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Media page: 'Coming Together For Refugee Education'

Media page: 'Coming Together For Refugee Education'

COMING TOGETHER FOR REFUGEE EDUCATION



Coronavirus a dire threat to refugee education – half of the world’s refugee children out of school
Iran. Afghan refugee sisters go to school for the first time

““The coronavirus could destroy the dreams and ambitions of these young refugees... steady and hard-won increases in school, university, technical and vocational education enrollment could be reversed – in some cases permanently.”

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi

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Press briefing at Palais des Nations in Geneva to launch UNHCR's 2020 Education Report

Media Contacts 

For technical expertise on education, please contact:
  • Becky Telford, UNHCR Chief of Education, [email protected], +45 45 33 63 35
  • Mamadou Dian Balde, Deputy Director of UNHCR's Division of Resilience and Solutions, [email protected], +41 22 739 8795
  • Jennifer Roberts, UNHCR Senior Education Officer, [email protected], +45 45 33 65 22
  • Benoit d'Ansembourg , UNHCR Senior Education Officer, [email protected], +45  45 33 64 07
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