Baghdad, 13 March 2013 – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) condemn the attack that took place on March 11 near Wlad secondary school in the town of Dibis in Kirkuk governorate, 290 kilometers north of Baghdad, Iraq.
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March 12, 2013
106 school children and four teachers injured in attack
March 05, 2013
School infrastructure severely damaged, attendance rates plummeting, UNICEF assessment shows
AMMAN/DAMASCUS – Almost two years into the Syria crisis, the escalating level of violence is threatening the education of hundreds of thousands of children, a UNICEF assessment says.
February 18, 2013
To Whom It May Concern, I write on behalf of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) of North America and its Committee on Academic Freedom regarding the deeply disturbing reports of armed attacks on university campuses in Syria.
February 02, 2013
Some 160 teachers have been killed and many schools set ablaze in continuing ethnic violence
Pattani, Thailand - Ban Ba Ngo could be any other rural primary school in Thailand. Under palm trees off a potholed road, students sit at desks reciting lines. Drawings celebrating the king's recent birthday adorn walls; metal posts and a patch of sandy grassland mark out a football pitch.
January 18, 2013
A wave of brutal murders in the deep south, but also some glimmers of hope
Last month men armed with assault rifles burst into the canteen of Ban Ba Ngo school in the southern Thai province of Pattani and shot dead two teachers.
January 18, 2013
The Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (CARA), the Scholars at Risk Network (SAR), and the Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF) jointly denounce - in the strongest terms - the attack on the University of Aleppo on 15 January.
January 16, 2013
Despite pleas from international agencies to keep the fighting between combatants, Syria’s war continues to inflict a staggeringly high toll on civilians.
January 16, 2013
The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, today expressed deep shock at the two attacks on the University of Aleppo, Syria’s oldest institution of science and technology, which killed more than 80 people, most of them students, on 15 January.
January 15, 2013
At least two deadly explosions possibly caused by aircraft missiles or bombs devastated the campus of Aleppo University in Syria on Tuesday as students were taking exams, a major escalation of the violent struggle for control of the country’s largest city.
January 15, 2013
More than 80 people – most of them students – have been reported killed in two explosions at the Aleppo University campus in northern Syria and the death toll is expected to rise.
