{"total": 533, "schema": "Country: string\nDate: string\nEvent_description: string", "data": [{"Country": "Afghanistan", "Date": "2018-01", "Event_description": "24 January 2018: In Jalalabad, Nangarhar province, gunfire from an unspecified source prompted residents and children from a school to run away. No further details are available. Source: Tolo News"}, {"Country": "Bangladesh ", "Date": "2018-01", "Event_description": "03 January 2018: In Dhaka, a factional clash between two rival groups of Jagannath University unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League led to the injury of two activists. Source: The Daily Star"}, {"Country": "Cameroon", "Date": "2018-01", "Event_description": "15 January 2018: In Buea, Limbe and Tiko, Fako division, Southwest region, rumours that suspected separatists would attack educational facilities led to the evacuation of schools and universities, including the University of Buea. Sources: Cameroon-Info and Journal du Cameroun"}, {"Country": "Cameroon", "Date": "2018-01", "Event_description": "12 January 2018: In Ngoketunjia division, Northwest Highlands region, unidentified perpetrators set ablaze GBHS Bamessing school, destroying the administrative building. Source: Cameroon-Concord "}, {"Country": "Cameroon", "Date": "2018-01", "Event_description": "22 January 2018: In Nkambe city, Donga Mantung division, Northwest region, unidentified perpetrators set ablaze the administrative block of Saint Rita\u2019s College for unknown reasons. On 23 January, the girls\u2019 dormitory of the same school was also set ablaze for unknown reasons. Source: All Afrikan Network"}, {"Country": "Guatemala", "Date": "2018-01", "Event_description": "03 January 2018: In Guatemala City, and Mixco and Villa Nueve cities and municipalities, Guatemala department, threats from criminal groups against public schools prompted 100 educational communities to request preventive security at their premises from the National Civil Police to ensure their safety. Source: Prensa Libre, Publinews"}, {"Country": "Libya", "Date": "2018-01", "Event_description": "03 January 2018: In Abyar town, Marj district, Cyrenaica region, gunmen linked to \u2018The Youth Zone\u2019 shot and killed the director of the Education Bureau, who was planning to run in an upcoming election. Sources: Alwasat (a) and Alwasat (b)"}, {"Country": "Libya", "Date": "2018-01", "Event_description": "16 January 2018: Update: In Al Bayda city, Jabal al Akhdar district, Cyrenaika region, the Dean of the Faculty of Religion of University of Mohammed bin Ali al-Sanusi returned home having been missing since 22 August. Source: Alwasat"}, {"Country": "Libya", "Date": "2018-01", "Event_description": "27 January 2018: In Sabha city and district, Fezzan region, unidentified perpetrators set ablaze classrooms in Nasiriyah school, damaging books and sports equipment. Source: Alwasat"}, {"Country": "Nigeria", "Date": "2018-01", "Event_description": "07 January 2018: Update: In Akampa. Cross River state, gunmen released a medical practitioner from the Cross-River College of Education Medical Centre, kidnapped since 26 December. Sources: Daily Trust and Guardian"}, {"Country": "Nigeria", "Date": "2018-01", "Event_description": "08 January 2018: In Calabar, Cross River state, unidentified perpetrators kidnapped a senior registrar in the Department of Pediatrics, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital. Source: Daily Trust"}, {"Country": "Occupied Palestinian Territories", "Date": "2018-01", "Event_description": "24 January 2018: In Beit Ta\u2019mir village, Bethlehem, West Bank, threats of demolition by Israeli authorities made children on winter vacations question whether their school would still be standing when they return. Source: +972 "}, {"Country": "Pakistan", "Date": "2018-01", "Event_description": "22 January 2018: In Shabqadar, Charsadda district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, a student killed the principal of Islamia private college, after he was reprimanded for skipping classes. Source: Dawn"}, {"Country": "Sudan", "Date": "2018-01", "Event_description": "11 January 2018: In South Kordofan state, a member of the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) entered Delling University armed with a concealed Kalashnikov and shot and killed two students. Then committed suicide. His motive remains unclear. Source: Dabanga Sudan"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-01", "Event_description": "14 January 2018: In and around Eastern Ghouta region, violence has forced schools to shut down. Source: CNN"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-01", "Event_description": "17 January 2018: In Eastern Ghouta region, Syrian government forces have launched attacks on schools. Source: VOA"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-01", "Event_description": "02 January 2018: In Qatra village, Idlib governorate, suspected Russian fixed-wing warplanes reportedly fired a missile at Qatra Elementary School, resulting in casualties, and partially destroying the building and damaging furniture. Source: SNHR"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-01", "Event_description": "06 January 2018: In Irbeen city, Eastern Ghouta, Damascus, fixed-wing Syrian or Russian regime forces warplanes reportedly fired several missiles at Irbeen Girls High School, heavily destroying the building and damaging furniture. Source: SNHR"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-01", "Event_description": "06 January 2018: In al Dana city, Idlib governorate, Hay\u2019at Tahrir al Sham fighters, along with al Inqath Government representatives reportedly closed a building that houses the faculties of Information Engineering, Literature, and Media, affiliated to Free Aleppo University. Teaching was suspended. Source: SNHR"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-01", "Event_description": "12 January 2018:  On the outskirts of al Habeit village, Idlib governorate, suspected Russian fixed-wing warplanes reportedly fired several missiles at Khaled al Mousa High School, the building was set ablaze and the building and its furniture were heavily damaged. Source: SNHR"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-01", "Event_description": "16 January 2018: In al Shahba neighborhood, western Aleppo, an artillery shelling landed in Wahat al Atfal kindergarten, resulting in casualties and partially destroying the building. Source: SNHR"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-01", "Event_description": "21 January 2018: In Saraqeb city, Idlib governorate, suspected Russian fixed-wing warplanes reportedly fired several missiles at Ebla Private University, located on the international highway Aleppo-Damascus. Several students were wounded, the university building was partially destroyed, and its furniture and cladding materials were heavily damaged. Source: SNHR"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-01", "Event_description": "25 January 2018: In Saraqeb city, Idlib governorate, suspected Russian fixed-wing warplanes reportedly fired a missile at Hitteen School for Elementary Education, the building was set ablaze and the building was partially destroyed. Source: SNHR"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-01", "Event_description": "25 January 2018: In Rajo town, Aleppo governorate, suspected Turkish fixed-wing warplanes fired several missiles and a mortar shell at Rajo al Qadima School, damaging the building and its fencing. Source: SNHR"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-01", "Event_description": "29 January 2018: In Kafra Nabl, Ma'arrat al-Numan, Idlib governorate, fixed-wing Syrian regime forces warplanes reportedly fired several small missiles near Abu Bakr al Siddeeq School, causing damage. Source: SNHR"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-01", "Event_description": "07 January 2018: In al Janoubi neighbourhood, Jarjanaz town, Idlib governorate, Syrian regime forces helicopters reportedly dropped a barrel bomb near the Teacher Training Institute, partially destroying the building and damaging furniture. Source: SNHR"}, {"Country": "Tunisia", "Date": "2018-01", "Event_description": "11 January 2018: In Kebili town, Nefzaoua region, pupils from unspecified schools interrupted classes, burned tires and blocked roads at the crossing of Chaala Kebili for no unknown reasons. Source: Mosaique FM"}, {"Country": "Tunisia", "Date": "2018-01", "Event_description": "25 January 2018: In Tataouine city and governorate, two child assailants tried to kidnap a schoolgirl from an unspecified junior high school for unknown reasons. Source: Al-Sawriq Online"}, {"Country": "Yemen", "Date": "2018-01", "Event_description": "09 January 2018: In Sana\u2019a, Houthi gunmen attacked two female teachers from Sourouh al-Majd School in front of Madaba Gate, after the latter prevented them from entering the school. Source: "}, {"Country": "Algeria", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "11 February 2018: In Algeria, the Ministry of Education decided to prohibit striking teachers led by the Conseil National Autonome des Professeurs de l\u2019Enseignants Secondaire et Rechnique de l\u2019\u00c9ducation (CNAPESTE) from accessing schools. Nonetheless, CNAPESTE continued to urge its members to observe a countrywide, unlimited strike and regional sit-in beginning 12 February. Source: Algerie 360"}, {"Country": "Algeria", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "19 February 2018: In Algeria, five teachers\u2019 unions announced a strike, with effect from 20 till 21 February, after discussions with Algerian authorities failed to bring about desired outcomes. Source: Algerie 360"}, {"Country": "Algeria", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "19 February 2018: In Algeria, Algerian authorities have dismissed 581 teachers for holding a strike. Source: Algerie 360"}, {"Country": "Argentina", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "26 February 2018: In Buenos Aires, the Union of Education Workers announced a 48-hour strike with effect from coming 05 March, because wage negotiations between the unions and Argentinian authorities have not yet reached a successful agreement. Source: Clarin"}, {"Country": "Bangladesh", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "14 February 2018: In Rajshahi city, district and division, Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital interns assaulted a senior professor of Rajshahi University\u2019s law department after the latter collided with one intern. In response, on 15 February hundreds of law students from the same university blocked the Dhaka-Rajshahi highway for two and half hours, demanding immediate arrest and punishment of the culprits. Source: New Age"}, {"Country": "Bolivia", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "19 February 2018: In La Paz city, Pedro Domingo Murillo province, La Paz department, the Medical College of La Paz announced that medical professionals will hold a protest march on 21 February, adding that emergency services will not be affected. Source: La Razon "}, {"Country": "Brazil", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "02 February 2018: Update: In Ubatuba municipality, S\u00e3o Paulo state, three men suspected of selling school supplies valued at 300,000 BRL (approximately 75,530 EUR), which had been stolen from a cargo last 22 January, were arrested by the civil police. Source: Globo"}, {"Country": "Brazil", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "19 February 2018: In S\u00e3o Paulo city and state, teachers held a peaceful protest in front of the city hall against the municipal pension reform. Source: Globo"}, {"Country": "Cambodia ", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "10 February 2018: In Pursat\u2019s Kandeang district, Pursat province, villagers and students found 48 unexploded rockets buried in the ground at Kngan Secondary School whilst they were using excavators to clear the land to plant crops. On 12 February, the same villages and students found another 93 unexploded rockets at the same place. Source: Khmer Times"}, {"Country": "Cameroon", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "20 February 2018: In Ebonji area, Tombel commune, South West region, gunmen shot and killed the director of Etam Public School whilst he was driving a motorcycle. The motive is unknown but suspected to be due to nationalist-separatist conflicts. Source: Journal du Camroun"}, {"Country": "Central African Republic", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "25 February 2018: In Markounda town and sub-prefecture, Ouham prefecture, unidentified armed men killed a United Nations Children\u2019s Fund (UNICEF) employee and five educators for unclear reasons. Sources: Cable News Network (CNN), The New York Times, Reuters and RJDH"}, {"Country": "Central African Republic", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "06 February 2018: In Baboua town and sub-prefecture, Nana-Mamb\u00e9r\u00e9 prefecture, the unexpected presence of armed Peulhs across the city caused panic among the local population, leading to the disruption of educational activities in schools. Source: RJDH"}, {"Country": "Chad", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "20 February 2018: In N\u2019Djamena, Chadian authorities officially prohibited a student protest scheduled for 21 February by the National Union of Students of Chad at the University of N\u2019Djamena. Source: Official Website of the Presidency of the Republic of Chad"}, {"Country": "Colombia", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "21 February 2018: In Bogota and other unspecified major cities, around 336,000 teachers from the 36 unions affiliated with the Federaci\u00f3n Colombiana de Educadores held a strike to demand improved provision of health services, and against overcrowding in classrooms. Source: Caracol"}, {"Country": "Dominican Republic", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "13 February 2018: In Santo Domingo, the Dominican Association of Teachers called a halt to teaching for 15 and 16 February in all schools in National District and Santo Domingo provinces to pressure the Education Ministry to postpone the nomination of directors in 18 regional and 122 educational districts nationwide. Source: Diario Libre"}, {"Country": "Ecuador", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "05 February 2018: In Guayaquil city and canton, Guayas province, a bomb threat at a school on Las Aguas Avenue from an anonymous man over the phone led to the evacuation of 500 students and disruption of classes. Source: El Universo"}, {"Country": "Guinea-Conakry", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "01 February 2018: In Guinea-Conakry, the Syndicat Libre des Enseignants et Chercheurs de Guin\u00e9e (SLECG) announced a countrywide indefinite strike with effect from 12 February. Teachers continued to be on strike by 28 February. Sources: Africa Guinee and Guinea-News "}, {"Country": "Honduras", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "06 February 2018: In Honduras, members of unspecified gangs continue to exercise authority in some schools across the country, subjecting students and teachers to assault, extortion and other forms of intimidation. Source: La Tribuna"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "19 February 2018: In Gaya city and district, Magadh division and region, Bihar state, two bombs of unknown origin were found in front of the main gate of a public school in Paraiya quarter. Source: The New Indian Express"}, {"Country": "Ivory Coast", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "02 February 2018: In Yamoussoukro city, department and district, armed burglars entered the premises of Mamie Adjoua Girls\u2019 High School and attempted to steal a television, cell phones, gas tanks, and other valuables. They were stopped by guards. Source: Koaci"}, {"Country": "Kenya", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "16 February 2018: In Wajir county, former North Eastern province, suspected al Shabaab militants attacked Qarsa Primary School, killing three people, including a teacher. This incident prompted the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to transfer over 200 non-local teachers from the region, forcing an unspecified number of schools to shut, including Batalu Primary School, which now has only one head teacher. Source: Daily Nation "}, {"Country": "Lebanon", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "09 February 2018: In Baabda city and district, Mount Lebanon governorate, dozens of secondary school teachers and contract workers from the Faculty of Education, Lebanese University, held a demonstration to demand the payment of missing salaries. Clashes erupted between some protesters seeking to block the road and police officers, while five teachers who blocked the road leading to the presidential palace were arrested by security forces. Source: L\u2019Orient le Jour"}, {"Country": "Mali", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "12 February 2018: In Conakry, teachers led by SLECG observed a strike at Donka High School and Ratoma School Complex in response to insecurity in the neighbourhood. Source: RFI Africa"}, {"Country": "Mali", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "08 February 2018: In Gao city, cercle and region, teachers led by a collective of education unions went on a strike at Yana Ma\u00efga High School to demand the repayment of their salaries since last January. Source: aBamako"}, {"Country": "Mexico", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "12 February 2018: In Mixteca region, Oaxaca state, teachers from the Congress of the National Union of Education Workers (SNTE) blocked the superhighway that connects Oaxaca with the municipality of Asunci\u00f3n Nochixtl\u00e1 in protest against educational reforms. Source: Excelsior"}, {"Country": "Mexico", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "12 February 2018: In Mexico City, the CNTE (National Coordinator of Education Workers) announced a mass protest against decisions made by the SNTE (Congress of the National Union of Education Workers) in regions such as the Papaloapan Basin and the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Source: Excelsior"}, {"Country": "Nepal", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "25 February 2018: In Rajbiraj municipality, Saptari district, Eastern region, No. 2 province, college staffers padlocked the main gate of Mahendra Bindeshwori Multiple Campus in protest against the government\u2019s decision to merge the college with the newly established Rajshri Janak University. Source: Kathmundu Post"}, {"Country": "Nigeria", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "10 February 2018: Update: In Nigeria, the militant group Boko Haram released 10 hostages (three of whom were University of Maiduguri lecturers) from captivity. Sources: BBC and This Day"}, {"Country": "Nigeria", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "19 February 2018: In Izzi local government area, Ebonyi state, armed men shot and killed a member of the People\u2019s Democratic Party at a political gathering in Nwofe Primary School. Source: Premium Times"}, {"Country": "Nigeria", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "19 February 2018: In Dapchi village, Bursari local government area, Yobe state, Boko Haram militants on pickup trucks attacked \u2018Girls Science Secondary School\u2019, but the students and teachers managed to flee to safety. The attack was allegedly meant to kidnap the girls. Source: Punch"}, {"Country": "Nigeria", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "20 February 2018: In Etim Ekpo area, Akwa Ibom state, cultists loyal to their deceased leader Akaniyene Jumbo kidnapped a primary school teacher from Saint Joseph Primary School and are demanding N1 million from his family for his release. Source: Vanguard "}, {"Country": "Occupied Palestinian Territories", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "04 February 2018: In Al-Eizariya, Area B, West Bank, Israeli occupation forces demolished the only two classrooms in the community for Grades Three and Four funded by the European Union (EU). Source: Petra"}, {"Country": "Occupied Palestinian