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Reuters, April 2, 2015
Al Shabaab storms Kenyan university, 14 killed
At least 14 people were killed on Thursday when Islamist militant group al Shabaab stormed a Kenyan university campus, taking Christians hostage and engaging security forces in an extended shootout.
READ MOREReuters, March 30, 2015
Pakistan charges 70 schools for failing barbed wire test
A northwestern Pakistani province is taking criminal action against 70 schools that have failed to tighten security with measures such as installing barbed wire following a December high school attack…
READ MOREGlobal Campaign for Education, March 29, 2015
HONDURAS: GCE calls for justice as 4 student leaders are assassinated
Four students – the youngest of whom was just 13 years old – were brutally murdered in Comayaguela, Honduras between 24-25 March 2015. All had participated in protests against the…
READ MOREUN News Service, March 24, 2015
Amid growing crises, UN officials urge protection for war’s youngest victims
The international community must act “collectively and expeditiously” to thwart the growing number of children affected by armed conflicts, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon declared today, as the Security Council…
READ MOREHuman Rights Watch , March 23, 2015
Dispatches: Resisting the UN’s ‘List of Shame’
Israel is allegedly pressuring United Nations officials in Jerusalem to keep the Israel Defense Forces off the UN secretary-general’s “list of shame” of armed groups that commit grave violations of…
READ MORENewsweek, March 20, 2015
Israeli Military to Investigate Deadly Attack on Gaza UN School
The Israeli military yesterday announced that it was opening an investigation into the shelling of a UN school in the Gaza Strip last summer which, according to Palestinian accounts, left…
READ MOREThe Express Tribune , March 19, 2015
Under attack: Cracker bomb thrown at another Karachi school
KARACHI: The students of a primary school located in North Nazimabad had just finished the morning assembly when unidentified motorcyclists threw a cracker bomb on their school on Wednesday morning.
READ MOREThe Huffington Post, March 18, 2015
Four Proposals To Tackle the Growing Militarization of Schools
By: Gordon BrownA couple weeks from now, the world will commemorate the one-year anniversary of the kidnapping of about 200 Nigerian schoolgirls by Boko Haram.But a mass abduction that was…
READ MOREA World at School, March 18, 2015
UN education envoy Gordon Brown demands urgent action on safe schools
The international community was told today it must act now to designate “safe schools” and end the militarisation of classrooms.
READ MOREThe Guardian , March 15, 2015
Campaign to keep terror out of the world’s classrooms
In February 2009, the Pakistan Taliban blew up the school where Ali Khan taught. “I heard about the blast from my neighbour before I left my house that morning,” he…
READ MOREThe Guardian , March 5, 2015
‘If I am alive, I must have an education’
When Grace fled South Sudan, she refused to give up on her dream to be a doctor. But with refugee numbers soaring and camps at breaking point around the world,…
READ MOREThe Express Tribune Pakistan, March 4, 2015
Never forget: Govt renames 107 schools after slain APS students
PESHAWAR: The provincial government has renamed 107 existing government schools across the province after students slain in the gruesome terrorist attack on Army Public School (APS) last year.
READ MOREOCHA ROWCA, February 24, 2015
Swimming for her life
It was late December 2014, and 13-year-old Hadja was at school, when Boko Haram insurgents attacked the city of Damassack in northern Nigeria.
READ MOREGlobal Partnership for Education, February 21, 2015
Statement by Julia Gillard on the Abduction of Students in South Sudan
It is with utmost dismay that I condemn the abduction of more than 80 students by an armed group in Malakal in South Sudan.
READ MORECNN, February 20, 2015
Armed groups raid South Sudan school, abduct 89 children, U.N. says
Armed groups raided a South Sudanese school and seized 89 children who were taking their exams, the United Nations said Saturday.
READ MOREHuman Rights Watch, February 18, 2015
Dispatches: In Gaza, Another Death From School Attacks
In Gaza last week, another person died from an attack that hit a school.
READ MOREA World At School, February 16, 2015
Prime Minister Sharif backs Pakistan Safe Schools Initiative and pledges to make it a success
A World at School today launches a 15-point plan for a Pakistan Safe Schools Initiative – backed fully by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and United Nations Special Envoy for Education…
READ MOREProject Syndicate, February 9, 2015
The Right to Safe Schools
It is relentless. This week, there were two more attacks on schoolchildren both in Afghanistan, one at a girls’ school, where staff were bludgeoned and bombs set off, and the…
READ MOREUN News Centre, February 9, 2015
UN rights report points to ‘increasing regularity’ of attacks on girls seeking education
A new United Nations human rights report seeking to analyse the problem of attacks against girls trying to access education found that schools in at least 70 different countries were…
READ MOREThe Financial Express: Education , February 7, 2015
Violence and education
The importance of education is indisputable. The problem is that the international community’s credibility in promising universal education has been compromised
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