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“While rich countries nurture their economic recovery, many poor countries face the imminent prospect of education reversals. We cannot afford to create a lost generation of children who have been deprived of their chance for an education that might lift them out of poverty,”...

You have not mastered the white people’s foreign tongue? Then you do not have the right to education in your own country, not even at primary school. You have no right to any worthwhile education, however brilliant you are.'...

"Allein 72 Millionen Kinder im Grundschulalter haben keine Chance, eine Schule zu besuchen. Und ein großer Teil der weltweit 165 Millionen Kinderarbeiterinnen und -arbeiter unter 15 Jahren kann nicht zur Schule gehen. Dies ist unerträglich. Denn Bildung ist eine Grundvoraussetzung, um extremer Armut entkommen zu können.

On the eve of International Women’s Day (8 March), Amnesty International called on governments and school officials around the world to take concrete action to end violence against girls, particularly inside schools, in a new report published today.

Like many girls in Guinea-Bissau, 10-year-old Mariama Sambu has a busy life. She rises every morning at six, and helps with household chores. There is no running water in her house so she must walk each morning to a nearby well, which was provided by UNICEF. Before, she had two walk two kilometers, which left her little time to prepare for class.

Anlässlich des Weltkindertages am 20. September weist die Kindernothilfe auf die hohe Zahl von Kindern ohne Schulbildung in Pakistan hin. Nach Einschätzungen der Kinderrechtsorganisation SPARC aus Islamabad besuchen 25 Millionen Kinder...

Mit einem knappen „Marsch“ beginnt für die Kinder im staatlichen Kindergarten Nummer 41 in Sankt Petersburg ein neuer Tag. Wohlgeordnet laufen sie auf dem großen Teppich in der Mitte des Gruppenraumes hinter der Erzieherin mit dem Schellenkranz...

terre des hommes fordert das Recht auf Schulbesuch für jedes Kind unabhängig von seinem Aufenthaltsstatus. Gegenüber Sonderberichterstatter Muñoz wird terre des hommes deshalb auf die Situation von Flüchtlingskindern hinweisen, die in einigen Bundesländern noch immer von der Schulpflicht ausgegrenzt werden.

With an estimated 800 million adults still illiterate, two thirds of them women, and over 100 million children out of school, the United Nations today marked International Literacy Day with a plea from UN Headquarters to erase the deficit and warnings from front line outposts of the challenges in the field.   

The first group of under-age Bangladeshi camel jockeys, some only four-years-old, trafficked to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) or sent there to earn money for their families, has been repatriated with the support of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).        

"If our young Afghan girl celebrates her fifth birthday, she may be lucky enough to go school - or she could join the two out of every three girls who remain at home, denied the chance of intellectual stimulation and development that is so critical to her future progress," Ms. Lotse told a news briefing in Kabul, the Afghan capital, noting that the female illiteracy rates is as high as 85 per cent.