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Human Rights Watch, February 25, 2022
Ukraine: Shelling Residential Areas Puts Civilians at Risk
Damage from the shelling of a kindergarten in the settlement of Stanytsia Luhanska, Ukraine, February 17, 2022. © 2022 Anton Skyba for Human Rights Watch The shelling of a school, a…
READ MOREUNETCHAC, November 2, 2021
A concert on the theme “Safe Schools for Children in Armed Conflict” organized with CPM Music Institute, Milan.
Rome / Abuja, 25 October 2021 – “I am happy to present this initiative; music is truly a powerful tool for conveying fundamental messages in a universal language; it also represents…
READ MOREDaily Trust Nigeria, November 1, 2021
What’s Next For Nigeria’s International Safe Schools Agenda?
Op-ed by Diya Nijhowne, Executive Director of the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack The Safe Schools Conference, which the Nigerian government hosted both in Abuja and virtually to…
READ MORESave the Children, October 27, 2021
Safe Schools Conference: 300 children call on world leaders to protect schools from attack
Children are making a series of demands to world leaders, including requesting they deny armies access to schools, and ensuring paths to schools are free of mines and explosives, in a Children’s Manifesto launched today. The Children’s Manifesto, authored by 300 children across…
READ MOREHuman Rights Watch, October 26, 2021
Protecting Schools from Attack during Wartime
Zama Neff Executive Director, Children’s Rights Division Internally displaced children attending classes at a displacement camp in Maiduguri, Borno state, September 2015. © 2015 Bede Sheppard/Human Rights Watch Nearly two decades…
READ MOREGeneva Global Hub for Education in Emergencies, October 26, 2021
Geneva actors gather in support of Safe Schools Declaration, as 4th International Conference begins in Abuja with in-person and virtual sessions
Argentina, Nigeria, Norway, Spain, Switzerland and the Geneva Global hub for Education in Emergencies, Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack and Save the Children hosted a local meet-up linked…
READ MOREGCPEA, October 22, 2021
Global Progress Protecting Schools, Universities from Military Use
(Abuja, October 22, 2021) – The military use of schools and universities in countries that were early endorsers of the international Safe Schools Declaration declined between 2015 and 2020, the…
READ MOREItalian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI), October 5, 2021
EVENT: Protecting Children in Armed Conflict and the Safe Schools Declaration: A Mediterranean Perspective
2020 marked the 20th Anniversary of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict (OPAC). The Protocol strongly condemns…
READ MOREEl Pais, September 14, 2021
Education under Attack in Afghanistan
Weeks before the Taliban seized the Afghan city of Ghazni in August, local media reported that fighters burned down a girls’ school in the town. Sadly, this was not an…
READ MOREInternational Parliamentary Network for Education, September 9, 2021
MPs commit to take urgent action to protect education from attack
On the Second UN International Day to Protect Education from Attack, September 9, 2021, members of the International Parliamentary Network for Education have pledged to redouble their efforts to protect…
READ MOREQantara, August 13, 2021
Two jihadists jailed 20 years for Burkina school attack
Two jihadists received 20-year jail sentences on Tuesday for a 2018 attack on a school in northern Burkina Faso following a trial held under tight security. Aged 38 and 29, the men,…
READ MOREBellingcat, July 20, 2021
How Schoolchildren Became Pawns in Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis
It was midday on 24 October last year when a group of men on motorcycles wielding machetes and firearms arrived outside Mother Francisca International Bilingual Academy in the Cameroonian town…
READ MOREHuman Rights Watch, June 24, 2021
UN Head Urges India to Join Safe Schools Declaration
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres recently called on India to endorse the Safe Schools Declaration, an intergovernmental political commitment to take common-sense measures to make it less likely that students, teachers, and schools…
READ MOREBBC, June 23, 2021
Myanmar army clashes with anti-junta militia in major city
The army in Myanmar’s second city, Mandalay, has clashed with a local militia opposed to February’s military coup. The clashes are the first time the People’s Defense Forces (PDF) have…
READ MORESave the Children, June 11, 2021
MYANMAR: MORE THAN 100 ATTACKS ON SCHOOLS IN MAY
Myanmar saw 103 schools and other education facilities attacked and often damaged by explosives in May this year alone, new data from Save the Children reveals, as armed forces continue…
READ MORETransit Magazine, May 29, 2021
A Bright Spot in a Year of Gloomy News on Education
Marika Tsolakis and Jerome MarstonSenior Researchers, Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack May 29th is the sixth anniversary of the Safe Schools Declaration, an international political commitment Norway co-led…
READ MORESave the Children, May 18, 2021
YEMEN: TENS OF THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN DENIED ACCESS TO EDUCATION AFTER A SINGLE MONTH OF ATTACKS ON SCHOOLS
Five attacks on schools in Yemen in March of this year have left an estimated 30,600 children[i] without access to education, further exacerbating an education crisis in the country, according to data…
READ MOREUnited Nations Security Council, May 13, 2021
Security Council Press Statement on Terrorist Attack in Kabul, Afghanistan
Security Council Press Statement on Terrorist Attack in Kabul, Afghanistan The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Zhang Jun (China): The members of the Security…
READ MOREBBC News, April 22, 2021
Nigeria kidnappings: ‘I’m afraid to return to school’
More than 800 students have been abducted from their schools in northern Nigeria since December. Watch the video here
READ MORESave the Children, March 19, 2021
OCCUPATION OF SCHOOLS BY SECURITY FORCES IN MYANMAR IS A SERIOUS VIOLATION OF CHILDREN’S RIGHTS
Joint Statement of Save the Children, UNESCO and UNICEF. The occupation of education facilities across Myanmar by security forces is a serious violation of children’s rights. It will exacerbate the…
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