INEE, ICRC, and GCPEA hosted a webinar on the global impact of attacks on schools, universities, students, and educators, and how the humanitarian sector is responding.

A global study of attacks on schools, universities, their students and staff, in 2022 and 2023. Attacks on education are frequent and widespread. From Palestine to Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo to Ukraine, students and teachers are killed, raped, and abducted, while schools and universities are bombed, burned down, and used for military purposes. In the 28 countries profiled in this report, at least ten attacks on education occurred over the past two years.

Due to the current level of hostilities and insecurity, as well as the restrictions on providing meaningful follow-up support to children, it is not possible to conduct research meaningfully and responsibly on the same scale. However, given the concerns over the expected decline to children’s mental health and their ability to cope, Save the Children is presenting insights to its previous research.

This dataset is provided by the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA) from its Education under Attack database which monitors attacks on schools, universities, students, and educators, by armed forces and armed groups, as well as military use of education institutions.