COVENTRY, England, Nov 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Children and schools are increasingly being used as weapons of war in many countries, and more should be done to protect education in war zones, U.N. Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown said on Thursday. "We used to think that hospitals and religious establishments and schools were regarded as out of bounds, and certainly international law says that they are," Brown told a global peace forum in the English Midlands city of Coventry. "But increasingly ... schools are being used by rebel factions and different organisations fighting their wars, and they have become military establishments rather than what they should be -...
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