More Academics and Students Suffer Attacks

Brendan O’Malley
Unesco’s new global study, Education under Attack 2010, reports that in a hard core of countries, academics and students are suffering serious human rights violations, ranging from assassination to torture and death threats, mainly at the hands of government or government-backed forces. The study was launched in New York last week and presented to US policy makers in Washington. A new alliance of education, human rights and child protection agencies, held in New York at the offices of Human Rights Watch, sought a common agenda of co-operation to prevent attacks on education and ensure that perpetrators are punished.
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* See also a case study from the Unesco report of a Zimbabwean academic who escaped death threats from the Mugabe regime.
Source: University World News, Issue No: 0111, 14 Februari 2010