World News in Brief: UN spotlights education aid solution, Sri Lanka prison violence, humanitarian aid to Venezuela

World News in Brief: UN spotlights education aid solution, Sri Lanka prison violence, humanitarian aid to Venezuela

The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) urged international lenders to expand debt-for-education swaps, warning in

Unesco calls for wider use of debt-for-education swaps

Debt-for-education swaps allow countries to refinance or buy back expensive debt and channel the savings into education.

Developing countries spend more repaying foreign debt than on education, UN reveals

Unesco report shows children lost out to servicing debt in 113 countries, with 18 spending five times more on loans Most developing countrie

Developing countries spend more repaying foreign debt than on education, UN reveals

Unesco report shows children lost out to servicing debt in 113 countries, with 18 spending five times more on loans Most developing countrie

UNESCO urges wider use of debt-for-education swaps

Developing countries spend more repaying foreign debt than on education, UN reveals

Most developing countries spent less on education than they did repaying debt last year, according to the UN, at the same time as global aid

UNESCO warns education aid could fall by 30% by 2027

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has warned that international aid for education could decline