During the NAESP conference in Washinton DC Ton Duif gave a short keynote.
What is really happening to children, to schools in countries around the world?
- Iraq Crisis: 3.6 million children now at risk from increasing violence
read more - Up to 4.8 million people in South Sudan – well over one-third of the population – will be facing severe food shortages over the coming months, and the risk of a hunger catastrophe continues to threaten parts of the country, three UN agencies warned today.
read more - Based on current trends (Unicef),
- 69 million children under five will die from mostly preventable causes,
- 167 million children will live in poverty, and
- 750 million women will have been married as children by 2030.
- According to UNICEF’s local partners in Syria, 25 children were reportedly killed yesterday in air-strikes on al-Quriyah town, in the eastern countryside of Deir-ez-Zor.
read more - Growing number of children are dying at sea between Africa and Europe.
- Thousands of refugee children are not attending school because of government policy
- Boko Haram closes 90% of all schools in Nigeria
read more - 6000 children in the Netherlands are not at school for various reasons according to Dutch newspapers.
- How criminals forced 300 young children to roll bags (like Olivier Twist) in the Netherlands, Belgium and Spain (Dutch News Agency)
- The association “Children Count”: read more
- Nepal: After the earthquake 2 years ago, still 500.000 children do not attend any kind of education. From the rest only 30% graduate of their school. (from Dhruba Ruwon in Nepal)
- In California for instance 265.000 immigrant children ages 13-22 do not attend school. 90% are Latino’s. (Public Policy Institute of California)
- The number of children out of elementary school in United States was 1,773,923 as of 2013,
- over the past 38 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 4,324,144 in 1975 and a minimum value of 413,386 in 1990.
- Definition: Children out of school are the number of primary-school-age children not enrolled in primary or secondary school.
- 750 million women will have been married as children by 2030.
Source: United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Institute for Statistics. read more