Attacks on Education Increased Worldwide During Pandemic

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image A survivor of the May 8, 2021, bombing of Sayed Al-Shuhada school in Kabul, Afghanistan, looks inside a classroom days after the attack. © 2021 UNICEF/UN0514375 This report was authored by a partner organization, the Global Coalition to Protest Education from Attack, and is distributed by Human Rights Watch. (New York) – More than 9,000 students, teachers, and academics were harmed, injured, or killed in attacks on education during armed conflict over the past two years, according to Education under Attack 2022, a 265-page report published today by the Global Coalition…

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