6 Feb 2017

Aleppo underground schools lie unused after students and teachers leave the city

The majority of the 1700 children and 100 teachers at the schools run by Kesh Malek were forcibly displaced during the offensive on eastern Aleppo.

5 Feb 2017

#YouPromised: international leaders to track their pledge to get all Syrian refugees in school

One year after the promise was made, urgent action is needed at a conference in April if the funding gaps are to be filled to deliver education to every Syrian refugee child. 

3 Feb 2017

“I did not want to go to school. I didn’t have the courage to face my classmates, who made derogatory remarks about my skin colour”

Global Youth Ambassador and youth activist Pooja Mankhedkar tells how she started the Color Brave campaign after other school students and teachers in India discriminated against her because of her skin colour.

Expert Voices

3 Feb 2017

“You cannot do better than convince people that what you’re saying is absolutely authentic and you would live and die by it”

In a new episode of her Better Angels podcast, Sarah Brown talks to Sir Patrick Stewart, Ed Balls, Christy Turlington Burns and Laura Bates about how to find your voice and use it for good causes.

Expert Voices

1 Feb 2017

Emergency school meals for one million children in drought-hit Ethiopia

The programme will help to keep children in school in Ethiopia, where about 1.2 million students have dropped out of education - many to help fetch water over long distances or look after other children.

1 Feb 2017

Inspiring and heartbreaking stories of Syrian children, refugees and heroes to feature at the Oscars

The Best Documentary Short Film category at the annual awards highlights the trauma experienced by millions of Syrian children - and why their future must be a priority for world leaders.

31 Jan 2017

Education charity and police reduce child labour at Mumbai food stalls

The Indian organisation Pratham found hundreds of child workers were living on their own in the city and not going to school.

31 Jan 2017

Nigerian primary school helps to heal rifts left by Boko Haram

Getting children into school is key to reviving the northeast of the country, where the terrorist group's insurgency has deprived millions of an education and torn apart communities.

30 Jan 2017

Turkey to build schools for thousands of Syrian refugee children

The Turkish government, the EU and the World Bank are working together to build 56 new facilities and benefit about 40,000 out-of-school refugees and children from host communities.

27 Jan 2017

Costa Rica hopes to keep girls in school by raising marriage age

Raising the minimum age without parental consent to 18 has been welcomed in a country where one in five girls are wed by then and where child marriage is common in indigenous communities.