Territories", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "27 February 2018: In Hebron city, West Bank, Israeli border police fired tear gas and stun grenades at school children outside multiple schools. Source: ISM Palestine"}, {"Country": "Peru", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "27 February 2018: In Cusco city, province and region, around 300 students from Antonio Lorena, Khipu and Tupac Amaru institutes protested in front of the National University of Saint Anthony the Abbot against what has been termed the \u2018Juvenile Slave Law\u2019. Source: La Republica"}, {"Country": "Senegal", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "26 February 2018: In K\u00e9dougou town, department and region, middle and high school students took to the streets to protest against teachers\u2019 strikes. Source: Xibaaru"}, {"Country": "Senegal", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "27 February 2018: In Senegal, six prominent teachers\u2019 unions announced a countrywide strike and a sit-in for unspecified reasons, with effect from 28 February. Source: aDakar"}, {"Country": "Senegal", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "28 February 2018: In Dakar, students from the Spanish department of the Cheikh Anta Diop University and others from private institutions held a demonstration over their cancelled classes, which had been cancelled due to teachers on strike over pay. Source: Dakaractu"}, {"Country": "South Africa", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "03 February 2018: In Vuwani village, Makhado municipality, Vhembe district, Limpopo province, unknown assailants broke into and set ablaze the administrative block of Shondoni Secondary School, irreparably destroying four computers, printers, a safe, a steel cabinet and lockers. Source: News24"}, {"Country": "South Africa", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "22 February 2018: In Durban city, eThekwini municipality, KwaZulu-Natal province, roughly 300 students from different student organisations participated in a protest at the Steve Biko campus of Durban University of Technology. The students demanded that the university\u2019s management resolve an ongoing salary dispute with staff which had led to a strike and allow for the resumption of their classes. Campus security responded by firing rubber bullets at protesting students. Source: News 24 "}, {"Country": "South Africa", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "16 February 2018: In Durban, eThekwini municipality, KwaZulu-Natal province, the Durban University of Technology suspended its academic programme due to prolonged strike action over salary increases for lecturers. Source: News 24"}, {"Country": "South Africa", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "27 February 2018: Update: In Durban, eThekwini municipality, KwaZulu-Natal province, South African authorities and teachers\u2019 unions agreed to go back to the negotiating table as of 28 February, following a seven-week strike. Source: News 24"}, {"Country": "South Sudan ", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "26 February 2018: In Greater Uror county, Bieh state, South Sudanese forces launched attacks on rebels in Muodiit and Tharkwer Gwanyabiel regions. A school was set alight killing 13 people, including four children. Source: Radio Tamazuj"}, {"Country": "Sudan", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "11 February 2018: In Khartoum, students of the University of Khartoum held a demonstration at the Shambat Agricultural Complex to protest against the rigging of the students\u2019 union elections, prompting riot police to violently disperse protestors. This incident led to the injury of four students and the arrest of two. Source: Dabanga Sudan"}, {"Country": "Sudan", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "11 February 2018: In South Darfur state, teachers led by the Sudanese Teachers' Committee held a protest over 10 years of unpaid allowances for meals. Source: Dabanga Sudan  "}, {"Country": "Sudan", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "14 February 2018: In Khartoum state, the Sudanese Teachers' Committee announced a strike of higher secondary school teachers in protest against the delay in payment of salaries. Source: Dabanga Sudan"}, {"Country": "Sudan", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "15 February 2018: In Gezira state, medical specialists from Wad Madani Hospital announced a strike in support of their assistants who stopped working the week before due to delays in the payment of their allowances. Source: Dabanga Sudan  "}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "05 February 2018: In southern Heesh village, Idlib governorate, suspected Russian fixed-wing warplanes reportedly fired a missile at Tareq ben Ziad School. The building was partially destroyed, and a fire broke out in several classrooms, badly damaging school furniture. The facility was forced to close. Source: SNHR II "}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "06 February 2018: In Kafr Batna, Damascus, fixed-wing Syrian regime forces warplanes reportedly fired several missiles at the Teachers\u2019 Union Kindergarten for Kids. The kindergarten building was partially destroyed, and its furniture was moderately damaged. Source: SNHR II"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "08 February 2018: In Irbeen city, Eastern Ghouta, Damascus, fixed-wing Syrian regime forces warplanes reportedly fired several missies near al Ahlaya Private School affiliated to Saint George Orthodox Church. The school building was moderately damaged. Source: SNHR II"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "08 February 2018: In in Meshmshan village, Idlib governorate, suspected Russian fixed-wing warplanes reportedly fired a missile near Meshmshan High School for Boys. The school building and its fence were partially destroyed, and the furniture was moderately damaged. Source: SNHR II"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "09 February 2018: In al Sharqi neighbourhood, Hass village, Idlib governorate, fixed-wing Syrian regime forces warplanes reportedly fired four missiles near Kamal Qal\u2019aji School Complex, which houses four schools (Kamal Qal\u2019aji Elementary School, Hass Intermediate School for Boys, Hass Intermediate School for Girls, and Hass High School). The four school\u2019s buildings were damaged to varying degrees. Source: SNHR II"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "09 February 2018: In Irbeen city, Aleppo, fixed-wing Syrian regime forces warplanes reportedly fired several missiles at a building that contains the economics college and the electronical institute which are affiliated to Aleppo \u201cFree\u201d University. The building was heavily destroyed, and its furniture was heavily damaged. The facility was forced to close. Aleppo \u201cFree\u201d University occupies Abdul al Mun\u2019em Ryad High School building in Irbeen city as a base for its economics college and electronical institute. Source: SNHR II"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "16 February 2018: In Teir Ma\u2019la village, Homs governorate, Syrian regime forces artillery fired an explosive cylinder near Teir Ma\u2019la High School. The school fence was partially destroyed, and its furniture was slightly damaged. Source: SNHR II"}, {"Country": "The Philippines", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "21 February 2018: In Quezon city, National Capital region, members of the Ateneo De Manila University officially went on strike after failed negotiations over the salaries and benefits of its 246 members. The strike was ended on 23 February after reaching an agreement with the university administration. Source: Phil Star"}, {"Country": "Tunisia", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "19 February 2018: In Tunis, young doctors from the Faculty of Doctors held a protest march to demand legal status for doctor interns and residents. Source: Shems FM"}, {"Country": "Tunisia", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "20-21 February 2018: In Tunisia, university professors held a two-day strike to demand salary increase and bonuses. Source: Jawhara FM"}, {"Country": "Tunisia", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "20 February 2018: In Douar Hicher town and commune, Manouba governorate, two unknown individuals stormed Douar Hicher\u2019s High School, smashed a car belonging to a teacher, and stole money and mobile phones belonging to 20 students. The faculty subsequently suspended classes. Source: Mosaique FM"}, {"Country": "Zimbabwe", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "08 February 2018: In Bulawayo city, district and province, lecturers at the University of Science and Technology (NUST) are on strike over alleged mismanagement at the institution. Source: Newsdze Zimbabwe"}, {"Country": "Zimbabwe", "Date": "2018-02", "Event_description": "26 February 2018: In Bulawayo city, district and province, around 50 students at the NUST shut down the institution to demand an end to lecturers\u2019 strikes and the resumption of classes, forcing the university management and lecturers to resolve their differences. Lectures were resumed later during the day. Sources: Chronicle and New Zimbabwe"}, {"Country": "Afghanistan", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "21 March 2018: In Kabul, a suicide bomber from the militant group Islamic State detonated his explosives close to the Ali Abad Hospital and Kabul University, causing 29 deaths and 52 injuries. Source: Tolo News"}, {"Country": "Algeria", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "25 March 2018: CNAPESTE announced that it would launch a cyclical two-day strike per week for teachers over disagreements with the Education Ministry concerning salaries. Source: Algerie 360"}, {"Country": "Argentina ", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "02 March 2018: In Buenos Aires province, the Unified Union of Workers of Buenos Aires and the Federation of Educators of Buenos Aires declared a strike at all schools across the region for 05 and 06 March, after failed negotiations with the Buenos Aires authorities. Source: La Nacion"}, {"Country": "Bangladesh", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "03 March 2018: In Sylhet city, district and division, a youth suspected to be from an unspecified extreme militant organisation stabbed a professor at Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College and Hospital three times in the head, seriously wounding him. Source: The Daily Star"}, {"Country": "Bangladesh", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "20 March 2018: In Jalalabad city, Sylhet division, a firefight between two factions of the Chhatra League caused the injury of a Food Engineering and Tea Technology Department student at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology. Source: Dhaka Tribune"}, {"Country": "Benin", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "20 March 2018: In Porto-Novo, teachers and health workers led by Workers\u2019 Struggle Committee held a strike to demand the end of wage reductions. Source: La Nouvelle Tribune"}, {"Country": "Brazil", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "14 March 2018: In S\u00e3o Paulo city, teachers held a protest against the mayor\u2019s proposed municipal pension reforms, prompting riot police to use flash-bangs and teargas to disperse them. Source: Jornal do Brasil"}, {"Country": "Cameroon", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "09 March 2018: In Batibo town, Northwest region, separatists from the Ambazonia Defence Forces attacked a school in an attempt to abduct students, killing a soldier and wounding three children. Source: The Africa News"}, {"Country": "Gabon", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "06 March 2018: In Liberville, teachers and researchers at the University Omar Bongo, led by the National Union of Teachers and Researchers (SNEC) and the Reflection and Action Force for Higher Education (FRAPES), launched an indefinite general strike until the departure of their rector for his questionable management skills. Source: Xinhua"}, {"Country": "Guinea-Conakry", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "06 March 2018: In Conakry, students at the Faculty of Medicine of Gamal Abdel Nasser University stormed and ransacked the office of the faculty\u2019s dean, smashing computers and printers. They also injured the university\u2019s dean and vandalised his car, claiming that they have not had a registration number since 2012 and 2013. Source: Guinee 7"}, {"Country": "Ivory Coast", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "05 March 2018: In Abobo suburb, Abidjan, a machete clash between two youth gangs led to the suspension of classes at two schools, including Modern High School. Source: Journal du Cameroun "}, {"Country": "Ivory Coast", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "07 March 2018: The National Coordination of Teachers and Researchers of C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (CNEC) announced a strike at all public schools and universities across the country between 12 and 14 March. Source: Koaci "}, {"Country": "Ivory Coast", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "19 March 2018: In Daloa city, Sassandra-Marahou\u00e9 district, Haut-Sassandra region, administrative and technical staff, as well as students at Jean Lorougnon Gu\u00e9d\u00e9 University launched a three-day strike. Source: Koaci"}, {"Country": "Kenya", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "12 March 2018: In Turkana county, harassment of staff by students at Turkana University College, who have been protesting high food prices and failure of some of their lecturers to teach, forced the institution to shut indefinitely. Source: Standard Digital"}, {"Country": "Lebanon", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "05 March 2018: In Tripoli city, North governorate, a committee of teachers of basic education providers across northern Lebanon headed to Beirut to join and participate in a sit-in, entitled Day of Rage, in Riad El Solh Square, demanding the payment of their salaries and allowances for the past eight months. Source: Annahar"}, {"Country": "Libya ", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "05 March 2018: In Tripoli, the Libyan Teachers Syndicate announced an indefinite strike, with effect from 08 March, over low salaries. Source: Libya Observer"}, {"Country": "Mali", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "23 March 2018: In Douentza town, Mopti region, nine motorcycle-borne armed men stole the food-stock from the canteen of an unspecified school, and then set the building on fire. Source: aBamako "}, {"Country": "Mexico", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "06 March 2018: In Chilpancingo de los Bravo municipality, Guerrero state, teachers and commissaries of the communities of El Ocotito valley agreed to suspend classes in at least 32 schools, from pre-school to higher level, until the regional and federal governments agree to keep the population safer from criminal attacks. Source: La Jornada"}, {"Country": "Myanmar", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "12 March 2018: In Htigyaing town, Katha district, Sagaing division, a bomb exploded at Hpu Pwint Wai boarding school hostel but caused no casualties. Following the explosion, the local army unit and police force conducted a search operation and found nine unexploded bombs in the area. Source: Mizzima"}, {"Country": "Namibia", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "06 March 2018: In Oshikoto region, between Omuthiya town and Oshivelo settlement, the termination of the school-meal programme at King Kauluma Combined School in combination with the lack of clean water available (due to a broken borehole) have forced many students to drop out of school. USAID and UNICEF jointly donated to the school a 10,000-litre tanker carrying water. Source: The Namibian "}, {"Country": "Niger", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "19 March 2018: Update: In Niamey, the National Union of Higher Education Teachers-Researchers (SNECS) ended their strike which had been going on since 20 February 2017 at the University Abdou Moumouni Niamey. Subsequently, students led by the Nigerien School Union protested against the exclusion of five of their peers, calling for their rehabilitation instead of punishment. Source: Niamey Et Les 2 Jours"}, {"Country": "Nigeria", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "08 March 2018: In Mubi town, Adamawa North Senatorial districts, Adamawa state, rumours of Boko Haram attacks caused panic and forced Adamawa State University and Federal Polytechnic to close. Source: The Daily Times "}, {"Country": "Occupied Palestinian Territories", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "04 March 2018: In Hebron city and governorate, West Bank, violence broke out between Israeli forces and students at the Palestinian Technical University. In response Israeli forces fired teargas and rubber bullets at students. According to the director of the Student Affairs Department at the University, Israeli forces carry out daily searches and interrogate students. Source: Wafa "}, {"Country": "Occupied Palestinian Territories", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "07 March 2018: In Birzeit town, Ramallah and al-Bireh governorate, West Bank, Palestinian police arrested and detained the chairman of the Birzeit University Student Union on the premises of Bir Zeit University on allegations of involvement in terrorist activity. Source: Y Net"}, {"Country": "Occupied Palestinian Territories", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "12 March 2018: In Burin village, Nablus governorate, West Bank, Israeli troops announced to the village council that Israel would seize a section of land owned by a local secondary school. Council members refused to meet with them or be officially informed about the seizure. In response Israeli forces fired teargas canisters at the school and students. Source: AA"}, {"Country": "Occupied Palestinian Territories", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "19 March 2018: In Teqoua` town, Betlehem governorate, West Bank, Israeli soldiers fired at least 10 \u2018gas bombs\u2019 into an unspecified secondary school for unspecified reasons. Source: International Middle East Media Centre"}, {"Country": "Occupied Palestinian Territories", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "27 March 2018: In Abu Dis village, Jerusalem governorate, Israeli forces deployed in the road leading to Al-Quds University campus triggered clashes with locals, who threw stones and empty bottles at soldiers. In response Israeli forces fired teargas canisters at the locals. Source: Wafa"}, {"Country": "Pakistan", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "22 March 2018: In Shaheed Benazir Abad district, Sindh province, unidentified men assaulted a senior professor from the Peoples University of Medical and Health Sciences in front of his home, possibly for his failure to provide preferential treatment to their patient at the hospital. This incident prompted fellow professors and doctors to hold a protest against the attack and the police\u2019s failure to arrest the culprits. Source: Dawn"}, {"Country": "Pakistan", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "17 March 2018: In Karachi city, Sindh province, a group of Karachi University staff, composed of teachers, non-academic staff and student representatives set up a Joint Action Committee against a controversial new bill on universities. Source: Dawn"}, {"Country": "Papua New Guinea ", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "13 March 2018: In Port Moresby, the Papua New Guinean government failed to pay the rent for the premises of the Papua New Guinea National Institute of Standards and Industrial Technology. Staff and clients were consequently unable to enter the office. Source: Radio New Zealand"}, {"Country": "Senegal", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "09 March 2018: In Dakar, police used teargas canisters at an unspecified elementary school during a law enforcement operation amid an opposition demonstration downtown. Source: Actu