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Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack, April 2, 2013
Survey requesting information on attacks on higher education 2009-2013
The Higher Education Working Group (HEWG) of the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack, seeks reports of attacks on higher education institutions and personnel for inclusion in the Coalition’s…
READ MOREHuffington Post, April 2, 2013
Attacks on Schools Must Stop
A third Pakistani school has been attacked in an escalating wave of violence by Taliban militants determined to stamp out the provision of girls’ education.
READ MOREVoice of America, March 29, 2013
School Principal Killed in Pakistan Attack
Officials in southern Pakistan say men armed with guns and grenades have attacked a school, killing the principal and wounding at least six children.
READ MOREUnited Nations, March 28, 2013
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemns violent attacks on teachers in Pakistan
The Secretary-General condemns the violent attacks on teachers in Pakistan. Shahnaz Nazli, a 41-year old teacher, was killed this week in Shahkas, in the Khyber Agency of Pakistan’s Federally Administered…
READ MORENew York Times, March 28, 2013
Damascus Students Killed in Mortar Strike
DAMASCUS, Syria — Mortar shells hit a Damascus University outdoor cafe in the heart of the Syrian capital on Thursday…
READ MORERelief Web, March 26, 2013
Unexploded ordnances in schools, students at risk
Goma, Unexploded grenades, bullets and other unused munitions were found last month in sewage drains used by some schools in the North Kivu capital. For students in the area, school…
READ MOREXinhua News Agency, March 19, 2013
Several killed in Boko Haram attack on northern Nigeria schools
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, March 18 (Xinhua) — Nigeria’s Boko Haram sect on Monday attacked three public schools in the restive northern city of Maiduguri, where four people were killed and three…
READ MOREUNICEF Press Centre, March 12, 2013
UNICEF and UNESCO condemn bomb attack near school in Kirkuk
Baghdad, 13 March 2013 – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) condemn the attack that took place on March 11 near…
READ MOREUNICEF Press Centre, March 5, 2013
Syria conflict depriving hundreds of thousands of children of their education
AMMAN/DAMASCUS – Almost two years into the Syria crisis, the escalating level of violence is threatening the education of hundreds of thousands of children, a UNICEF assessment says.
READ MORECommittee on Academic Freedom Middle East Studies Association (MESA), February 18, 2013
Open Letter to the Office of the Syrian President and the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces
To Whom It May Concern, I write on behalf of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) of North America and its Committee on Academic Freedom regarding the deeply disturbing reports…
READ MOREAl-Jazeera, February 2, 2013
Teachers targeted in Thai conflict
Pattani, Thailand – Ban Ba Ngo could be any other rural primary school in Thailand. Under palm trees off a potholed road, students sit at desks reciting lines. Drawings celebrating…
READ MOREThe Economist, January 18, 2013
Thailand’s southern insurgency: School killings
Last month men armed with assault rifles burst into the canteen of Ban Ba Ngo school in the southern Thai province of Pattani and shot dead two teachers.
READ MOREThe Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (CARA), the Scholars at Risk Network (SAR), and the Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF), January 18, 2013
SYRIA: International Higher Education Protection Organizations Condemn Attack on University
The Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (CARA), the Scholars at Risk Network (SAR), and the Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF) jointly denounce – in the strongest terms…
READ MOREThe Economist, January 16, 2013
Academia attacked
Despite pleas from international agencies to keep the fighting between combatants, Syria’s war continues to inflict a staggeringly high toll on civilians.
READ MOREUNESCO Press, January 16, 2013
Director-General condemns attack on university of Aleppo, Syria
The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, today expressed deep shock at the two attacks on the University of Aleppo, Syria’s oldest institution of science and technology, which killed more than…
READ MORENew York Times, January 16, 2013
Dozens Killed as Explosions Hit Syrian University
At least two deadly explosions possibly caused by aircraft missiles or bombs devastated the campus of Aleppo University in Syria on Tuesday as students were taking exams, a major escalation…
READ MOREUniversity World News, January 15, 2013
Death toll in Aleppo University bombing set to rise
More than 80 people – most of them students – have been reported killed in two explosions at the Aleppo University campus in northern Syria and the death toll is…
READ MOREJanuary 10, 2013
“Education in Conflict Emergencies in Light of the Post-2015 MDGs and EFA Agenda”, by Christopher Talbot
Christopher Talbot is a consultant in Education in Emergencies. He was formerly CEO of Education Above All (EAA), Doha; led UNESCO’s work on education in emergencies and in post-conflict and…
READ MORENew York Times, January 1, 2013
Militants Gun Down 7 Aid Workers in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Continuing a militant campaign of violence against aid workers in Pakistan, gunmen on Tuesday shot dead seven Pakistani teachers and health workers, six of them women, police…
READ MOREHuman Rights Watch, December 19, 2012
Sri Lanka: Free or Charge Detained Students
(New York) – The Sri Lankan authorities should immediately release or credibly charge four ethnic Tamil students from Jaffna University who have been detained since early December 2012, Human Rights…
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