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“I did not want to go to school. I didn’t have the courage to face my classmates, who made derogatory remarks about my skin colour”
Global Youth Ambassador and youth activist Pooja Mankhedkar tells how she started the Color Brave campaign after other school students and teachers in India discriminated against her because of her skin colour.
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“You cannot do better than convince people that what you’re saying is absolutely authentic and you would live and die by it”
In a new episode of her Better Angels podcast, Sarah Brown talks to Sir Patrick Stewart, Ed Balls, Christy Turlington Burns and Laura Bates about how to find your voice and use it for good causes.
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Emergency school meals for one million children in drought-hit Ethiopia
The programme will help to keep children in school in Ethiopia, where about 1.2 million students have dropped out of education - many to help fetch water over long distances or look after other children.
Inspiring and heartbreaking stories of Syrian children, refugees and heroes to feature at the Oscars
The Best Documentary Short Film category at the annual awards highlights the trauma experienced by millions of Syrian children - and why their future must be a priority for world leaders.
Education charity and police reduce child labour at Mumbai food stalls
The Indian organisation Pratham found hundreds of child workers were living on their own in the city and not going to school.
Nigerian primary school helps to heal rifts left by Boko Haram
Getting children into school is key to reviving the northeast of the country, where the terrorist group's insurgency has deprived millions of an education and torn apart communities.
Turkey to build schools for thousands of Syrian refugee children
The Turkish government, the EU and the World Bank are working together to build 56 new facilities and benefit about 40,000 out-of-school refugees and children from host communities.
Costa Rica hopes to keep girls in school by raising marriage age
Raising the minimum age without parental consent to 18 has been welcomed in a country where one in five girls are wed by then and where child marriage is common in indigenous communities.
UN envoy Gordon Brown tells inquiry of broken promise to get all Syrian refugee children in school
The UN Special Envoy for Global Education told a committee of the British parliament that countries had to make good on their pledge to get every Syrian child into school in their host communities.
Twitter girl Bana Alabed asks President Trump to ‘do something for Syrian children’
The seven-year-old who tweeted from besieged Aleppo wrote an open letter to the new American leader, saying Syrian children "deserve peace like you."