Sen"}, {"Country": "Senegal", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "12 March 2018: In Mback\u00e9 city and department, Diourbel region, police used teargas canisters at an unidentified elementary school to disperse a crowd of protesting students from a public education college, posing serious health and life hazards to the children. Source: Actu Sen"}, {"Country": "Senegal", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "13 March 2018: In Saint-Louis city, department and region, students from Gaston Berger University demonstrated against the non-payment of their scholarships, prompting the police to fire teargas to disperse them. Source: Sen 360"}, {"Country": "Senegal", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "15 March 2018: In Saint-Louis city, department and region, teachers led by a group of six trade unions staged a protest against the failure of the Senegalese government to heed their demands. Source: Ndarinfo"}, {"Country": "South Africa", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "March 2018: In uMhlathuze local municipality, KwaZulu-Natal province, police arrested 32 students at the University of Zululand after a building and two police vehicles were set alight during a protest over meal allowances. Classes have since resumed. Source: News 24"}, {"Country": "South Africa", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "09 March 2018: In Eastern Cape province, student protests over shortage of accommodation turned violent, forcing the Nelson Mandela Drive campus of Walter Sisulu University to shut indefinitely. The university management also shut the Butterworth and Buffalo City campuses. Source: News 24"}, {"Country": "South Africa", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "12 March 2018: In Thohoyandou town, Thulamela municipality, Vhembe district, Limpopo province, students at the University of Venda staged violent protests over their lack of book and food allowances covered under the National Student Financial Aid Scheme, prompting the institution to suspend its economic programme. Source: News 24"}, {"Country": "South Africa", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "12 March 2018: In Eastern Cape province, clashes between students and police prompted three campuses at the Walter Sisulu University to shut down. Students at its Butterworth, Buffalo City and Mthatha campuses are demanding immediate improvements of their residences. Source: News 24"}, {"Country": "South Africa", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "20 March 2018: In Durban city, eThekwini municipality, KwaZulu-Natal province, University of KwaZulu-Natal, around 200 students disrupted lectures at Westville campus in protest over poor conditions in residences and failure to pay student allowances. Subsequent violent clashes between protesting students and security personnel on campus prompted the university management to suspend all academic programmes for a week. Source: News 24"}, {"Country": "Sri Lanka", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "13 March 2018: In Colombo, a 14-day long strike over monthly salary allowances launched by over 15,000 non-academic staff stalled operations across state universities and higher education. Source: News First"}, {"Country": "Sudan", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "15 March 2018: In Nyala city, South Darfur state, assistant doctors at the Nyala Teaching Hospital began a strike in protest over lack of pay and poor working environment. Source: Dabanga Sudan"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "21 March 2018: In Kafr Battikh village, Idlib governorate, Russian warplanes reportedly fired two missiles near to Kafr Battikh School for Elementary Education, striking a shelter hiding civilians and resulting in many deaths. The school suffered no damages. Source: SNHR[1]"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "31 March 2018: In Marj al Zuhour village, Jesr al Shoghour city, Idlib governorate, Syrian regime warplanes reportedly fired a missile at Marj al Zuhour School, partially destroying the building and damaging its main yard and furniture. Source: SNHR"}, {"Country": "Togo", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "03 March 2018: In Kara city and region, Togolese gendarmerie kidnapped a teacher and trade unionist at Lama Kpeda High School under unspecified circumstances. To date, his whereabouts remain unknown. Teachers held a strike to demand his release, leading to four of them being imprisoned in Kara Civil Prison. Source: IciLome "}, {"Country": "Togo", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "13 March 2018: In Lome, health workers led by the National Union of Hospital Practitioners (SYNPHOT) and students from the Faculty of Health Sciences launched a so-called \u2018dry strike\u2019 at the University Hospital Centre Sylvanus Olympio, pending the release of a professor and two students who had been arbitrarily arrested by the Intelligence and Investigation Service. Sources: IciLome (a), IciLome (b) and IciLome (c)"}, {"Country": "Tunisia", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "06 March 2018: In Tunis, at the Preparatory Institute for Engineering Studies, after several unspecified robberies, students calling for increased security around their institute began to observe an indefinite strike with immediate effect. Source: Mosaique FM"}, {"Country": "Venezuela", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "07 March 2018: In Nueva Esparta state, students held a demonstration at the Universidad de Oriente to demand that the university transport service be reinstated, prompting members of the Bolivarian National Guard (BNC) to disperse them with teargas and rubber pellets, and to arrest eight protesters. Six people were injured by pellets, and one by a stone in the face. Source: El Nacional"}, {"Country": "Yemen", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "07 March 2018: In al Mansoura city and district, Aden governorate, unidentified masked gunmen stormed al-Bunyan School, and took one of the teachers from the classroom to an unknown destination. Source: Aden GHD"}, {"Country": "Yemen", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "13 March 2018: In al Mansoura city and district, Aden governorate, unidentified militants stormed Martyr Yassin Muhaddar School in al-Sanafar area and threatened to kill schoolgirls for failing to wear a veil. The assailants subsequently wrote threatening slogans on the front walls of the school before fleeing the scene. Source: Aden GHD"}, {"Country": "Yemen", "Date": "2018-03", "Event_description": "13 March 2018: In Zinjibar town and district, Abyan governorate, an explosive device planted by unidentified perpetrators was discovered next to Khawla Girls School near the boundary of Bajdar district. The bomb was defused by the Zinjibar security forces. Source: Aden GHD"}, {"Country": "Brazil", "Date": "2018-05", "Event_description": "14 May 2018: In Cosme Velho neighbourhood, South zone, Rio de Janeiro city and state, Southeast region, a stray bullet struck and wounded a baby inside the S\u00e3o Vicente de Paul School. The circumstances surrounding this incident remain unknown. Source: O Globo"}, {"Country": "Brazil", "Date": "2018-05", "Event_description": "18 May 2018: In Fund\u00e3o Island, North zone, Rio de Janeiro city and state, Southeast region, three unidentified perpetrators kidnapped and held hostage two professors and researchers from the Faculty of Pharmacy of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, as they arrived at the Health Sciences Centre, stealing from them two mobile phones, two computers, a car, and 38,000 USD (approximately 32,270 EUR) in purchases made with their bank cards. Source:  Globo"}, {"Country": "Burkina Faso", "Date": "2018-05", "Event_description": "02 May 2018: In Bafina locality, Centre-Nord region, a dozen armed men on motorbikes set fire to both Bafina Primary School and its\u2019 director\u2019s private residence, after tying up the director and stealing belongings, including two motorbikes. Sources: aOuaga and ACLED"}, {"Country": "Cambodia", "Date": "2018-05", "Event_description": "13 May 2018: In Kampong Thom province, police arrested a primary school principal for allegedly insulting the monarchy in a comment posted on Facebook. Source: The Straits Times"}, {"Country": "Cameroon", "Date": "2018-05", "Event_description": "09 May 2018: In Mankaha locality, Mezam department, Northwest province, suspected Ambazonia fighters stormed the campus of Bafut Government High School and threatened to burn the building down. They also set fire to a school vehicle and a set of documents in the administrative block. Source: Cameroon-Info"}, {"Country": "Cameroon", "Date": "2018-05", "Event_description": "14 May 2018: In Bamenda town, Mezam department, Northwest province, unidentified perpetrators kidnapped the principal of Saint Bede\u2019s College Ashing Kom. Their motives remain unknown. Source: Cameroon-Info"}, {"Country": "Cameroon", "Date": "2018-05", "Event_description": "14 May 2018: In Bafut town, Mezam department, Northwest province, Ambazonia fighters threatened to attack the Presbyterian Secondary School in Bafut for unspecified reasons, forcing students to return home. Source: Cameroon-Info "}, {"Country": "Cameroon", "Date": "2018-05", "Event_description": "14 May 2018: Threats by Ambazonian fighters forced several schools to shut. Source: Cameroon-Info"}, {"Country": "Cameroon", "Date": "2018-05", "Event_description": "18-19 May 2018: In Menoua department, West province, suspected secessionists entered Njinjang School during the night and graffitied the words \u2018no class\u2019 across the walls. Source: Journal du Cameroun"}, {"Country": "Cameroon", "Date": "2018-05", "Event_description": "25 May 2018: In Buea town, Fako department, Southwest province, separatist gunmen kidnapped the principal of Government High School as she was on her way to work and took her to Muea area. Their motives remain unknown. Sources: Cameroon-Info (a),  Cameroon-Info (b), Human Rights Watch and Solowayne"}, {"Country": "Cameroon", "Date": "2018-05", "Event_description": "25 May 2018: In Muyuka town, Fako department, Southwest province, separatist gunmen kidnapped the principal of the Cameroon Baptist Academy Yoke-Muyuka. In a video circulated following his abduction, the same assailants forced the victim to call upon his colleagues to close all schools in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon, and to cancel national examinations. The victim was released with machete wounds on 29 May. Source: Human Rights Watch"}, {"Country": "Cameroon", "Date": "2018-05", "Event_description": "28 May 2018: In Fundong town and commune, Boyo department, Northwest province, an unidentified male set fire to the administrative block of Fundong Governmental Bilingual School, destroying GCE examination scripts stored inside. Source: Cameroon-Info"}, {"Country": "Cameroon", "Date": "2018-05", "Event_description": "11 May 2018: Near Kumba city, Southwest region, the Cameroonian Armed Forces regained control over an unnamed primary school that had been invaded by an unspecified armed gang. Source: Journal du Cameroun"}, {"Country": "Democratic Republic of the Congo", "Date": "2018-05", "Event_description": "29 May 2018: In Kinshasa, a political science professor from Kisnagani University was prevented from leaving the Central African Republic without the authorisation of the education minister, likely because he had criticised the Congolese government at a press conference in Belgium a few days earlier. Source: Le Soir"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-05", "Event_description": "06 May 2018: In Kalyanpur town, Tripura region, members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) attacked a teacher for opposing BJP ideology, leaving the teacher with multiple cigarette burns across their body. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Libya", "Date": "2018-05", "Event_description": "05 May 2018: In Sabha city and district, Fezzan region, unidentified perpetrators shot and killed a member of the Faculty of Islamic Studies at the University of Asbariya for no clear reason, prompting the institution to suspend all final examinations until further notice. Source: Alwasat"}, {"Country": "Libya", "Date": "2018-05", "Event_description": "05 May 2018: In Sabha city and district, Fezzan region, two shells from an unknown origin fell near Omar bin al-Khattab Preparatory School. Source: Alwasat"}, {"Country": "Libya", "Date": "2018-05", "Event_description": "06 May 2018: Update: In Sabha city and district, Fezzan region, the Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Sabha, who had been kidnapped by unidentified gunmen on 19 April 2017, was released. Source: Alwasat"}, {"Country": "Libya", "Date": "2018-05", "Event_description": "09 May 2018: In Sabha city and district, Fezzan region, unidentified gunmen shot a teaching staff member and a student of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Sabha for no ascertained reason. The employee managed to escape, but the student succumbed to her wounds. Source: Alwasat"}, {"Country": "Mali", "Date": "2018-05", "Event_description": "08 May 2018: In Bamako, gunfire from an unknown origin took place on the so-called Hill of Knowledge in the Faculty of Legal and Political Sciences of the University of Bamako, allegedly over a parking management issue. Source: Bamada"}, {"Country": "Mali", "Date": "2018-05", "Event_description": "11 May 2018: In Douentza town, commune and cercle, Mopti region, unidentified perpetrators kidnapped the director of an unspecified school along with the mayors of two other communes. Source: aBamako"}, {"Country": "Mali", "Date": "2018-05", "Event_description": "17 May 2018: In Mopti commune, cercle and region, four Macina Liberation Front fighters stopped a van carrying 20 people, 30 kilometres away from Mopti town. After checking their ID papers, the fighters kidnapped two professors from Tenenkou High School. The victims were released unharmed the next night, on 18 May 2018. Source: Radio France Internationale (RFI)"}, {"Country": "Nepal", "Date": "2018-05", "Event_description": "30 May 2018: In Kathmandu, a clash between two groups of the Nepal Students Union at the Tri-Chandra College led to the injury of three students. Source: My Republica"}, {"Country": "Nicaragua", "Date": "2018-05", "Event_description": "10 May 2018: In Managua, armed sympathisers of the Sandinista National Liberation Front political party launched an attack at the Polytechnic University of Nicaragua, killing four people, including two university students, and wounding 34 others. Source: El Nuevo Diario"}, {"Country": "Nicaragua", "Date": "2018-05", "Event_description": "14 May 2018: In Managua, National Police agents and sympathisers of the Sandinista National Liberation Front launched an attack against university students barricading the Polytechnic University of Nicaragua, leaving at least six people wounded by bullets. Source: El Economista"}, {"Country": "Nicaragua", "Date": "2018-05", "Event_description": "19 May 2018: In Managua, suspected police and Sandinista Youth members attacked protesting students at the National Agrarian University, wounding at least five with bullets, and beating eight more. Source: El Nuevo Diario"}, {"Country": "Nigeria", "Date": "2018-05", "Event_description": "08 May 2018: In Ughelli North local government area, Delta state, unidentified gunmen shot and killed a student of the Michael and Cecilia Ibru University for no known reason. Students of the school reacted by destroying property, including cars, ultimately rioting and barricading the main road in front of the institution. Source: Vanguard"}, {"Country": "Nigeria", "Date": "2018-05", "Event_description": "12 May 2018: In Agege local government area, Lagos city and state, an armed man fired his gun inside Central Primary School during an APC LG congress, accidentally killing a man near the gate outside of the building. Three suspects have been arrested. Source: Vanguard"}, {"Country": "Occupied Palestinian Territories", "Date": "2018-05", "Event_description": "29 May 2018: In Gaza Strip, a rocket of unknown origin exploded near an unspecified kindergarten, without causing casualties. Source: Y Net"}, {"Country": "Pakistan", "Date": "2018-05", "Event_description": "07 May 2018: In Mir Ali tehsil, North Waziristan Agency district, Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) province, an explosion of unknown origin partially damaged the main building of an unnamed middle school for girls. Source: Dawn"}, {"Country": "Pakistan", "Date": "2018-05", "Event_description": "08 May 2018: In Mir Ali tehsil, North Waziristan Agency district, FATA province, members of the militant group Ittehadul Mujahideen North Waziristan distributed pamphlets warning locals not to send girls to any educational institutions beyond primary school. Source: Dawn"}, {"Country": "Pakistan", "Date": "2018-05", "Event_description": "09 May 2018: In Mir Ali tehsil, North Waziristan Agency district, FATA province, a bomb explosion of unknown origin blew up the boundary wall of an unnamed middle school for girls. Source: Dawn"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-05", "Event_description": "04 May 2018: In Kafr Hamra village, northern Aleppo governorate, a shell allegedly fired by Syrian regime forces hit Kafr Hamra Elementary School, moderately damaging the building and its contents. No injuries or casualties occurred. Source: SNHR"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-05", "Event_description": "06 May 2018: In Jisr al Shoghour city, western Idlib governorate, missiles believed to be fired by Russian warplanes landed near to Rabia al Adawiyya School, partially destroying the school fence and moderately damaging the building and its contents. Source: SNHR"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-05", "Event_description": "28 May 2018: In Nawa city, district and governorate, members of the Free Syrian Army\u2019s Liwa Sayf al-Haqq stormed Al-Bashir college, and opened fire on students and teachers, wounding one individual. Reports suggest that Liwa Sayf al-Haqq stormed the college because the president of the college refused to comply with the faction\u2019s demands and pay an unknown amount of money for the usage of the college\u2019s building. Liwa Sayf al-Haqq previously operated headquarters in the current building of Al-Bashir college. Source: Syrian War Daily"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-05", "Event_description": "29 May 2018: In al Dana city, northern Idlib governorate, unidentified perpetrators set off a car bomb outside the Free Aleppo University, moderately damaging the building but resulting in no casualties. Source: SNHR  "}, {"Country": "The Philippines", "Date": "2018-05", "Event_description": "11 May 2018: In Las Pi\u00f1as city, Lone district, National Capital region, unidentified perpetrators killed the dean of the school of medicine at University of Perpetual Help System Dalta. Investigators are currently looking into the possibility that the killer may have been the victim\u2019s former driver, whom she had fired for alleged drug use. Source: Phil Star"}, {"Country": "Ukraine", "Date": "2018-05", "Event_description": "16 May 2018: In Sakhanka village, Novoazovsk Raion region, Donetsk oblast, shelling of unknown origin hit the canteen of an unspecified school, forcing pupils to hide in the basement. Source: ICRC"}, {"Country": "Ukraine", "Date": "2018-05", "Event_description": "17 May 2018: In Svitlodarsk city, Debaltseve municipality, Donetsk oblast, shelling of unknown origin hit an unspecified school during classes, damaging windows and several walls. Source: ICRC"}, {"Country": "Ukraine", "Date": "2018-05", "Event_description": "04 May 2018: In eastern Ukraine, military bases, storage facilities and security checkpoints in the proximity of schools and kindergartens along both sides of the contact line, which divides government and non-government-controlled areas, are putting children in grave danger. Source: UNICEF"}, {"Country": "Yemen", "Date": "2018-05", "Event_description": "24 May 2018: In Aden city and governorate, unidentified perpetrators gunmen kidnapped a prominent educator from in front of his private residence. Source: Aden GHD"}, {"Country": "Yemen", "Date": "2018-05", "Event_description": "28 May 2018: In Al Wabat village, Al Mawasit district, Taizz governorate, unidentified gunmen killed a teacher in a drive-by shooting. Their motivations are unknown. