Source: UN News: Friday, 12 September 2025 00:01 am
In the war -torn areas, the attacks on schools have been considered the most dangerous in the six most serious crimes against children, but, despite this, attacks on education are continuously increasing worldwide. On the International Day to stop the attack on education, countries around the world have appealed to stop attacks on schools immediately. An organization called Education Can Not Wait (ECW), an organization working for education, has also urged that the announcement of the security related to international human laws and schools, ie Safe Schools Declaration, should be ensured. The United Nations recorded about 6 thousand such attacks between 2022 and 2023, more than 6 thousand students whose target students, teachers, teachers and women, have been targeted by 10 thousand students, in the country, the students and women who have been in the country. Either killed, led, arrested or seriously injured. During this time, there has been an increase of 20 percent in incidents of occupation of schools for military use. This crisis of violation of deepening crisis rights is getting deeper every year. UN Secretary -General The annual report of 2024 of K is showing that 41 thousand 370 cases have been registered for violation of children’s rights. The most violations have been in Israel and Qabise Palestinian region (8,554), Kango (4,043), Somalia (2,568), Nigeria (2,436) and Haiti (2,269). While, the fastest growth in these cases, Lebanon (545 percent), Mozambik (525 percent), Haiti (490 percent), It was seen in Ethiopia (235 percent) and Ukraine (105 percent). During the same period, attacks on schools increased by 44 percent and sexual violence incidents increased by 34 percent. © Unicef/Shehzad Noorani hope upset … But there is a ray of hope between this darkness. ECW and its allied organizations are giving life saving support on the education front worldwide. These include mental health and psychosis, safe teaching environment, special training for teachers, construction of new class sites, food for children. More than 1600 schools have been damaged or destroyed so far due to war in Ukraine. Despite this, school employees and communities are standing. Their courage is proof that the flame of education cannot be extinguished. That is why the world is appealing that violent attacks on schools should be stopped immediately and international financial assistance for education should be further enhanced, because today the investment made in children’s education is the investment, there is an investment in the peace of tomorrow.