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1、EDUCATION+WORLD AFFAIRSPS: HYPERLINK /commentary/gordon-brown-defends-the-right-of-the-world-s-20-million-displaced-children-to-go-to-school Education Without Borders MAR 12, 2014Gordon Brown, former Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom, is United Nations Special Envo

2、y for Global Education.LONDON As the third anniversary of the start of Syrias civil war approaches, there is a race against time to deliver a groundbreaking education project to the conflicts hardest-hit victims hundreds of thousands of child refugees.A shocking HYPERLINK /publications/files/Under_S

3、iege_March_2014.pdf l page=3 three million Syrian children have now been displaced. More than one million of them have fled Syria and are languishing in camps in neighboring countries, particularly Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey. These children are now suffering a third winter away from their homes, sc

4、hools, and friends. Many are separated from their families, and thousands more join the ranks of displaced persons every day in what is becoming the largest humanitarian catastrophe of our time.But a pathbreaking initiative in Lebanon, involving teachers, aid agencies, and education charities has op

5、ened a small window of hope. Amid the chaos of camps, makeshift huts, and destitution, the fight for an important new principle of international aid has begun: even in times of conflict, children must have access to education.A century and a half ago, the Red Cross established the norm that health c

6、are could and should be provided even in conflict zones. This principle was carried forward by groups like Mdicins sans Frontires, whose doctors have risked their lives for the last four decades to deliver medical care to the worlds most dangerous places.Now Lebanon is the site of a pilot program to

7、 advance the idea that providing education for refugee children is equally feasible and no less important. Across 1,500 communities in this troubled, divided country, where Syrian refugee children now make up 20% of the school-age population, the aim is to establish childrens right to education as a

8、 humanitarian priority.The typical refugee child spends more than ten years away from home. And every month that a child is out of school makes it less likely that they will ever return. Three years ago, most Syrian children were at school, and the country had near universal primary education. Today

9、, millions of children are being denied any chance to realize their talents. The scars will last for decades.So, in Syria and the surrounding region, there is already a lost generation in the making: children who are now eight and nine and who have never been to school, children condemned to work as

10、 child laborers, and hundreds of girls forced into early marriages. There are gruesome tales of young people who have been forced to sell their kidneys and other organs simply to survive.Of course, we must provide food, shelter, and vaccinations. But, in conflicts like these, the one thing that chil

11、dren need, beyond the material basics, is hope. And it is education that provides children with hope that there is light at the end of the tunnel hope that they can plan for the future and prepare for jobs and adulthood.The HYPERLINK /awas/default/page/-/EducationWithoutBorders_KevinWatkins_Report.p

12、df pilot project in Lebanon, designed by Kevin Watkins of the United Kingdoms Overseas Development Institute and led by the United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF) and the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), creates the opportunity to establish a right to education irrespective of borders. Indee

13、d, it is designed to cater to all 435,000 Syrian child refugees now in the country. Thanks to a historic agreement with the Lebanese government, places for hundreds of thousands of children can be created within weeks by putting 1,500 of Lebanons schools on a HYPERLINK /530b65326.html double-shift s

14、ystem.The scheme is already being piloted in a small village called Akroum in the north of the country. Lebanese children are taught during the first shift, and Syrian children in the second. Using the same school for both sets of pupils means that education can be delivered at a cost of only 400 ($

15、670) per child per year.To secure places for all refugee children, we are seeking $195 million dollars a year for UNICEF and UNHCR, with the plan to be implemented on the ground by NGOs and the Lebanese authorities. The aim is to secure all funding during March, as the world marks the third annivers

16、ary of this tragic exodus from Syria.We have already assembled a coalition of ten donor countries to take the lead, but we need ten more donors to fund the project fully. We are appealing to donors not just to create thousands of school places for desperately needy children, but also to establish a

17、precedent for the 20 million other children driven by violent conflict into displaced-persons camps and shantytowns.There cannot be universal educational opportunity for the worlds children without an agreement that we will cater HYPERLINK /appeals/ to children in conflict zones. One million Afghan

