(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.
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The Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack provides the latest news and developments on attacks on education and efforts to protect and prevent them. Information older than three months is included in the News Archive.
February 21, 2012
Al-Shabaab Rebels Impose Forced Marriages, use Students as ‘Human Shields’
February 15, 2012
My Office has been following the developments in Syria closely for the past ten months. Access to affected populations has been limited due to security and other constraints.
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.
February 09, 2012
COTORRA, Colombia — It was a savage, mafia-style hit.
Alejandro Peñata, a Colombian teacher and union activist, was strangled with a length of barbed wire that was still coiled around his neck when his brother fished his corpse out of a drainage ditch.
February 06, 2012
With IIE as the administrative agent, the Coalition is seeking a highly qualified, experienced, and senior-level Consultant for a 12-month leadership position, based in New York, to direct GCPEA. This is an exciting opportunity to lead the coalition in its advocacy and programmatic work and provide strong organizational and management leadership for putting GCPEA on firm footing as an international coalition, leading and advancing the coalition’s global agenda, and executing the decisions of the Steering Committee.
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Timely and accurate monitoring and reporting on attacks on education is crucial for responding to attacks, for holding perpetrators accountable, and for seeking to prevent attacks from occurring in the first place.
In order to protect education from attack, field based practitioners, communities and government education actors in a number of affected countries have developed a range of measures and programs to reduce or prevent attacks on teachers, students and education institutions.
The use of education institutions by militaries and armed groups during situations of conflict and insecurity can disrupt or completely deny education in both the immediate and long terms.