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The year 2018 was marked by the highest levels of children killed or maimed in armed conflict since the United Nations started monitoring and reporting this grave violation, shows the latest Annual Report of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict released today. Overall, more than 24,000 violations were verified in 2018 in the 20 conflict situations on the Children and Armed Conflic

The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has released its annual report on the state of education around the world. The 2019 report focuses for the first time on the theme of migration and displacement and finds that the numbers of migrant and refugee school-age children have grown by 26% since the year 2000.

The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) launched its annual report on the state of education around the world, focusing for the first time on the theme of migration and displacement.

Research shows that the future of refugee children grows more imperiled the longer they remain out of school. Because Bangladeshi authorities have not granted the Rohingya official refugee status and consider them instead “forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals,” the roughly 500,000 Rohingya children in the country have no access to a formal education.

The United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) unanimously adopted last Thursday a new resolution on the right to education and in doing so firmly recognised the Abidjan Principles on the right to education.

On the 4th and 5th of July 2019, the G7 Development and Education Ministers met in Paris.

With the displacement lasting an average of 20 years for many refugees or internally displaced people (IDPs), education has become central to humanitarian aid and long-term development efforts. Nevertheless, refugees and IDPs still face challenges in accessing higher education.

The EU – via the EU Regional Trust Fund in Response to the Syrian Crisis - adopted a €100 million new assistance package to support the resilience of refugees, internally displaced person (IDP) host communities in Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq.

Hamdi Ulukaya, the founder and CEO of leading Greek yogurt brand Chobani, says he is evangelizing the idea of a so-called ‘CEO playbook’ to shift some of the focus from shareholder wealth and profits to employee welfare and humanitarian goals. In a TED Talk in Vancouver in April, Ulukaya said that the private sector is better equipped than governments and international organizations like the U.N.

Code Your Future, founded in 2016, aims to help the refugee community and individuals from low-income backgrounds achieve their dreams of becoming developers.