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	Battling such poverty and equality and promoting education for children, particularly girls, were among the UN&#39;s Sustainable Development Goals, a set of 17 goals adopted last year to tackle an array of global woes by 2030.</p>
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	Educating children is particularly critical given the global conflicts fueled by decimalisation, Mr Forsyth added.</p>
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	&quot;There is a direct link between children for many, many years missing out on education and then the ability of more extremist elements to organise,&quot; he said.</p>
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	(Published by RTE.ie on the 28th June 2016)</p>
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	<a href="http://www.rte.ie/news/2016/0628/798633-unicef-children/">http://www.rte.ie/news/2016/0628/798633-unicef-children/</a></p>
