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April 27, 2016 Commentary

When schools and students become spoils of war

Lack of education is a lack of light, it's darkness.

A lecture theatre at the Federal College of Education, Kano, Kano state, destroyed when Boko Haram insurgents lobbed grenades and shot students taking classes on September 17, 2014. At least 27 students and two lecturers were killed in the attack.
April 11, 2016 News Release

Nigeria: Northeast Children Robbed of Education

Boko Haram’s Devastating Toll on Students, Teachers, Schools

Children look through a destroyed classroom window at Yerwa Primary School, Maiduguri, Borno state, damaged by Boko Haram during attacks in 2010 and 2013. The school, established in 1915, was the first primary school in northeast Nigeria. © 2015 Bede Shep
April 4, 2016 Commentary

The Other Safe Schools Campaign that Australia is Ignoring

School in Nikishine, eastern Ukraine, damaged during fighting between Ukrainian government and rebel forces from Aug. 2014 to Feb. 2015.
March 22, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Don’t Turn Afghan Schools into Battlefields

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March 17, 2016 Statement

Human Rights Watch Submission on the Democratic Republic of Congo to the Committee on the Rights of the Child

March 10, 2016 Commentary

When Schools Become Battlegrounds

School in Nikishine, eastern Ukraine, damaged during fighting between Ukrainian government and rebel forces from Aug. 2014 to Feb. 2015.
March 9, 2016 News Release

Netherlands: Protect Schools, Universities in War

#WatchOurSchools Campaign Urges Leaders to End Military Use of Schools

School in Nikishine, eastern Ukraine, damaged during fighting between Ukrainian government and rebel forces from Aug. 2014 to Feb. 2015.
March 2, 2016 Letter

Submission on Pakistan to the Committee on the Rights of the Child

Submission to the plenary session on Pakistan

February 25, 2016 Commentary

The Right to Education: Regulating the Conduct of Armed Forces Under International Law

Congolese rebel fighter abandoned classroom
February 11, 2016 News Release

Ukraine: Attacks, Military Use of Schools

Protect Students, Schools by Joining Safe Schools Declaration

Cover imageA former student, 13, stands in a damaged school in Vuhlehirsk.
January 13, 2016 News Release

Yemen: Houthis Endangered School for Blind

Coalition Airstrike Shows Added Risks for People With Disabilities

A corridor in the the al-Noor Center for the Blind sustained damage from a Saudi-coalition airstrike in Sanaa, Yemen on January 5, 2016. © 2016 Abdullah Qaid/Human Rights Watch
January 13, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Education a Casualty of War

Congolese rebel fighter abandoned classroom
December 14, 2015 News Release

South Sudan: Terrifying Lives of Child Soldiers

Children Describe Forced Recruitment, Trauma, Abuse

Child soldiers put down their guns in a disarmament and release ceremony in Jonglei state, South Sudan, February 10, 2015.
November 11, 2015 Commentary

The last school bell in Krasnohorivka

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November 9, 2015 Witness

Witness: "The Other Kids Were Cursing Me"

School supplies belonging to a Syrian refugee child enrolled in her local public school.

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