For many children around the world, having a safe space to learn is far from guaranteed due to the threat of armed conflict and the targeting of schools. In this guest post for ‘In Focus’, Peter Klanduch and Margaret Sinclair of Education Above All’s legal advocacy programme PEIC – Protect Education in Insecurity and Conflict …
Children continue to be recruited and used in a number of conflict zones around the world. Although international efforts are being made to prevent the use of child soldiers and to hold those responsible to account, it is estimated that there are hundreds of thousands of children in armed groups around the world. Unfortunately, the …
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