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Afghanistan", "Date": "2018-06", "Event_description": "10 June 2018: In Dila town, Gedeo zone, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples region, a grenade attack from an unidentified source at the University of Dilla left nine people injured. Source: Xinhua"}, {"Country": "Bangladesh", "Date": "2018-06", "Event_description": "30 June 2018: In Nangarhar province, unidentified gunmen beheaded three Afghan men and set fire to an unnamed secondary school for boys, burning down the secretariat and a library. Nobody claimed responsibility for the attack, but officials blamed IS, because of threats in May to attack schools in the region. Source: Reuters"}, {"Country": "Bangladesh", "Date": "2018-06", "Event_description": "27 June 2018: In Dhaka, a clash between two groups of students of Patuakhali Science and Technology University left at least 10 students of both groups injured, and 30 rooms of two residential halls vandalised. Source: The Daily Star"}, {"Country": "Burkina Faso", "Date": "2018-06", "Event_description": "Update 11 June 2018: A Burkinabe teacher, kidnapped last April by jihadist militants in Bouro department, Sissili province, was released. Source: aOuaga"}, {"Country": "Cameroon", "Date": "2018-06", "Event_description": "19 June 2018: In Bamenda city, Mezam department, Northwest region, suspected Ambazonian fighters abducted a police commissioner from the premises of the University of Bamenda. Source: Cameroon-Info"}, {"Country": "Democratic Republic of the Congo", "Date": "2018-06", "Event_description": "20 June 2018: In an unspecified location, Ambazonian separatist fighters murdered a teacher and chopped up the body to cook and eat \u2013 then later uploaded a video of the event on the internet. Source: Cameroon Daily Journal "}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-06", "Event_description": "26 June 2018: In Bhuj city, Gujarat state, students assaulted a professor from Krantiguru Shyamji Krishna Verma Kachchh University for unknown reasons. The professor was taken to hospital. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Iraq", "Date": "2018-06", "Event_description": "14 June 2018: In Nasr village, Kirkuk state, governorate, a university professor survived an assassination attempt by suspected Islamic State militants. No further details are available. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Israel", "Date": "2018-06", "Event_description": "05 June 2018: In Sderot city, Southern district, an incendiary kite flown from neighbouring Gaza Strip caused a large fire to break out near Sapir Academic College. Source: Y Net News"}, {"Country": "Libya", "Date": "2018-06", "Event_description": "04 June 2018: In Tobruk city, Butnan district, Cyrenaica region, unidentified perpetrators broke into the Khadijah Al-Kubra School for Girls, stealing gas and a wall clock while damaging the school\u2019s doors and windows in the process. Source: Afrigate News"}, {"Country": "Myanmar", "Date": "2018-06", "Event_description": "01 June 2018: In Taunggok township, Rakhine state, Myanmar authorities arrested a Muslim volunteer teacher from Kyauktalone internally displaced people (IDP) camp for travelling without permission, as she did not have a government-issued National Verification Card. Source: Myanmar Times"}, {"Country": "Pakistan", "Date": "2018-06", "Event_description": "15 June 2018: In Kohlu city and district, Balochistan province, a remote-controlled explosive device of unknown origin destroyed an unnamed school and a governmental dispensary. Source: Dawn"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-06", "Event_description": "02 June 2018: In Idlib city, district and governorate, the security battalion of the Syrian Salvation Government arrested two students for no specified reason as they were on their way to their class at the Institute of Media Technology of the University of Idlib. Source: Smart News"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-06", "Event_description": "11 June 2018: In Binnish city, northern Idlib governorate, several missiles allegedly fired by Syrian regime forces struck Mamdough Shu\u2019aib High School, partially destroying the building and moderately damaging the furniture inside. Source: SNHR"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-06", "Event_description": "28 June 2018: In Nawa city, north-western Daraa governorate, warplanes believed to be of Syrian or Russian origin fired missiles in front of the Nawa 1st High School for Girls, partially destroying the building and heavily damaging furniture. Source: SNHR"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-06", "Event_description": "28 June 2018: In Nawa city, north-western Daraa governorate, an unnamed kindergarten was struck by several missiles, leaving the walls partially destroyed and its furniture heavily damaged, rendering it unusable. The attack was believed to be of either Syrian regime or Russian origin. Source: SNHR"}, {"Country": "Yemen", "Date": "2018-06", "Event_description": "23 June 2018: In Sana\u2019a, unidentified gunmen kidnapped an unspecified number of academics from the University of Sana\u2019a whilst they were on their way to collect their salaries. The motive is unknown. Source: Aden GHD "}, {"Country": "Afghanistan", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "30 June 2018: In Khogyani district, Nangarhar province, the militant group Islamic State Khorsan Province torched an unnamed school as part of their terror campaign against schools and educational workers. Source: Indian Express"}, {"Country": "Afghanistan", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "11 July 2018: In Jalalabad city, Nangarhar province, an unknown number of unidentified gunmen stormed the education department of Jalalabad city and opened fire, killing at least 10 people. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Source: Tolo News"}, {"Country": "Afghanistan", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "13 July 2018 (Date of article): In Sholak village, Logar province, unidentified armed men set two schools on fire, burning down eight classrooms and severely damaging a storage of desks, chairs, doors and windows. Source: Tolo News"}, {"Country": "Afghanistan", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "13 July 2018 (Date of article): In Pol-e Alam city, Mohammad Agha district, Logar province, the Taliban forcibly closed 75 unnamed schools within their territory in response to an increase in Afghan government-run night raids. The closures left tens of thousands of students without access to education. Source: Tolo News"}, {"Country": "Afghanistan", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "24 July 2018: In Chaghcharan town, Ghor province, unidentified gunmen kidnapped six civilians, including a doctor, his driver, and four university students. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Argentina", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "12 July 2018 (Date of article): In Buenos Aires, Argentinian authorities took disciplinary action against three students of V\u00edctor Mercante Lyceum for making a false bomb threat on an unspecified date. Source: La Nacion"}, {"Country": "Bangladesh", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "02 July 2018: In Ishwardi upazila, Pabna district, Rajshahi division, teachers of all government colleges across the district held a protest over the 27 June attack at Ishwardi Government College. Source: The Daily Star"}, {"Country": "Bangladesh", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "01 - 02 July 2018: In several areas across Dhaka city, students and other demonstrators protesting in demand of education quota reforms were violently assaulted by BCL members, resulting in an unknown number of injuries. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Bangladesh", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "03 July 2018: In Dhaka, university teachers were joined by hundreds of other protesters at a rally in front of the Jatiya Press Club against earlier attacks on demonstrators. The police responded by forcefully dispersing the protesters from the area, but the demonstration continued elsewhere in the city later on that day. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Bangladesh", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "05 July 2018: In Dhaka, students at Dhaka University protested in demand of a safe campus for all students of the university. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Bangladesh", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "08 - 09 July 2018: In Shahbagh area, Dhaka city, teachers and students held a two-day protest to condemn assaults on students and teachers across the country. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Bangladesh", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "15 July 2018: In Dhaka, staff members at Dhaka University holding protests over the government\u2019s proposed quota reforms were violently attacked by members of BCL. Teachers and students were beaten, shoved and verbally abused by the members of BCL, who are known for their affiliation with the current ruling political party. Source: New Age Bangladesh"}, {"Country": "Bangladesh", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "16 July 2018: In Dhaka, following the 15 July attack at Dhaka University, students held a protest on the university campus to demand the resignation of the proctor for his alleged failure to take disciplinary action against the ruling Awami League-backed student organisation. Source: New Age Bangladesh and ACLED"}, {"Country": "Bangladesh", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "16 July 2018: In Dhaka, students and teachers of Jahangirnagar University carried out a silent procession with black cloth on their face to protest the 15 July attack at Dhaka University. Source: New Age Bangladesh "}, {"Country": "Bangladesh", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "16 July 2018: In Dhaka, students of Rajshahi University formed a human chain around the social science building of the university and demanded the punishment of the BCL members responsible for the 15 July attack. Source: New Age Bangladesh "}, {"Country": "Bangladesh", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "16 July 2018: In Rajshahi city, Rajshahi division, students held a demonstration over the BCL attacks on teachers and students earlier in July. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Bangladesh", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "17 \u2013 18 July 2018: Across Dhaka city, teachers and students held further protests over BCL attacks, demanding that the government take action against the BCL members who had attacked teachers and students. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Bangladesh", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "22 July 2018: In Hathazari town, Chittagong division, students from the University of Chittagong held a demonstration to demand the removal of a professor known to be affiliated with the BCL. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Bangladesh", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "22 July 2018: In the Shahbagh area of Dhaka city, Dhaka University teachers held a demonstration over the recent attempts to disrupt the provision of education at the university. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Bangladesh", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "25 July 2018: In Rangpur city, Rangpur region, students from the University of Begum Rokeya held a protest demanding educational quota reforms but were chased away when members of BCL arrived to beat them with sticks, leaving five protesters injured. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Bangladesh ", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "27 June 2018: In Ishwardi upazila, Pabna district, Rajshahi division, members of the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) broke into Ishwardi Government College and vandalised an office room, including computers and CCTV cameras, while assaulting the principal and other teachers in the process. Source: The Daily Star"}, {"Country": "Bangladesh ", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "30 June 2018: In Adamdighi ppazila, Bogra district, Rajshahi division, police detained two members of the proscribed terrorist group known as Jama\u2019atul Mujahideen Bangladesh on the premises of Pouta Government Primary School. Source: The Daily Star"}, {"Country": "Bangladesh ", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "19 July 2018: In Hathazari town, Chittagong division, BCL members attacked a group of Chittagong University students who had been demonstrating peacefully, leaving two of the victims with injuries. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Bangladesh ", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "30 July 2018: In Hathazari upazila, Chittagong district and division, two factions of BCL clashed over establishing their group\u2019s supremacy in Chittagong University leaving eight of their members injured. Source:  New Age Bangladesh "}, {"Country": "Burundi", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "06 July 2018: In Murama locality, Kirundo zone, a student from the Murama locality Basic School was beaten by members of the Imbonerakure, the student-wing of the ruling government party. The victim, fearing for his safety, fled to Bujumbura. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Burundi", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "09 July 2018: In Bujumbura, anonymous leaflets with intimidating and threatening content directed towards certain students were found across the campus of the University of Burundi. Source: Iwacu"}, {"Country": "Cameroon", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "21 July 2018: In Ndop town, Ngo-Ketunjia department, Northwest region, suspected Ambazonian fighters set ablaze the Government Teachers\u2019 Training College allegedly in response to local leaders holding a meeting there with a member of government. Source: Cameroon Daily Journal"}, {"Country": "Colombia", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "18 July 2018 (Date of article): The union of teachers Federaci\u00f3n Colombiana de Educadores (FECODE) announced a 24-hours strike of more than 35,000 teachers for 25 July, leaving eight million students without classes. Source: Caracol"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "03 July 2018: In Kerala state, Kerala Students Union (KSU) clashed with police whilst marching to demand a reduction in fees at the Pariyaram Medical College, prompting the KSU to call for an education strike across the entire region on 04 July. Source: Zee News"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "04 July 2018: In Lucknow city, district and division, Uttar Pradesh state, Samajwadi Party workers held a protest at the premises of Lucknow University to demand various changes to university admissions procedures. The protesters subsequently attacked a dozen faculty members, injuring the dean and proctor, amongst others. This incident prompted the institution to close until further notice. Source: The Asian Age "}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "13 July 2018: In Kolkota city, West Bengal region, staff members at the Presidency University began a counter-protest against students who had been demonstrating outside the principal\u2019s office. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "16 July 2018: In Amritsar city, contractual staff from the Government Medical College began a three-day strike to demand job security. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "17 July 2018: In locations across Assam state, the All Assam Minority Students\u2019 Union held a demonstration to demand an end to harassment of local indigenous people. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "17 July 2018: In Kupwara town, Jammu and Kashmir state, students from the Government Degree College held a protest on campus over the shooting of a child in a local village the previous week. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "17 July 2018: In Imphal city, Manipur state, members of the Democratic Students\u2019 Alliance of Manipur burned effigies of the chief minister, vice chancellor and HRD minister of their university. They demanded action be taken against the police who had previously beaten and injured members of their group in a baton charge during a protest. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "19 July 2018: In Bathinda city, Punjab region, members of the Punjab Students Union held a protest at the Government Rajindra College to demand fees be waived for students from certain castes. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "19 July 2018: In Imphal city, Manipur state, protesters from various different educational institutions held a demonstration on a national highway to protest an attack on July 13. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "19 July 2018: In Imphal city, Manipur state, students of a Muslim girls\u2019 educational residence held a protest demanding the removal of the vice chancellor. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "20 July 2018: In Guwahati city, Assam state, 100 members of the All Assam Chutia Students\u2019 Union began an indefinite hunger strike to demand Schedule Tribe status, which would give them official recognition. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "20 July 2018: In Visakhapatnam city, Andhra Pradesh state, students of the Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University held a protest demanding permission to retake their exams. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "21 July 2018: In Bathinda city, Punjab region, the Punjab Students\u2019 Union held their fifth day of protests at the Government Rajindra College, demanding that school fees be waived. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "21 July 2018: In various locations across Karnataka state, students held protests to demand free bus passes. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "21 July 2018: In Abohar city, Punjab region, students of the Homeopathic Medical College held a protest over the college merging with another institution. The students enclosed the office of college officials and sealed them inside until the police intervened. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "23 July 2018: In Ongole city, Prakasam state, thousands of school and college students held a protest to demand an unspecified amendment to the Andhra Pradesh State Reorganization Act of 2014. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "23 July 2018: In Fazilka city, Punjab region, students of MR Government College held a protest over college fees. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "24 July 2018: In Chandigarh city, Chandigarh state, students from the Students for Society group held a protest at the Students\u2019 Centre of Panjab University against the appointment of a new Vice-Chancellor. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "24 July 2018: In Faridkot city, Punjab region, students began an indefinite sit-in (a dharna) in front of the city police station over scholarships discriminating against low-caste students. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "25 July 2018: In Kanpur city, Utter Pradesh state, students from the Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture Technology broke into a hostel and attacked junior students for unspecified reasons, leaving over a dozen students and two security guards injured. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "25 July 2018: In Udupi city, Karnataka region, students held a sit-in to demand free bus passes. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "25 July 2018: In Muktsar city, Punjab region, students from the Punjab Students\u2019 Union climbed on top of the Government College building to protest a newly introduced college fee for Scheduled Caste (the lowest caste) students. