As the reverberations of the Iran war ripple outward across oceans and economies, it is the quietest casualties who bear the heaviest weight — children in Cambodia, Vietnam, Nigeria, and Bangladesh, for whom a spike in fuel prices is not an abstraction but the difference between a classroom and a fishing boat, between a future imagined and one foreclosed. The conflict threatens to push 23.4 million more children into poverty by year's end, unraveling decades of hard-won progress in education and development. Unlike the sudden shock of a pandemic, this unraveling is gradual and largely invisibl
Iran war's ripple effect pushes millions of vulnerable children out of school
Millions of children forced out of school into child labor and exploitation; girls at increased risk of trafficking and early marriage; documented cases of children drowning traveling to school.