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CommunicationPublished on 25 November 2022

Right to education continues to be illusory for many

Education is a fundamental human right, and yet hundreds of millions of children worldwide are missing school because they live in an emergency situation that sometimes lasts for years on end. The international community must do its utmost to support individual countries in providing these children with quality education, one of the most effective measures to eradicate poverty.

Children begging and selling shoes in Afghanistan's capital Kabul. 84% of 258 million children and adolescents worldwide who are out of school live in protracted crisis settings.

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