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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.
READ MOREUniversity 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…
READ MORESave 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…
READ MOREUN 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.
READ MORENew 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…
READ MOREDawn.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.
READ MOREEducación 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…
READ MOREGCPEA, 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,…
READ MOREThe 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.
READ MOREOffice 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.
READ MOREHuman 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.
READ MOREGCPEA 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.
READ MOREHuman 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…
READ MORELos 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…
READ MOREReuters, 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…
READ MOREUNICEF, 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.
READ MOREMalala Fund, October 5, 2014
Teachers Under Attack
Today, World Teachers’ Day, we celebrate all the inspiring teachers around the world. At the same time, it’s important we remember the teachers who risk their lives, and in some…
READ MOREOffice of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, October 2, 2014
Syria: SRSG Zerrougui “appalled” by deadly school attacks in Homs
“This is a new low in a conflict in which warring parties have already caused immense suffering to the country’s children,” said Leila Zerrougui, United Nations Special Representative for Children…
READ MORESecurity Praxis, October 2, 2014
Education in the Line of Asymmetric Fire
The 2014 report by the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack documents trends and cases, country by country – dispelling easy myths while calling for public engagement
READ MOREDawn.com, October 1, 2014
School teacher killed in Peshawar blast
A teacher was killed and two children injured on Wednesday when a hand-grenade attack took place on a school in the Shabqadar area of Peshawar.
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