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Over 700,000 children have been impacted by school closures due to often brutal violence in Cameroon, according to an analysis released by the UN humanitarian arm, OCHA, on Thursday.

Attacks against education and killings, kidnappings and harassment of students and teachers are forcing schools to close and pushing vulnerable children further to the margins.

Attacks against education and killings, kidnappings and harassment of students and teachers are forcing schools to close and pushing vulnerable children further to the margins.

La Oficina de Naciones Unidas para la Coordinación de Asuntos Humanitarios (OCHA) ha alertado este jueves de que la reciente ola de violencia en Camerún está afectando a la escolarización de más de 700.000 niños, cuyas escuelas se han visto obligadas a cerrar ante el acoso de los grupos armados.

Durante el foro Foro Nacional Educación sin Fronteras, que se lleva a cabo hasta hoy en el Hotel Habitel de Bogotá, fue presentado el proyecto La Educación no Puede Esperar, fruto de una alianza entre Unicef, Save the Children, World Vision, el Consejo Noruego para Refugiados, la Fundación Plan y la financiación de Education Cannot Wait.

A Maryland high school English teacher who has worked to open up college education for her students has won the $1 million Global Teacher Prize, the Varkey Foundation announced Wednesday.

In Kabul last month families were selling belongings such as kettles, plates and mattresses on the pavements outside the country’s Olympic headquarters to put food on the table. “This is shameful,” a father of four told me. “But we ate nothing yesterday. If I sell some bedding I can buy cooking oil and feed my children tonight.”

Education Cannot Wait (ECW) on Wednesday appealed to donors to significantly increase financial support for a robust collective humanitarian-development nexus response, including urgent funding for education.

Haciendo un llamado a la comunidad internacional para invertir en la educación en países que atraviesan emergencias o conflictos, la directora de Education Cannot Wait dio detalles del trabajo que este fondo de la ONU realiza en América Latina. Celia Mendoza nos amplia desde la ONU.

ECW Director leads first all-women mission to Afghanistan since Taliban takeover: 'With Afghanistan on the brink of a total collapse, the international community must stay engaged. The humanitarian imperative must come first.'

Director Yasmine Sherif, the Director of Education Cannot Wait, an UN-led initiative dedicated to advancing education in crisis zones traveled to Afghanistan over the last few days as part of an all-women team. She came back with grim news for the country: “Afghanistan is on the brink of Collapse” she said on Wednesday in a press briefing from Islamabad airport, Pakistan’s capital.

Disruptions to education resulting from COVID-19, violent conflict, and climate change are leaving crisis-affected girls and boys ever-further behind. It is hard to imagine a better investment than keeping these children in school- OpEd by Yasmine Sherif