Category Archives: Out-of-school children

Whether attacks are ‘indiscriminate’ or ‘deliberate’, education needs protection

Posted on 14 April 2011 by Pauline Rose

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 →

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Hard lessons in the world’s largest refugee complex

Posted on 29 March 2011 by EFA Editor

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 →

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Education bounces back in Cambodia and Ethiopia

Posted on 22 March 2011 by EFA Editor

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 →

Posted in Basic education, Conflict, Developing countries, Ethnicity, Gender, Human rights, Language, Marginalization, Out-of-school children, Primary school, Teachers | 2 Comments

How donors betray children’s hopes in conflict zones

Posted on 18 March 2011 by EFA Editor

Français | Español By Sarah Press, Education Thematic Coordinator in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for Save the Children (UK) If you wanted to put names and faces to the million of forgotten children in the world, you might … Continue reading →

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For refugees in Kenya, ‘education is the only thing we can take home’

Posted on 15 March 2011 by Pauline Rose

Français | Español By Pauline Rose, senior policy analyst, Education for All Global Monitoring Report In many ways, Kenya is an example of an African success story in education. According to the 2011 EFA Global Monitoring Report, growth in the … Continue reading →

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Pakistan declares ‘education emergency’

Posted on 10 March 2011 by EFA Editor

Français | Español Kicking off a campaign aimed at making March “the month that Pakistan talks about only two things: education and cricket”, a government commission has painted a damning picture of the country’s education system, whose poor progress towards global … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Conflict, Developing countries, Finance, Governance, Legislation, Marginalization, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Primary school | 16 Comments

Millions of girls are still missing out on school

Posted on 8 March 2011 by EFA Editor

Français | Español As the world marks the 100th anniversary today of International Women’s Day, it’s worth having a look at what progress has been made towards improving education for women and girls since the global community adopted the Education for … Continue reading →

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Aid donors get an F for education

Posted on 2 March 2011 by Kevin Watkins

Français | Español Poor people understand the power of education to transform lives – yet education receives just 2% of humanitarian aid By Kevin Watkins, director, Education for All Global Monitoring Report If you want to see iron resolve in action, … Continue reading →

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THE HIDDEN CRISIS: ARMED CONFLICT AND EDUCATION

Posted on 1 March 2011 by EFA Editor

Français | Español | العربية The 2011 Education for All Global Monitoring Report, The hidden crisis: Armed conflict and education, is launched today at 10 a.m. in New York by Irina Bokova, director-general of UNESCO, with simultaneous launches in a dozen other locations, … Continue reading →

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Rape in war zones takes huge toll on education

Posted on 25 February 2011 by EFA Editor

Français | Español The 2011 Education for All Global Monitoring Report, to be launched on March 1, warns that rape and other sexual violence are depriving millions of children of an education by keeping them in a climate of terror. … Continue reading →

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