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Heavy fighting forces thousands of Ukrainian children out of school
Children have started to return to schools in parts of the Donetsk region after a week of violence - but there are reports of many unexploded shells in the streets.
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“I started a small school under a bridge for child beggars and labourers”
Global Youth Ambassador Diksha Dinde tells how she is delivering education and healthy meals to child labourers and beggars in the Indian city of Pune.
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Aleppo underground schools lie unused after students and teachers leave the city
The majority of the 1700Â children and 100Â teachers at the schools run by Kesh Malek were forcibly displaced during the offensive on eastern Aleppo.
#YouPromised: international leaders to track their pledge to get all Syrian refugees in school
One year after the promise was made, urgent action is needed at a conference in April if the funding gaps are to be filled to deliver education to every Syrian refugee child.Â
“I did not want to go to school. I didn’t have the courage to face my classmates, who made derogatory remarks about my skin colour”
Global Youth Ambassador and youth activist Pooja Mankhedkar tells how she started the Color Brave campaign after other school students and teachers in India discriminated against her because of her skin colour.
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“You cannot do better than convince people that what you’re saying is absolutely authentic and you would live and die by it”
In a new episode of her Better Angels podcast, Sarah Brown talks to Sir Patrick Stewart, Ed Balls, Christy Turlington Burns and Laura Bates about how to find your voice and use it for good causes.
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Emergency school meals for one million children in drought-hit Ethiopia
The programme will help to keep children in school in Ethiopia, where about 1.2 million students have dropped out of education - many to help fetch water over long distances or look after other children.
Inspiring and heartbreaking stories of Syrian children, refugees and heroes to feature at the Oscars
The Best Documentary Short Film category at the annual awards highlights the trauma experienced by millions of Syrian children - and why their future must be a priority for world leaders.
Education charity and police reduce child labour at Mumbai food stalls
The Indian organisation Pratham found hundreds of child workers were living on their own in the city and not going to school.