UNESCO: Half of all out-of-school children live in conflict-affected countries (UN - United Nations)

(Source: UN - United Nations) A new paper by UNESCO's EFA Global Monitoring Report shows that half of the 57 million children out of school live in conflict-affected countries. Released in partnership with Save the Children to mark the 16th birthday on 12 July of Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the Taliban on her way home from school in October 2012, the paper shows that urgent action is needed to bring education to the 28.5 million primary school age children out of school in the world's conflict zones. Globally, the number of children out...