REUTERS
The school year officially starts this week in Syria, but the reality of war prevents thousands of children from learning.
More than 2,000 of the country's 22,000 schools have been damaged or destroyed, according to the Syrian Ministry of Education.
The education crisis extends beyond Syria's borders.
The Lebanese government was working to place an estimated 32,000 refugee children in public schools, the United Nations Children's Fund said.
At the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, UNICEF was registering school-age children while working to build a school that can accommodate up to 5,000 students, the agency said.
For some children inside Syria who can't go to school, UNICEF provided "recreational kits because these children had nothing to do."
In other developments:
U.N. Human Rights Council presents scathing report on Syria
Officials at the U.N. Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva discussed an independent, international commission's report on the grave situation in Syria on Monday.
"The commission found reasonable grounds to believe that government forces and the (Shabiha) had committed the crimes against humanity of murder and of torture, war crimes and gross violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law, including unlawful killing, torture, arbitrary arrest and detention, sexual violence, indiscriminate attack, pillaging and destruction of property," a summary of the report states. Shabiha are pro-government militia.
In addition, "The commission found reasonable grounds to believe that war crimes, including murder, extrajudicial execution and torture, had been perpetrated by organized anti-government armed groups."
Latest violence
At least 40 people were killed in violence across Syria on Monday, the opposition Local Coordination Committees of Syria said.
In Damascus and its suburbs, at least 18 people were killed, the LCC said.
CNN could not independently confirm those figures, which do not include deaths of government forces.
The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency reported Monday that operations "against terrorists" were continuing throughout the country.
Dozens were killed in clashes in Aleppo, the government news agency said Monday. Authorities also "inflicted heavy losses" in fighting with gunmen who tried to attack a security checkpoint in Homs, the news agency said.
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