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UCA News, November 6, 2014
Manobo villagers decry military occupation of classrooms in Mindanao

A “cultural caravan” comprising Manobo students and educators from Davao del Norte arrived in Manila on Wednesday to highlight the increasing violence that they say has disrupted access to education…

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Associated Press, November 6, 2014
School shelling deaths in Ukraine hurt peace hopes

Authorities in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev said the security services will investigate the shelling of Donetsk’s school No. 63.

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Associated Press, November 5, 2014
Mortar Fire on Syria School Kills 13 Children

Mortar rounds slammed into a school Wednesday in a rebel-held suburb east of Damascus, killing at least 13 children, activists said.

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The Age, November 5, 2014
Australia’s UN security role a chance to defend children’s education

Paul Ronalds, CEO of Save the Children Australia, calls on Australia to use its seat on the UN Security Council to stand up for children’s education and publicly endorse the…

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The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 3, 2014
Scholars in Danger Join World’s Refugees

Academics and students are being forced to flee their homes and homelands at a level not seen since World War II.

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University World News, October 30, 2014
Grave found near site of mass student abduction

Federal and military forces discovered an unmarked mass grave on 27 October in Cocula, 16 kilometres from Iguala in Guerrero state in southeastern Mexico, where 43 students from a teacher…

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Save the Children Australia, October 29, 2014
New figures: nearly 9 million children out of school from year’s worst humanitarian crises

A child living in a fragile or conflict-affected developing country is nearly three times more likely to be out of school as a child living in another developing nation, finds…

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UN News Centre, October 29, 2014
UN applauds donation by Malala Yousafzai for reconstruction of Gaza schools

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Malala Yousafzai, has announced a contribution of $50,000 to help with the rebuilding of UN schools heavily damaged during recent fighting.

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New York Times, October 27, 2014
In Mexico, a New Lead on Missing Students

Mexican investigators planted red flags to mark suspected human remains Tuesday as they combed through a garbage-choked ravine in the search for 43 students missing since they were arrested by…

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Dawn.com, October 26, 2014
Militants blow up school in Khyber

The unknown attackers planted the explosives in the school building which detonated with a loud bang, completely destroying Government Primary School, Sultan Khel.

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Educación Futura, October 26, 2014
Sobre el derecho de aprender en paz

En marzo de este año, la Coalición Global para la Protección de la Educación bajo Ataque, publicó la lista de los treinta países cuyos sistemas educativos se encuentran en situación…

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GCPEA, October 22, 2014
Protecting Education Newsletter – October 2014

As classrooms opened for another season of learning this year, far too many students and teachers in conflict-affected areas returned to school filled with dread and fear of possible attack,…

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The Mark News, October 16, 2014
The Other Nobel Winners

When Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai pick up their Nobel Peace Prizes, there are going to be a lot of other winners standing alongside them.

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Office of the Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, October 16, 2014
Increased Levels of Violence Disproportionately Affect Children

The increase in attacks against schools and hospitals is a call for all to better protect these facilities and to adopt concrete measures to deter the military use of schools.

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Human Rights Watch, October 14, 2014
Dispatches: Does UN know who torches Thailand schools?

First doused with gasoline, then set alight, six schools were engulfed in flames in Thailand’s southern province of Pattani on Sunday. Flames consumed textbooks, furniture, classrooms, and dreams.

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GCPEA Press Release, October 14, 2014
Nobel Peace Prize Win for Malala Is a Message to All Students Living in Conflict – Yes You Can

The Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA) congratulates Pakistani education activist, Malala Yousafzai, and Indian child rights activist, Kailash Satyarthi, for winning the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize.

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Human Rights Watch, October 10, 2014
Nobel Peace Prize a Victory for Education

The awarding of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize to the 17-year-old activist Malala Yousafzai honors students around the world…

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Los Angeles Times, October 8, 2014
Op-Ed Offering refuge to endangered scholars

The application from an Iraqi university professor to the Scholar Rescue Fund was chilling. It described how he had been pressured relentlessly by a local militia to promote its agenda…

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Reuters, October 6, 2014
Mexican students recall clashes with police as massacre probed

Mexican police killed three trainee teachers, shot another in the head and another in the face, and herded dozens more into police trucks to what investigators fear was a massacre…

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UNICEF, October 6, 2014
UNICEF welcomes release of 70 Kurdish children

These children were kidnapped on 29 May 2014 while traveling from their home-town of Ai’n Al Arab in the northern Syrian governorate of Aleppo to take their final school examinations.

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