Community letter on Nigeria abductions
News Archive
May 29, 2014
May 27, 2014
The Safe Schools Initiative has been launched by the Nigerian government and international aid agencies with the aim of making schools more secure.
May 21, 2014
Guidance Note on Attacks against Schools and Hospitals
May 15, 2014
The kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls in northern Nigeria by the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram is beyond outrageous.
May 15, 2014
The mass abduction of girls from their school in Chibok, northern Nigeria has been a wake up call to the international community.
May 10, 2014
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 11 May 2014 - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Ms. Leila Zerrougui, reached out to the delegations of the Government of South Sudan and the SPLM/A...
May 09, 2014
Protecting the Right to Learn in Nigeria
The Safe Schools Initiative was launched at the World Economic Forum on Africa in Nigeria, by a coalition of Nigerian business leaders, working with the UN Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown, the Global Business Coalition for Education and A World at School.
May 09, 2014
GENEVA, May 9 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency on Friday said it was deeply concerned at the recent wave of attacks on civilians in north-east Nigeria.
May 08, 2014
NICK CUMMING-BRUCE
GENEVA — As international support builds for the search for more than 200 abducted Nigerian schoolgirls, the United Nations refugee agency expressed alarm Friday at the swelling tide of people fleeing their homes in northeast Nigeria to escape attacks by Boko Haram insurgents that it said were unprecedented in their brutality and frequency.
May 08, 2014
Agnès Gruda
La Presse
Parmi les rescapées du récent enlèvement de plus de 300 élèves dans un village du nord du Nigeria, il y a Deborah Sanya, jeune femme de 18 ans qui n'avait plus qu'une poignée d'examens à passer avant de décrocher son diplôme du secondaire.
