Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA)

07/09/2019

The INEE Guidance Note on Gender, an update to the 2010 Gender Pocket Guide, provides guidance on delivering education in a gender-responsive manner to anyone involved in providing education in emergencies (EiE) as part of an emergency preparedness, response, or recovery situation. This includes gov...

07/08/2019

NEW Publication and Event! Next week, INEE and UN Girls' Education Initiative will be launching the INEE Guidance note on Gender! Stay tuned for the official release of the publication, and join us on July 9th for the launch event (details below).

07/01/2019

NEW PUBLICATION: INEE’s Advocacy Working Group is pleased to present its new blog and brief on how to achieve for and affected by . Learn more: http://bit.ly/2FExYWu

05/27/2019

Over the last 5 years, education came under attack over 14,000 times in 34 countries. This week, over 90 countries will gather at the Third International Conference on Safe Schools, in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, to ensure better protections for education: http://www.protectingeducation.org/news/education-suffered-over-14000-armed-attacks-last-5-years #

05/27/2019

Ahead of this week's Third International Conference on Safe Schools, hosted by , learn all about the Safe Schools Declaration and how it is helping to protect education. Check out our new webpage dedicated to the Declaration: https://ssd.protectingeducation.org/

05/20/2019

In the Kasai Central province of DRC, FARDC, as well as the Kamuina Nsapu militia, used schools for military purposes, damaging schools and learning materials, interfering with students’ access to education, and compromising the civilian status of the schools. GCPEA's latest report documents previously unreported violence against female students during attacks on schools in Kasai Central province: bit.ly/30v7tvv

05/20/2019

Today GCPEA released its latest report, “’All That I Have Lost’: Impact of Attacks on Education for Women and Girls in Kasai Central Province Democratic Republic of Congo.” Read the full report here:http://www.protectingeducation.org/sites/default/files/documents/drc_kasai_attacks_on_women_and_girls.pdf

05/20/2019

“All That I Have Lost”: Read GCPEA’s new report highlighting the impact of attacks on education on girls and women in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Safe Schools Declaration can help to address the problem, both in the DRC and around the world.

(New York, May 20, 2019) – Armed groups attacked hundreds of schools in the Kasai region of central Democratic Republic of Congo during the 2016-17 conflict, said the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA) in a report released today. The violence affected all children, but girls...

04/02/2019

With today's announcement that Moldova has endorsed the Safe Schools Declaration, the total number of endorsements has reached 86. The community of countries signaling a commitment to protect students, teachers, and schools from the worst effects of war is growing quickly. See if your country has joined here: http://www.protectingeducation.org/guidelines/support

10/11/2018

Today GCPEA released its latest report, "'I Will Never Go Back to School': The Impact of Attacks on Education for Nigerian Women and Girls."

Read the full report here: http://protectingeducation.org/sites/...

10/11/2018

To better protect women and girls, the Safe Schools Declaration should be implemented in a way that recognizes that women & girls experience different types of attacks on education from boys & men, with different long-term consequences. See our recommendations:
http://protectingeducation.org/sites/default/files/documents/what_can_be_done_to_better_protect_women_and_girls.pdf

10/11/2018

"I Will Never Go Back to School”: Read GCPEA’s new report about attacks on education on girls and women in Nigeria. The Safe Schools Declaration can help to address the problem, both in Nigeria and around the world.

(New York, October 11, 2018) – Attacks on education by the insurgent group Boko Haram have caused horrific and long-term suffering for female students and teachers in northeastern Nigeria, said the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA) in a report released today.