December 15, 2014
Children need to be protected, nurtured and allowed to reach their potential. We all instinctively know this because our own children are the most important part of our lives.
Salam is 12 -- a boy growing up in Syria. The war there has been fought now for almost four years -- a third of his young life. He has a strong opinion about education.
December 15, 2014
The attack on a school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar might be the worst in the country’s history, but human rights groups say it is part of an ongoing trend that has seen more than 1,000 schools targeted since 2009.
December 15, 2014
Education Above All, the Qatar-based foundation that promotes human, social and economic development through quality education and other welfare programmes and initiatives, issued a statement in response to the attacks that took place today in Peshawar, Pakistan, and in Yemen.
December 15, 2014
The attack on a school in Peshwar in northwestern Pakistan that left at least 145 dead – almost all of them children – sets a new low of depravity for the Pakistani Taliban.
December 11, 2014
December 10, 2014
Children’s right to education is under attack in more than 70 countries, causing millions of children to lose out on school because of war and conflict. Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Malala marks a unique opportunity to awaken decision makers, give hope to students, and reiterate our condemnation of all attacks on education.
December 09, 2014
As we mark the International Day of Human Rights, two of the world’s most prominent child rights advocates are in Oslo to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. One of them, Kailash Satyarthi has been a child rights activist for decades. The other, Malala is the youngest person ever to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
December 09, 2014
In Oslo today, where the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded, Save the Children held its 18th annual Peace Prize party for 6,000 school children on an outdoor stage.
December 08, 2014
The blur of scientific talk from the investigators washed over him — something about a bone fragment, DNA testing, probability — as he sat dazed in an abandoned classroom at the teachers college his son attended.
December 08, 2014
The year 2014 has been one of horror, fear and despair for millions of children, as worsening conflicts across the world saw them exposed to extreme violence and its consequences, forcibly recruited and deliberately targeted by warring groups, UNICEF said today.