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "26 July 2018: In Jammu city, Jammu and Kashmir state, students at the SPMR College of Commerce held a protest on campus over problems with the admissions process. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "26 July 2018: In Manapparai town, Tamil Nadu state, students of the Government Higher Secondary School held a demonstration over the alleged incompetency of their teachers. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "26 July 2018: In Thanjavur city, Tamil Nadu state, students and other activists held a protest to demand the closure of two TASMAC (alcohol retailers) shops near a school. The police allegedly arrested nearly 500 protesters. Source: ACLED "}, {"Country": "Iran", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "01 July 2018: In Tehran, students at the University of Science and Technology protested overly harsh court sentences for students who had been arrested in country-wide protests at the beginning of the year. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Iran", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "03 July 2018: In Tehran, students protested outside the Health Ministry over the increase in affirmative action quotas in postgraduate entry exams for the families of fallen soldiers and war veterans. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Iran", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "05 July 2018: In Shiraz city, Fars region, a group of students at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences held a demonstration over the Iranian judiciary\u2019s decision to impose harsh sentences on their fellow students. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Iran", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "15 July 2018: In Shiraz city, Fars region, a number of retired teachers protested over low pensions. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Iran", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "22 July 2018: In Tehran, a group of teachers working for the Literacy Movement Organisation held a protest outside the Iranian Parliament in opposition to short-term contracts. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Israel", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "02 July 2018: In Netivot city, Southern district, an incendiary balloon from an unspecified source landed near an unnamed kindergarten. No injuries or damage was reported. Source: Y Net News"}, {"Country": "Jordan", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "12 July 2018: In Amman, students held a sit-in outside the Ministry of Education to protest the long-term closure of on-campus health care. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Kenya", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "02 July 2018: In Marsabit town, Marsabit county, students from the Chalbi Boys High School attacked six of their teachers for unknown reasons, resulting in several injuries. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Kenya", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "03 July 2018: In Siaya town, Siaya county, students from the Ngiya Girls School demanding the transfer of their headmaster threw stones at school windows and further damaged property in unspecified ways. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Kenya", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "09 July 2018: In Mumias town, Kakamega region, students from St Mary\u2019s Mumias Girls School burned their dorm down as part of an unspecified protest against their principal. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Kenya", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "10 July 2018: In Lurambi area, Kakamega county, two dorms at Makhokho Secondary School were burned down and a group of protesting students were blamed. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Kenya", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "10 July 2018: In Kisumu city, Kisumu region, a group of 22 students set fire to a school building to avoid taking an exam and were arrested the following day. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Kenya", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "17 July 2018: In Nyeri town, Nyeri region, students from Kirimara Boys High School attacked their teachers with stones allegedly in protest over having to take exams. There were several injuries reported. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Kenya", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "20 July 2018: In Karatina town, Nyeri region, several students from the Kanjuri Boys High School were caught attempting to burn down a school building by villagers and police, who attacked and injured them. The students were likely angered over the arraignment of several other protesting students. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Kenya", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "01 July 2018: In Kisumu town, Kisumu region, students from the Kisumu Girls\u2019 National School boycotted evening classes and destroyed school property in protest over alleged faith discrimination by the school management. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Kenya", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "nan"}, {"Country": "Lebanon", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "18 July 2018: In Baabda town, Mount Lebanon governorate, part-time university teachers held a demonstration near to the presidential palace. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Liberia", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "04 July 2018: In Monrovia city, Montserrado county, students attacked other students with stones during anniversary celebrations for the Student Democratic Alliance (STUDA), resulting in injuries and some property damage. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Libya", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "04 July 2018: In Tobuk city, Butnan district, Cyrenaica region, unidentified perpetrators killed a lecturer from the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Tobruk under unknown circumstances. Source: Alwasat"}, {"Country": "Libya", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "16 July 2018: In Sabha city and district, Fezzan region, unspecified assailants opened fire at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Sabha for unknown reasons. Source: Alwasat"}, {"Country": "Libya", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "16 July 2018: In Sabha city and district, Fezzan region, an armed man fired shots in front of the Khadija Grand School but was soon after killed the by the Sabha security agents. Source: Alwasat"}, {"Country": "Madagascar", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "03 July 2018: In Ankatso area, Antananarivo city, students burned tyres in the street in an unspecified protest. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Madagascar", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "04 July 2018: In Anosy, Fianarantsoa region, teachers protested the appointment of a new education minister. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Madagascar", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "11 July 2018: In Vontovorona area, students from the University of Vontovorona burned tyres and damaged private property in an unspecified protest. The police responded by firing tear gas at the students and arresting 3 of them. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Mali", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "09 July 2018: In Koro village, Mopti region, unknown gunmen suspected to be Katiba Macina militants burned down both the village school and the teachers\u2019 lodgings. No reason specified. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Mongolia", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "27 July 2018: In Ulaanbaatar, anonymous individuals kidnapped the current Director of the Mongolia-Turkish Joint school, a Turkish national, likely for politically-motivated reasons. He was later freed after diplomatic efforts by Turkish authorities. Sources: Euro News and Reuters"}, {"Country": "Myanmar ", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "07 July 2018: In Kamayut township, Yangon region, more than 60 university students from multiple universities demonstrated at Yangon University to call for an investigation into the 1962 bombing of a student union building on the campus. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Nepal", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "6 - 26 July 2018: Across Kathmandu and other Nepali cities, large groups of nurses, doctors, medical students, and civil society members participated in mass sit-in protests and demonstrations, launched by the Solidarity for Doctor Govinda KC Alliance, in support of medical education reforms. The demonstrators were supporting Dr. KC\u2019s demand for medical education reforms. Source: My Republica"}, {"Country": "Nicaragua ", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "31 July 2018: In Niquinohomo municipality, Masaya department, Nicaraguan authorities arrested and detained a Nicaraguan teacher over accusations of terrorism for her support of anti-government protests. Source: La Prensa"}, {"Country": "Nigeria", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "23 July 2018: In Awka city, Anambra state, students from the Nnamdi Azikiwe University protested the deaths of their classmates due to the alleged neglect of the university\u2019s medical centre. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Occupied Palestinian Territories", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "30 July 2018: In Hebron city and governorate, West Bank, security forces confiscated what they referred to as \u2018incitement materials\u2019 from an alleged Hamas student cell operating in an unnamed university. Source: Y Net News"}, {"Country": "Pakistan", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "15 July 2018: In Sadiqabad city, Rahim Yar Khan district, Punjab province, armed robbers broke into a house belonging to the principal of a private college and stole valuables, before killing the principal after his wife refused to hand over their son to them. Source: Dawn "}, {"Country": "Pakistan", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "02 \u2013 07 July 2018: Across Sindh region, members of the Primary Teachers\u2019 association held mass protests, demanding work insurance and that their colleagues be reinstated. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Pakistan", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "06 July 2018: In Peshawar city, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region, students from the University of Peshawar protested the management\u2019s decision to increase tuition fees. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Pakistan", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "07 July 2018: In Balochistan area, students of Bolan Medical College held a protest about the school principal\u2019s alleged favouritism in only passing a small number of students. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Pakistan", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "16 July 2018: In Hyderabad, a student group protested against the government\u2019s corruption in letting students pay for better grades. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Pakistan", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "24 July 2018: In Kotwali village, Punjab region, teachers held a protest outside the police station over being forced to act as security at election poll stations. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "South Africa", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "19 July 2018: In Pietermaritzburg city, KwaZulu-Natal region, students from the University of South Africa (UNISA) locked the gates to their campus and threatened to shut down all UNISA campuses unless management addresses their concerns. The source does not specify their demands. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "South Africa", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "30 July 2018: In Kimberley city, Sol Plaatje municipality, Frances Baard district, Northern Cape province, violent protests over municipal service issues and expensive electricity tariffs forced around 75 schools to shut. Source: News 24"}, {"Country": "Sri Lanka", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "18 - 25 July 2018: In Colombo city, Western district, over 1,000 students held a protest demanding an increase in the Mahapola scholarship grant. The police responded by firing water cannons and teargas at the protesters, which led to an increase in demonstrations over the following week. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Sri Lanka", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "27 July 2018: In Peradeniya city, Central district, students protested against unspecified administrative decisions taken by Peradeniya University. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Sudan", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "11 - 12 July 2018: In Khartoum city, agents of the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) detained and severely beat a student from the University of Khartoum. The following day, the agents detained and severely beat another student for no specified reason. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "1 July 2018: In Hasaka city, an alleged ISIS suicide bomber detonated their bomb while driving a motorbike through a Kurdistan Workers\u2019 Party checkpoint, partially damaging a nearby school building. Source: SNHR  "}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "11 July 2018: In al Mouzara village, southern Idlib governorate, Syrian regime forces allegedly fired a missile at an elementary school, partially destroying the building\u2019s bathrooms. Source: SNHR"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "17 July 2018: In Nawa city, northwestern Idlib governorate, Russian or Syrian regime warplanes allegedly fired a series of missiles at an elementary school, partially destroying the building and severely damaging its furniture, rendering the school out of commission. Source: SNHR"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "19 July 2018 (Date of article): In Salqin town, Harem district, Idlib governorate, an IED planted by unknown assailants exploded near an unnamed school. Source: Syrian Observatory for Human Rights"}, {"Country": "The Philippines", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "21 July 2018: In Bacolod city, Negros Occidental province, the Alliance of Concerned Teachers led a protest attended by 2,000 teachers to demand higher wages and the repeal of a tax reform bill. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Turkey", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "09 July 2018: In Ankara city, students were detained by police while protesting a previous extended detention of their fellow students. They claim the police are becoming increasingly repressive. Source: ACLED "}, {"Country": "Uganda", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "23 July 2018: In Gulu city, Gulu region, students at the Unyama National Teachers College rioted when student guild elections were postponed. 22 students were left with injuries after the clashes. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Yemen", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "07 July 2018: In al-Tahita directorate, Al-Hudaydah governorate, Houthi militias bombed two schools and a water supply system. Source: Aden GHD "}, {"Country": "Yemen", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "21 July 2018: In Ibb city, Ibb governorate, students at the college of dentistry held a demonstration to demand their classes begin again and for reforms to their curriculum. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Yemen", "Date": "2018-07", "Event_description": "31 July 2018 (Date of article): In Al-Hudaydah city and governorate, Houthi militias arrested dozens of students from the dental college at the University of Hodeidah as they returned from other provinces for the final exams. Source: Aden GHD"}, {"Country": "Afghanistan", "Date": "2018-08", "Event_description": "15 August 2018: In Kabul, a suicide bomb attack by Islamic State targeted an educational centre, killing up to 48 students and injuring 67 more. Sources: Reuters and Xinhua"}, {"Country": "Afghanistan", "Date": "2018-08", "Event_description": "16 August 2018 (Date of article): Insurgency and insecurity ensures more than 1,000 schools across Afghanistan are forced to remain shut. Source: Reuters"}, {"Country": "Afghanistan", "Date": "2018-08", "Event_description": "18 August 2018: In Manirampur town, Manirampur Upazila division, Jessore district, a unionised school teacher was hospitalized after being assaulted. The motive for the attack was suspected to be political, though no further information is available. Source: ACLED "}, {"Country": "Afghanistan", "Date": "2018-08", "Event_description": "19 August 2018: In Jalalabad province, an Islamic State suicide bomber accidentally detonated himself in a religious school while hiding from security services. No further details specified. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Bangladesh", "Date": "2018-08", "Event_description": "August 2018: Across Bangladesh, thousands of students continued to demonstrate in demand of road safety following the killing of two students by a bus in July. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Bangladesh", "Date": "2018-08", "Event_description": "05 August 2018: In Dhaka, an unspecified number of students from the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology protested an attack on their fellow students that occurred one day prior by locking the main university gate to prevent any vehicles from driving into the campus. Source: New Age Bangladesh "}, {"Country": "Cameroon", "Date": "2018-08", "Event_description": "13 August 2018: In Ngo-Ketunjia division, Northwest province, an arson attack of unknown origin completely destroyed the administrative building of the Government Bilingual High School Ndop. Source: Cameroon-Info"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-08", "Event_description": "06 August 2018: In Shiva village, Doda region, Jammu and Kashmir state, a school principal was badly injured in an explosion originating from underneath their chair. The explosion started a fire and another staff member also received injuries. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-08", "Event_description": "04 August 2018: In Islampur city, west Bengal state, students from Islampur High School protested and burnt tyres in front of their school over the lack of teachers and poor educational facilities available to them. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-08", "Event_description": "05 August 2018: In Narnaul city, Mahendragarh district, Haryana state, teachers, students and locals protested to demand the arrest of two female teachers involved in the rape of a 13-year-old student. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-08", "Event_description": "07 August 2018: In Jammu city, Jammu and Kashmir state, student activists from Jammu University held a protest over the alleged sexual exploitation and assault of girls at a local private school. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-08", "Event_description": "08 August 2018: In Chandigarh city, Chandigarh state, students from the Government Senior Secondary School in sector 18 refused to attend their classes after a warden at their school was accused of sexually abusing an 11-year-old. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-08", "Event_description": "11 August 2018: In Bhubaneswar city, Odisha state, students from the Satyasai Sevashram Primary School protested over the poor condition of their school, where chunks of plaster were falling from the ceilings of their classrooms. