New York, March 2, 2011 – The newly released 2011 Education for All Global Monitoring Report (GMR) finds that over 40 per cent of the world’s out-of-school children live in conflict affected countries. The comprehensive report details how the humanitarian community is failing to provide critical educational needs to 28 million children around the world.
The report entitled, “The hidden crisis: Armed conflict and education,” was launched at Columbia University in New York by a host of international figures including Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997-2002, Michelle Bachelet, former President of Chile and Executive Director of the newly established UN Women, Michaëlle Jean, UNESCO Special Envoy for Haiti and Former Governor General of Canada, Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Director of The Earth Institute, Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO and a video address by Graca Machel, Founder and President of the Foundation for Community Development.
NEW YORK, USA, 25 February 2011 – This week UNICEF launches the State of the World’s Children Report. This year’s report entitled Adolescence. An Age of Opportunity focuses on the 1.2 billion young people around the world aged ten to nineteen. The vast majority of them live in developing countries and face a unique set of challenges and opportunities.
NEW YORK, USA, 3 February 2011 – At the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) held recently in Davos, Switzerland, leaders from business, politics, academia and other fields met to discuss solutions for pressing global challenges, including the challenge of achieving universal, quality education.
Children in Haiti are still reeling from the impact of the 12 January 2010 earthquake. Here is one in a series of stories on the long road from relief to recovery, a year later.
VIDEO: UNICEF correspondent Thomas Nybo reports on a young Haitian girl’s hope for continued education, a year after the earthquake.
By Thomas Nybo
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, 19 January 2011 – When the UNICEF communications team caught up with Shasha Liza, 14, in early December, she was alone in a tent, cutting up chicken feet, which her mother would cook and sell on the streets. Shasha was still in the camp where she had been living since her home was destroyed in the January 2010 earthquake.
Children in Haiti are still reeling from the lingering impact of the 12 January 2010 earthquake. Here is one in a series of stories on the long road from relief to recovery, a year later.
Join the online discussion on Education: Closing the Gap which will be held from 1 February to 4 March, organized by the Department for Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the UN Development Group’s MDG-Net forum.
