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Malala warns of Syria's education gap

A Syrian girl eats a sandwich as she stands outside her family tent, during the visit of Filippo Grandi, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR, to a Syrian refugee camp in the town of Saadnayel, in the Bekaa valley, east Lebanon, Friday, Jan. 22, 2016.

Campaigner Malala Yousafzai calls for more to be done to educate millions of Syrian refugee children denied access to school.

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