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New York Times, August 2, 2014
Airstrike Near U.N. School Kills 10 as Israel Shifts Troops in Gaza
JERUSALEM — As Israel began to redeploy significant numbers of its troops away from populated areas of Gaza on Sunday, an Israeli Air Force missile struck near the entrance of…
READ MOREThe Express Tribune Pakistan, August 2, 2014
Targeting education: Girls primary school blown up
A girls primary school was blown up by unidentified militants in Sro Kalay, Shabqadar near the Charsadda-Mohmand border in the early hours of Saturday.
READ MOREThe Conversation, August 1, 2014
Attacks on UN schools in Gaza clearly breach international law
The shelling of Jabalia Elementary Girls’ School in Gaza on July 30 by Israeli forces was a shocking example of modern military action. The shelling was the sixth time a United Nations school has…
READ MOREPajhwok Afghan News, July 31, 2014
Taliban have closed all schools in Mianshin: official
Insecurity, lack of healthcare services and schools are the main problems being faced by residents of the Mianshin district of southern Kandahar province, the district chief has said.
READ MOREAFRO, July 31, 2014
First Lady Shares World Vision for Girls and Women at African Summit
First lady Michelle Obama speaks to selected participants of the Presidential Summit for the Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders in Washington, Wednesday, July 30, 2014, during a roundtable discussion.
READ MOREThe Guardian, July 31, 2014
Gaza: how international law could work to punish war crimes
For three weeks, the world has watched war crimes apparently committed by both sides in Gaza: lethal attacks on schools and hospitals…
READ MOREThe Friday Times, July 31, 2014
‘Expel girls or close down’
At least 23 private schools and English language centers in Balochistan’s western Panjgur district have been closed since April 25…
READ MOREGlobal Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA), July 31, 2014
All Parties Should Protect Schools and Children in Gaza Conflict
The shelling of a United Nations-run school in Gaza yesterday, resulting in multiple civilian casualties, highlights the urgent need to protect schools and children from the violence of armed conflict.
READ MOREAll Africa, July 30, 2014
Sudan: Education Undone – School Bombings Drive a Generation Out of the Classroom
The renewed conflict in South Kordofan has pushed many children out of the classroom into the refugee camps or the rebellion.
READ MOREBBC News, July 30, 2014
Nigeria Kano blast: Boko Haram blamed for six deaths
At least six people have been killed in a suicide bombing at a college in northern Nigeria’s biggest city, Kano, witnesses say.
READ MOREHuman Rights Watch, July 30, 2014
Dispatches: Gaza’s Schools on the Battlefield
On July 30 a school in the Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) came under attack. At least 15 people died…
READ MOREUnited Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), July 30, 2014
UNRWA Strongly Condemns Israeli Shelling of its School in Gaza as a Serious Violation of International Law
Jerusalem – Last night, children were killed as they slept next to their parents on the floor of a classroom in a UN designated shelter in Gaza. Children killed in…
READ MOREOffice of the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict, July 29, 2014
Leila Zerrougui: No Safe Place for the Children Of Gaza
“After three weeks of conflict, no one can doubt that there are no safe places for the children of Gaza.
READ MOREA World at School, July 28, 2014
Protecting education from attack: what can be done?
Schools, universities, educators and students are not just being caught in the cross-fire – they are being deliberately targeted as a tactic of war.
READ MOREAl Jazeera English, July 26, 2014
Taliban claims attack on police official
The six attackers, all of whom were wearing suicide vests, launched Sunday’s attack from a school building near General Abdul Razeq’s house in the Spin Boldak district of Kandahar province,…
READ MOREThe Guardian, July 26, 2014
We must ensure that schools are never targeted in armed conflict
“That is why the pleas of the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack, which has consistently campaigned for new rules that preserve a child’s right to education during armed…
READ MOREThe Nation, July 24, 2014
Fences around schools in South won’t guarantee security
Instead of armed protection, focus must be on creating non-militarised zones to put the onus on the militants.
READ MOREThe Office of the UN Special Envoy for Global Education, July 24, 2014
Statement by United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown
“With 120 schools affected since the start of the emergency, I urge all countries to adopt and implement the Lucens Guidelines to prevent the military use of schools in conflict…
READ MOREInternational Business Times, July 24, 2014
UN School In Gaza Hit By Israeli Fire; 5 Injured
Five people were injured when a United Nations school serving as a shelter was hit by Israeli fire Wednesday in Gaza, the second time in three days that a U.N.…
READ MORENew York Times, July 24, 2014
In Gaza, at Least 10 Die at U.N. School Used as Civilian Shelter
GAZA CITY — A series of explosions at a school run by the United Nations sheltering hundreds of Palestinians who had fled their homes for safety from Israeli military assaults…
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