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Yasmine Sherif & Gordon Brown exhort the international community to provide emergency funding for education following this summer’s floods.

Transforming Girls’ Education, Changing The World

 United Nations Secretary General António Guterres appointed Martin Griffiths of the United Kingdom as Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator in May

As we approach this year’s Transforming Education Summit, global leaders can and must prioritize expertise and mobilize political will to support efforts to ensure inclusive and quality education fo

Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the United Nations global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises, issued its new

Education includes mental health and psychosocial support

Mental Health as a Human Right Left Behind for Children in Fragile and Humanitarian Settings

NEW YORK CITY/BOGOTA: Conflict, forced displacement, climate-induced disasters, and the compounding effect of the coronavirus pandemic have left hundreds of millions of children and adolescents — particularly girls — without access to quality education worldwide. Today, 222 million young people living in regions affected by wars and disasters — in Africa, Asia, the Middle

Yasmine Sherif, Executive Director of Education Cannot Wait, calls for generous support for mental health services for children living in crisis situations.

Certain teachers and female students face extraordinary risks in clandestine schools for girls, recalling similar secret education operations when the Taliban were in charge before 9/11.