U.S. Department of Education Clarifies Schools' Obligation to Provide Equal Opportunity to Students with Disabilities to Participate in Extracurricular Athletics
U.S. Department's Office for Civil Rights issued guidance clarifying school districts' existing legal obligations to provide equal access to extracurricular athletic activities to students with disabilities. In addition to explaining those legal...
Fifteen years of struggle against child labour
Namibia: educators demand salary increase
UNICEF seeks nearly $1.4 billion to assist children in crisis in 2013
A girl carrying jerrycans of water, walks past a pile of debris on a street in Aleppo, Syria.
World Bank Supports Moldova Education Sector Reform
The World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved a US$40 million credit to the Republic of Moldova for the Education Reform Project. The new project will support the Government of Moldova in implementing reforms that will strengthen the quality of...
Peru/WB: 5.7 Million Students to Benefit from Improvements in Basic Education
Some 5.7 million students will benefit from quality public education and more transparent school-principal selection processes in 40,000 Peruvian schools.
Through Writing, Afghan Women Find Freedom
In the virtual space created by The Afghan Women’s Writing Project ( AWWP), women have the freedom to write about whatever they want and they can receive mentoring by a volunteer team of teachers and authors.
Through online baby shower, Shakira and UNICEF raise awareness on child survival
Renowned Colombian singer and song-writer Shakira, who is expecting her first child with Spanish football star Gerard Piqué, is helping to raise awareness on the world’s most vulnerable infants through an unusual method: an online baby shower hosted...
