The Right to Education for Refugees
The share of total aid allocated for education in humanitarian crises has risen by nearly a full percentage point since last year. But in a world confronting the largest refugee crisis since World War II, ensuring education for children fleeing from conflict, though necessary to ensure long-term peace, is still woefully insufficient.
LONDON – From Fawaz’s home in a makeshift refugee camp just across the border from Syria, where he lives with his now-displaced family, one danger has been traded for another. “There are no schools. There is no education. My children have no toys. They play only with mud,” he says. “Our life was better in Syria.”