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June 16, 2017 News Release

Africa: Make Girls’ Access to Education a Reality

End Exclusion from School for Married, Pregnant Students

Cartoon for Tanzania Education Report
June 15, 2017 News Release

Equatorial Guinea: Oil Wealth Squandered and Stolen

As Reserves Dwindle, Little Time to Reverse Neglect of Health, Education

After spending several million dollars on government buildings in Malabo, the capital, and Bata, the nation’s economic center, Equatorial Guinea is pouring billions of dollars into building a new administrative capital, Oyala, in the middle of the jungle.
June 12, 2017 Dispatches

How Wars and Disasters Fuel Child Labor

Urgent Action Needed to Help Millions of Children Forced into Work Each Year

Hazrat Hussain, 10, loads bricks onto a truck. Hazrat doesn’t go to school and works alongside his two teenage brothers at a brick kiln outside Kabul.
June 11, 2017 Report

Russia: Children, Students Targeted after Protests

Protesters, Parents Face Intimidation, Charges

Protesters assembled around Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow on March 26, 2017.
June 9, 2017 Dispatches

One Step Closer to Ending Child Marriage in New York

New York Law Still Allows 14-Year-Olds to Marry

Sonia Ossorio of NOW-NYC addresses the crowd at a protest against US laws allowing child marriage.
June 9, 2017 Dispatches

Philippines Mercury Poisoning Report Highlights Risks

Government Should Ratify and Implement the Minamata Convention

Mercury-contaminated water
June 8, 2017 Dispatches

Time for Tonga to End Child Marriage

New Campaign Provides Opportunity to Abolish Child Marriage

The Royal Palace of Tonga.
June 7, 2017 News Release

Colombia: Armed Groups Oppress Riverside Communities

Families Displaced as Groups Dispute Control of River

Wounaan people gather in a community building by the San Juan river, in Chocó, Colombia, March 2017.
June 2, 2017 Letter

An Open Letter from 41 NGOs to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres

Re: Children and Armed Conflict

June 1, 2017 Dispatches

Philippine Congress Rejects Bid to Jail Kids

A child peers from inside a makeshift house with tin walls in Tacloban, Philippines, January 15, 2015.
May 31, 2017 Report

Turkey: Education Barriers for Asylum Seekers

Afghan, Iranian Children Lack Status, Risk Child Labor

Sarvar and Marzina, Afghan asylum seekers in Denizli, with their son Matin. The couple cannot afford to send their 18-year-old daughter to school and are occasionally unable able to afford food.
May 30, 2017 Dispatches

Pakistan’s Poor Record Protecting Schools

Endorse Safe Schools Declaration Ahead of UN Rights Review

Pakistani students in Lahore return to school under high alert security after the December 16, 2014 attack by the Pakistani Taliban on the Army Public School in Peshawar, January 1, 2015.
May 30, 2017 Letter

Submission by Human Rights Watch to the Portfolio Committee on Basic Education concerning Inclusive Education

May 29, 2017 Dispatches

Safe Schools Declaration Turns Two

All Countries Should Act to Protect Schools During War

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May 26, 2017 Dispatches

Burma’s Muslims Face Long Walks to Pray during Ramadan

Islamic Schools Are Kept Closed on Eve of Holiest Month

Two police officers guard one of the closed madrasas in Thaketa Township, Rangoon, after authorities inspected the building, April 29, 2017.

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