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BBC, June 6, 2014
Iraq university hostages’ ordeal ends in Ramadi
Militants have stormed a university in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, briefly taking dozens of students and staff hostage before retreating under fire.
READ MOREGCPEA Press Release, June 5, 2014
Protecting Schools from Attack in Nigeria and Beyond: How to Support Community-Based Responses
Local knowledge and skills are crucial in the fight to protect students, educators, and schools from attack, said the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA) in a new…
READ MOREMcClatchy DC, June 3, 2014
Radicals in Syria holding 150 students abducted on way to final exams
ISTANBUL — About 150 Kurdish students were kidnapped last week by the radical Islamist group the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria…
READ MOREVoice of America, June 2, 2014
UNICEF Says Fighters Occupying South Sudan Schools
JUBA — United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) officials said Tuesday that men in uniform are occupying at least 30 schools in five different states in South Sudan…
READ MOREMay 29, 2014
GCPEA Joins 61 Organizations Calling on the US Government to Help Protect Education from Attack
Community letter on Nigeria abductions
READ MOREHuffington Post, May 27, 2014
Update from Nigeria: Launching the Safe Schools Initiative
The Safe Schools Initiative has been launched by the Nigerian government and international aid agencies with the aim of making schools more secure.
READ MOREUN News Centre, May 21, 2014
‘Act to Protect’: UN launches guide to preventing attacks against schools, hospitals
Guidance Note on Attacks against Schools and Hospitals
READ MOREBusiness 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…
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