At least 23 private schools and English language centers in Balochistan’s western Panjgur district have been closed since April 25...
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July 31, 2014
Private schools shut down in Panjgur after threats by local religious group
July 31, 2014
The security council will be vetoed, but now that Palestine is a state there’s another route to justice
For three weeks, the world has watched war crimes apparently committed by both sides in Gaza: lethal attacks on schools and hospitals...
July 31, 2014
Insecurity, lack of healthcare services and schools are the main problems being faced by residents of the Mianshin district of southern Kandahar province, the district chief has said.
July 31, 2014
The shelling of a United Nations-run school in Gaza yesterday, resulting in multiple civilian casualties, highlights the urgent need to protect schools and children from the violence of armed conflict.
July 30, 2014
The renewed conflict in South Kordofan has pushed many children out of the classroom into the refugee camps or the rebellion.
July 30, 2014
At least six people have been killed in a suicide bombing at a college in northern Nigeria's biggest city, Kano, witnesses say.
July 30, 2014
By Bede Sheppard
On July 30 a school in the Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) came under attack. At least 15 people died and scores more were wounded, including women and children who were sheltering there. It was the second UN school hit in a week. But these were not the first schools in Gaza to come under attack, nor the first in which children were among the casualties.
July 30, 2014
Statement by Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl
Jerusalem - Last night, children were killed as they slept next to their parents on the floor of a classroom in a UN designated shelter in Gaza. Children killed in their sleep; this is an affront to all of us, a source of universal shame. Today the world stands disgraced.
July 29, 2014
“After three weeks of conflict, no one can doubt that there are no safe places for the children of Gaza.
July 28, 2014
By Diya Nijhowne, Director of the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack
Schools, universities, educators and students are not just being caught in the cross-fire – they are being deliberately targeted as a tactic of war.
