The United Nations has warned the coronavirus pandemic will rob millions of refugee children of their future prospects as new infections are on the rise globally.
A new report from the UNHCR refugee agency warned that many refugee children, especially girls, who had attended school before the novel coronavirus swept the world would not be able to return. "After everything they have endured, we cannot rob them of their futures by denying them an education today," UNHCR chief Filippo Grandi said in a statement, calling for action to support refugees' right to an education.
The report, using data from 12 countries that host more than half of the world's refugee children, found that more than 1.8 million of them - or a full 48% of all refugee