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The 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
READ MOREYahoo News, February 2, 2015
Pakistani teachers arming selves in wake of school massacre
When Pakistani Taliban militants stormed a Peshawar school and massacred 150 children and teachers, nobody could fight back.
READ MOREThe Nation , January 26, 2015
Christian boys’ school stormed by Charlie Hebdo protestors in Bannu
Hundreds of Pakistani students protesting against a French magazine for publishing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad stormed a Christian boys’ school demanding it close, officials and police said Tuesday.
READ MOREThe Guardian , January 20, 2015
#OccupyPlayGround: police used teargas on our children, but for now we celebrate the win
Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi joined pupils at a Nairobi primary school who defied riot police firing teargas to reclaim their sports field.
READ MORESave the Children, January 20, 2015
Save the Children decries Use of Teargas on Children at Langata Road
Save the Children condemns the use of tear gas and excessive force on children who were peacefully demonstrating against the alleged grabbing of their playground.
READ MOREHuffington Post UK, January 13, 2015
Pakistan Schoolboy Posts Heartbreaking Before-And-After Pictures From Taliban Peshawar Attack
A boy from the school where nearly 150 children were murdered by the Pakistani Taliban has posted two moving images showing his absent classmates who were killed in the attack.
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