middle East out of school, despite efforts to expand education, the UN children\'s agency warned on Wednesday. An additional three million children in Syria and Iraq have been forced out of school by conflict, UNICEF said in a new report.
Beirut: Poverty, gender discrimination and violence are keeping more than 12 million children in the Middle East out of school, despite efforts to expand education, the UN children's agency warned on Wednesday. An additional three million children in Syria and Iraq have been forced out of school by conflict, UNICEF said in a new report.
The joint report by UNICEF and UN cultural agency UNESCO's Institute for Statistics said the rates of out-of-school children in the region had been declining, "often by as much as half." "But in recent years, progress has stalled," it said, with 4.3 million primary-aged children and 2.9 million lower secondary-aged children out of school. An additional 5.1 million children are not receiving pre-primary school education, bringing the total number of the region's children out of school to 12.3 million, the report said.