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-08", "Event_description": "13 August 2018: In Mandi Kalan village, Bathinda region, Punjab state, parents of female students at the Government Senior Secondary School held a protest about the recent spate of missing female students from the school hostel, particularly one student who had been missing for several days. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-08", "Event_description": "26 August 2018: In Dhara village, Doda region, Jammu and Kashmir state, local parents held a protest at the Halla Dhara Government Middle School over the shortage of teaching staff and poor infrastructure at the school. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-08", "Event_description": "31 August 2018: In Karnal city, Haryana state, students protested by blocking the road outside of the Government Post Graduate College after a bus hit and seriously injured one of their fellow students. The police responded with baton charges to disperse the protest. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Ivory Coast", "Date": "2018-08", "Event_description": "27 August 2018: In Sikensi town, Lagunes district, a group of men armed with Kalashnikovs and dressed in military fatigues attacked and looted a school before tying up and beating a member of staff. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Niger", "Date": "2018-08", "Event_description": "02 August 2018: In Ilaworo region, Diffa state, militants presumed to be from Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) kidnapped a young school girl. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Pakistan", "Date": "2018-08", "Event_description": "03 August 2018: In and near Chilas town, Gilgit-Baltistan province, unidentified assailants burned down and vandalised twelve schools during the night. No one was injured as the schools were closed during the attack, but significant damage was done to the buildings. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Pakistan", "Date": "2018-08", "Event_description": "03-04 August 2018: In Chilas, Darel and Tanger tehsils and other unnamed locations, Diamer district, Gilgit-Baltistan region, anti-education Taliban militants set off bombs and set fires in at least 14 schools. Sources: Dawn, Reuters and Associated Press "}, {"Country": "Pakistan", "Date": "2018-08", "Event_description": "04 August 2018: In Ayoub colony, Sindh province, local residents held a protest to demand authorities find a missing schoolteacher who had been abducted several days earlier. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Pakistan", "Date": "2018-08", "Event_description": "18 August 2018: In Gajri town, Sanghar district, Sindh state, the headmaster of an unnamed government school was shot and killed by unspecified perpetrators, leading to days of protests in the region. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Pakistan", "Date": "2018-08", "Event_description": "19 August 2018: In Hafizabad city, Punjab region, five female teachers from unnamed government schools were robbed, leading to two consecutive days of protest by their colleagues. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Pakistan", "Date": "2018-08", "Event_description": "26 August 2018: In Ghizer district, Gilgit-Baltistan province, six students from an unnamed local seminary attempted to blow up a school for girls which is part of the Aga Khan Schools network. However, their plan was foiled by the police. Source: Dawn"}, {"Country": "Pakistan", "Date": "2018-08", "Event_description": "05 August 2018: In Diamer district, Gilgit-Baltistan state, a dozen schools were allegedly destroyed, resulting in riots and protests. No further details available. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Pakistan", "Date": "2018-08", "Event_description": "10 August 2018: In Lal Din Jhumat village, Sindh state, locals held a protest over the delayed opening of a government primary school in their village. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Pakistan", "Date": "2018-08", "Event_description": "16 August 2018: In Naudero town, Larkana district, Sindh state, teachers, students and parents held a demonstration over plans to close down the local public school due to funding issues. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Pakistan", "Date": "2018-08", "Event_description": "24 August 2018: In Abbottabad town, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, a severe lack of teachers in schools led parents and students to the streets in protest. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "South Africa", "Date": "2018-08", "Event_description": "24 August 2018: In Pretoria West neighbourhood, Pretoria city, City of Tshwane municipality, Gauteng province, police allegedly shot and killed a student during the Student Representative Council elections at the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT). Source: News 24"}, {"Country": "Sudan", "Date": "2018-08", "Event_description": "29 August 2018: In Mellitt town, North Darfur region, RSF paramilitaries detained large numbers of secondary school students and shaved their heads for no specified reason. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-08", "Event_description": "10 August 2018: In Khan Sheikhoun city, Idlib governorate, Syrian regime forces allegedly dropped a number of barrel bombs near Ajyal al Ghad School, moderately damaging the building and its fireproofing materials. Source: SNHR"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-08", "Event_description": "29 August 2018: In Quamishli city, eastern al-Hasakeh region, protests erupted in response to the Syriac Military Council\u2019s policy of imposing control over private schools in the city, leading to clashes between demonstrators and the Asayish patrols. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "The Philippines", "Date": "2018-08", "Event_description": "23 August 2018: In Tupuac barangay, Masinloc municipality, Zambales province, unknown gunmen shot dead a professor of the University of Luzon under unknown circumstances. Source: Philstar"}, {"Country": "Uganda", "Date": "2018-08", "Event_description": "06 August 2018: In Omel town, Gulu county, students at an unspecified school rioted and attacked their headmaster over his failure to release test results, leaving him hospitalised with severe injuries. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Yemen", "Date": "2018-08", "Event_description": "03 August 2018 (Date of article): In Dhale district and governorate, an explosion of an unspecified source targeted and damaged the building of the University of the Gulf of Aden. Source: Adnlng"}, {"Country": "Yemen", "Date": "2018-08", "Event_description": "09 August 2018: In Sa\u2019dah city, Saada governorate, an anti-Houthi aerial attack by the Saudi-led coalition struck a school bus, killing 51 people, including 40 children, and wounding a further 79 people, 56 of whom were under the age of 15. Sources: Al Jazeera, Cable News Network (CNN) and Reuters"}, {"Country": "Yemen", "Date": "2018-08", "Event_description": "25 August 2018: In Hafuz area, Haydan district, Saudi-led coalition warplanes allegedly launched an airstrike on Raqa school, amongst other targets, however no injuries or fatalities were reported. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Yemen", "Date": "2018-08", "Event_description": "30 August 2018: In Bani Siyah area, Razih district, Sadah governorate, two Saudi-led coalition air raids were reported on an unspecified school. No casualties were reported. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Brazil", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "13 September 2018 (Date of article): In S\u00e3o Paulo state, there were 3,997 recorded cases of robberies of schools during the first half of 2018. Source: Globo"}, {"Country": "Brazil", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "13 September 2018 (Date of article): In S\u00e3o Jos\u00e9 do Rio Preto municipality, S\u00e3o Paulo state, unidentified thieves broke into an unnamed school, where they fired shots. No further information specified. Source: Globo"}, {"Country": "Brazil", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "11 September 2018: In North Zone, Rio de Janeiro city and state, a shootout in Jacarezinho neighbourhood forced students of an unnamed public school to duck in the classroom to avoid gunfire. Source: Globo"}, {"Country": "Burkina Faso", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "07-08 September 2018: In Bargad\u00e9 village, Bartibougou department, Komondjari province, unidentified perpetrators ransacked an unnamed school for unspecified reasons. Source: aOuaga"}, {"Country": "Burkina Faso", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "08 September 2018: In Komandjari province, Est region, three primary schools and teacher housing units were burned down in an attack allegedly perpetrated by a coalition of Islamic State and Ansaroul Islam militants. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Cameroon", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "03 September 2018: In Bafut town, Mezam department, Northwest province, unidentified perpetrators kidnapped the principal and six students of the Bafut Presbyterian College for unspecified reasons. The headmaster was released on 04 September, exhibiting marks of physical torture, while five students were released two days later. The sixth student remains held captive. Source: Journal du Cameroun"}, {"Country": "Cameroon", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "06 September 2018: In Mankon Town, Mezam department, Northwest province, unidentified perpetrators kidnapped the principal of the Bilingual High School, whilst he was preparing to chair a staff meeting and took him to an unknown destination. Source: Journal du Cameroun"}, {"Country": "Cameroon", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "16 September 2018 (Approximately): In Bali town, Northwest region, security forces reportedly shot and killed a teacher after searching his phone. No further information specified. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Cameroon", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "17 September 2018: In Buea city, Fako division, Southwest region, a group of unidentified men armed with machetes and homemade guns staged an attack on the Saint Joseph\u2019s College (also known as Sasse College), wounding more than 20 people, including children. Hundreds of parents subsequently pulled their children from at least six schools in the area. Sources: Journal du Cameroun and WBTW 25 "}, {"Country": "Cameroon", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "25 September 2018: In Fongo-Tongo town and commune, Menoua department, West region, the principal of the Bilingual College of General Education was beaten to death by Ambazonian fighters. The college had been closed since the start of the academic year due to unspecified insecurity issues. Source: Cameroon Daily Journal"}, {"Country": "Cameroon", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "18 September 2018: In Limbe city, Fako division, Southwest region, as the presidential election approached in Cameroon, the Presbyterian Girls Secondary School announced that it would remain shut from 19 September until 12 October to keep students safe from potential violence. The Alfred Saker Baptist College, also in Limbe city, continued to remain closed to keep students safe. Source: Journal du Cameroun"}, {"Country": "Chile", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "13 September 2018 (Date of article): In Santiago, students threw stones and a Molotov cocktail at police officers near the Liceo de Aplicaci\u00f3n for unspecified reasons, injuring five of them. Source: 24 Horas"}, {"Country": "C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "25-26 September 2018: In Kamoussi suburb, Abidjan city, heavily armed bandits broke into and robbed the Centre of Early Childhood and Special Education. Source: Koaci"}, {"Country": "C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "08 September 2018: In Abidjan, members of the Federation Student and School of Ivory Coast (FESCI) held a demonstration at the University Felix Houphouet-Boigny Cocody to protest the entry fees for enrolment, prompting the Ivorian National Police to use tear gas and live fire to disperse them. Source: Koaci "}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "31 August 2018: In Tarakera village, Sundargarh district, Odisha state, two perpetrators suspected to be from the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) stormed the Tarkera High School and attempted to extort INR 200,000 (approximately EUR 2,388) from its headmaster at gunpoint. The assailants threatened to kill if he did not pay within five days. Source: South Asia Terrorism Portal"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "10 September 2018: In Khaniyar area, Srinagar city, Jammu and Kashmir state, Islamic State militants shot and killed a teacher who they alleged was an Indian intelligence officer. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "12 September 2018: In Varanasi city, district and division, Uttar Pradesh province, students attacked motorcycles and unspecified university property with bricks on campus of the Banaras Hindu University. The students had allegedly first clashed after those accommodated in one area accused those staying at another of stealing their food. Source: Asian Age"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "20 September 2018: In Islampur municipality, Uttar Dinajpur district, West Bengal state, students of the Darivit High School armed with unspecified weapons held a demonstration on campus to demand the appointment of more teachers, leading to a violent clash with the police in which two ex-students were allegedly shot and killed. Source: Economic Times"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "20-21 September 2018: In Imphal city and district, Manipur state, regional police and paramilitary forces raided the male student accommodation of the Manipur University and arrested 89 students and six faculty members, allegedly due to protests over the contested appointment of the pro-vice chancellor. In response, on 26 September, students led by six unions of students launched a citywide general strike to demand the release of those arrested, and the immediate withdrawal of security personnel from campus. Sources: Assam Tribune, E-PAO and News Click"}, {"Country": "Jordan", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "03 September 2018: In Al-Karak city, Karak governorate, teachers from the Directorate of Education held a sit-in to protest the failure of the Education Ministry to address their transportation and housing-related demands. Source: Saraya News"}, {"Country": "Jordan", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "24 September 2018: In Mafraq city and governorate, the prosecutor dismissed 10 employees of the Al-Bayt University in connection to recent events on campus whereby a number of faculty members and staff had stormed the university\u2019s offices. Source: Saraya News "}, {"Country": "Lebanon", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "18 September 2018: In Sidon district, South governorate, in the aftermath of the killing of a Palestinian man, schools at Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp remained shut. Source: Daily Star"}, {"Country": "Mexico", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "03 September 2018: In Azcapotzalco municipality, Mexico City, unidentified perpetrators attacked students at the Colegio de Ciencias y Humanidades of the National Autonomous University of Mexico for unspecified reasons. The regional government subsequently deployed 200 police officers to reinforce the security of the university and to maintain surveillance in at least 33 other campuses. Source: Milenio"}, {"Country": "Mexico", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "18 September 2018 (Date of article): In Lamina Vieja community, Zacualpan town and municipality, Veracruz state, almost on the southern border of Puebla state, unidentified perpetrators shot dead two indigenous teachers of an unnamed school and kindergarten in Texcatepec municipality for unknown reasons. Source: Sipse"}, {"Country": "Nepal", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "20 September 2018: In Harinagar municipality, Sunsari district, four gunmen on motorbikes shot dead the chairman of the management committee of the Rohingyan National Public School whilst he was at Bhutaha Bazaar. The perpetrators then fled to neighbouring India. Source: Kathmandu Post"}, {"Country": "Pakistan", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "30 September 2018: In Arandu Gol village, Chitral city and district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, an improvised explosive device (IED) from suspected Afghan terrorists destroyed the only primary school in the area. A second IED, planted along the road near the school, went off minutes after police officers passed by the spot. Source: Dawn"}, {"Country": "Pakistan", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "08 September 2018: The Federation of All Pakistan Universities Academic Staff Association warned that if alleged government victimization of university teachers across Pakistan does not end immediately, it would call a strike. Source: Dawn "}, {"Country": "Pakistan", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "26 September 2018: In Jamali village, Sindh district, students protested over the general dysfunction and poor facilities of their school, such as broken furniture and only one teacher for 200 students. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Pakistan", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "30 September 2018: In Arandu town, Chitral district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, an IED of unidentified origin exploded inside an unnamed primary school for girls, partially destroying it but causing no injuries. Source: The Express Tribune"}, {"Country": "Republic of the Congo", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "07 September 2018: In Brazzaville, the unions of the Marien-Ngouabi University announced a general strike from 07 September to continue indefinitely in response to the Congolese government\u2019s unwillingness to negotiate or listen to their demands. Source: Agence d\u2019Information d\u2019Afrique Centrale "}, {"Country": "South Africa", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "03 September 2018: In Pretoria city, City of Tshwane municipality, Guateng province, unidentified individuals interrupted the first day of classes at the Pretoria and Soshanguve campuses of the Tshwane University of Technology after a five-day mourning period for a student allegedly killed by police during a protest over Student Representative Council election vote-rigging last August. Source: Sowetan Live"}, {"Country": "South Africa", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "10 September 2018: In Soshanguve township, City of Tshwane municipality, Gauteng province, continuing overnight student protests forced the management of the University of Technology to suspend its academic programme. The administrators also began to suspend students believed to be behind the violent protests. Source: News 24"}, {"Country": "Sudan", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "06 September 2018: In Jeref area, South Darfur state, a teacher was shot and killed attempting to stop a group of armed men from raping young women on a farm. Six suspects have been arrested by authorities. