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Business Day, May 15, 2014
The war on education
The kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls in northern Nigeria by the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram is beyond outrageous.
READ MOREBrookings, May 15, 2014
The Need to End the Nigeria Abductions and All Attacks on Schools Globally
The mass abduction of girls from their school in Chibok, northern Nigeria has been a wake up call to the international community.
READ MOREOffice of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, May 10, 2014
Parties to the Conflict in South Sudan Renew Their Commitment to End Recruitment and Other Grave Violations Against Children
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 11 May 2014 – The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Ms. Leila Zerrougui, reached out to the delegations of the Government of…
READ MOREA World At School, May 9, 2014
REPORT: The Safe Schools Initiative
The Safe Schools Initiative was launched at the World Economic Forum on Africa in Nigeria, by a coalition of Nigerian business leaders, working with the UN Special Envoy for Global…
READ MOREUNHCR, May 9, 2014
UNHCR condemns brutality in Nigeria, fears new displacement
GENEVA, May 9 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency on Friday said it was deeply concerned at the recent wave of attacks on civilians in north-east Nigeria.
READ MORENew York Times, May 8, 2014
U.N. Refugee Agency Says Thousands Fleeing Nigeria Region
NICK CUMMING-BRUCEGENEVA — As international support builds for the search for more than 200 abducted Nigerian schoolgirls, the United Nations refugee agency expressed alarm Friday at the swelling tide of…
READ MORELa Presse, May 8, 2014
La guerre aux écoliers
Agnès GrudaLa PresseParmi les rescapées du récent enlèvement de plus de 300 élèves dans un village du nord du Nigeria, il y a Deborah Sanya, jeune femme de 18 ans…
READ MOREBrookings , May 7, 2014
Protecting Schools is an International Responsibility: From Aleppo to Northern Nigeria
The tragic irony that cost 17 students in an Aleppo school their lives last week must not be lost on the international community.
READ MOREHuffington Post, May 7, 2014
Mothers of the Missing
Mothers of the missing. Whose hearts are placed in a vise of uncertainty. Who don’t know where their children are. If they are hurt. If they are alone. Who know…
READ MOREGlobal Partnership for Education, May 7, 2014
Statement by Julia Gillard, Board Chair of the Global Partnership for Education, on the Abduction of School Girls in Nigeria
It is with utmost concern that I condemn the abduction of more than 200 school girls in Chibok in northern Nigeria by the terrorist group Boko Haram.
READ MOREAll Africa, May 6, 2014
Africa: #BringBackOurGirls and protect all Nigeria’s schoolchildren
Abuja — The kidnapping of over 200 schoolgirls in northern Nigeria is beyond outrageous.
READ MOREA World At School, May 6, 2014
Nigeria Abductions a Call to Action
Hundreds of parents have been marching with placards demanding “Find our Daughters” in Nigeria, where over 200 girls were abducted by an Islamist armed group in late April.
READ MORENew York Times, May 5, 2014
New Kidnapping Reported in Nigeria as U.S. Offers Help
ABUJA, Nigeria — A second kidnapping of schoolgirls in Nigeria’s northeast by Islamist militants put new pressure on the country’s troubled government…
READ MOREThe Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict, May 5, 2014
Boko Haram Must Release Girls Abducted Three Weeks Ago
New York – I remain deeply concerned about the fate of over 230 girls violently abducted from their school by Boko Haram in Borno State, Nigeria on the night of…
READ MORENew York Times, April 30, 2014
Bomb Hits Elementary School in Ravaged Syrian City
BEIRUT, Lebanon — A barrel bomb tore into an elementary school in the northern city of Aleppo on Wednesday morning, just as an exhibit of children’s art was about to…
READ MOREThomson Reuters Foundation, April 29, 2014
Mortar strike on Damascus school kills at least 14
BEIRUT, April 29 (Reuters) – Two mortar shells struck a school complex in central Damascus on Tuesday, killing at least 14 people and wounding dozens, state media and a monitoring…
READ MORECNN, April 24, 2014
Fmr. PM Brown: We must make schools safer
Isha Sesay speaks to former British PM Gordon Brown about the kidnapping of dozens of Nigerian schoolgirls by Boko Haram.[Watch the video here]
READ MOREHuffington Post, April 23, 2014
Nigeria’s Boko Haram Targets Children Just Because They Go to School
Gordon Brown Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; UN Special Envoy for Global EducationLONDON — The world must wake up to an escalating tragedy now engulfing Nigeria. Today the lives…
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