Brussels Friends of Syria Conference Should Address Massive Dropouts

Devastating Toll on Teachers, Students, and Schools

‘Bilingual’ Policy Threatens Tibetan-Medium Education

Unlawful Restrictions on Schooling Risk Creating a Lost Generation

Children with albinism face insecurity and significant obstacles to accessing quality education in the Tete province of Mozambique.

Girls suffered sexual violence and other abuses when armed groups attacked hundreds of schools during the 2016-2017 Kasai conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, said the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA) in a report released today. The violence affected all children, but girls were particularly harmed, used as “magical” forces that would ward off bullets despite being unarmed, and raped and forcibly “married” to troops.

The report, “‘I Don’t Want My Child to Be Beaten’: Corporal Punishment in Lebanon’s Schools,” finds that children suffer from corporal punishment at school because of a lack of accountability for the abusers.

Although the Kazakh government has taken some important steps to better protect the rights of children with disabilities, much more needs to be done to ensure equal access to education for all children.

More than 22 million children in Pakistan are out of school, and the majority of them are girls. The Pakistan government should do more to provide all children with access to education.