December 2015

Press release: More than 380,000 children out of school in northern Mali, three months into school year

New UNICEF initiative helps children resume their learning.

This story was originally published on UNICEF Press Center webpage.

BAMAKO, Mali/GENEVA/NEW YORK, 18 December 2015 – More than 380,000 children aged 7 to 15 remain out of school in insecure regions in northern Mali, three months into the new school year and almost four years since the security situation worsened in that part of the country, UNICEF said today.

GCPEA press release: Guidance on protecting education released on anniversary of deadly school attack

New York, December 15, 2015 – Ahead of the one-year anniversary of the Pakistani Taliban’s attack on Army Public School in northwestern Pakistan that left at least 145 people dead, including 132 children, the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA) released the report, “What Ministries Can Do to Protect Education from Attack and Schools from Military Use

The role of education and peacebuilding: Uganda country report

We are delighted to introduce the first in a series of four reports exploring education and peacebuilding in specific country contexts from the Research Consortium on Education and Peacebuilding.

Written by researchers from the Ulster University team, in partnership with local researchers from Gulu University and Makerere University in Uganda, the report explores education and peacebuilding in Uganda from three viewpoints:

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