GCPEA - Education Under Attack 2024 Report
The Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA) released its flagship report Education under Attack 2024.
Published every two years, this report provides a comprehensive analysis of attacks on education in armed conflict around the world.
- About 6,000 attacks on education took place in 2022 and 2023, a nearly 20 percent increase compared with the previous two years.
- Over 10,000 students, teachers, and academics were harmed, injured, or killed in these attacks, which occurred in armed conflicts across the globe.
The 2024 edition is the seventh in a series of publications examining the threat of, or actual use of, force against students, teachers, professors, education personnel, or educational facilities and materials, as well as the military use of schools and universities. This edition documents six forms of violations against education from January 1, 2022, to December 31, 2023: attacks on schools; attacks on students, teachers, and other education personnel; military use of schools and universities; child recruitment at, or on the way to or from, school; sexual violence perpetrated by armed forces, other security personnel, or armed groups at, or on the way to or from, school or university; and attacks on higher education. The report includes profiles on 28 countries that experienced at least 10 cases of attacks or military use during the reporting period:
Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Colombia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Iraq, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Libya, Mali, Mozambique, Myanmar, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine, the Philippines, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Türkiye, Ukraine, and Yemen.
Read the report below.
Read the executive summary below.