EMBARGO: 20 November 00.01 GMT
Report Materials
Press releases
- Global: New UNESCO report shows insufficient progress on including migrants and refugees in national education systems
- Reducing transaction costs for remittances could increase education spending by $1 billion per year
- Only one-third of the funding gap for refugee education has been filled
- Brain drain: ¼ of countries see at least one in five of their most highly skilled emigrate
- Africa: New report reveals the strain of refugees on education systems in sub-Saharan Africa
- Latin America and the Caribbean: The right to education is challenged for migrants in the region
- Africa: Over 50 million more children in sub-Saharan Africa to live in slums by 2030 with critical education needs
- Asia: UNESCO Report warns governments in Asia not to ignore the education needs of internal migrants
- Europe: Immigrants and refugees remain at high risk of segregation into different schools and slower school tracks
- Only 0.5% of global education spending is in the world's poorest countries
- New UNESCO Report praises Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan for inclusive education policies for refugees
Multimedia materials
- Photos and case studies of refugees, migrants and teachers from around the world.
- Infographics (in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese and Russian)
- 3 minute global video of people's stories about Education on the Move. Spanish, French , Chinese
- Video about Colombian teachers helping Venezuelan children fit in
- Video of Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
- Video of A Moroccan second generation immigrant in France
- Video of An Erasmus student in Portugal
- Video and broll of A teacher allowing illegal Zimbabwean immigrants to enrol in South Africa
- Broll of a teacher in Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya running double shifts in school to cope with the demand
- USA b-roll and video about the fear of being deported among undocumented Mexican children in the USAB-roll Colombia
- B-roll France
- B-roll India
3 minute animation summing up the report:
- English: https://youtu.be/LXeJLtEaNag
- French: https://youtu.be/iR1N7kMlOds
- Spanish: https://youtu.be/ygILfvqjzug
Further Information
- GEM 2019 FAQs
- Statements of endorsements for the report from the UN Secretary General, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, EU Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management, Director-General of UNESCO, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for International Migration, Helen Clark and William Lacy Swing from the IOM.
For more information/interviews etc..., please contact:
Kate Redman
UNESCO Paris
Mobile: +33 671 78 6234
k.redman(at)unesco.org
@rougewoman