The international community must act “collectively and expeditiously” to thwart the growing number of children affected by armed conflicts, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon declared today, as the Security Council met to discuss the myriad horrors faced by children caught up in wars worldwide.
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March 24, 2015
March 23, 2015
Israel is allegedly pressuring United Nations officials in Jerusalem to keep the Israel Defense Forces off the UN secretary-general’s “list of shame” of armed groups that commit grave violations of children’s rights during armed conflict, the Guardian reported last week.
March 20, 2015
The Israeli military yesterday announced that it was opening an investigation into the shelling of a UN school in the Gaza Strip last summer which, according to Palestinian accounts, left 21 Palestinians dead and more than 100 wounded, including women and children, during Israel’s Operation Protective Edge.
March 19, 2015
KARACHI: The students of a primary school located in North Nazimabad had just finished the morning assembly when unidentified motorcyclists threw a cracker bomb on their school on Wednesday morning.
March 18, 2015
By: Gordon Brown
A couple weeks from now, the world will commemorate the one-year anniversary of the kidnapping of about 200 Nigerian schoolgirls by Boko Haram.
March 18, 2015
The international community was told today it must act now to designate "safe schools" and end the militarisation of classrooms.
March 15, 2015
With deadly attacks on schools increasing worldwide, governments are being urged to help save education from the bullet and the bomb
In February 2009, the Pakistan Taliban blew up the school where Ali Khan taught. “I heard about the blast from my neighbour before I left my house that morning,” he says. “He was just passing by the school, and it was completely destroyed. Everything was ashes.”
March 05, 2015
The refugee girl who crossed a border to go to school
When Grace fled South Sudan, she refused to give up on her dream to be a doctor. But with refugee numbers soaring and camps at breaking point around the world, millions of children like her simply don’t have a school to attend. So why won’t aid donors invest in their futures?
March 04, 2015
PESHAWAR: The provincial government has renamed 107 existing government schools across the province after students slain in the gruesome terrorist attack on Army Public School (APS) last year.
February 24, 2015
Hadja's story
It was late December 2014, and 13-year-old Hadja was at school, when Boko Haram insurgents attacked the city of Damassack in northern Nigeria.
