PESHAWAR, April 16: A student was killed and another received critical injuries when suspected militants hurled a hand grenade at a private school in Chargano Kallay on the outskirts of provincial metropolis on Monday morning.
News Archive
April 11, 2012
Military and recruitment campaigns have pushed through the front gates of public schools in Colombia's most war-ravaged communities.
April 02, 2012
MANILA, Philippines - An international human rights organization has asked Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of Staff Jessie Dellosa to address human rights violations, starting with the banning of the use of functioning schools as military detachments.
March 24, 2012
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — The teenager in the immaculate white robe stood in the ruins of what had been his school. There were no classrooms, no desks or chairs, no intact blackboards — there was, in fact, no longer any reason for him to be there.
March 16, 2012
One school girl was killed and four others injured, two in critical condition, in a roadside bomb explosion in Pattani’s Yarang district on Saturday, said Pol Col Tuande Chutanant, chief of Yarang police station.
March 07, 2012
In many conflicts around the world, schools are not just caught in the crossfire, they are intentionally targeted for attack. Armed groups have threatened and killed students and teachers, and burned schools.
March 07, 2012
Attacks Threaten Children, Undermine Right to Education
(Nairobi) – The militant Islamist group Boko Haram has set more than a dozen schools on fire in northern Nigeria, Human Rights Watch said today
February 29, 2012
On 29 February 2012 human rights defender Professor Worajet Pakeerat was assaulted by two men at Thammasat University's Faculty of Law at Tha Prachan Campus in Bangkok, where he is an associate professor in public law.
February 21, 2012
Al-Shabaab Rebels Impose Forced Marriages, use Students as ‘Human Shields’
(London) – Somalia’s warring parties have all failed to protect Somali children from the fighting or serving in their forces, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
February 09, 2012
New York, 9 February 2012 – Following another violent day in Syria, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Radhika Coomaraswamy reiterated her call to the Syria authorities to stop the killing and maiming of children.
