BBC – Staff Writer
“An emergency fund to provide education for young people caught up in conflicts and natural disasters is being proposed by UN envoy Gordon Brown and a coalition of charities and campaigns. An education summit in Oslo, Norway, will hear calls for funds for education alongside other emergency aid. Unesco has published figures showing 124 million children are out of school. Mr Brown says support is needed for a “vast group of vulnerable children denied the basic right to education”. The Oslo summit will hear warnings that the rising numbers of refugee families and displaced persons, caught up in conflicts such as those in Syria and Iraq, need to have access to education as well as other humanitarian aid.”(more)