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The latest reported mortar attack on a school inside the old city of Damascus on Tuesday during school hours is a stark and horrific reminder of the violence that children across Syria are enduring on a daily basis. The attack is reported to have resulted in the death of one child and the injury of many others.

Since June 2013, attacks in northeastern Nigeria have resulted in school closures affecting thousands of students, many of whom have had no access to education in months.

Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson addresses the Security Council meeting on the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

UN Police at the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) lead a security sweep of the grounds at the UN House in Juba, currently serving as a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) escaping the ongoing violence throughout the country.

A makeshift memorial to those killed and injured during recent demonstrations in Kiev, Ukraine. (February 2014).

A bomb has exploded in Egypt's capital, wounding two policemen.

Officials said the blast Tuesday in central Cairo targeted a security checkpoint.

A minute's silence at the opening of the April II plenary session

The intensifying violence in eastern Ukraine -- and fears of increased Russian involvement -- have gripped the attention of both the United States and Europe.

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom (background, right) joins students during a Grade 6 English class, at Omar Bin Abdul Aziz Boys School in Irbid, Jordan.

Eastern Ukraine is on edge as acting president Oleksandr Turchynov in a televised speech Sunday threatened to launch what he called a "full-scale anti-terrorist operation" against pro-Russians who have seized government buildings.