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "04 September 2018: In Manbij city and district, Aleppo governorate, an explosive device of unknown origin exploded outside an unnamed religious school. Source: SMART News Agency"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "04 September 2018: In al Badriya village, Idlib governorate, warplanes believed to be of Russian origin fired missiles at the al Badriya School for Elementary Education, completely destroying the building and its contents. Source: SNHR"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "05 September 2018: In Heesh town, Idlib governorate, Syrian regime forces allegedly fired rockets at an elementary school, slightly damaging the building but leaving no casualties. Source: SNHR"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "05 September 2018: In Aleppo city, district, and governorate, a motorcycle bomb of unknown origin exploded near an unnamed school. Source: Orient"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "10 September 2018: In Jarjnaz village, Maarrat al-Nu\u2019man district, Idlib governorate, artillery shells fired by either Syrian or Russian forces struck an unnamed school, leaving five people injured, including two children. Source: SMART News Agency"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "10 September 2018: In Jarjnaz and other unnamed neighbouring villages, Maarrat al-Nu\u2019man district, Idlib governorate, heavy artillery and aerial shelling allegedly from Syrian regime forces led an unspecified number of unnamed schools to suspend classes for security reasons and left an unspecified number of students wounded. Source: SNHR and SMART News Agency"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "13 September 2018: In al Sha\u2019fa city, Deir Ez-Zour governorate, a secondary school within an ISIS-controlled region was bombed by ISIS with IEDs, destroying the school fence and one of its buildings. Source: SNHR"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "13 September 2018 (Date of article): In Idlib governorate, the UN continued to provide Russia, Turkey and the USA the GPS coordinates of 235 schools, hospitals and other civilian sites in an effort to protect them from being attacked. However, four hospitals in Idlib and Hama were hit by air strikes in the week prior and some sources suggest Russian forces were using the GPS coordinates to target health and educational facilities. Source: Reuters"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "19 September 2018: In Enmaa neighbourhood, Aden city, district and governorate, unidentified gunmen opened fire on the director of an unnamed school in al-Tikna neighbourhood. The victim was admitted to hospital, and later succumbed to his wounds. Source: Adenghd"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "23 September 2018: In Al Mansoora city and district, Aden governorate, unidentified gunmen wearing military uniforms and riding a pickup truck fired more than 10 bullets at the director of the Al-Bunyan National School whilst he was in front of the building, killing him. Their motivation is unknown. Source: Almasdar Online"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "25 September 2018 (Date of article): In Idlib city, district and governorate, forces loyal to the \u2018Salvation Syrian Government\u2019, an opposition government in the region, kidnapped the secretary of the University of Idlib allegedly over a disagreement with the Justice Minister. Source: Violations of Nasra Front "}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "25 September 2018: In Ma\u2019batli town, northern Aleppo region, the appointment of a female teacher at a school resulted in civilian rioters storming the local council office and assaulting council members while demanding the teacher be removed. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "The Philippines", "Date": "2018-09", "Event_description": "22 September 2018: In Luuk town and municipality, 2nd district, Sulu province, members of the militant group Abu Sayyaf kidnapped a teacher of the Luuk National High School for ransom. The victim was released on 25 September, after his family paid the ransom. Source: Phil Star"}, {"Country": "Algeria", "Date": "2018-10", "Event_description": "28 October 2018: In Tizi Ouzou city, district and province, an appeal for mass student demonstrations by an unspecified source prompted Algerian authorities to deploy police officers to the front of some unnamed high schools and colleges in order to dissuade students from leaving such institutions. Source: TSA"}, {"Country": "Bangladesh", "Date": "2018-10", "Event_description": "02 October 2018: In Pabna city and district, Rajshahi division, unidentified perpetrators vandalised a pillar of the Shaheed Minar at the Shalgariya Government Primary School. Source: Dhaka Tribune"}, {"Country": "Brazil", "Date": "2018-10", "Event_description": "20 - 28 October 2018: In the run up to the national election on the 28 October, Brazilian authorities allegedly acting to enforce a law prohibiting political advertising in election time conducted raids at universities across the country. Police interrogated professors, confiscated allegedly illegal political materials, and ordered the cancellation of certain lectures. On the 28 October the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court granted an injunction against the campus raids and stressed the importance of freedom of expression. Sources: Brasil de Fato, Vox, and ISTO\u00c9 Dinheiro"}, {"Country": "Burkina Faso", "Date": "2018-10", "Event_description": "02 October 2018: In Ouro-Aou village, Est region, a primary school was ransacked by Islamic State militants. No further details specified. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Cameroon", "Date": "2018-10", "Event_description": "19 October 2018: In Bamenda, town, Mezam department, Northwest region, armed perpetrators stormed the Atiela Bilingual High School and kidnapped six students, one of whom escaped. The perpetrators were not identified. Source: Cameroon-Info"}, {"Country": "Cameroon", "Date": "2018-10", "Event_description": "20 October 2018: In Jakiri town and commune, Bui division, Northwest region, unidentified perpetrators kidnapped the principal of the Jakiri Government Bilingual High School but later released him unconditionally on 23 October 2018. Their motivations were not specified. Sources: Journal du Cameroun (a) and Journal du Cameroun (b)"}, {"Country": "Cameroon", "Date": "2018-10", "Event_description": "26 October 2018: In Bamenda, town, Mezam department, Northwest region, suspected Ambazonian fighters shot and killed a professor of the University of Bamenda while he was traveling to work. A principle and teacher are also reported mutilated. Source: News 24"}, {"Country": "Chad", "Date": "2018-10", "Event_description": "01 October 2018: In N\u2019Djamena, an ongoing strike of public officials over wage cuts prevented unnamed primary and secondary schools from opening their doors. Source: Tchad Pages"}, {"Country": "Chile", "Date": "2018-10", "Event_description": "31 October 2018 (DoA): In Santiago, students threw incendiary objects at the Liceo Manuel Barros Borgo\u00f1o and then broke into the institution. Police subsequently detained four suspects. Source: Elmostrador"}, {"Country": "Chile", "Date": "2018-10", "Event_description": "31 October 2018 (DoA): In Santiago, unidentified perpetrators threw Molotov cocktails at the Barros Arana National Boarding School. No further details specified. Source: Elmostrador"}, {"Country": "Colombia", "Date": "2018-10", "Event_description": "27 October 2018 (DoA): In Medell\u00edn city, Antioquia department, Aburr\u00e1 Valley region, unidentified perpetrators sent serious threats by phone to the staff of the National University. The intention behind the threats is unclear at this time. Source: El Tiempo"}, {"Country": "C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire", "Date": "2018-10", "Event_description": "21 October 2018: In S\u00e9gu\u00e9la town and department, Worodougou region, Woroba district, bandits armed with knives attacked a professor of the Lyc\u00e9e Dominique Ouattara and stole his motorcycle. Source: Koaci"}, {"Country": "C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire", "Date": "2018-10", "Event_description": "16 October 2018: In Agboville town and department, Agn\u00e9by-Tiassa region, Lagunes district, a demonstration by residents over electoral results forced schools to remain shut. Source: Koaci "}, {"Country": "Democratic Republic of the Congo", "Date": "2018-10", "Event_description": "07 October 2018: In Butembo city, North Kivu province, a professor at the Catholic University of Graben was arrested for making comments that were critical of the government and collaborating with an armed Islamic group. He was later granted a provisional release following advocacy by his colleagues, students and others. Sources: Actualite, La Voix de l\u2019UCG, and MatinInfos"}, {"Country": "Democratic Republic of the Congo", "Date": "2018-10", "Event_description": "20-21 October 2018: In Kiwanja town, North Kivu province, unidentified perpetrators kidnapped one student from the Bukoma Primary School and two others from the Jikaze Institute, prompting the schools to close down temporarily. Source: Actualite"}, {"Country": "Democratic Republic of the Congo", "Date": "2018-10", "Event_description": "31 October 2018: In Kilambo village, Bafuni region, Masisi territory, 10 IDPs, including teachers, were abducted by the Reformed Nduma Defence of the Congo militia. No further details specified. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Ghana", "Date": "2018-10", "Event_description": "30 September 2018: In Agogo town, Asante Akim North municipality, Ashanti region, at least 22 students staged a protest at the Agogo State College damaging college property including air conditioners, streetlights, standing pipes, tables and chairs. The protesters also attempted to set a school bus on fire. Source: Ghana Web"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-10", "Event_description": "01 October 2018: In Hojai district, Assam state, a rumour that a student had died after being administered the Measles Rubella (MR) vaccine led a group of rioters to assault and injure a female health worker and subsequently vandalize school property at the Pharmapar High School near Lanka city. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Iraq", "Date": "2018-10", "Event_description": "28 October 2018: In Kirkuk city and governorate, the Directorate of Education cancelled classes at more than 50 unnamed kindergartens and schools due to a security operation in a number of neighbourhoods aimed at seizing unlicensed weapons and arresting wanted individuals. Source: NRT"}, {"Country": "Israel", "Date": "2018-10", "Event_description": "28 October 2018 (DoA): In Sha'ar HaNegev regional council, Negev region, Southern district, a rocket of unknown origin found by an Israeli soldier in the yard of an unnamed high school prompted the evacuation of students and suspension of classes. Source: Ma\u2019an News Agency"}, {"Country": "Kenya", "Date": "2018-10", "Event_description": "22 October 2018: In Kumasi city, Ashanti region, dozens of students held a violent protest at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, destroying offices, documents, files, windows, plasma televisions and other unspecified property. Source: Ghana Web "}, {"Country": "Kenya", "Date": "2018-10", "Event_description": "22 October 2018: In Kumasi city, Ashanti region, police and members of the security task force of the Tafo Municipal Assembly stormed the Afia Kobi Nursing School over the violation of sanitary regulations, destroying the main gate of the building in the process. Some students were reportedly manhandled and sustained several injuries as they attempted to prevent the arrest of the school director. Source: Ghana Web"}, {"Country": "Kenya", "Date": "2018-10", "Event_description": "10 October 2018: In Mandera city and county, al Shabaab militants armed with guns, knives and grenades attacked the Arabia Boys Secondary School, hacking two foreign teachers to death as they tried to escape. Source: The Star"}, {"Country": "Libya", "Date": "2018-10", "Event_description": "28 October 2018: In Bani Walid town and district, Tripolitania region, insecurity and threats against staff of the Faculty of Education of the Bani Walid University by unspecified perpetrators forced the faculty directorate to suspend its academic programme until further notice. Source: Alwasat"}, {"Country": "Mali", "Date": "2018-10", "Event_description": "03 October 2018: In Koro town, Mopti region, a hand grenade was found outside the largest school in the area but was located and defused by the Malian army before any injuries occurred. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Mexico", "Date": "2018-10", "Event_description": "02 October 2018: In Villa Bonita sub-division, Cajeme municipality, Sonora state, strangers hanged a narcomanta \u2013 a cloth banner with a threat on it often used by cartels \u2013 on an unnamed school, prompting the administration of the institution to suspend classes. The police denied the existence of the said narcomanta. Source: Diario del Yaqui"}, {"Country": "Occupied Palestinian Territories", "Date": "2018-10", "Event_description": "25 October 2018: In Hebron city, West Bank, dozens of Palestinian students were left injured after the IDF fired tear gas and stun grenades at a school in Hebron. IDF soldiers claimed the attack was in response to students throwing stones at soldiers. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Pakistan", "Date": "2018-10", "Event_description": "19 October 2018: Update: In Diamer district, Gilgit-Baltistan region, out of 87 suspects taken into custody by the police in the wake of several incidents of schools being set on fire, 22 suspects were charged. The rest were found innocent. Source: Dawn"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-10", "Event_description": "04 October 2018: In Jarablus city, Aleppo governorate, a landmine exploded next to the Sadeq Henday Elementary School, injuring three civilians but resulting in no damage to the school. Source: SNHR "}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-10", "Event_description": "24 October 2018: In Kafr Hamra village, Aleppo governorate, Syrian regime forces allegedly fired a shell at the Kafr Hamra Elementary School, severely damaging school furniture as well as partially destroying both the school\u2019s fence and a classroom wall. No casualties reported. Source: SNHR"}, {"Country": "Thailand", "Date": "2018-10", "Event_description": "01 October 2018: In Moo 3 village, Tambon Phor Ming, Panare district, the director of a local school narrowly escaped an ambush by alleged Southern Muslim Separatists while he was driving to his work at Ban Nam Bor school. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Tunisia", "Date": "2018-10", "Event_description": "02 October 2018: In Sidi Bouzid city and governorate, an unspecified number of parents stormed the Abdullah Jalameh School and prevented students from entering the building as a protest against the appointment of teachers from outside regions. Source: Radio Gafsa"}, {"Country": "Turkey", "Date": "2018-10", "Event_description": "17 October 2018: In Istanbul, a faculty member from Ko\u00e7\u00a0University who signed a petition criticising the government was sentenced to a year and three months in prison for allegedly \u2018propagandizing for a terrorist organisation\u2019. The sentence comes amidst a number of arrests of academics who speak out against the Turkish government. Sources: Bianet and Scholars at Risk"}, {"Country": "Turkey", "Date": "2018-10", "Event_description": "25 October 2018: In Ankara, authorities have issued warrants for the detention of 19 academics from Gazi University, alleging that they are members of the G\u00fclen movement \u2013 a group which the Turkish government claims was responsible for a violent coup attempt in 2016. Authorities have allegedly detained seven current and nine former academics from the list. Sources: Stockholm Center for Freedom and H\u00fcrriyet"}, {"Country": "Yemen", "Date": "2018-10", "Event_description": "06 October 2018: In Sana\u2019a city, Amanat al-Asemah district, a group of students from the University of Sana\u2019a were allegedly attacked and detained by Houthi militiamen. Later the same day, the militia shut down the University of Sana\u2019a by deploying military vehicles across the campus. Sources: Reuters, Middle East Eye, and Al Arabiya"}, {"Country": "Burkina Faso", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "12 November 2018: In Toulf\u00e9 village, Loroum province, four armed men on motorcycles stormed into the General Education College, where they threatened and lashed teachers before ordering them to leave the school premises. This incident created panic within the facility and beyond, forcing surrounding primary schools to shut down. Source: Aouaga"}, {"Country": "Burkina Faso", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "20 November 2018: In Boulmantiangou village, Kantchari department, unidentified militants set fire to a primary school. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Cameroon", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "05 November 2018: In Bamenda city, Mezam department, Northwest region, unidentified armed militants alleged to be Ambazonian separatists abducted 78 or 79[1] pupils, a driver, a teacher and the principal of the Presbyterian Secondary School. On 07 November 2018, the pupils and their driver were released under unknown circumstances, but the other two staffers remained held captive. The separatists released statements denying their involvement, claiming the government orchestrated the kidnapping to discredit them. Sources: ACLED, BBC (a), BBC (b), BBC (c), Cameroon Daily Journal, Cameroon-Info (a), Cameroon-Info (b), Cameroon-Info (c), Journal du Cameroun, Xinhua"}, {"Country": "Cameroon", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "10 November 2018: In Buea city, Fako division, Southwest region, unidentified perpetrators abducted a staff member of the Research and Cooperation Office of the University of Buea. The reason for the kidnapping remains unknown, as both separatists and government continue to blame each other for instances of violence across the country. Source: Xinhua"}, {"Country": "Cameroon", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "13 November 2018: In Buea city, Fako division, Southwest region, three unidentified gunmen stormed the Government Bilingual High School Muea, where they assaulted students, a teacher and the vice-principal, and burned their books before abducting a teacher who attempted to raise the alarm. On 22 November 2018, the teacher was released under unspecified circumstances. Sources: Channel Africa and Journal du Camroun"}, {"Country": "Cameroon", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "16 November 2018: In Buea city, Fako division, Southwest region, unidentified perpetrators abducted a senior official of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Buea for unascertained reasons. Source: Xinhua"}, {"Country": "Cameroon", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "18 November 2018 (DOA): In Northwest and Southwest regions, armed separatists ordered the closure of schools, and allegedly set fire to more than 100 of them for refusing to comply. Source: Xinhua"}, {"Country": "Cameroon", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "20 November 2018: In the outskirts of Kumba city, Southwest region, approximately 10 armed men entered the Lords Bilingual Secondary School to abduct both the principal and an unclear number of students. By 21 November 2018, nine students and the principal were released following intervention by the Cameroonian Armed Forces. Sources: Cameroon Daily Journal, Cameroon-Info and VOA"}, {"Country": "Cameroon", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "20 November 2018 (DOA): In Kumba city, Southwest region, unspecified perpetrators kidnapped two principals of the Global Bilingual School under unspecified circumstances, and later released them. Source: Cameroon Daily Journal"}, {"Country": "Cameroon", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "21 November 2018: In Belo town and commune, Boyo division, Northwest region, unidentified perpetrators shot and killed the deputy director and teacher of the Belo Bilingual High School outside of his home. The motivation for the attack is unknown but likely to be related to the ongoing conflict. Source: Journal du Cameroun"}, {"Country": "Cameroon", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "27 November 2018: In Bamenda city, Mezam department, Northwest region, unidentified perpetrators kidnapped an unspecified number of students and staff of the University of Bamenda while they were on their way to the facility. Source: Journal du Cameroun"}, {"Country": "Cameroon", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "21 