Bassam Khawaja

Bio

Bassam Khawaja is the Sandler fellow in the children’s rights division at Human Rights Watch and the author of a new report, "'Growing Up Without an Education': Barriers to Education for Syrian Refugee Children in Lebanon." Follow him on Twitter at @Bassam_Khawaja

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The Forgotten Refugees: A quarter-million Syrian children are left without an education

By Bassam Khawaja

This opinion piece was written on behalf of Human Rights Watch. "The kids' education has gone backward ... We left our country and our homes and now they don't even have an education or a future," said Jawaher, a 24-year-old Syrian refugee living in…