News Teen dreams and disappointments after the world's longest COVID school closure On January 10, Uganda reopened schools after the longest closure in the world due to the coronavirus pandemic. For most students, it was their first time back in the classroom in nearly two years.
News Education Cannot Wait Calls for Urgent Funding to Fulfill the Right to Education for all Children and Youth in Afghanistan Immediately following the first all-women UN mission to Afghanistan since takeover by the de facto authorities, Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait – the United Nations global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises – appealed to donors to significantly increase financial support for a robust collective humanitarian-development nexus response.
News Learning is a Lifeline - The G20 Must Protect Education For All Afghan Children As G20 Member States prepare to meet to agree on a common international strategy in response to the crisis in Afghanistan, they must ensure that the strategy includes a plan to uphold every child’s right to quality education.
News Afghan girls school ban would be un-Islamic, Pakistan PM says Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has said preventing women from accessing education in neighbouring Afghanistan would be un-Islamic.
Blog A Call to Action: Supporting the Education of Afghanistan's Children and Young People This call to action, endorsed by 51 civil society organizations urges the governments of the G20 to commission the relevant UN agencies to develop, fund, and implement a plan to protect and promote education for Afghan children, especially girls and people with disabilities, both in Afghanistan and those who have fled their country seeking protection.
Resource A Call to Action: Supporting the Education of Afghanistan's Children and Young People This call to action, endorsed by 51 civil society organizations urges the governments of the G20 to commission the relevant UN agencies to develop, fund, and implement a plan to protect and promote education for Afghan children, especially girls and people with disabilities, both in Afghanistan and those who have fled their country seeking protection.
News A Million Afghan Children Could Die in ‘Most Perilous Hour,’ U.N. Warns The international community pledged more than $1 billion in emergency funding as Afghans already unsure of where their next meal will come from risk running out of food just as winter sets in.
News Malala Yousafzai: Speech to United Nations Security Council Malala Yousafzai's speech to the UN Security Council regarding the situation in Afghanistan.
News Give refugee children an education and watch them shine The Refugee Olympic team has brought the refugee crisis back into the spotlight and rightly so. According to Amnesty International, there are currently 26 million refugees globally – 7.1 million of who are school-aged children.
News La pandémie de Covid-19 contribue au travail des enfants Des enfants au Ghana, au Népal et en Ouganda ont évoqué des horaires épuisants et de bas salaires L’impact économique sans précédent de la pandémie de Covid-19 pousse à l’exploitation de nombreux enfants, contraints de travailler dans des conditions parfois dangereuses.
