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ECW director Yasmine Sherif said that she was “deeply moved” by the resilience of children in the DRC. However, there is a desperate need for funding.

The ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine has led to 2677 educational institutions being destroyed in the latter by bombing and shelling, while 331 of them have been completely destroyed.

/PRNewswire/ -- As the world marks United Nations Day, let us remember why the United Nations was created and the spirit of its founders. In 1945 and the...

Global Citizen Oceania lays out its hopes for the upcoming Australian federal budget.

Thousands of women and girls have taken to the streets of Afghanistan’s cities to protest the repeated violation of their right to an education. The trigger for the protests – occurring simultaneously with protests in Iran – was last month’s terrorist attack on an education center in Kabul that killed 53 students and injured more than 110 – most of them girls and young women.

Gordon Brown, a former prime minister and chancellor of the exchequer of the United Kingdom, is United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education, Chair of Education Cannot Wait’s High-Level Steering Group, and Chair of the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity. Yasmine Sherif is Director of Education Cannot Wait. • Copyright: Project Syndicate,

By Gordon Brown and Yasmine SherifLONDON — Thousands of women and girls have taken to the streets of Afghanistan’s cities to protest the repeated violation of their right to an education. The trigger for the protests, occurring simultaneously with protests in Iran, was last month’s terrorist attack on an education centre in Kabul that killed 53 students and injured more than

By Gordon Brown and Yasmine SherifLONDON — Thousands of women and girls have taken to the streets of Afghanistan’s cities to protest the repeated violation of their right to an education. The trigger for the protests, occurring simultaneously with protests in Iran, was last month’s terrorist attack on an education centre in Kabul that killed 53 students and injured more than

In a country as ravaged by war and disaster as Afghanistan is, we must also guarantee that all girls and boys have access to mental-health resources and psychosocial...

Statement by Education Cannot Wait Director Yasmine Sherif on World Teachers' Day NEW YORK, Oct. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Teachers have the power to transform lives. In the chaotic and challenging contexts of emergencies and protracted crises, teachers tend to carry the brunt and heaviest burden. They have the responsibility to nurture and empower their students, all while...