Sachiyo Yasunaga's List: UN Tour Application

• Speakers include: the President of Burundi, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, the Secretary General’s Representative on Children and Armed Conflict, UNICEF’s deputy executive director, Save the Children’s country director for Afghanistan and Brendan O’Malley, author of UNESCO’s study “Education under Attack.”
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that education is a right for everyone everywhere, and this right applies even during wars or natural disasters. Yet education is often one of the first victims of emergencies. In times of conflict, schools often close, and students, teachers and school buildings come under attack. During natural disasters, education is often interrupted and schools are used as shelters for those who are forced to flee their homes.
• Approximately 75 million children worldwide are not enrolled in school and more than half of them live in countries affected by conflict.
• Without access to safe learning spaces, children face higher risks of abduction and recruitment into fighting groups and are more susceptible to sexual exploitation, trafficking and child labour. Education also helps restore a sense of routine and stability to affected children, their families and communities.
• Discussions will focus on ways to ensure that the rapid restoration of education is a key consideration in planning humanitarian responses, and that education services are among the first wave of humanitarian assistance provided in crises.
   
   The debate will also highlight proposals and make recommendations on ways to improve awareness and enhance funding for education in emergencies.

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• That since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed;

• 戦争は人の心の中で生まれるものであるから、人の心の中に平和のとりでを築かなければならない