December 16, 2014
President Barack Obama has condemned a Taliban attack on a Pakistani school that killed at least 126 people, mostly children and teenagers.
“By targeting students and teachers in this heinous attack, terrorists have once again shown their depravity,” Obama said in a statement Tuesday.
The president called the attack “horrific” and said he condemns it “in the strongest possible terms.”
December 16, 2014
Speaking from Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where he is visiting schools and meeting children, Gordon Brown said:
December 16, 2014
NEW YORK, 16 December 2014. The horrific, callous killing of more than one hundred children today in Peshawar, Pakistan must do more than shock the conscience of the world – as it will.
December 16, 2014
The Board of Directors of the Global Partnership for Education, meeting in Washington D.C. on December 16, 2014, deplores the appalling attack on a school in Peshawar in Pakistan earlier today.
We are deeply shocked by the needless and violent death of so many innocent children, teachers and other employees of the school. Our thoughts are with all the families and loved ones.
December 16, 2014
New York - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Leila Zerrougui, strongly condemns the horrific attack against the Army Public School and Degree College in Peshawar, Pakistan. According to local media, over 125 people died, including at least 100 children in the deadliest terror attack on Pakistani soil in years.
December 16, 2014
Less than a week after Malala Yousafzai was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, this heinous attack is a crime against the future of all children and the nation of Pakistan.
December 15, 2014
NEW YORK – The massacre today of more than 100 children in an attack on a school in Pakistan, and the reported killing of at least 15 school girls in a car bombing in Yemen, mark a dark day in the closing weeks of a bleak year for children around the world.
December 15, 2014
The world has been shocked by the massacre of more than 130 children at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility.
December 15, 2014
Israeli forces staged two violent attacks in the Palestine occupied territories, firing grenades and tear gas directly at students in a northern village during a raid at school, while this Tuesday they shot and killed a Palestinian during another raid in a refugee camp in West Bank, according to local sources.
December 15, 2014
A bloody day has come to an end in Peshawar, Pakistan, where Taliban gunmen stormed an army-run elementary school, killing at least 145 people, almost all of them children.
