World leaders will gather at United Nations headquarters in New York this week for the yearly meetings of the U.N. General Assembly.
The leaders have been invited to a special summit on refugees and economic migrants. They will discuss ways to improve the international community’s reaction to the growing number of refugees and migrants worldwide.
The world’s refugee crisis is now as bad as it was during World War II, according to The New York Times newspaper.
The leaders are expected to talk about access to education for refugee children. When families flee from countries because of war or political insecurity, the children leave behind not only their homes but, in many cases, their education.