Campaigners called on the government to bring hundreds of children over before the start of the new school year to ensure that child refugees who had missed out on months, if not years, of school because of war and unrest could be reintegrated into the education system as soon as possible.
Caught up in a school staging of "War of the Worlds," she doesn't recognize at first that her daughter — who has recently transferred to the school — is being bullied.
In these schools, prisoners of war and condemned criminals who were considered slaves were taught the skills required to fight to the death in gladiatorial games.
UNICEF was instrumental in getting children back to school after years of war in Afghanistan, monitoring and attending to severe nutritional needs of children affected by war in Iraq, and helping to ensure immediate sustenance and protection, as well as a return to school, for children affected by the South Asian tsunami.
In some schools, the realities of war have become a little less abstract.
That is why faith leaders across Nigeria -- some of whom I am in contact with already -- and across the world must come together under the Global Faiths Coalition for Education in condemning any attempt to use schools as weapons of war and to justify atrocities on a fabricated interpretation of the Koran.
B1 MOMENTARY DISTRACTIONS -- High school football in times of war seems even more of an antidote to stress than usual.
Sometimes they feel like saying, "No more, we have work to do".In this section Cradle of war, school of jihad Ploughing on regardless Talkers, and doers Apartheid's shadow ReprintsLate in the evening in Lusaka, Dr Rosemary Musonda, an immunologist who is the acting head of the National AIDS Council, is still at her desk.
And there were even rumours, strongly denied by the man himself, that he had been forced to seek medical treatment outside the country for serious injuries.In this section Cradle of war, school of jihad Ploughing on regardless Talkers, and doers Apartheid's shadow ReprintsBut even if it has suffered setbacks, Mr Zarqawi's group is still able to strike with deadly effect.
