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Human Rights Watch , June 23, 2015

EU: Abuses Against Children Fuel Migration

Large numbers of children from war-torn countries, often traveling alone, are fleeing abuses in their home countries to seek safety in the European Union, Human Rights Watch said today.

Washington Post, June 23, 2015

Killings, violence, disappearances and intimidation threaten academic freedom

Higher education communities worldwide have endured hundreds of attacks in the past four years, a barrage of persecution and violence that threatens academic freedom and scientific progress in Asia, Africa…

Voice of America, June 21, 2015

UNICEF: Attack on Bujumbura School a Senseless Tragedy

The outgoing UNICEF representative in Burundi says this past week’s attack on a school in the capital, Bujumbura, is a senseless tragedy.On his last day of service, Johannes Wedenig told…

National Post, June 16, 2015

Matthews & Schouela: Protecting schools during wartime

Though not widely reported in mainstream North American media, representatives from over 60 countries recently met in Norway to attend the “Oslo Conference on Safe Schools.” The high-level meeting sought…

Jamaica Observer, June 14, 2015

Schools to be no-zone for armed conflict

Jamaica has endorsed an international declaration that seeks to safeguard education facilities from being used in wars or armed conflicts. Sergeant Coleridge Minto, director of Safety and Security in School…

The Nation, June 13, 2015

Safe Schools Declaration: The first step towards making education safer for our children

In Pakistan, attacks on schools and students have appeared in the headlines regularly in recent years. A recent UN Human Rights Council report notes that more than 3,600 attacks have…

The World Post, June 12, 2015

‘The Year of the Child’ Has Become ‘the Year of Fear’ for Children

Is it any wonder that we now call this “the year of fear” for millions of children across the world? The cries of a starving or distressed child are a…

Human Rights Watch , June 12, 2015

UN: Protect Schools in Wartime

Governments should endorse the new Safe Schools Declaration at the United Nations Security Council debate on children and armed conflict on June 18, 2015, Human Rights Watch said today.

Huffington Post Canada, June 11, 2015

Will Canada Remain Committed to Helping Children in Emergency Situations?

This year has already become the worst year since 1945 for children who have been displaced and forced to flee as refugees, and for children who had their schools attacked…

Foreign Policy in Focus, June 11, 2015

Kids Are Paying the Price for Yemen’s War

Hisham Yahya, 13, is an eager student. As we sat in the large, empty yard of his school in Sanaa, Yemen’s capital, with weapons debris scattered about, he said he…

Human Rights Watch, June 11, 2015

Dispatches: War’s Terrible Toll on Children

Last December, the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, called 2014 one of the worst years on record for children. A new UN report issued today on children and armed conflict…

Dawn, June 10, 2015

War and Schools

Pakistan, which is one of the top three countries in the number of attacks specifically directed at the education infrastructure, did not sign the declaration. Ironically, just as the Oslo…

A World at School, June 10, 2015

Hundreds of Kenyan schools face closure after Christian teachers walk out over terrorist fears

Almost 100 schools in Kenya have been closed and 500 more may be shut down after mainly Christian teachers refused to work because they fear terrorist attacks. At least 95…

New York Times, June 8, 2015

Israel and Hamas Are Kept Off a Grim List

Under unusual pressure from Israel and the United States, the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, opted not to include either Israel or Hamas on a list of armies and…

CNN, June 5, 2015

Pakistani court clears 8 of 10 Malala attack suspects

New York Times, June 3, 2015

Education in Kenya Suffers at Hands of Shabab Extremists

In a small classroom at Mandera Academy, a private school, posters with numbers, Swahili and English letters, and geometric shapes hung on the walls as dozens of students crammed together…

VICE News, June 2, 2015

The Quest to Save the World’s Scholars From Persecution and Death

Silencing, imprisoning, or killing physicists and literature professors doesn’t seem like a way to win wars, but from Islamists storming a Kenyan university, to Sudanese doctors and student leaders disappearing…

Reuters, June 1, 2015

Rocket hits school in eastern Afghanistan, killing three

A teacher and two students were killed when a rocket struck a school compound in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, government officials said, as intensifying combat across the country takes a high toll…

Malala Fund Blog, June 1, 2015

Ziauddin Yousafzai Speaks Out Against Military Use Of Schools At Oslo Conference

Schools are supposed to be a safe place for children to learn, to play with classmates and seek knowledge. In the last few years, the world has witnessed many education…

University World News, May 31, 2015

Protecting higher education in a threatening world

Attacks on schools and universities are becoming so common now that only those with record numbers of victims get much of a showing in the international media. But these incidents…