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Category Archives: Conflict
Education needs to be protected by law
Français | Español Human Rights Watch has supplied further momentum to the growing movement to protect education during conflicts, by pointing out the gap between global and national legal protections. Governments should explicitly outlaw attacks on schools and curtail their … Continue reading
Security Council acts to deter attacks on schools
Français | Español By Kevin Watkins, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report The real measure of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report’s impact is not how well it is received by governments, but whether it makes … Continue reading
Posted in Child soldiers, Conflict, Human rights, Sexual violence
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Targeting schools in the world’s newest state
Français | Español To mark the launch in Juba, South Sudan, of a new GMR policy paper on South Sudan’s education challenges, we publish a special opinion piece by UNESCO’s Director-General Irina Bokova. Download the policy paper at http://www.efareport.unesco.org. On 9 … Continue reading
Posted in Aid, Basic education, Conflict, Developing countries, Primary school
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Education for security and development
Français | Español | العربية By Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan To mark the launch in Amman, Jordan, of the Arabic edition of the 2011 Education for All Global Monitoring Report, The hidden crisis: Armed conflict and … Continue reading
UN calls for better protection from attacks on schools
Français | Español A new UN report supplies further evidence of the disturbing trend towards attacks on schools that we documented in the 2011 Education for All Global Monitoring Report, The hidden crisis: Armed conflict and education. The annual report … Continue reading
Posted in Conflict, Sexual violence
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A week of global action for girls’ and women’s education
Français | Español The Global Monitoring Report team is joining forces with UNESCO’s network of field offices to mark this year’s Education for All Global Action Week (May 2-8), which focuses on girls’ and women’s education. In 2000, governments pledged … Continue reading
Whether attacks are ‘indiscriminate’ or ‘deliberate’, education needs protection
Français | Español By Pauline Rose, senior policy analyst, Education for All Global Monitoring Report A high school in Gaza. (Photo Eman Mohammed/©UNESCO) A flurry of recent news items have referred to what many describe as Justice Richard Goldstone’s “retraction” … Continue reading
Posted in Basic education, Conflict, Human rights, Out-of-school children
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When aid is driven by the news cycle
School children in Florida Valle, Colombia. Although Colombia has the world’s second-largest population of internally displaced people, they seldom make the news. (Photo: ©UNESCO/Ministerio de Educación, Colombia) Français | Español At the EFA Global Monitoring Report we welcomed the release … Continue reading
Posted in Aid, Basic education, Conflict, Refugees and displaced people
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Hard lessons in the world’s largest refugee complex
Français | Español Somali refugees’ struggle for education in the Dadaab camps in northeastern Kenya, which we focused on in a post earlier this month, comes under the spotlight in an article from IRIN that builds on the findings of … Continue reading
Education bounces back in Cambodia and Ethiopia
Français | Español By Jakob Engel, a research consultant for the Overseas Development Institute Cambodia and Ethiopia offer valuable lessons on improving access to education after conflict, the theme of the 2011 EFA Global Monitoring Report, The hidden crisis: Armed … Continue reading
