The application from an Iraqi university professor to the Scholar Rescue Fund was chilling. It described how he had been pressured relentlessly by a local militia to promote its agenda in his publications.
News Archive
October 06, 2014
Mexican police killed three trainee teachers, shot another in the head and another in the face, and herded dozens more into police trucks to what investigators fear was a massacre on a remote hillside, survivors of the incident say.
October 06, 2014
These children were kidnapped on 29 May 2014 while traveling from their home-town of Ai’n Al Arab in the northern Syrian governorate of Aleppo to take their final school examinations.
October 05, 2014
Today, World Teachers' Day, we celebrate all the inspiring teachers around the world. At the same time, it's important we remember the teachers who risk their lives, and in some cases have lost their lives for education.
October 02, 2014
“This is a new low in a conflict in which warring parties have already caused immense suffering to the country’s children,” said Leila Zerrougui, United Nations Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict.
October 02, 2014
Gaza, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, now Ukraine. Armed attacks against schools and universities impose a reflection.
The 2014 report by the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack documents trends and cases, country by country – dispelling easy myths while calling for public engagement
October 01, 2014
A teacher was killed and two children injured on Wednesday when a hand-grenade attack took place on a school in the Shabqadar area of Peshawar.
October 01, 2014
A shell has killed four people at a school in the rebel-held east Ukrainian city of Donetsk, on the first day of classes, officials and witnesses say.
October 01, 2014
Twin bombings occurred just as the children were leaving at the end of class at the Ekremah al-Makhzoumi elementary school, according to an official with the Homs governorate.
September 29, 2014
Using schools for military purposes during times of conflict often has long-term impact on students and on society, experts say.
