From UN News Centre: Yemen: as conflict disrupts education for nearly two million children, UNICEF backs ‘catch-up’ classes
24 July 2015 – With intensive bombardments and street fighting in Yemen forcing more than 3,600 schools across the country to close and disrupting education for some 1.8 million children, the top United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) official there appealed today to the warring parties to respect the safety of schools.