2015 is ‘the year of fear’ for children says Gordon Brown
Child labour, Children in conflicts
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The shocking statistics kept coming. The worst year since 1945 for children being displaced from their homes. The worst year for attacks on schools.
More than 825,000 children trafficked each year, another 8.6 million in slavery and 168 million child labourers and five million girls married off before the age of 15 in 2014.
Gordon Brown, the , summed up some of the reasons why millions of children are not at school around the world. And he added: 鶹APPThis is not the year of the child but the year of fear.鶹APP
Mr Brown addressed journalists at the UN in New York yesterday to emphasise the need for a humanitarian fund for education in emergencies. He said there were 鶹APPrising numbers of girls and boys at risk from conflict鶹APP as heemphasised the need for a humanitarian fund for education in emergencies.
A Syrian refugee girl in a tent in Jordan Picture: UNICEF/Noorani
He said there were 鶹APPrising numbers of girls and boys at risk from conflict in Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Burundi, South Sudan and northern Nigeria and from natural disasters in Nepal鶹APP.
On child labour, he added:鶹APPWe expect the figure to rise as in crisis zone after crisis zone even school-age children who were once at school are being forced into child labour.
鶹APPToday in some of the world鶹APPs most troubled spots it is open season for traffickers, with girls snatched from the streets in Nepal to adolescents forced into marriage in Syria, Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan.鶹APP
He said it was vital to get children back to school quickly in Nepal after the earthquake, adding:鶹APPThe government is directly warning half a million girls 鶹APP now on the streets 鶹APP and their parents, to beware of suspicious gangs trying to recruit them and traffic them out of the country.鶹APP
Mr Brown reiterated the which he said could be launched later this year at the UN General Assembly. It would remove delays and prevarication when disasters strike.
He said the best answer to the many problems facing millions of children around the world was education.
鶹APPNot only does school offer opportunity and safety,鶹APP he said, 鶹APPIt restores hope that as children they can plan for a better future.鶹APP
You can stand up for an education 鶹APP and join the call for a special humanitarian fund for education in emergencies. .
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