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Getting each girl and boy to find educational spaces that promote their integral development should be the objective of all countries. For this, Unicef ​​maintains that it is key to strengthen initiatives for the promotion and recovery of learning, ensuring the budget, expanding its offer and strengthening the capacities of teachers in the classroom.

Ante el recrudecimiento de acciones violentas y armadas en el país en las que se han visto afectadas las escuelas y centros educativos poniendo en riesgo las vidas de niñas, niños y adolescentes, el Consejo Noruego para Refugiados, Fundación Plan, Save the Children, Unicef y World Vision, con el apoyo del fondo Education Cannot Wait (la Educación No Puede Esperar) promueven esfuerzos conjuntos para tener entornos y escuelas más seguras, que permitan garantizar el derecho a la educación de la niñez colombiana.

On Mental Health Awareness month, the Executive Director of the UN’s global fund for education in emergencies, Education Cannot Wait, calls for expanded support for crisis-impacted children worldwide.

Millions of children and adolescents witness family members attacked and killed. They see their homes burnt to the ground. They flee through the night in search of safety. They live in constant fear and violence. The abnormal has become “normal” in their life. Indeed, this is the reality facing many of the 222 million children and adolescents worldwide whose lives and mental well-being are affected, as a result of brutal conflicts and forced displacement, all while their education is disrupted.

Under the ‘strengthening institutional education information systems for data driven Education in Emergencies (EIE) and resilience to crises project’, funded by Education Cannot Wait (ECW), UNESCO Juba office supported the Ministry of General Education and Instruction (MOGEI) in strengthening their data systems and progress towards a more capable integrated platform through facilitating a study visit (peer to peer learning visit) to Rwanda Ministry of Education at the end of March, 2023.

2023 marks an important milestone as we are now midway in the ambition to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. In September 2015, world leaders agreed on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, initiated on 1st January 2016. The seventeen SDGS focus on ending poverty, addressing inequalities, and climate change to ensure no one is left behind.

A civilian student named Saber was caught in the crossfire in Khartoum. He had two choices: either flee and lose everything; or die. But within a moment his option to choose was violently denied: he died.

As a result of the brutal internal armed conflict in Sudan right now, UNHCR projects that 860,000 people will flee across the borders as refugees and returnees into the Central African Republic, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, Eritrea and South Sudan. About 50% will be children and adolescents below 18.

Las acciones armadas y violentas están afectando la continuidad del derecho a la educación y la protección de niñas, niños y adolescentes en Colombia. Según el Observatorio de Niñez y Conflicto Armado (ONCA), las afectaciones a niñas, niños y adolescentes por eventos armados aumentaron un 11,5 % en 2022.

Comprometiéndose a tomar acciones para que las escuelas sean lugares protectores y seguros para estudiantes, docentes y comunidad escolar en general, Colombia se adhirió a la Declaración sobre Escuela Segura.

El Consejo Noruego Para Refugiados, Fundación Plan, Save the Children, Unicef y World Vision, con el apoyo del fondo Education Cannot Wait (la Educación No Puede Esperar) promueven esfuerzos conjuntos para tener entornos y escuelas más seguras.

Save the Children welcomes the 2023-24 Federal Budget measures to tackle entrenched disadvantage and support Australian families struggling with cost-of-living pressures, but is concerned that targeted support for children to recover from years of compounding crises was notably absent.

The charity is particularly supportive of $199.8 million in funding to address entrenched community disadvantage by promoting philanthropy and social impact investment, in line with Save the Children’s own approach to tackling urgent problems facing children through its Impact Investment Fund.

A high-level mission to Colombia shines a spotlight on the power of education and joint programming with UNICEF and other ECW strategic partners for crisis-affected migrant, refugee and host-community children.

“¡Bienvenidos!” UNICEF facilitators call out as refugee and migrant parents from Venezuela enter the bright yellow and blue Points of Information and Orientation (PIO) center in Cúcuta, Colombia, with their young children.

It’s a joyous space, filled with art, music, laughter and hope. Some mothers hold their young children to their chests as they bounce up and down to the beat of the music, while other girls and boys dance and clap on their own.

More than 5,000 students from different zones of the region have been forced to drop out of school due to the devastating drought, the regional education office announced on 13 March.

The drought has affected schools in Bale, Arisi and West Hararge zones, resulting in the closure of 18 schools.

The Oromia Education Bureau has provided over USD 200 000 to help support damaged schools and bring the students who have dropped out back to school.

I was 9 years old when Iraq was invaded by the US and its allies.

I remember grey airplanes piercing through the sky. And once they’d landed, the massive metal tanks crawling from the planes and driving through residential streets. As the bombing and looting began, our schools were closed indefinitely and our learning halted. Many schools were destroyed during the war, and the remaining schools had to cater for an exponentially larger number of students.  

NEW YORK, May 8 2023 (IPS) - A civilian student named Saber was caught in the crossfire in Khartoum. He had two choices: either flee and lose everything; or die. But within a moment his option to choose was violently denied: he died.

As a result of the brutal internal armed conflict in Sudan right now, UNHCR projects that 860,000 people will flee across the borders as refugees and returnees into the Central African Republic, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, Eritrea and South Sudan. About 50% will be children and adolescents below 18.