In Syria, for example, unemployment among young men with intermediate education (those who started, but did not complete secondary schooling) is 39%.

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It said the two million children aged under 18 remaining in Syria were growing up knowing nothing but violence, were being deprived of a right to an education and were suffering traumas that could scar them for life.

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