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"Fleeing at a staggering rate since 2012, over 720,000 of Myanmar’s Rohingya ethnic minority, many of whom are Muslim, have escaped what the UN calls “ethnic cleansing.” Myanmar has launched extensive military campaigns against what they say are Rohingya militants, but tens of thousands have been killed and entire villages razed, prompting allegations of human rights violations, war crimes, and ev

Existence is resistance: a quarter of a million Rohingya refugees live in Malaysia with no legal rights or protections. Sohail Mohammad is three years old. He was born in Malaysia, but he’s not allowed to go to school here and his parents aren’t allowed to earn a living. That’s because they’re among the country’s 200,000 Rohingya refugees.

The Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) yesterday concluded its High-Level Annual Policy Dialogue on Secondary Education in Africa: Preparing Youth for the Future of Work.

The year 2018 was marked by the highest levels of children killed or maimed in armed conflict since the United Nations started monitoring and reporting this grave violation, shows the latest Annual Report of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict released today. Overall, more than 24,000 violations were verified in 2018 in the 20 conflict situations on the Children and Armed Conflic

The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has released its annual report on the state of education around the world. The 2019 report focuses for the first time on the theme of migration and displacement and finds that the numbers of migrant and refugee school-age children have grown by 26% since the year 2000.

The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) launched its annual report on the state of education around the world, focusing for the first time on the theme of migration and displacement.

Research shows that the future of refugee children grows more imperiled the longer they remain out of school. Because Bangladeshi authorities have not granted the Rohingya official refugee status and consider them instead “forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals,” the roughly 500,000 Rohingya children in the country have no access to a formal education.

The United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) unanimously adopted last Thursday a new resolution on the right to education and in doing so firmly recognised the Abidjan Principles on the right to education.

On the 4th and 5th of July 2019, the G7 Development and Education Ministers met in Paris.

With the displacement lasting an average of 20 years for many refugees or internally displaced people (IDPs), education has become central to humanitarian aid and long-term development efforts. Nevertheless, refugees and IDPs still face challenges in accessing higher education.