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The 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.

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The 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.

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The 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.

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Associated 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…

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Inside 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.

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The 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.

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Reuters, 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…

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Daily 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

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Reuters, 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.

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AFP 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…

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BBC, 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.

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GCPEA 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…

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GCPEA 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…

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Reuters, 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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Amnesty International, December 10, 2015
Bombing of schools by Saudi Arabia-led coalition a flagrant attack on future of Yemen’s children

“Schools are central to civilian life, they are meant to offer a safe space for children. Yemen’s young school pupils are being forced to pay the price for these attacks.

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Reuters, December 7, 2015
Taliban Occupies School during attack on Kandahar Airport

Taliban insurgents attacked the airport in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Tuesday and were engaged in fighting with security forces, regional officials said.

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BBC News, November 29, 2015
Woman dies after ‘terror drill’ at Kenya’s Strathmore University

One woman has died and at least 31 others have been hospitalised after a security exercise at a university in the Kenyan capital Nairobi.

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BBC News, November 29, 2015
Woman dies after ‘terror drill’ at Kenya’s Strathmore University

One woman has died and at least 31 others have been hospitalised after a security exercise at a university in the Kenyan capital Nairobi.

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GCPEA, November 9, 2015
Protecting Education Newsletter, November 2015

Ahead of the third year anniversary of the Pakistani Taliban’s shooting of schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai in a violent reaction to her commitment to girls’ education, GCPEA convened a workshop in…

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Kyiv Post, November 9, 2015
The last school bell in Krasnohorivka

Nina Nikolayevna prefers to focus on the good times. When the school principal reminisces about the celebrations they used to hold at School Number 3, she is animated and passionate.

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