28.5 Million Conflict-Hit Children Denied Education: UN

Education should never be the cost of conflict, Anthony Lake, executive director of the UN Children's Fund, said.
"Education cannot wait for battles to end ... or disasters to be averted ... or funding to be available. Education cannot wait .. . because children cannot wait," Lake said.
Alice Albright, chief executive officer of the Global Partnership for Education, said that education in emergency situations is severely underfunded, accounting for only 1.4 percent of humanitarian aid.
She proposed doubling the amount and improving coordination among governments, donors and humanitarian agencies.
"We all have a duty to the children of the world, to deliver good quality education regardless of the hostile conditions under which they live," said Tove Romsaas Wang, the chief executive officer of Save the Children Norway.
The leaders also agreed that education must play a central role in any post-2015 development plan.
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