Map of Affected Countries
Since mid-2009, more than 30 countries have experienced a pattern of targeted attacks on schools, teachers, and students, or the military use and occupation of schools by armed forces. Click on a country on the map below, or the list to the right, to view documents detailing the nature and scope of attacks. Documents on programmatic measures to protect education and on relevant domestic law are listed where available.
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Philippines
Nature and Scope of Attacks
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Children and Armed Conflict: Report of the Secretary-General (A/68/878–S/2014/339) | United Nations Security Council, 2014
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Education Under Attack 2014 (Philippines) | Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack, 2014
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Philippines Humanitarian Situation Report | UNICEF, 2014
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Children and Armed Conflict: Report of the Secretary-General (A/67/845–S/2013/245) | United Nations Security Council, 2013
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2011 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Philippines | Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, United States Department of State, 2012
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Children and Armed Conflict: Report of the Secretary-General (A/66/782–S/2012/261) | United Nations Security Council, 2012
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Philippines: Soldiers on the School Grounds: Armed Forces Should Cease Military Use of Schools | Human Rights Watch, 2011
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Children and Armed Conflict: Report of the Secretary-General (A/65/820-S/2011/250) | United Nations Security Council, 2011
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Children and Armed Conflict: Report of the Secretary-General (A/67/742-S/2010/181) | United Nations Security Council, 2010
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Education under Attack 2010 | UNESCO, 2010
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Report of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict in the Philippines (S/2010/36) | United Nations Security Council, 2010
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Children and Armed Conflict: Report of the Secretary-General (A/63/785-S/2009/158) | United Nations Security Council, 2009
Programmatic Measures to Protect Education from Attack
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Study on Field-based Programmatic Measures to Protect Education from Attack | Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack, 2011
Laws and Policies on Attacks on Schools and Military Use of Schools
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House Bill 4480: Special Protection of Children in Situations of Armed Conflict | 15th Congress of the Philippines; approved by House on third reading on May 23, 2011; transmitted to Senate and received by Senate May 31, 2011; as of August 2012: pending in Senate Committees on Youth, Women and Family Relations; National Defense and Security; and Finance, 2012
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Armed Forces Letter Directive No. 34 | GHQ AFP, 2009
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Cotabato Province, Child and Youth Welfare Development Code | Cotabato Probince, Provincial Ordinance No. 292, 2003
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Cebu City, Children’s Code | Cebu City, Ordinance No. 1874, 2001
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Davao City, Children’s Welfare Code | Davao City, Children’s Welfare Code, 1994
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Special Protection of Children against Abuse, Exploitation and Discrimination Act | RA No. 7610, June 17, 1992, art. X(22)(e), 1992