UN calls for education in conflict, condemns attacks

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council has powerfully condemned attacks connected schools, teachers and children and called connected each parties to beforehand the close to acquisition successful conflicts.

A solution adopted by the assembly Friday by a 15-0 ballot emphasized the “invaluable role” that acquisition plays successful providing “life-saving spaces” and its publication to achieving bid and security.

“For the archetypal time, the Security Council has adopted a solution uniquely dedicated to the extortion of education,” Norway’s U.N. Ambassador Mona Juul, who sponsored the solution with Niger, told the assembly aft the vote.

She told the council: “Education is nether onslaught astir the world.”

Between 2014 and 2019, Juul said 11,000 attacks that harmed much than 22,000 students and educators successful astatine slightest 93 countries were reported.

The solution urges the 193 U.N. subordinate nations “to make effectual measures to forestall and code attacks and threats of attacks against schoolhouse and acquisition facilities.”

It condemns the subject usage of schools, which violates planetary instrumentality and whitethorn marque the buildings “legitimate targets of attack, frankincense endangering children’s and teachers’ information arsenic good arsenic their education.”

The solution urges each parties to equipped conflicts to respect that schools are civilian facilities nether planetary humanitarian law. And it calls connected each countries “to instrumentality factual measures to mitigate and debar the usage of schools by equipped forces.”

The assembly expressed “deep interest that girls and women whitethorn beryllium the intended victims of attacks targeting their entree to and continuation of education,” saying specified attacks tin see rape, intersexual unit and intersexual slavery.

Council members urged U.N. members “to instrumentality steps to code girls’ adjacent enjoyment of their close to education.”

Juul said the 99 countries that co-sponsored the solution are “an look of a genuinely planetary committedness to this important cause.”

The Norwegian ambassador stressed that adoption of the solution indispensable beryllium followed by its afloat implementation.

“We indispensable bash much to safeguard acquisition institutions from subject usage and attacks,” Juul said, “and guarantee the continuation of acquisition during conflicts -- including by investing successful acquisition successful situations of situation and conflict.”