Save the Children NGO urges 'new deal' for child refugees

As countries struggle to respond to a huge displacement of people fleeing conflict and hardship, Save the Children, an NGO, issued a new report saying no child should be out of school for more than a month.

The Special Envoy for the UN Refugee Agency Angelina Jolie is due to make another call for a greater response to the crisis on Monday. Jolie will call for stronger multilateral action to respond to this migration, which she describes as the challenge of our century.

She will say there is now a "risk of a race to the bottom, with countries competing to be the toughest ... despite their international responsibilities".

More people are now fleeing conflict and hardship than at any other time in recorded history, many of which are children, and as a result most of them are losing out on their education.

Save the Children says only one in four child refugee is now enrolled in secondary school. The charity is calling on governments and aid agencies to adopt a new policy framework that will ensure no refugee child remains out of school for more than a month.

It is an ambitious target but there is growing concern that this migration crisis is producing a lost generation of children. This will lead to conditions for even greater insecurity and poverty if no action is taken.