By unesco Syrian refugee children at Al Zaatari refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq (Picture: REUTERS/ Muhammad Hamed) A new policy paper, ‘No more excuses’ jointly released by the UNESCOGlobal Education Monitoring (GEM) Report and UN High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) ahead of the World Humanitarian Summit on May 23-24 reveals new data showing that only 50% of refugee children are in primary school and 25% of refugee adolescents are in secondary school. The paper calls for countries and their humanitarian and development partners to urgently ensure that those forcibly displaced are included in national education plans and to collect better data...
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