Greece Denies Refugee Children An Education: Daily Brief
Children in Greek refugee camps don't have access to education; Global Education Summit plans to raise $5-billion; summary executions of adults and children in South Sudan; France's highest court upholds conviction of Equatorial Guinea's vice president; autocrats use faux democratic rituals to remain in power; and Earth Overshoot Day marks the day humanity has used up the year's natural resources.
Only 1 in 7 children living in refugee camps in Greece was able to attend school in the last school year. The government should ensure children seeking asylum can go to school when the new year begins on September 13, 2021.
The United Kingdom and Kenya are cohosting a two-day Global Education Summit in London to raise $5 billion for funding public education in up to 90 countries and territories. These countries are home to more than 80 percent of the world’s out-of-school children.
South Sudanese security forces summarily executed at least eight suspected criminals, including two children, as part of their anti-crime campaign in Warrap state. The executions apparently were carried out on the orders of Governor Aleu Ayieny Aleu.
France’s highest court has upheld two lower courts’ convictions of Teodorin Nguema Obiang Mangue, the vice president of Equatorial Guinea and eldest son of the president, for embezzling and laundering public funds
Autocrats around the world have perfected the technique of “managed” or “guided” democracy, holding periodic elections to enhance their legitimacy but monopolizing the media, restricting civil society, and manipulating state institutions and resources to ensure that they remained in power.
Finally, today is Earth Overshoot Day – the day of the year when, according to calculations by the Global Footprint Network, people have used up all the natural resources regenerated by the Earth in one year.