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September 8, 2026 Dispatches

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Repeated Air Raid Alerts Add to Years of Lost Learning

Children, parents, and teachers shelter underground during an air raid alert amid traditional back-to-school celebrations in Kyiv, Ukraine, September 1, 2026.
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Systematic Effort in Occupied Territory to Erase Ukrainian Identity

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June 15, 2026 News Release

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April 20, 2026 Commentary

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The aftermath of the attack on a school in Minab, southern Iran, on February 28, 2026.
March 12, 2026 News Release

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Use of Outdated Intelligence Shows Failure to Take All Feasible Precautions

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August 6, 2025 Report

Lebanon: Israeli Forces Occupied, Vandalized Schools

Apparent War Crimes Jeopardize Right to Education

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Egypt: Declining Funding Undermines Education

Adequate Budgets Needed to Tackle Inadequate School Infrastructure, Teacher Shortages

An Egyptian teacher instructs students on the first day of the academic year at Orman school, in Cairo, Egypt, September 22, 2024.
January 24, 2025 Statement

Human Rights Watch Written Evidence to the UK Foreign Affairs Committee Inquiry into the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Damage caused by an artillery shell that hit the maternity hospital inside the Nasser Medical Complex, in Khan Yunis, Gaza, December 17, 2023.
January 16, 2025 Dispatches

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 A school guard walks in the corridor of a school which was heavily damaged after a Russian airstrike in Mohrytsia, Ukraine, August 14, 2024.

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