New York, 18 April 2013 – More than three million children in Syria suffer from the consequences of the ongoing conflict. “This emergency is a children’s crisis,” the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict alerted the Security Council this morning during an open briefing on the Syrian crisis.
News Archive
April 18, 2013
April 09, 2013
LONDON — Almost unnoticed, one of the great civil rights struggles of our times is being fought out in our midst. Across the Indian subcontinent, in Afghanistan and in Africa, supporters of universal girls’ education are being threatened, assaulted, bombed and murdered.
April 02, 2013
The United Nations Envoy for Global Education, Gordon Brown, Education International and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) are demanding of the authorities in Pakistan that they enable girls to go to schools which are safe and secure.
April 02, 2013
The Higher Education Working Group (HEWG) of the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack, seeks reports of attacks on higher education institutions and personnel for inclusion in the Coalition's upcoming world report "Education Under Attack 2013".
April 02, 2013
A third Pakistani school has been attacked in an escalating wave of violence by Taliban militants determined to stamp out the provision of girls' education.
March 29, 2013
Officials in southern Pakistan say men armed with guns and grenades have attacked a school, killing the principal and wounding at least six children.
March 28, 2013
The Secretary-General condemns the violent attacks on teachers in Pakistan. Shahnaz Nazli, a 41-year old teacher, was killed this week in Shahkas, in the Khyber Agency of Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
March 28, 2013
DAMASCUS, Syria — Mortar shells hit a Damascus University outdoor cafe in the heart of the Syrian capital on Thursday...
March 26, 2013
Goma, Unexploded grenades, bullets and other unused munitions were found last month in sewage drains used by some schools in the North Kivu capital. For students in the area, school is not a place of protection, but a threat to their lives.
March 19, 2013
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, March 18 (Xinhua) -- Nigeria's Boko Haram sect on Monday attacked three public schools in the restive northern city of Maiduguri, where four people were killed and three others were injured, the military said.
