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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,…
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.
READ MOREBBC News, October 1, 2014
Ukraine crisis: Shell kills four at Donetsk school
A shell has killed four people at a school in the rebel-held east Ukrainian city of Donetsk, on the first day of classes, officials and witnesses say.
READ MOREThe Associated Press, October 1, 2014
Syria blasts at school kill 17, including 10 kids
Twin bombings occurred just as the children were leaving at the end of class at the Ekremah al-Makhzoumi elementary school, according to an official with the Homs governorate.
READ MOREGlobal Post, September 29, 2014
Why it’s so important to protect schools during wartime
Using schools for military purposes during times of conflict often has long-term impact on students and on society, experts say.
READ MOREThe National, September 28, 2014
Guns ’n grammar: Yemen school occupied by rebels
Back to school for young Yemenis in Sanaa on Monday was a stark reminder of why many missed classes in the first place – rebels were using it as an…
READ MOREHuffington Post, September 26, 2014
Securing Safe Access to Education for Girls in Nigeria and Beyond
The majority of children not in school are in conflict-affected and emergency-stricken areas. Ensuring safe access to education is critical in Nigeria and in other places from Afghanistan to Sudan.
READ MOREThe Financial Times, September 25, 2014
A plea to protect schools in conflict zones
Education has come under attack – not just in Syria but in every region of the world, from Afghanistan to Ivory Coast, Gaza to South Sudan.
READ MOREA World at School, September 25, 2014
Roadmap to 2015: Three-Point Strategy for Education
In 2000, world leaders promised that every child would be in school by the end of 2015. As we enter the final stretch, we are still short of achieving Millennium…
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