01 May 05
United Nations University
Since the start of the war of 2003 some 84% of Iraq’s higher education institutions have been burnt, looted or destroyed while four dozen academics have been assassinated and many more brave daily threats, according to an analysis of the system’s reconstruction needs released today by the United Nations University.
Full text: www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-05/unu-unu042505.php
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