8/7/2025–|Last update: 05:56 (Mecca time)
She said an organization Human Rights Watch The latest global data on education and the direct impact of government financing decisions on the lives of children show that there are 272 million children and adults outside the primary and secondary school in 2024, among them about 200 million outside secondary education.
The organization recorded that this number represents an estimated increase in about 21 million children outside the school compared to 2023.
The organization stated that the number that it described as a “shocking” does not reflect the size of the entire crisis, as it estimated the institute UNESCO For statistics and global monitoring reports that 13 million children are outside the school in conflict -affected areas.
She added that if all children who are not enrolled in schools were taken into account due to armed conflicts from Gaza to Sudan, the total number of children outside the school would have risen to about 285 million. “
She added that the rates of exclusion from education at the global level are “higher than that,” and pointed out that the current estimates of children who are not enrolled in schools do not include “175 million children of pre -school aged age, who do not benefit from biomed early education in this age.”
She also considered that the chronic deficiency of financing exacerbates many obstacles and discrimination that are facing millions of children, and stressed that without allocating adequate resources, governments cannot provide completely free public education, and are unable to build and equip schools and provide educational materials of quality, attracting and training qualified teachers, or adapting educational systems to respond adequately to emergency situations.
Rights Watch stressed the need to fulfill all governments with their pledges in order to address the global education crisis, and governments also require the protection of public education budgets from austerity measures “reactionary and discounts, and allocate resources that are appropriate to their obligations to ensure the right to teach and pledge to provide free public education and good for all.”
It also urged the need to fulfill the internationally agreed educational financing standards, by increasing spending on education to at least 4% to 6% of the gross domestic product, or at least 15% to 20% of total public spending.
She pointed out that donor governments in particular should renew their commitment to financing education in line with their obligations in the field of external aid and their human rights duties in providing international support and cooperation.