Leila Zerrougui on the destruction and occupation of schools during warfare, writing as Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict
News Archive
February 07, 2016
Philip Hammond, Foreign Secretary, said to have blocked attempts to get Britain to lead way on preventing killing of children
February 07, 2016
The widespread destruction of schools and infrastructure in the Saudi-led bombardment of the country is further encouraging more children to pick up guns and fight.
January 26, 2016
Charities are hoping to break the cycle that means teachers and children have to risk their lives for education.
January 26, 2016
More children under 15 being forced into combat roles, with others killed or maimed in school attacks by all sides in war.
January 25, 2016
Rob Quinn, Executive Director of Scholars at Risk, authored an essay for the Washington Post on the widespread pattern of attacks on higher education worldwide.
January 24, 2016
The head of a breakaway Taliban faction behind this week’s attack at a northwestern Pakistani university that killed 21 people, most of them students, threatened on Friday to carry out more attacks on schools and universities across the country.
January 21, 2016
Twenty killed in assault on Bacha Khan University, the latest attack on an educational institution in a country that has suffered more than any other.
January 20, 2016
A group of militants has stormed a university in north-west Pakistan, killing at least 30 people and leaving dozens injured.
January 19, 2016
Several people were wounded and at least one feared killed after a mortar shell which appeared to have been fired from Syria struck a school in Turkey's southeastern border province of Kilis.
