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| Subject: 'Thank the statists and the mystics': Millions of Middle East children out of school Wed Apr 15, 2015 11:59 pm | |
| Poverty, gender discrimination and violence are keeping more than 12 million children in the Middle East out of school, the UN children's agency warns.
An additional three million children in Syria and Iraq have been forced out of school by conflict, UNICEF says in a new report.
Authored jointly with UNESCO's Institute for Statistics, the report says the rates of out-of-school children in the region had been declining "often by as much as half".
http://www.smh.com.au/world/millions-of-middle-east-children-out-of-school-united-nations-20150415-1mm0op.html |
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