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    The document discusses education for children in conflict zones, focusing on Yemen. It notes that since 2015, the ongoing conflict in Yemen has damaged over 2000 schools and disrupted the education of around 2.4 million children. The civil war has also resulted in many teachers not being paid for over two years. While Yemen is working to address these issues and education is a top priority, the delegation recognizes more must be done and seeks cooperation from other states to advocate for resolutions.

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    Committee: United Nations Children’s Fund

    Topic: Education for Children in Conflict Zones

    Country: Yemen

    Juan Kareem Lesmana

    Education. What would we become without it. A key element to ensure sustainable
    development and lasting peace. Article 26 states that “everyone has the right to education.
    Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages.”1 Apparently,
    millions of children in their primary education age has not received proper education.
    According to Humanium, approximately 72 million children around the world today remain
    unschooled, due to marginalization and inequality2. Especially in conflict areas, where
    resources are limited, water supply is scarce and lacking accessibility to education. Yemen,
    despite the escalation of conflict in 2015, focuses on ensuring that children receive quality
    education3.

    Since 2015, Yemen has been greatly impacted due to the ongoing conflict in which buildings
    and other infrastructures have been heavily damaged. UN assessments have confirmed about
    2000 schools are unfit to be used to the great amount of physical damaged that have been
    sustained and also the presence of armed guards using schools as their shelter. Consequently,
    around 2.4 million Yemeni children are disrupted of their education, during which there have
    been a rise of child marriages and soldier recruitment. This in turn would deprive them of their
    much-needed education and would be at risk of losing their future.

    In 2018, UNICEF spokesman Christophe Boulierac stated that around 2 million children won’t
    be going to school this year, as a result of the ongoing civil war. More than half of the entire
    public-school teachers have not been fully paid for over two years, again having serious impact
    towards education for children. When schools are untouched and remain safe for children to
    learn in, they are hampered by insufficient teachers due to unpaid salaries. War Child Research
    conducted in 10 different districts of Yemen highlights that parents are scared for their children
    and therefore keeping them inside at home4.

    In spite of everything, Yemen is doing its best to combat these issues. The government of
    Yemen has made the development of a better education system its top priority by providing
    quality basic education for children in the age of 6-14 years of age. In search of resolutions,
    UNICEF has successfully garnered around USD 70 million in order to raise incentives
    beneficial to teachers and the school staff.

    The delegation of Yemen firmly believes that education should be accessible to every child,
    which would then hopefully have a better future. By creating campaigns, paying teachers an
    appropriate salary would be possible, hence having sufficient teachers in order for children to
    continue learning. This campaign should also promote awareness about the situation of Yemen
    to the rest of the world. Currently, as stated by Murad Alazzany of Sanaa university, “both of

    1 https://www.humanrights.com/course/lesson/articles-26-30/read-article-26.html
    2 https://www.humanium.org/en/right-to-education/
    3 https://www.globalpartnership.org/country/yemen
    4 https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/being-kept-behind-impact-conflict-education-yemen-children
    sides of the conflict neither have the willingness to end the fight and the suffering nor the
    readiness to make concessions”5.

    Secondly, creating areas and labelling school as safe zones therefore students could learn out
    of harm’s way. This would also increase the children’s morale due to lowering the risk of being
    psychologically impacted by the ongoing war.

    In conclusion, the delegation of Yemen realizes the situation at hand and is seeking to
    cooperate with other states to discuss through advocacies, towards finally reaching a resolution
    that would benefit all parties.

    5 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/12/houthis-political-solution-war-yemen-181205081849936.html

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