Commentary
A Step in the Right Direction
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Just Security
Bede Sheppard
Bede Sheppard is the deputy director in the Children's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch, where he specializes in the issues of attacks on students, teachers, and schools, and the military use of schools. During his time with Human Rights Watch, he has conducted investigations in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Japan, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Nigeria, the Philippines, Poland, Thailand, Ukraine, and Yemen. He has previously worked for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Croatia, and as an attorney with a Washington DC law firm, conducting field investigations into human rights abuses in Indonesia and South Africa. He holds a bachelors degree from Harvard College, a masters degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and a law degree from Columbia University. During the summer term of 2016, he was a visiting scholar at the New Zealand Centre for Human Rights Law, Policy, and Practice at the Faculty of Law at Auckland University.
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Reports Authored
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Protecting Schools from Military Use
Law, Policy, and Military Doctrine
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“These Killings Can Be Stopped”
Abuses by Government and Separatist Groups in Cameroon’s Anglophone Regions
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Protecting Schools from Military Use
Law, Policy, and Military Doctrine
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Studying Under Fire
Attacks on Schools, Military Use of Schools During the Armed Conflict in Eastern Ukraine
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“Our School Became the Battlefield”
Using Schools for Child Recruitment and Military Purposes in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
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Without Dreams
Children in Alternative Care in Japan
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"Look at Us with a Merciful Eye"
Juvenile Offenders Awaiting Execution in Yemen
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Classrooms in the Crosshairs
Military Use of Schools in Yemen’s Capital
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Schools and Armed Conflict
A Global Survey of Domestic Laws and State Practice Protecting Schools from Attack and Military Use
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"Their Future is at Stake"
Attacks on Teachers and Schools in Pakistan’s Balochistan Province
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“Targets of Both Sides”
Violence against Students, Teachers, and Schools in Thailand’s Southern Border Provinces
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Sabotaged Schooling
Naxalite Attacks and Police Occupation of Schools in India’s Bihar and Jharkhand States
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Workers in the Shadows
Abuse and Exploitation of Child Domestic Workers in Indonesia
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Scared Silent
Impunity for Extrajudicial Killings in the Philippines
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Condemned Communities
Forced Evictions in Jakarta
