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Youth Champions gather early years insights for world leaders
Youth champions to tell world leaders why they must Act For Early Years
Meet the seven winners of our latest Education Innovation Awards
13 challenges children face just to be able to go to school
From discrimination and child labour to gang violence and dangerous journeys to school, we look at some of the obstacles children have to overcome to get an education.
“Young people need to be educated on how they can fight for the causes they care about”
A Global Youth Ambassador from Cameroon tells how his own leadership experience has made him want to help others to find their voice to speak up on issues affecting them.
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When youth rise up: how young people are using their voices to bring about change
On the eve of the March For Our Lives protests over US gun laws, we ask Global Youth Ambassadors why the voice of young people is so important in activism.
Joy and sadness as Chibok parents see kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls returned to their families
A mother whose daughter is still missing four years after the Chibok abduction told how she went to Dapchi to give support - and ended up witnessing scenes of jubilation.
Air strikes near school in Idlib kill 16 Syrian children
A teacher said the young children - aged 11 and under - were leaving the school when the multiple bombing raids began.Â
“We can unite and raise our voices together and speak out against violent extremism”
A Global Youth Ambassador from Burkina Faso tells how attacks have closed over 600 schools - but young leaders are working together to prevent violence.
Expert Voices
Refugee children from Burundi’s civil war are so happy to be in school
The conflict has left thousands traumatised and alone - but some students who fled to Tanzania have told how education has given them hope.
Kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls are set free by Boko Haram
The government said that so far 76 of the students taken from their school in Dapchi are confirmed as having been returned to the town today.
What makes children happy when they live in some of the world’s poorest and most marginalised communities?
Today is International Day of Happiness - so we asked young people what makes them feel good. The pictures should put a smile on your face.
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‘I am totally destroyed’: child marriage grows among Syrian refugee girls in Lebanon
One in five refugee girls aged 15 to 19 is married - depriving them of education and putting them at risk of violence and health problems.