EAA is all set for celebrating International Day to Protect Education from Attack
Education Above All (EAA) is all set for celebrating International Day to Protect Education from Attack. EAA is organizing an event on Thursday, September 9th to celebrate the day.
The virtual event, titled “Protect Education for Sustainable Peace,” provides a forum for people to talk about how to build sustainable education and peace, governance mechanisms, and legal mechanisms for protecting education, as well as the importance of gathering data and evidence to hold perpetrators accountable and achieve justice for victims.
The Education Above All Foundation, the Permanent Mission of the State of Qatar to the United Nations, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict is co-organizing the event. The event is anticipated to bring together a number of international leaders and representatives from the United Nations, as well as youth advocates, politicians, and academics.
Prior to the event, the EEA, which is concerned with education issues, made a request to provide compensation to victims of assaults on education, citing newly revealed statistics that show a substantial increase in attacks on education in 2020, notwithstanding COVID-19-related school closures.
