World leaders will gather at United

World leaders will gather at United Nations headquarters in New York this week for the yearly meetings of the U.N. General Assembly. The leaders have been invited to a special summit on refugees and economic migrants. They will discuss ways to improve the international community’s reaction to the growing number of refugees and migrants worldwide. The world’s refugee crisis is now as bad as it was during World War II, according to The New York Times newspaper.
The leaders are expected to talk about access to education for refugee children. When families flee from countries because of war or political insecurity, the children leave behind not only their homes but, in many cases, their education. That is the subject of a new report from the United Nations refugee agency. The report says that 3.7 million children under the U.N. agency’s mandate are unable to attend school. The situation gets worse as the children get older. The percentage drops from 50 percent for young children to 22 percent at secondary school age. U.N. information also shows that only one percent of refugees attend a university, compared to 34 percent of the world’s population.
Filippo Grandi is the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. In a statement, he said that refugee education is, too often, terribly ignored. Grandi also said he would like to change that. In his words, education is “one of the few opportunities we have to transform and build the next generation” of refugees so that they can improve the futures of the many millions of forcibly displaced people.
The issue of providing refugees with an education is more difficult because of the expanding population and a lack of necessary financing. According to the U.N. report, the population of school-age children grew by 30 percent in 2014. That number requires an extra 20,000 teachers. Many host nations already struggle to provide simple, but necessary services for refugees. But now, they must also find a place to hold classes and a way to purchase additional school supplies. Often, the children struggle in their studies after missing several years of school and do not speak the local language. "As the international community considers how best to deal with the refugee crisis, it is essential that we think beyond basic survival," Grandi said."Education enables refugees to positively shape the future of both their countries of asylum and their home countries when they one day return."
Refugees from Syria, for example, have been in the news as the Syrian conflict continues for a sixth year. Countries from Turkey to those across Europe must decide what to do to assist the families that have fled the fighting.
The U.N. refugee agency says there are about 1.7 million Syrian refugees who should be in school; however, 900,000 of them are not. The agency has asked international donors for $4.54 billion this year to aid Syrian refugees. Financing for education involves $662 million of that request. As of June, the U.N. had collected only 39 percent of that total.
In 2015, most of the donations for this education program arrived in the final two months of the year. U.N. officials said this hurt the ability of host countries to make effective long-term plans for schooling. The U.N. is asking donors to provide dependable funding over many years to help those countries better plan for providing teachers and supplies. It also urges the host governments to include refugees in their national education systems instead of separate schools. Those schools cannot easily be supervised in the same way to guarantee their effectiveness. The new report discusses the helpful effects of education, saying it helps children avoid child labor and membership in armed groups. It also said that not providing schooling only extends conflict and leads to more people being displaced. "There is solid evidence that quality education gives children a place of safety and can also reduce child marriage, child labor, exploitative and dangerous work, and teenage pregnancy," the report says.
I’m Jill Robbins. And I'm Alice Bryant.

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Lãnh đạo thế giới sẽ tụ tập tại trụ sở Liên Hiệp Quốc ở New York tuần này cho các cuộc họp hàng năm của Đại hội đồng Liên Hiệp Quốc. Các nhà lãnh đạo đã được mời đến hội nghị thượng đỉnh đặc biệt trên người tị nạn và người nhập cư kinh tế. Họ sẽ thảo luận về cách để cải thiện phản ứng của cộng đồng quốc tế ngày càng tăng số lượng người tị nạn và di dân trên toàn thế giới. Cuộc khủng hoảng người tị nạn trên thế giới và là xấu như nó trong chiến tranh thế giới thứ HAI, theo báo The New York Times.Các nhà lãnh đạo dự kiến sẽ thảo luận về tiếp cận giáo dục cho trẻ em tỵ nạn. Khi gia đình chạy trốn khỏi nước vì chiến tranh hoặc mất an ninh chính trị, các trẻ em để lại đằng sau không chỉ nhà của họ, nhưng trong nhiều trường hợp, giáo dục của họ. Đó là chủ đề của một báo cáo mới từ cơ quan tị nạn Liên Hiệp Quốc. Bản báo cáo nói rằng 3,7 triệu trẻ em trong các cơ quan Liên Hiệp Quốc ủy nhiệm không thể tham dự các trường học. Tình hình được tồi tệ hơn khi các em nhận được cũ hơn. Tỷ lệ phần trăm xuống từ 50 phần trăm cho thanh thiếu niên đến 22 phần trăm ở độ tuổi trung học. Thông tin liên hợp quốc cũng cho thấy rằng chỉ có một phần trăm của những người tị nạn tham dự một trường đại học, so sánh với 34 phần trăm dân số thế giới.Filippo Grandi là cao ủy LHQ về người tị nạn. Trong một tuyên bố, ông nói rằng người tị nạn giáo dục là, quá thường xuyên, terribly bị bỏ qua. Grandi cũng cho biết ông muốn thay đổi điều đó. Nói cách của mình, giáo dục là "một trong những cơ hội ít, chúng ta phải biến đổi và xây dựng các thế hệ tiếp theo" người tị nạn do đó họ có thể cải thiện tương lai của nhiều triệu người buộc phải di dời.The issue of providing refugees with an education is more difficult because of the expanding population and a lack of necessary financing. According to the U.N. report, the population of school-age children grew by 30 percent in 2014. That number requires an extra 20,000 teachers. Many host nations already struggle to provide simple, but necessary services for refugees. But now, they must also find a place to hold classes and a way to purchase additional school supplies. Often, the children struggle in their studies after missing several years of school and do not speak the local language. "As the international community considers how best to deal with the refugee crisis, it is essential that we think beyond basic survival," Grandi said."Education enables refugees to positively shape the future of both their countries of asylum and their home countries when they one day return."Refugees from Syria, for example, have been in the news as the Syrian conflict continues for a sixth year. Countries from Turkey to those across Europe must decide what to do to assist the families that have fled the fighting.The U.N. refugee agency says there are about 1.7 million Syrian refugees who should be in school; however, 900,000 of them are not. The agency has asked international donors for $4.54 billion this year to aid Syrian refugees. Financing for education involves $662 million of that request. As of June, the U.N. had collected only 39 percent of that total.In 2015, most of the donations for this education program arrived in the final two months of the year. U.N. officials said this hurt the ability of host countries to make effective long-term plans for schooling. The U.N. is asking donors to provide dependable funding over many years to help those countries better plan for providing teachers and supplies. It also urges the host governments to include refugees in their national education systems instead of separate schools. Those schools cannot easily be supervised in the same way to guarantee their effectiveness. The new report discusses the helpful effects of education, saying it helps children avoid child labor and membership in armed groups. It also said that not providing schooling only extends conflict and leads to more people being displaced. "There is solid evidence that quality education gives children a place of safety and can also reduce child marriage, child labor, exploitative and dangerous work, and teenage pregnancy," the report says.I’m Jill Robbins. And I'm Alice Bryant.