Education Under Attack

www.protectingeducation.org
GCPEA Steering Committee Members
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Council for At-Risk Academics
Human Rights Watch
Institute for International Education
Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees
(UNHCR)
Protect Education in Insecurity and Conflict
Save the Children
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF
United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
What is GCPEA doing to protect
education from attack?
• Protecting higher education from attack.
• Strengthening monitoring and reporting of
attacks.
• Promoting effective programs and policies to
protect education from attacks.
• Encouraging adherence to international law
and strengthening standards that protect
education from attack.
On April 15th, 273 School girls were kidnapped from the Chibok Government Secondary School by Boko Haram
Terrorists in Nigeria. Approximately 230 are still missing. A video claiming to show some of the captured girls was
released on May 12, 2014.
An assault rifle left inside a classroom of a school occupied by soldiers in Chocó State, Colombia.
Colombia’s internal armed conflict has long resulted in serious abuses by irregular armed groups,
including guerillas and successor groups to government-backed paramilitaries. © 2007 Getty Images
Thai Rangers stand guard at a school as they provide security to students and teachers after the school’s
head teacher was killed by suspected separatist militants the previous week in Thailand’s restive southern
province of Narathiwat, 17 December 2012. © 2012 MADAREE TOHLALA/AFP/Getty Images
A woman walks past a fire-gutted Islamic school in Meiktila, Myanmar. In March 2013, a mob of more than 200 Buddhists
torched the school and killed 32 Muslim students and 4 teachers. © 2013 REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
Children recruited
by the armed
Islamist group alShabaab, at a
training camp in the
Afgooye Corridor,
west of Mogadishu,
southern Somalia, in
February 2011.
© 2011 Private
A squad of Indian paramilitary police has been stationed inside the Tankuppa High
School since the local police station was bombed and destroyed by Maoist guerillas in
2006. Tankuppa, Gaya district, Bihar State, India. © 2010 Moises Saman/Magnum
Photos for Human Rights Watch
Fighters from the Syrian opposition rest at a disused primary school in the center of Syria’s embattled
northern city of Aleppo, July 25, 2012. © BULENT KILIC/AFP/GettyImages
What is the Impact of Attacks on
Education and Military Use of Schools?
• Fear, resulting in rising student absenteeism and
drop-out rates and a shortage of teachers;
• Diminished access to education as schools are
forced to close or are destroyed or badly
damaged;
• Lingering psychological distress and narrowed
opportunity due to less education;
• A disproportionate impact on girls; and
• Significant financial cost.
This school in Bentiu, South Sudan has been taken over by the military and is now used as an army barrack.
© 2014 OSRSG-CAAC
A child holds his toy gun next to a Thai soldier taking a break during a patrol in Yala province,
January 19, 2010. The soldier was part of a security team which escorts public school teachers
to and from schools. © 2010 Reuters/Surapan Boonthanom
Department of Education, Caloocan City, Philippines
In Pattani, Thailand, Tuanyoh Nisani
teaches students to read Malay words
using the Thai alphabet. © 2010 Post
Publishing PCL.
A pupil at a bush school in Central African Republic. In this area in the northwest, around 80% of children
had to abandon school completely to flee fighting between the government and armed rebels in 2008. ©
2009 Simon Davis/Department for International Development
Chateau de Lucens, Switzerland
Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
May 2012
November 2012
June 2013
June 2014
December 2014
June 2015
Expert
meeting in
Geneva,
Switzerland
Expert
consultation
in Lucens,
Switzerland
Release of
Draft Lucens
Guidelines.
Norway
agrees to
champion
the
Guidelines.
Unveiling of
the final
Guidelines
Signing of
the Safe
Schools
Declaration
www.protectingeducation.org
Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai joined the #BringBackOurGirls campaign.