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Human Rights Watch, June 28, 2024

Conflict in Northern Mozambique Puts Education at Risk

Zenaida MachadoSenior Researcher, Africa Division@zenaidamz@zenaidamz The Pulo Primary School after an insurgent attack on the village of Pulo, in Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique, March 6, 2024.  © 2024 Juan Luis Rod/AFP…

Human Rights Watch, June 26, 2024

Education Still Vulnerable to Attack in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan

Syinat Sultanalieva Researcher, Europe and Central Asia Division @SyinatS A burnt-out kindergarten in the Kyrgyz village of Ak-Sai. The village saw widespread looting and destruction while briefly under the control…

Alhurra, June 25, 2024

تقرير: 8 هجمات على التعليم يوميا خلال العامين الماضيين

الحرة – دبي 21 يونيو 2024 ارتفاع كبير في الهجمات التي يتعرض لها قطاع التعليم (أرشيف)

University World News, June 24, 2024

Steep rise in military attacks on higher education globally

Brendan O’Malley | 21 June 2024 The latest Education under Attack report published by the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA) notes a steep rise in military and political violence…

EL PAÍS, June 21, 2024

“Si me matan, que sea por ir a clase”: la educación sufre una media de ocho ataques cada día en el mundo

BEATRIZ LECUMBERRI Madrid – JUN 20, 2024 – 23:30 EDT Estudiantes heridas por proyectiles disparados contra una residencia de mujeres universitarias en Sudán, una escuela de la ONU en el campo de refugiados…

Foreign Policy in Focus, June 11, 2024

120 COUNTRIES HAVE SIGNED THE SAFE SCHOOLS DECLARATION. SADLY, THE U.S. ISN’T ONE OF THEM.

Preschool students study in a cramped classroom padded with sandbags in Irpin, Ukraine, July 2022 (Shutterstock). By Zama Neff | June 11, 2024 Standing in a sunbeam from an open window, the…

Stephanie Busari and Krystina Shveda, CNN, April 12, 2024

How the Chibok abductions continue to cast a long shadow over girls’ education in Nigeria

Chibok and Yola, Nigeria — Hauwa Ishaya vividly recalled the night in April 2014, when armed men stormed her boarding school in Chibok, abducting her and 275 other schoolgirls, forever…

Geneva Global Hub for Education in Emergencies, March 28, 2024

Attacks on education: global challenges and responses

An Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) briefing on Protecting Education in Emergencies (EiE), held on 19 March 2024, looked at the state of attacks on education globally, and explored the challenges,…

Education Cluster, Save the Children, and UNICEF, March 26, 2024

Verification of damages to schools based on proximity to damaged sites – Gaza, Occupied Palestinian Territory

Background • In Gaza, 17 years of blockade combined with recurrent conflict have damaged and destroyed an already fragile education infrastructure: increasing pressure on education facilities, disrupting education provision, and…

Fahmi Khaled, Sana'a Center for Strategic Studies, March 20, 2024

A War of Attrition: Higher Education in Yemen

IntroductionThe war has broken many of the basic elements of Yemeni society — but the legacy of its now-shattered higher education system will endure far beyond the cessation of hostilities.…

Education Above All (EAA), March 13, 2024

Palestine: Education Destroyed

The impact of the disproportionate attacks on Gaza and its civilian population will have significant consequences on all, most importantly on children. Since 7 October 2023, over 28,775 Palestinians have…

International Committee of the Red Cross, February 22, 2024

Protecting and Ensuring Safe Access to education: The ICRC’s Experience and Approach in Armed Conflict and Other Situations of Violence

Introduction Armed conflict and other violence have a devastating impact on education. One in three of the world’s school-aged children lives in a country affected by conflict or disasters. Between…

Geneva Global Hub for Education in Emergencies, September 12, 2023

Commemoration of the Fourth UN International Day to Protect Education from Attack

On 11 September 2023, the Permanent Mission of the State of Qatar to the United Nations in Geneva, Education Above All (EAA), and the Global Coalition to Protect Education from…

ICRC Blog, September 12, 2023

Protecting education from non-state armed group attacks

Non-state armed groups are responsible for a significant proportion of attacks that kill and injure students and teachers and damage schools and universities. These attacks also keep students from learning,…

Education Cannot Wait (ECW), August 15, 2023

Two Years On: Afghan Girls’ Call from the Heart to Claim their Right to Education Rings Out Louder Than Ever

Two years after the de facto Taliban authorities took power in Afghanistan and subsequently banned girls’ access to secondary and tertiary education, Education Cannot Wait (ECW) – the United Nations global fund…

New Lines Institute, August 2, 2023

The Path to Reconstructing Education in Yemen

https://soundcloud.com/newlinesinstitute/the-path-to-reconstructing-education-in-yemen?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing In the latest Contours episode, host Carolyn Moorman sits down with experts Jerome Marston, Katherine Zimmerman, and Alexander Kochenburger to dive into the Yemeni civil war’s effects on Yemen’s…

Alexander Kochenburger, New Lines Institute, July 12, 2023

Rebuilding for the Future:  A Spatial Analysis of Education Reconstruction in Yemen  

As Yemen’s conflict enters its ninth year, a protracted cease-fire within the country and a recent normalization in relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran (the conflict’s main external sponsors) have…

GCPEA, May 24, 2023

PoC Week Side-Event: Education in Armed Conflict: Protection, Prevention and Access

The Guardian, March 30, 2023

Egyptian army has turned Sinai schools into military bases, says rights group

Egyptian forces have taken over 37 schools and transformed them into military bases while dozens more have been destroyed during a 10-year war with militants in Sinai, a rights group…

GCPEA, December 21, 2022

GCPEA News: Highlights of 2022

A student stands at a desk in a classroom of a school in Chernihiv, Ukraine, that was destroyed by bombing in March 2022. © UNICEF/UN0726022/Ibarra Sánchez Tragically, attacks by armed forces…