18、children are in camps along the border with Pakistan. Thousands of children in South Sudan still await their first chance to go to school, and schools have yet to be provided for a million more children in the war-torn Central African Republic. These childrens chances now depend on showing that we c

19、an make progress in Lebanon.The UN HYPERLINK /millenniumgoals/ Millennium Development Goals, adopted in 2000, expire in December 2015, which means that time is running to meet the deadline for achieving the target of universal primary education. That goal will remain unattainable unless and until we

20、 establish the long-overdue principle that a childs right to education knows no boundaries. HYPERLINK /commentary/gordon-brown-defends-the-right-of-the-world-s-20-million-displaced-children-to-go-to-school/chinese 教育無國界倫敦?cái)⒗麃唭?nèi)戰(zhàn)距離第三個(gè)年頭已經(jīng)越來越近，為受敘利亞沖突影響最嚴(yán)重的受害者數(shù)十萬兒童難民提供創(chuàng)新性教育計(jì)劃是一場與時(shí)間的賽跑。令人震驚的三百萬敘利亞兒童目前處于流

21、離失所狀態(tài)，其中一百多萬逃出了敘利亞，正在鄰國（特別是黎巴嫩、約旦和土耳其）難民營中艱難度日。這些兒童正在苦捱被趕出家園和學(xué)校并遠(yuǎn)離朋友的第三個(gè)冬天。很多人和家庭失散，每天都有數(shù)千兒童加入因這場現(xiàn)時(shí)代最大的人道主義災(zāi)難而加入流離失所大軍。但黎巴嫩的一項(xiàng)開創(chuàng)性計(jì)劃為他們打開了一扇希望的小窗，該計(jì)劃包括了老師、援助機(jī)構(gòu)和教育慈善機(jī)構(gòu)。在混亂的難民帳篷、簡易住所和屋子缺乏中，已經(jīng)開始了一場為國際援助新原則而進(jìn)行的斗爭：即使在沖突期間，兒童也必須獲得教育。一個(gè)半世紀(jì)前，紅十字會建立了一條規(guī)范，沖突區(qū)也可以并且應(yīng)該獲得醫(yī)療服務(wù)。這條原則被無國界醫(yī)生（Mdicins sans Frontires）等組織發(fā)

22、揚(yáng)光大，在過去四十年里，醫(yī)生們冒著生命危險(xiǎn)前往世界最危險(xiǎn)地區(qū)行醫(yī)。如今，黎巴嫩正在成為試驗(yàn)場，推廣一個(gè)新觀念為難民兒童提供教育也同樣是可行的，并且重要性也完全不落下風(fēng)。該教育計(jì)劃覆蓋飽受戰(zhàn)亂和分裂的敘利亞的1,500個(gè)社區(qū)（難民兒童現(xiàn)占學(xué)齡人口的20%），旨在將兒童的受教育權(quán)確立為人道主義優(yōu)先日程。一般而言，難民兒童需要十多年才能回到家鄉(xiāng)。而兒童離開學(xué)校越久，就越不可能回到學(xué)校去。三年前，大部分?jǐn)⒗麃唭和荚趯W(xué)校就讀，該國基本實(shí)現(xiàn)了全民小學(xué)教育普及。如今，數(shù)百萬兒童無法獲得實(shí)現(xiàn)天賦的機(jī)會。這一創(chuàng)傷會持續(xù)數(shù)十年之久。因此，在敘利亞和周邊地區(qū)，失落的一代正在產(chǎn)生：目前八九歲但從未上過學(xué)的兒童、淪為童工的兒童、以及成百上千被迫早早嫁人的女孩。更有大量可怕的傳聞?wù)f有年輕人被迫為了生存而賣腎和其他器官。當(dāng)然，我們必須提供食品、住所和疫苗。但是，在敘利亞內(nèi)戰(zhàn)這樣的沖突中，兒童除了需要基本物質(zhì)條件外，還需要希望。而能給身處黑暗隧道中的兒童帶來迎接前方曙光的希望的正是教育，教育能讓他們?nèi)计疬~向未來、準(zhǔn)備工作的希望。黎巴嫩的試驗(yàn)計(jì)劃由英國海外發(fā)展研究所（Overseas De