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Modern-Diplomacy: Education Must Come First in Cameroon: Yasmine Sherif calls for an end to attacks on schools

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The future of humanity hangs in the balance. Acute threats of conflict, COVID-19, climate change, poverty, displacement, hunger and other factors are pushing millions more people — with children the most vulnerable and hardest hit — to the edge in humanitarian crises around the world. We can save humanity […]

Today in Cameroon, over 700,000 children are out of school. If this alone were not bad enough, we are also witnessing truly horrific attacks on schools, kidnappings, sexual assault, recruitment into armed groups and other grave violations against children.

Just two weeks ago, four students and a teacher were killed in an attack in Cameroon. In a separate heinous incident, one girl had her fingers viciously chopped off just for trying to go to school, according to UNOCHA.

We can save humanity from these vast interconnected crises, including at the humanitarian-development nexus where humanitarian assistance delivery and long-term development assistance provision overlap. The answer is education.

Children are not targets. Teachers are not targets. Schools are not targets. These senseless attacks on basic human rights — and on our collective humanity — must stop immediately. Respect for human rights and adherence to the principles of international humanitarian law must be reinforced.

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Middle power diplomacy essential to secure Asia against big power rivalry

Author: Editorial Board, ANU There will be no resolution of the big problems of our age without the big powers, notably the United States and China, being willing parties to their settlement. And success will depend critically on the trust that each puts in the other’s stake in the […]

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Australia has not just had a ‘diplomacy fail’ – it has been devaluing the profession for decades

Prime Minister’s Office We are seeing an unusual level of discussion about Australian diplomacy. There’s been harsh criticism – and some degree of embarrassment – surrounding what has been described been as a “ diplomacy fail ” in managing relations with France . The head of the Australian Strategic […]

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