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BBC News, February 16, 2016
Russia rejects Syria war crimes claim over hospital attacks
Up to 50 people were killed in missile attacks on at least four hospitals and a school in rebel-held areas of northern Syria on Monday.
READ MOREOffice of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, February 15, 2016
Human Rights Council Report: Conflicts and violence take ‘huge toll’ on children in 2015
In the report, the Special Representative expressed her deep concern at the increasing number of attacks on schools, as well as military use of schools, in countries affected by war.
READ MOREAl Jazeera, February 14, 2016
Here is what school is like in Syria’s Aleppo
Amid Russian air raids and the advance of pro-Assad forces, some students persist in going to class.
READ MOREFebruary 7, 2016
Child soldiers make up a third of Yemeni fighters, says Unicef
The widespread destruction of schools and infrastructure in the Saudi-led bombardment of the country is further encouraging more children to pick up guns and fight.
READ MOREIndependent, February 7, 2016
Schools that should keep children safe are under attack
Leila Zerrougui on the destruction and occupation of schools during warfare, writing as Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict
READ MOREThe Telegraph, February 7, 2016
UK refuses to sign UN document protecting schools in war
Philip Hammond, Foreign Secretary, said to have blocked attempts to get Britain to lead way on preventing killing of children
READ MOREThe Guardian, January 26, 2016
Too afraid for school: Latin America is losing new generation to gang violence
Charities are hoping to break the cycle that means teachers and children have to risk their lives for education.
READ MOREThe Guardian, January 26, 2016
Syrian child conscription and deaths on rise, says Unicef
More children under 15 being forced into combat roles, with others killed or maimed in school attacks by all sides in war.
READ MOREThe Washington Post, January 25, 2016
The War on Education
Rob Quinn, Executive Director of Scholars at Risk, authored an essay for the Washington Post on the widespread pattern of attacks on higher education worldwide.
READ MOREAssociated Press, January 24, 2016
Splinter Taliban group threatens more school attacks
The head of a breakaway Taliban faction behind this week’s attack at a northwestern Pakistani university that killed 21 people, most of them students, threatened on Friday to carry out…
READ MOREInside Higher Ed, January 21, 2016
Attack at a Pakistani University
Twenty killed in assault on Bacha Khan University, the latest attack on an educational institution in a country that has suffered more than any other.
READ MOREThe Guardian, January 20, 2016
Pakistan attacks: at least 30 dead in terror raid at Bacha Khan University
A group of militants has stormed a university in north-west Pakistan, killing at least 30 people and leaving dozens injured.
READ MOREReuters, January 19, 2016
Several wounded in Turkey as mortar hits school near Syria border
Several people were wounded and at least one feared killed after a mortar shell which appeared to have been fired from Syria struck a school in Turkey’s southeastern border province…
READ MOREDaily Post, January 13, 2016
Nigeria President orders investigation into kidnap of 219 Chibok girls
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved an investigation into the abduction of the 219 gIrls from Government Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State
READ MOREReuters, January 10, 2016
Air strike by suspected Russian jets kills 12 school children in Ain Jara
Bombs dropped by suspected Russian warplanes killed at least 12 Syrian schoolchildren on Monday when they hit a classroom in a rebel-held town in Aleppo province.
READ MOREAFP via Yahoo News, January 3, 2016
Kenya’s Garissa university reopens nine months after massacre
A university in northeastern Kenya where at least 148 people were killed in an attack by Islamist gunmen last April, was officially reponed Monday with students due to return next…
READ MOREBBC, December 21, 2015
UNICEF: Nigeria’s Boko Haram ‘forces one million out of school’
An Islamist insurgency has kept about one million children out of school in Nigeria and three neighbouring states, the UN children’s agency has said.
READ MOREGCPEA PRESS RELEASE, December 15, 2015
Guidance on Protecting Education Released on Anniversary of Deadly School Attack
The Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA) has released the report, “What Ministries Can Do to Protect Education from Attack and Schools from Military Use: A Menu of…
READ MOREGCPEA PRESS RELEASE, December 15, 2015
Diffusion d’un guide pour la protection de l’éducation, un an après l’attaque meurtrière d’une école pakistanaise
La Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA) a diffusé un rapport, intitulé « Ce que les ministères de l’éducation peuvent faire pour protéger l’éducation contre les attaques et…
READ MOREReuters, December 14, 2015
Dozens die in strikes on Syrian school district, other areas
Intense air and missile strikes on a school district and other areas in insurgent-held Damascus suburbs killed dozens of people on Sunday, including children, a monitoring group and local rescue…
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