GHALANAI, Pakistan — The classroom in Ghalanai, an area nestled amid the mountains of Pakistan’s tribal belt, has the air of a military camp: a solitary tent pitched beside a bombed-out building, ringed by a high wall and protected by an armed gunman.
News Archive
July 08, 2013
New York, 08 July 2013 – The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Ms. Leila Zerrougui, strongly condemns the violent attack on a school and the targeted killing of students and their teachers over the weekend in Yobe State, in north-eastern Nigeria.
July 06, 2013
As a result of the tribal violence between the Beni Hussein and Abbala tribes, not one of the 48 schools in Al Sareif Beni Hussein locality in North Darfur is fully operational.
July 05, 2013
POTISKUM, Nigeria — Islamic militants attacked a boarding school before dawn on Saturday, dousing a dormitory in fuel and lighting it ablaze as students slept, survivors said. At least 30 people were killed in the deadliest attack yet on schools in Nigeria’s embattled northeast.
July 04, 2013
With the death toll in Syria passing 100,000, the country's bloody conflict has been much in the news. But the policy debate over the outside world's next steps remains stymied. There certainly are no perfect answers to the issues surrounding intervention and arming rebel groups, whose provenance and future intentions are unknown.
July 03, 2013
Director of UNESCO Office in Iraq Ms. Louise Haxthausen condemned the killing of Dr. Ahmed Shaker, professor at the University of Baghdad and urged the authorities to investigate this crime.
June 27, 2013
GCPEA writes in advance of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women’s upcoming initial and second periodic review of Afghanistan to highlight areas of concern regarding protecting teachers, students, and schools from attack.
June 26, 2013
GENEVA (AP) — Civilians in hospitals, schools, churches and mosques are increasingly put in harm's way in armed conflicts around the world, including in Syria, the head of the Red Cross said Thursday.
June 17, 2013
Suspected Islamist militants in north-east Nigeria have killed at least nine school children, the second targeted attack on students in recent days.
June 12, 2013
A series of recent high-level reports raise the alarm about child labor, exploitation, and the impact of conflict on the young.
The world has become much less peaceful since 2008 – 5 percent less so, to use the exacting numbers of those who calculate them. And a large share of this burden falls on the world’s most vulnerable group: children.
