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Five things you need to know this week about global education

Children in conflicts, Education in emergencies, Safe schools

Find out about a global pledge to support children's rights, the 100th country to sign the Safe Schools Declaration and 107 new schools in Syria's troubled Idlib province.

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105 countries pledge to 'leave no child behind'

More than 100 countries have backed a Global Pledge to renew their commitments to children’s rights – promising “bold action to ensure we leave no child behind”.

The 105 nations aligned themselves to the pledge for聽World Children国产视频檚 Day on Wednesday, which also marked the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).

国产视频淎t the United Nations headquarters and in more than 50 countries, children and young people have been speaking out at national summits on issues that matter to them, like the climate crisis, safety in an online world, rising migration and lack of opportunities,” said UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore.

One of the major challenges facing child is access to quality education.聽A UNICEF report on 30 years of the CRC said: “We urgently need a聽renewed commitment聽to access, learning and聽investment in education,聽particularly for the poorest聽and most marginalised.”

国产视频’s #WriteTheWrong campaign is about raising awareness and calling for bold action to help the 260 million children out of school and the millions more who are in classrooms but not getting the basic skills they need.

Iconic landmarks around the world turned blue to mark World Children国产视频檚 Day – including the Empire State Building, Panama Canal, Shanghai Tower and the聽Monument for African Renaissance in Senegal.

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Millie Bobby Brown – star of TV’s Stranger Things – said: 国产视频淵oung people my age are facing so many new challenges today that 30 years ago were hard to predict.聽I国产视频檓 proud to add my voice to all those around the world who are asking for solutions to today国产视频檚 problems such as bullying, access to education, mental health awareness, suicide prevention and climate change.国产视频

Ukraine is 100th country to sign Safe Schools Declaration

Ukraine has become the 100th country to sign the Safe Schools Declaration – a commitment to protect schools from attack and military occupation.

The declaration聽stresses the importance of continued education during emergencies, something that is often disrupted.

Since the conflict began in Ukraine in 2014, more than 750 educational facilities聽have been damaged or destroyed due to hostilities. Between January and April this year there were 12 attacks on schools.

Nearly 40 million children a year have their education interrupted or ended by wars in which schools are destroyed or occupied.聽国产视频’s report Safe Schools: The Hidden Crisis revealed that聽between 2013 and 2017 there were more than 12,700 attacks on schools,聽harming more than 21,000 students and educators in at least 70 countries.

107 new schools to be opened in Idlib

More than 42,000 children will benefit from an announcement that聽Syria Relief, the UK’s leading Syria-focused charity, will operate a further 107 schools – taking its total in the country to 159.聽All the new formal schools will be run in Idlib Province.

“It is not just vital that every child gets an education, it is a basic human right,” said Syria Relief Chief Executive Othman Moqbel. “However, too often during this conflict, we have seen children denied an education by violence.

“The schools operated by Syria Relief boast great education outputs for the children, despite operating in unbelievably difficult and dangerous conditions.”

Since the start of the Idlib military offensive in April, Syria Relief has had four of its schools hit by airstrikes. In September, it released a report into the impact the conflict is having on education called No School To Go Back To: The Impact of Airstrikes on Syria’s Schools.聽An air strike this week killed eight children and injured dozens more at a camp in Idlib.聽

Afghan children scared to go to school

Two in three parents in Afghanistan say their children are scared of聽explosions, kidnappings or other forms of extreme violence on their journeys to school.聽

Girls feel less safe than boys and many children are too scared to even go outside their homes, according to a shocking report by Save the Children.

国产视频淥n my way to school, I fear suicide attacks, kidnapping and that someone might kill me,” said 10-year-old Hemat, who lives in a small village in Kabul province and attends an informal school set up by the charity because there is no school nearby.

Save the Children interviewed 600 parents and 90 children across four provinces聽. The report revealed that only 30% of children feel safe at school and 38% of parents said children harm themselves due to experiencing conflict

Education suffers as Central Sahel crisis deepens

The World Food Programme has called for urgent investment to stem a deepening disaster in the Central Sahel region of Africa, where many schools are shutting because of displacement.

WFP helped 9,700 adolescent schoolgirls in Niger with scholarships between January and September. But now schools are closing or being used as shelters and in many conflict-affected areas one in three children cannot attend classes.

国产视频淐onflict is moving forward and moving fast,国产视频 said Margot van der Velden, Director of WFP国产视频檚 Emergencies division. In聽Central Sahel, which includes Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, an estimated 20 million people are living in areas affected by conflict and 2.4 million people are food insecure.

国产视频淎t the moment what we国产视频檙e seeing is that people go further south in search of two things – safety and 国产视频榢eeping my kids in school国产视频,” said Alexandre Le Cuziat, an Emergencies division desk officer with WFP.

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