September 2020

Education under Attack 2020 Full Video

Thursday, July 9, 2020
Education under Attack 2020 looks at targeted and indiscriminate attacks on students, teachers, academics, schools and universities during armed conflict or insecurity.
 
GCPEA compiled over 11,000 reports of attacks on education or military use of educational facilities globally between 2015 and 2019. These incidents harmed over 22,000 students, teachers, and education personnel.
 
Attacks on education include bombing and burning schools and universities, and killing, maiming, raping, abducting, arbitrarily arresting, and recruiting students and educators at, or en route to and from, educational institutions by armed forces, other state actors, or armed groups, during armed conflict or insecurity.
 
Attacks on education were reported in 93 countries globally; the report profiles 37 of the most affected.
 
 
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High-level virtual event marks the International Day to Protect Education from attack

Wednesday, September 9, 2020

For the first time, the international community is preparing to celebrate September 9 as the first International Day to Protect Education from Attack. The aim of the high-level event is to commemorate and promote this important international day and a call to stop attacks on education.

See UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore speak at timepoint 1:04:53.

1:42:40 / English

Is the lockdown making you depressed, or are you just bored?

“And to be sure, little of what we’re experiencing now is pleasant. But it’s worth remembering that boredom is a normal emotional state that we shouldn’t conflate with a serious illness like depression. That doesn’t mean, however, that we shouldn’t address it.”

Read this opinion news article by Richard A. Friedman, The New York Times (2020, August 21).

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