education
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Africa
Violence in Cameroon, impacting over 700,000 children shut out of school
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. Two out of…
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Asia Pacific
Afghanistan: Girls’ education must be a given, urges deputy UN chief
Ensuring all Afghan girls can be educated must be “a zero condition” for the Taliban, before international recognition of their…
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Culture and Education
UN NEWS EXCLUSIVE: Exceptional teacher inspires students and fights scourge of child marriage
Indian primary school teacher Ranjitsinh Disale, winner of the UN-backed 2020 Global Teacher Prize, says that he is driven by empowering…
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Culture and Education
Pandemic disruption to learning is an opportunity to reimagine, revitalize education
To mark the third International Day of Education on Sunday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres paid tribute to the resilience of…
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Culture and Education
UNICEF chief: Closing schools should be ‘measure of last resort’
The head of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) underscored on Tuesday that “no effort should be spared” to keep children…
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Culture and Education
The virus that shut down the world: Education in crisis
Children all over the world have had their education severely disrupted this year, as schools struggle to cope with repeated…
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