Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, speaks with Sarah Brown about the need for young people to vote – and to vote well – if they want to make a difference to people’s lives.
In the inaugural episode of this Better Angels podcast series, he argues that voting is “the most basic and fundamental form of engagement” in democratic countries.
He also discusses the education crisis facing millions of child refugees around the world – a crisis which has been exacerbated by Covid-19.
Calling for greater investment in the education of young refugees, he says that “education is as important for refugees as it is for anyone”.
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The London Conference in 2016 spurred a wave of investment and action that helped drive progress in providing education for Syrian refugee children. This progress, however, has stalled since 2017. In this briefing we makes three recommendations for how donor host countries, UN agencies and civil society can change course.
