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Friday 06 Nov 2015 - 18:36 Makkah mean time-24-1-1437
Pic: From UNESCO site
Paris (IINA) – UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova pledged her commitment to step-up advocacy efforts to mobilize international funding in favor of internally displaced people (IDP)’s education in Iraq and further strengthen UNESCO's assistance to the Iraqi authorities in this field.
This came during Bokova’s meeting with Iraqi Minister of Education Iqbal Omar on Thursday, in the framework of the 38th session of the UNESCO General Conference, currently being held in Paris.
The minister stressed the unprecedented human impact of the current crisis affecting the daily lives of the Iraqi population, in particular more than 3 million internally displaced people.
"In the face of the immense strain caused by the crisis and imposed on the government, international support is needed in order to assist the Iraqi authorities in ensuring that basic services are provided to all affected, including children," he said, pointing out that there are more than 500,000 children, many of them young girls who remain out-of-school.
The director general and the minister also discussed ways to address the continuous challenge posed by illicit trafficking of cultural objects in Iraq, describing it as a tragic cultural loss, and also a security concern as illicit trafficking contributes to the financing of terrorism and, thus, further fueling the conflict.
Bokova informed the Iraqi minister of UNESCO’s engagement, leading global efforts for awareness and implementation of the prohibition of cross-border trade of cultural objects originating from Iraq and Syria, established by the UN Security Council Resolution 2199.
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