elsewhere in europe so once in greece they enroll their children in school the united nations high commission for refugees says education is vital if their children are to help rebuild their water on countries. gives people something to do. propose them for a future. where there is a future people they're not all going to be refugees for the rest their lives the walls and people go back home this is preparing them and it gives them a motive u.n.h.c.r. says that worldwide only about two thirds of refugee minors are enrolled in primary school only a quarter go on to secondary school and only one percent make it to university these figures are far below global averages and they mean that four million refugee children are out of school an increase of hotham million since last year in greece sixty two percent of school aged children are unrolled seven percent more than last year and that's partly because n.g.o.s like praxis are helping these children go to school and partly because racism is subsiding. was the only known greek second grader in his class two years ago he says his classmates told him to go back

and it is overwhelming the resources of the small central american country the united nations high commission for refugees is praising costa rica for keeping its doors open to nicaragua refugees and asylum seekers but it is asking the international community to provide support for this country and for other nations to also share in the burden of taking in the refugees. the closer we can immigration authorities tell us that they're processing some two hundred refugee request a day but the backlog is growing as the number of nicaraguans crossing over the porous border increased its. nicaraguan vice president gore side will deal is also the president's wife said on friday that quote progress is being made to consolidate peace after more than three months of anti-government protests and violent reprisals from paramilitary groups however the protests calling for president then yellow to take his resignation continue in nicaragua as do the number of people who say they've had to leave to save their lives. a helicopter has crashed in siberia killing eighteen people it's believed it hit call go which was being ca

and it is overwhelming the resources of the small central american country the united nations high commission for refugees is praising costa rica for keeping its doors open to nicaragua refugees and asylum seekers but it is asking the international community to provide support to this country and for other nations to also share in the burden of taking in. the closer we can immigration authorities tell us that they're processing some two hundred refugees request a day but the backlog is growing as the number of nicaraguans crossing over the porous border increase it's. nicaraguan vice president assad who would feel he's also the president's wife said on friday that quote progress is being made to consolidate peace after more than three months of anti-government protests and violent reprisals from paramilitary groups however the protests calling for president daniel ortega nation continue in nicaragua as do the number of people who say they've had to leave to save their lives police in the u.s. state of oregon have broken up a right wing rally in the city of portland. devices called flash bangs were used to

we're going to begin with the representative from the united nations, high commission for refugees. uld begin, you have seven minutes, thank you. >> thank you very much, mr. chair, and members. thank you for inviting us to come before this committee once again. let me put in perspective from the u.n. refugee agencies which has a global mandate. last year we saw 25 million refugees. it's an increase compared to 2016 of close to 3 million refugees. it's the largest increase we've seen, witnessed globally in a year's time. on top of that 4 million which are pending. it will come to no surprise to the honorable members if we have an increase of 3 million people recognized as refugees, canada will have a fair amount of those people coming to. if you look at number. 50,000 asylum seekers and lets assay they recognize all of them and it's up to the r-i-b whether they're refugees or not. if we compare to 29.4 million it comes to less than 2% came to canada. i think it's important to put this in perspective. the second point is that if we look at the countries, indeed, we have a number of peo

well now the united nations high commission for refugees is urging greece to address the problem of overcrowdednd violence is almost constant. fewer refugees are arriving on this island than previous years. but they‘re not leaving. as part of the eu—turkey deal, they‘re being held on lesbos rather than moving to the mainland. while we‘re filming at the camp, two people are stabbed in the queue for food. police block us from getting near the scene. always the same pattern. it starts with a fight, now it was for the food line that people got stabbed. it‘s always something between different community. msf say conditions are leading to deep trauma, that they have children as young as ten attempting suicide. we are reporting this to the public system, to unhcr, to the minister of the world, look. we have children as young as ten years old who try to suicide and there is no child psychiatrist or psychologist on this island. and despite the fact that we push to move these children to athens as soon as possible, it's not happening. ali, along with many other kurdish people, fled moria after a huge figh