Isha Sesay speaks to former British PM Gordon Brown about the kidnapping of dozens of Nigerian schoolgirls by Boko Haram.
News Archive
April 23, 2014
Gordon Brown Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; UN Special Envoy for Global Education
LONDON -- The world must wake up to an escalating tragedy now engulfing Nigeria. Today the lives of 230 teenage schoolgirls hang in the balance.
April 17, 2014
Hopelessness creeps in amid a range of peril including bombing, gunfire, arrest, torture, execution, military conscription and a growing national economic crisis.
April 16, 2014
EDUCATION is the answer for Pakistan, everyone says, and indeed they may be right.
April 15, 2014
Gunmen reportedly arrived at the school in Chibok, Borno state, late last night, and ordered the hostel's teenage residents on to lorries.
April 11, 2014
PATNA: The members of CPI (Maoist), on April 9 night, had allegedly planted 36 cylinder bombs in the building of Narottampur High School under Kajra police station in Lakhisarai district.
April 08, 2014
Between 1989 and 2003, Liberia suffered two bloody civil wars. During this time, nine out of every ten schools were seriously affected, either entirely destroyed or damaged and looted.
March 30, 2014
March Sees More Teachers Killed; Investigate Security Force Abuses
(Bangkok) – Separatist insurgents in Thailand’s southern border provinces should immediately end attacks on teachers and other civilians...
March 26, 2014
Maoists, Government Forces Should Spare Schools from Fighting
Maoist insurgents and government security forces in India should respect children’s safety and right to education...
March 13, 2014
The Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, Leila Zerrougui, presented her Annual Report to the Human Rights Council
