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Human Rights Watch, November 2, 2022
Somalia Reeling from Devastating Attack on Education Ministry
On the afternoon of October 29, residents of Mogadishu were once again hit by a devastating attack in a crowded and bustling area of Somalia’s capital. The double car bombings…
READ MOREHuman Rights Watch, October 20, 2022
Ukraine: Russian Forces Tortured Izium Detainees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOH2DMFFjmM&t=3s (Kyiv, October 19, 2022) – Russian forces and others operating under their command routinely tortured detainees during their six-month occupation of Izium, a city in the Kharkiv region of northeastern Ukraine, Human…
READ MOREUN OHCHR, October 13, 2022
Children have specific rights and should be protected at all times, UN experts
GENEVA/NEW YORK/VIENNA (6 October 2022) – With pandemics, complex humanitarian emergencies, and extreme climate-related crises posing significant global challenges, UN rights experts* remind all States that children are full human rights…
READ MOREUnited Nations, October 3, 2022
Security Council Press Statement on Attack against Educational Centre in Kabul
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Nicolas de Rivière (France): The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the horrendous terrorist…
READ MOREUnited Nations, October 3, 2022
Secretary-General Strongly Condemns Attack on Educational Centre in Afghanistan
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres: The Secretary-General strongly condemns today’s heinous attack on an educational centre in the Dasht-e-Barchi area of…
READ MOREHuman Rights Watch, October 3, 2022
Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan Conflict Leaves Children without Education
Kayirgul is a bright 9-year-old elementary school student from Ak-Sai village in southern Kyrgyzstan. Her village was one of the ten impacted during violent clashes on the border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan in mid-September. She…
READ MOREUNICEF, September 30, 2022
UNICEF statement on attack on Kaaj Educational Center, Dasht-e-Barchi, West Kabul, Afghanistan
KABUL, 30 September 2022 – “UNICEF is appalled by the horrific attack, early this morning, inside the Kaaj Educational Center in the Dasht-e-Barchi district of West Kabul, Afghanistan. This heinous act…
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UNICEF condemns attack on school in Koya, Kurdistan Region of Iraq and calls on all parties to respect the Safe Schools Declaration
BAGHDAD, 28 September 2022- “UNICEF abhors and condemns the attack which impacted a school today in a refugee settlement in Koya, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. “At least two children…
READ MOREDaily Trust, September 15, 2022
International Day to Protect Education: Why States Must Implement Safe Schools Declaration
“It is better to stay alive at home than to be in the hands of the terrorists while seeking education,” said Maryam Wavi, one of the survivors of the over…
READ MOREUN Chronicle, September 15, 2022
Let’s Recommit to Protecting Students, Educators, and Schools from Attack
On 8 May 2021, a barbaric attack targeting students at the Sayed ul-Shuhada high school in Afghanistan killed 85 people, 42 of them girls, and injured more than 200. Zakia,…
READ MOREAl Jazeera, September 15, 2022
Ms. Maleiha Malik Al Jazeera Interview
Ms. Maleiha Malik, Executive Director, Protect Education in Insecurity and Conflict (PEIC) a project of Education Above All (EAA) interview with Al Jazeera in commemoration of the International Day to…
READ MOREEducation Cannot Wait (ECW), September 12, 2022
We Must Unite to Protect Education From Attack
Statement by ECW Director Yasmine Sherif Statement on International Day to Protect Education from Attack – 9 September 2022 Schools, students and teachers continue to be targeted and attacked in…
READ MOREInter Press Service, June 1, 2022
Ukraine Points Up the Threat to Education During War
Over 1,800 schools and universities have been damaged or destroyed since Russia’s invasion on February 24, according to Ukraine’s Education Ministry. Credit: UNICEF NEW YORK, Jun 1 2022 (IPS) – Conflict…
READ MORESave the Children, May 11, 2022
Save the Children condemns school attack in Ukraine
DNIPRO, 9 MAY 2022 – Save the Children strongly condemns the reported bombing of a school in Luhansk, Ukraine, believed to be sheltering 90 civilians, including children in its bunker. While…
READ MOREHuman Rights Watch, March 18, 2022
Ukraine: Deadly Attacks Kill, Injure Civilians, Destroy Homes
(Lviv) – More than 450 civilians were reportedly killed or injured in the first 11 days of the war, in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, as a result of Russian airstrikes and artillery shelling…
READ MOREGCPEA, March 10, 2022
Statement by GCPEA Executive Director, Diya Nijhowne, on Attacks on Education in Ukraine
A kindergarten damaged by shelling in Stanytsia Luhanska, in the Luhansk region, Ukraine, February 17, 2022. REUTERS/Carlos Barria (New York, March 9, 2022) – Over 210 educational facilities have been damaged…
READ MOREAmnesty International, March 2, 2022
Ukraine: Cluster munitions kill child and two other civilians taking shelter at a preschool
A preschool in north-eastern Ukraine was hit on the morning of 25 February with widely-banned cluster munitions while civilians took shelter inside, killing three of them, including a child, and…
READ MOREVoice of America, February 28, 2022
Cameroon Separatists Abduct Teachers at School for Disabled
A still from a video posted by ADF, a military group fighting for Ambazonia, a self-declared independent state in Cameroon, that purports to show abducted teachers VOA has no independent…
READ MOREVoice of America, February 28, 2022
Cameroon Separatists Torch Girls-Only School Dorm for Preparing for National Youth Day Activities
Mamfe, Cameroon The Roman Catholic Church in Cameroon says armed men Friday torched a renowned girls’ school dormitory in Mamfe, an English-speaking southwestern town. English-speaking separatists have claimed responsibility, saying…
READ MORESave the Children, February 28, 2022
UKRAINE: Attacks on schools in Ukraine endangering children’s lives and futures
Interviews with spokespeople available. Link to images here (Credit: Amnon Gutman/ Save the Children) and Audio – Eva* here and Anna here. KYIV, 27 February 2022 – Attacks on schools in Ukraine are endangering the lives…
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