It is with utmost dismay that I condemn the abduction of more than 80 students by an armed group in Malakal in South Sudan.
News Archive
February 21, 2015
February 20, 2015
Armed groups raided a South Sudanese school and seized 89 children who were taking their exams, the United Nations said Saturday.
February 18, 2015
In Gaza last week, another person died from an attack that hit a school.
February 16, 2015
A World at School today launches a 15-point plan for a Pakistan Safe Schools Initiative - backed fully by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and United Nations Special Envoy for Education Gordon Brown...
February 09, 2015
It is relentless. This week, there were two more attacks on schoolchildren both in Afghanistan, one at a girls’ school, where staff were bludgeoned and bombs set off, and the other at a neighboring boys’ school, where a classroom was sprayed with bullets.
February 09, 2015
A new United Nations human rights report seeking to analyse the problem of attacks against girls trying to access education found that schools in at least 70 different countries were attacked in the five years between 2009 and 2014, with many attacks specifically targeting girls, parents and teachers advocating for gender equality in education.
February 07, 2015
The importance of education is indisputable. The problem is that the international community's credibility in promising universal education has been compromised
February 02, 2015
When Pakistani Taliban militants stormed a Peshawar school and massacred 150 children and teachers, nobody could fight back.
January 26, 2015
Hundreds of Pakistani students protesting against a French magazine for publishing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad stormed a Christian boys' school demanding it close, officials and police said Tuesday.
January 20, 2015
Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi joined pupils at a Nairobi primary school who defied riot police firing teargas to reclaim their sports field.
