At UN, emotional appeals for world leaders to protect Afghan girls’ education
United Nations Reuters After pleading with world leaders at the United Nations to protect the education and rights of women in Afghanistan a year after the Taliban took over, Somaya Faruqi, former captain of the Afghan girls robotics team, broke down in tears backstage. “I was in classroom last year, but this year girls are […]
Myanmar army helicopters fire on school, killing 13 – media, residents
Reuters At least 13 people including seven children were killed when army helicopters shot at a school in Myanmar, media reports and residents said, as the military said it opened fire because rebels were using the building to attack its forces. Myanmar has been gripped by violence since the army overthrew an elected government early […]
Haitian children who escaped gang violence take shelter in Port-au-Prince school
Port-au-Prince, HaitiReuters Hundreds of Haitian children are taking refuge at a prestigious high school in Port-au-Prince after escaping gang violence in the town of Cite Soleil that killed some 400 people and destroyed hundreds of homes this month. At the sprawling campus of Institution Saint-Louis de Gonzague, which is currently empty for summer vacation, children […]
Wow!: For 25 cents a day, poor Nigerians get a shot at science education
ABRAHAM ACHIRGA, of Reuters, reports on how the Knosk Secondary School in Abuja is looking to change lives…
US cancels talks with Taliban over U-turn on girls’ education
Kabul, Afghanistan/Washington DC, US Reuters The United States abruptly cancelled meetings with the Taliban in Doha that were set to address key economic issues, officials said on Friday, after Afghanistan’s Islamist rulers reversed a decision to allow all girls to return to high school classes. The cancellation of talks was the first concrete sign that […]
Afghan women launch school for refugees on US army base
Thomson Reuters Foundation On an army base in the US Midwest, dozens of Afghan refugee children sit with colouring books and pencils spread across their desks – listening intently as they are taught maths, English and how to prepare for life in the United States. The hundreds of children living temporarily at the Fort McCoy […]
Afghan girls stuck at home, waiting for Taliban plan to re-open schools
Reuters As the weeks pass in Afghanistan, the new Taliban administration has yet to announce when it will re-open secondary schools for girls, leaving them stuck at home while their brothers return to class. Two weeks since boys in classes above the sixth grade were told to go back to school, the government says it […]
One million Nigerian children to miss school due to mass kidnappings, UNICEF says
Abuja, NigeriaReuters At least one million Nigerian children could miss school this year as the new term begins amid a rise in mass school kidnappings and insecurity, the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF said on Wednesday. Schools have become targets for mass abductions for ransom in northern Nigeria by armed groups. Such kidnappings in Nigeria […]
Nigeria says 75 abducted children released amid army crackdown
Maiduguri, NigeriaReuters Seventy-five children who were kidnapped from their school in Nigeria’s north-western Zamfara State have been released after their abductors came under pressure from a military crackdown, a state official said on Monday. Gunmen took the students from the village of Kaya on 1st September, the latest in a spate of mass kidnappings from […]
Essay: As kids return to school, we must protect their right to rest. Sabbath practices can help.
Writing as children return to school in the US after their summer break, KATE H RADEMACHER, who works in international public health and is the author of ‘Reclaiming Rest’, on how the discipline of ‘Sabbath-keeping’ can help children…