Category Archives: Conflict

Peshawar and the war against education

Posted on 29 December 2014 by GEM Report

By Bushra Rahim Many children and youth in conflict zones are being injured, killed, kidnapped, recruited and traumatized. Armed conflict negatively impacts children’s access to school, and interrupts the studies of enrolled students. As we look forward to implementing a … Continue reading →

Posted in Conflict, Finance, Human rights, Out-of-school children, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Peshawar and the human right to education

Posted on 18 December 2014 by GEM Report

At least 132 children and 9 staff were killed this week following a Taliban attack on the Army Public School and Degree College in the Pakistani city of Peshawar. The GMR team is dedicated to the notion that each and … Continue reading →

Posted in Conflict, Out-of-school children, Refugees and displaced people | 2 Comments

We owe all our children the benefits of quality education

Posted on 7 October 2014 by GEM Report

By Mariam Khalique, a teacher from the Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan and previous teacher of Malala Yousafzai. There is a saying in our national language: a teacher is like an architect who builds the soul and character of … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Conflict, Equality, Equity, Gender, Out-of-school children, Poverty, Teachers | 1 Comment

New GMR booklet: Sustainable development begins with education

Posted on 18 September 2014 by GEM Report

As the General Assembly kicks off in New York, the GMR has produced a new widely-supported booklet showing that education is a catalyst for each of the proposed post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals. Education is positively intertwined with each of the proposed … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Climate change, Conflict, Democracy, Developed countries, Developing countries, Disaster preparedness, Economic growth, Employment, Environment, Equality, Famine, Gender, Governance, Health, HIV/AIDS, Human rights, Millennium Development Goals, Nutrition, Post-2015 development framework, Poverty, Reproductive health, Skills, Sustainable development | 2 Comments

Bring back our Nigerian school girls

Posted on 9 May 2014 by Manos Antoninis

The recent abduction of girls from a school in Borno state in the north east of Nigeria has sent shockwaves not just through the country but around the world. Within the space of two years, two separate violent incidents involving schoolgirls … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Conflict, Equality, Gender, Human rights, Out-of-school children, Rural areas | 7 Comments

Syrian refugees make the best of temporary schools

Posted on 18 March 2014 by Manos Antoninis

Mohammed, a teacher from Syria who lives in Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, is the fourth participant in our 10-week #TeacherTuesday campaign. His daily struggle to help Syrian refugee children underlines the need to support teachers in difficult situations – … Continue reading →

Posted in Aid, Arab States, Basic education, Conflict, Disaster preparedness, Donors, Early childhood care and education, Equality, Equity, Governance, Marginalization, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Poverty, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Quality of education, Refugees and displaced people, Teachers | Tagged #Target 4.5, #TeacherTuesday Blog Series, conflict, development, education, Education for All, finance, governance, humanitarian aid, learning, poverty, primary education, refugees | 6 Comments

Afghanistan: rebuilding girls’ education after decades of conflict

Posted on 11 March 2014 by Manos Antoninis

Nahida, a school principal in Kabul, is the third participant in our ten-week #TeacherTuesday campaign. In Afghanistan, conflict has raged for decades, cultural opposition to girls’ schooling is deep-seated, and education for girls was banned altogether under the Taliban. Nahida … Continue reading →

Posted in Conflict, Gender, Out-of-school children, Teachers | Tagged #TeacherTuesday Blog Series, finance, humanitarian aid | 9 Comments

Have we kept our 2013 education promises? Top 10 blogs say yes!

Posted on 19 December 2013 by Pauline Rose

My blog at the beginning of 2013 set out three areas in which we hoped the education community would make progress towards post-2015 goals this year: devising an overarching education goal as part of a broader post-2015 framework; identifying approaches … Continue reading →

Posted in Aid, Basic education, Conflict, Developing countries, Donors, Equality, Equity, Learning, Millennium Development Goals, Post-2015 development framework, Quality of education, Teachers | 9 Comments

Post 2015: The UN General Assembly has told us what, now we need to define how

Posted on 26 September 2013 by GEM Report

The roadmap for the international development agenda after 2015 was approved yesterday at a special event at the UN General Assembly. The UN Secretary-General said that the post‐2015 framework “must be bold in ambition yet simple in design, supported by … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Conflict, Donors, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Poverty | 1 Comment

Education gives girls dignity

Posted on 20 September 2013 by GEM Report

Speech, by Mariam Khalique, teacher of Pakistani school girl Malala Yousafzai, at an event in New York for the release of the Education For All Global Monitoring Report’s new analysis, Education Transforms. “Bismillah! In the name of ALLAH, the most … Continue reading →