Education in emergencies

Bangladesh. Children recite a lesson in a learning space.

Press release

Shortfall in education opportunities deepens despair of refugee Rohingya youth

Two years after mass exodus from Myanmar, quality learning and life skills are crucial to more than 500,000 children sheltered in Bangladesh

16/08/2019

Rozina Akta (foreground), 22, teaches level 4 students at the UNICEF-supported Learning Centre in Camp 4 of the Kutupalong-Balukhali mega-camp, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

Report

Rohingya refugee children in Bangladesh want to learn

August 2019 update

15/08/2019

Zangora CBE Cluster, Surkhrod District, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan – 10 April 2019

Statement

UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore gives remarks during the Third International Conference on Safe Schools

As delivered

28/05/2019

Assiya, 10, stands by a pile of metal debris that was once part of the the Bodyalai girls school, which was destroyed during a bomb blast in 2015, Bodyalai village, Kuz Kunar, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan 9 April 2019.

Press release

Afghanistan sees three-fold increase in attacks on schools in one year – UNICEF

As global leaders convene today in Mallorca, Spain, at the third International Conference on Safe Schools, UNICEF calls for an end to the fighting and protection of education

27/05/2019

South Sudan. Pole stumps where Ogweni primary school used to be.

Blog post

You can take their schools but not their dreams

The Safe Schools Declaration aims to defend against education under attack

24/05/2019

Sonia, 14, has experienced numerous attacks in and on her way to school in eastern Ukraine.

Press release

Attacks on schools quadruple in conflict-hit eastern Ukraine – UNICEF

Since the start of eastern Ukraine’s five-year conflict, more than 750 educational facilities on both sides have been damaged or destroyed due to hostilities

20/05/2019