Over 37 million children and adolescents have been forced out of school by conflict and emergency and attacks on education have dramatically risen to levels higher than any point in the past 40 years. In a meeting during the  Oslo Summit on Education for Development convened by UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake, UN Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown and Global Partnership for Education Chair, Julia Gillard, the group of ministers and leaders around the table agreed to move forward to develop a global platform and fund for education in emergencies.

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