Back to school for young Yemenis in Sanaa on Monday was a stark reminder of why many missed classes in the first place – rebels were using it as an arms dump.
News Archive
September 26, 2014
The majority of children not in school are in conflict-affected and emergency-stricken areas. Ensuring safe access to education is critical in Nigeria and in other places from Afghanistan to Sudan.
September 25, 2014
The sanctity of learning is being violated daily, writes Moza bint Nasser
Education has come under attack – not just in Syria but in every region of the world, from Afghanistan to Ivory Coast, Gaza to South Sudan.
September 25, 2014
By Gordon Brown, UN Special Envoy for Global Education
In 2000, world leaders promised that every child would be in school by the end of 2015. As we enter the final stretch, we are still short of achieving Millennium Development Goal 2.
September 24, 2014
Throughout the developing world, young women don't always make it safely to the schoolhouse door, much less get a decent education inside. The Clinton Foundation is hoping to change that.
September 24, 2014
Today GCPEA joined more than 30 other organizations participating in CHARGE - Collaborative Harnessing Ambition and Resources for Girls' Education.
September 18, 2014
A liberal religious scholar and professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Karachi was shot dead today by unknown assailants.
September 17, 2014
New report from Save the Children - Future under threat: The impact of the education crisis on Syria's children - finds that the country’s schools are increasingly being damaged and destroyed in the conflict.
September 17, 2014
Gunmen stormed a higher education college in northern Nigeria on Wednesday, firing on fleeing students and setting off an explosion in an attack that killed at least 15 people and wounded 35, police said.
September 12, 2014
The morning roll call will be a particularly morbid affair on the first day of school in Gaza this Sunday. Hundreds of students, killed in the recent fighting, will be forever marked absent.
