Children losing out on education in EU migration deal

"I get depressed here. I want to go to a good school to study," said a bright, 12-year-old girl from Afghanistan, who's been stuck for six months in the grim Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. "If we don't study we won't have a future and we won't become successful." Greece is denying thousands of asylum-seeking children their right to an education because of a European Union-backed migration policy that traps them on the Aegean islands. The European Commission's humanitarian agency agrees: "education is crucial" for girls and boys affected by crises, and is "one of the best…

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