UNICEF reminds all parties to the conflict that all children must be protected from harm, as required by international legal standards and as their moral responsibility.
News Archive
November 07, 2014
November 07, 2014
The attack on the Al Hayat Primary School in the district of Qaboun in eastern Damascus on Wednesday is yet another horrific reminder of the terrible price Syria’s children are paying in a brutal conflict.
November 07, 2014
The students are from Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states, where a state of emergency has been enforced after killings, abductions and attacks on schools.
November 06, 2014
Rights groups also say soldiers have attacked and burned schools during counter-insurgency operations
A “cultural caravan” comprising Manobo students and educators from Davao del Norte arrived in Manila on Wednesday to highlight the increasing violence that they say has disrupted access to education in rural areas of the country.
November 06, 2014
Authorities in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev said the security services will investigate the shelling of Donetsk's school No. 63.
November 05, 2014
Mortar rounds slammed into a school Wednesday in a rebel-held suburb east of Damascus, killing at least 13 children, activists said.
November 05, 2014
Paul Ronalds, CEO of Save the Children Australia, calls on Australia to use its seat on the UN Security Council to stand up for children's education and publicly endorse the Lucens Guidelines.
November 03, 2014
In the Middle East and beyond, academics face a growing threat
Academics and students are being forced to flee their homes and homelands at a level not seen since World War II.
October 30, 2014
Federal and military forces discovered an unmarked mass grave on 27 October in Cocula, 16 kilometres from Iguala in Guerrero state in southeastern Mexico, where 43 students from a teacher training college in Ayotzinapa were abducted in late September.
October 29, 2014
A child living in a fragile or conflict-affected developing country is nearly three times more likely to be out of school as a child living in another developing nation, finds Save the Children's report.
