India should carry out the recommendations of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child to improve protection for children affected by armed conflict...
News Archive
June 19, 2014
Armed Groups Target Schools
June 19, 2014
Syrian University Students & Scholars in Lebanon (2014)
The crisis in Syria continues to have a devastating impact on professors, university students, and the education sector, not only in Syria but also in the neighboring countries that are hosting so many displaced Syrians.
June 13, 2014
Global Campaign to Finalize, Implement Protection Guidelines
Today the Norwegian government announced its commitment to promote international standards to protect schools and universities from military use during armed conflict.
June 12, 2014
BANGKOK, 12 June 2014 (IRIN) - Schools are targeted in conflicts around the world - they might represent ideas viewed as controversial, the destruction of a civilian building that is important to a community inflicts terror, and a school reduced to rubble can rob an entire generation of education.
June 07, 2014
Baghdad/Erbil, IRAQ, 8 June 2014 – UNICEF is horrified by reports from the northern Iraqi city of Mosul of multiple child casualties when a school was directly targeted by mortar fire during clashes between militants and government forces on Saturday 7 June.
June 06, 2014
Broken bodies of children. A dead mother. A wailing father.
June 06, 2014
Militants have stormed a university in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, briefly taking dozens of students and staff hostage before retreating under fire.
June 05, 2014
Local knowledge and skills are crucial in the fight to protect students, educators, and schools from attack, said the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA) in a new study released today.
June 03, 2014
ISTANBUL — About 150 Kurdish students were kidnapped last week by the radical Islamist group the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria...
June 02, 2014
JUBA — United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) officials said Tuesday that men in uniform are occupying at least 30 schools in five different states in South Sudan...
