Education, Skills and Learning

This is what girls in conflict zones get instead of education

Girls stand inside their classroom at a primary school in Dobley town, 10 km (6 miles) from the Kenya-Somalia border, February 21, 2012. Kenyan troops rolled tanks and troops across its arid frontier into lawless Somalia, in another campaign to stamp out a rag-tag militia of Islamist rebels that has stoked terror throughout the region with threats of strikes.

Education is systematically ignored in situations of humanitarian crisis, and adolescent girls suffer from this the most. Image: REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

Pauline Rose
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Disrupted education journeys for adolescent girls in conflict settings
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Girls have limited access to secondary schools.
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Schools are unsafe for girls.
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Violence against adolescent girls
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Education or marriage?
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