Stephen Twigg is a Labour MP and chair of the U.K.’s International Development Select Committee. He was previously shadow secretary of state for education and served as a government minister from 2001-2005, first as deputy leader of the House of Commons and later as an education minister.
As millions of girls the world over are displaced by conflict and humanitarian crises, disruption in their education has a raft of negative knock-on effects. So what can global leaders do?