November 2018: In Mayo-Oulo town and commune, North region, secondary school teachers held a strike to demand that the local gendarmerie commander step down. Source: L\u2019Oeil du Sahel"}, {"Country": "Chile", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "16 November 2018: In Ercilla town and commune, Malleco province, Araucan\u00eda region, unidentified perpetrators set fire to the Millalevia School, located in the Chequenco sector, burning it to the ground before the arrival of emergency personnel. Source: La Tercera"}, {"Country": "China", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "01 November 2018: In Beijing, two scholars from a liberal institute who were attempting to attend an academic conference at Harvard University were detained at the airport and prevented from leaving the country, allegedly on national security grounds. Chinese authorities have reportedly restricted the freedoms of scholars from several liberal institutes. Source: South China Morning Post"}, {"Country": "Colombia", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "02 November 2018 (DOA): In Su\u00e1rez town, Cauca department, unidentified perpetrators shot and killed a trade unionist and primary teacher of the Educational Institution Francisco Antonio Rada. While the exact intention of the perpetrators is unclear, the victim had received threatening letters in the past. Source: El Tiempo"}, {"Country": "Colombia", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "23 November 2018 (DOA): In Cauca department, agents of the mobile riot squad undertook an operation in the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Cauca for unascertained reasons. Source: El Tiempo"}, {"Country": "C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "14 November 2018: In Man city and department, Tonkpi region, Montagnes district, a student assaulted a French teacher at the Modern High School after demanding the teacher let his friend out of class. The incident sparked members of the National Union of Secondary School Teachers of C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire to launch a two-week strike in protest of what they claimed was an unsatisfying police response to the student. Source: Abidjan"}, {"Country": "C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "21 November 2018: In Korhogo city and department, Poro region, Savanes district, members of the Coalition du Secteur \u00c9ducation/Formation de C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire began a three-day strike over labour and financial disputes. Police responded by arresting three striking teachers. Source: Koaci"}, {"Country": "C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "26 November 2018 (DOA): In Duekou\u00e9 city and department, Gu\u00e9mon region, Montagnes district, students of the Duekou\u00e9 High School protested over their continuing lack of education due to a teachers\u2019 strike. The protesting students allegedly aggravated the local transport workers union, who responded by attacking the student protesters, with the resulting clashes leaving a school building burned, a student killed, and several others injured. Source: Koaci  "}, {"Country": "Democratic Republic of the Congo", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "12 - 15 November 2018: In Kinshasa city and province, students at the University of Kinshasa were met with live gunfire by the police after protesting the disruption to their education caused by a lecturers\u2019 strike that had halted classes for over a month. A graduate student shot by the police died from his wounds three days later, on 15 November, leading to an additional protest that day which resulted in another student being shot and killed by the police and seven others injured. Source: Amnesty International"}, {"Country": "Democratic Republic of the Congo", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "12 November 2018: In Kinshasa, students of the University of Kinshasa demonstrated over the ongoing strike of their teachers. Clashes broke out between the various protest groups, and a police officer fired shots at a group of demonstrating students, killing two of them. He was consequently arrested. Source: Digital Congo"}, {"Country": "Guinea-Conakry", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "22 November 2018: In Kaloum sub-prefecture, Conakry region, several teachers held a sit-in to demand the payment of their salaries. Guinean authorities responded by arresting them. On 26 November 2018, the Kaloum Court of First Instance sentenced the teachers to a suspended six-month prison term over accusations of unlawful assembly on public roads. Source: Africaguinee"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "01 November 2018: In Maloya district, Chandigarh, a mob \u2013 allegedly the family of a 13-year-old boy who was accused of sexually abusing a 6-year-old girl at the school \u2013 armed with sticks and bricks broke into the Government High School, destroyed property and attacked teachers. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "21 November 2018: In Deohra village, Haryana state, parents and students held a protest over poor facilities and staff shortages at the Government High School by locking the school gates and preventing the school from opening. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "22 November 2018: In Kot Dhandal village, Punjab state, students at the Government Adarsh Secondary School held a protest over lack of teachers by locking all entry points to the school. The establishment has 10 teachers, but should have around 40, and the students had protested on 17 November but received an unsatisfying response from the administration. Source: ACLED "}, {"Country": "Italy", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "30 November 2018: The Italian government has named two members of Egypt\u2019s security forces as being responsible for the killing and torture of Giulio Regeni in 2016, an Italian-born PhD student who had been studying with Cambridge University on labour unions in Egypt when he disappeared. Egyptian authorities deny the claims. Source: The Week"}, {"Country": "Mali", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "31 October 2018 (DOA): In Banamba cercle, Koulikoro region, and S\u00e9gou cercle and region, jihadists forced the closure of at least 30 schools and demanded they all be transformed into Koranic centres. Source: aBamako"}, {"Country": "Mali", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "08 November 2018 (DOA): In two unspecified locations, jihadists occupying several unnamed schools were removed from the area by the Malian military. Source: RFI Africa"}, {"Country": "Nepal", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "15 November 2018: In Bharatpur city, Chitwan district, No. 3 province, nine students held the registrar of the Agriculture and Forest Sciences University hostage for unspecified reasons. Source: The Himalayan Times"}, {"Country": "Nicaragua", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "06 November 2018: In Managua, the unexplained heavy presence of riot police on the premises of the Polytechnic University of Nicaragua forced students to stay inside. Source: La Prensa"}, {"Country": "Occupied Palestinian Territories", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "08 November 2018: In Hebron city, dozens of Palestinian students from the Qurtuba School were attacked, along with their principal, by Israeli settlers. The settlers were escorted by Israeli Defence Forces for protection. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Occupied Palestinian Territories", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "11 November 2018: In Hebron, during a rally marking the 14th anniversary of Yasser Arafat\u2019s death, Israeli military forces fired tear gas cannisters into a school before raiding it, leaving students and teachers with difficulty breathing. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Occupied Palestinian Territories", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "18 November 2018: In Hebron, another tear gas attack on a school by Israeli forces left dozens of Palestinian teachers and students with breathing difficulties. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Occupied Palestinian Territories", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "24 November 2018: In Issawiya neighbourhood, Jerusalem, Israeli forces raided a high school, sparking clashes with students which the Israeli military responded to by firing sound bombs, or sonic booms at the school. Several injuries amongst teachers and students were reported. Source: ACLED  "}, {"Country": "Pakistan", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "03 November 2018: In Kalpani village, Buner district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, unidentified perpetrators opened fire on an education official. The victim later succumbed to his injuries after he was admitted to hospital. Source: Dawn"}, {"Country": "Somalia", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "27 November 2018: In Nakarumo village, Afgoye district, the director of Darul Amal School was murdered at his home by al Shabaab militants. No further details specified. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "South Africa", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "17 November 2018: In Ramokokastad town, Moses Kotane municipality, Bojanala Platinum district, North West province, unidentified perpetrators set fire to five buildings: the Kwenatlase High School, the Baphalane Primary School, the administration block at Ramokoka Primary school and an unnamed clinic. These arson attacks appear to be part of a wider pattern of civil unrest in the region. Source: IOL"}, {"Country": "Sudan", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "11 November 2018: In Sennar town, Blue Nile state, Sudanese forces stormed the Abu Naama campus of the University of Sennar and detained 14 students for allegedly violating a ban on political activities at the university. On 12 November 2018, the students were released upon payment of a fine. Source: Dabanga Sudan"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "08 November 2018: In Izaz city, Aleppo governorate, a vehicle-borne IED exploded next to al Andalous Primary School during school hours, damaging the school perimeter wall and the windows of two classrooms. The school was evacuated, and no casualties were reported. The perpetrator remains unidentified. Source: SNHR"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "12 November 2018: In Jarablos city, Aleppo governorate, a vehicle-borne IED exploded next to a school during school hours leading to an unspecified number of casualties. The perpetrator remains unidentified. Source: SNHR"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "18 November 2018: In Abu Hamam village, Deir Ez-Zour governorate, Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) gunmen allegedly opened fire on the al Zeraa primary school, damaging the walls of the school building but leaving no casualties. Source: SNHR"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "23 November 2018: In Darkoush village, Idlib governorate, Hay\u2019at Tahrir al-Sham militants allegedly broke into and occupied a school by removing the main door and emptying it of its furniture. The school had also previously been occupied by the militia group, but they had been forced out by a civil society organisation \u2013 only to return and re-occupy. Source: SNHR"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "24 November 2018: In Jarjanaz village, Idlib governorate, Syrian regime forces allegedly fired a number of rockets into a school, resulting in an unspecified but significant number of children being killed. The school furniture and building were also moderately damaged. Source: SNHR"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "19 November 2018: In Idlib city, district and governorate, the Syrian Salvation Government detained a project manager of the NGO Violet for unascertained reasons, prompting the NGO to suspend its food distribution activities in schools on 20 November 2018. Source: Smart News Agency"}, {"Country": "Turkey", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "12 November 2018: Turkish penal courts sentenced another university professor to imprisonment as part of a pattern of attacks on scholars and educators who speak out against the Turkish leadership. The professor, who was charged with \u201cpropagandizing for a terrorist organisation\u201d, had endorsed a petition criticising Turkish state military actions in the Kurdish southeast and advocating for peaceful solutions. He was sentenced to a year and three months in prison. Source: bianet"}, {"Country": "Turkey", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "16 November 2018: In Istanbul, the dean of the faculty of law at Istanbul Bilgi University and the professor of mathematics at Bogazici University were arrested, along with ten others, for their alleged links to the civil society group the Anadolu Kultur association, which was instrumental in organising the 2013 Gezi Park protests. All the arrestees except the dean of the faculty of law were released the following day after testifying to police. It is unclear yet whether the final detainee will be formally charged. Sources: PEN international, Arab News and Hurriyet"}, {"Country": "Turkey", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "28 \u2013 30 November 2018: Turkish penal courts sentenced a further two academics to prison for a year and three months for \u201cpropagandizing for a terrorist organisation\u201d. The first was an academic of Istanbul University, while the second was a research assistant at the Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts. Both were reportedly charged for the same reason as the professor on 12 November \u2013 endorsement of a petition criticising Turkish military actions against the Kurdish region of the country. Sources: bianet I and bianet II, "}, {"Country": "Uganda", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "12 November 2018: In Rakai town and district, Central region, unidentified perpetrators set fire to the Saint Bernard Secondary School. Police arrested three suspects - including a school guard - for questioning. Source: BBC"}, {"Country": "Uganda", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "02 November 2018: In Kampala city and division, a research fellow at Makerere University was arrested for \u2018offensive communication\u2019 after reportedly insulting the president on social media. An increasing number of arbitrary arrests of government critics have been reported from the region. Source: PEN International"}, {"Country": "United Arab Emirates", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "26 November 2018: Update: The British PhD researcher Matthew Hedges was officially pardoned and released by the United Arab Emirates after accusations that he was a spy for the British government. Source: BBC"}, {"Country": "United States of America", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "28 November 2018: In New York city, a Jewish psychology professor and Holocaust scholar at Columbia University was targeted by unknown perpetrators who broke into her university office to write threatening anti-Semitic words and paint swastikas across her walls. Source: The Washington Post"}, {"Country": "Yemen", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "11 November 2018: In Hodeidah city, district and governorate, Saudi-led coalition warplanes and helicopters bombarded Houthi positions in close proximity to the Hodeidah University and smoke reportedly billowed from the Dentistry Faculty, where Houthi fighters were allegedly stationed. Sources: Amnesty International and UN News"}, {"Country": "Yemen", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "13 November 2018: In al Jah area, Bayt at Faqiah district, al Hodeidah governorate, Houthi forces allegedly used IEDs to destroy a school. However, no casualties were reported and no further information is specified. Source: ACLED"}, {"Country": "Yemen", "Date": "2018-11", "Event_description": "13 November 2018: In Sana\u2019a, Houthi gunmen attacked the deputy dean of the Faculty of Commerce and Economics for Community Affairs of the University of Sana\u2019a for speaking in his lecture about ways to achieve power. Source: Adenghd"}, {"Country": "Afghanistan", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "28 December 2018: In Urgan district, Paktika province, Taliban militants burned down a school for girls. No injuries or fatalities were reported. Source: ACLED1"}, {"Country": "Bangladesh", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "01 December 2018: In Sreepur upazila, Gazipur district, Dhaka division, a teacher who runs a Madrasa raped one of his pupils. On 02 December 2018, after the boy disclosed the incident to several people, a group of locals ransacked the Madrasa and the private residence of the teacher in revenge. The teacher is alleged to have raped other students in the past. Source: The Daily Star"}, {"Country": "Brazil", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "04 December 2018: In Jardim Petsana neighbourhood, Osasco municipality, S\u00e3o Paulo state, a small group of students allegedly set a curtain on fire in a classroom of the Americo Marco Antonio State School before destroying dozens of notebooks, according to their classmates. The school principal denied that students were responsible and instead claimed that the fire was caused by a short circuit. Source: Globo"}, {"Country": "Brazil", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "04 December 2018: In La Agustina village, Mondomo district, Santander de Quilichao municipality, Cauca department, Andean and Pacific regions, unidentified perpetrators broke into the house of a student of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Cali and kidnapped him. The motivation for the kidnapping is unclear. Source: El Tiempo"}, {"Country": "Brazil", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "27 December 2018: Update: In Palmitas village, Antioquia department, Aburr\u00e1 Valley region, the dead body of a Turkish academic was found 20 days after he disappeared in a mysterious manner. Source: El Tiempo"}, {"Country": "Burkina Faso", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "10 December 2018: In Firguindi village, Sahel region, militants presumed to be from the terrorist group known as Ansaroul Islam destroyed the village school with explosives. No further details specified. Source: ACLED1"}, {"Country": "Burkina Faso", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "10 December 2018: In Kiembara department, Sourou province, Boucle du Mouhoun region, terrorist threats of unspecified origin forced the Kiembara County High School to shut until at least January 2019. Sources: aOuaga and Flash Burkina"}, {"Country": "Burkina Faso", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "13 December 2018: In Konga locality, Gomboro department, Sourou province, Boucle du Mouhoun region, a dozen unidentified armed individuals entered the Konga Primary School and the Konfa Post-Primary School and threateningly ordered teachers to leave the premises. The teachers complied, and leaving students wandering the street with no school to attend. Source: aOuaga"}, {"Country": "Burkina Faso", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "24 December 2018: In Kompienga province, Est region, a school director was abducted, threatened and subsequently released by militants suspected to be from either JNIM or ISGS. Source: ACLED1"}, {"Country": "Burkina Faso", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "26 December 2018: In Loroni village, Sourou region, a school was burned down in an attack presumed to have been perpetrated by JNIM militants. Source: ACLED1"}, {"Country": "Burkina Faso", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "27 December 2018: In Diapaga city, Tapoa province, a secondary school was burned down in an attack presumed to have been perpetrated by JNIM or ISGS. Source: ACLED1"}, {"Country": "Burkina Faso", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "28 December 2018: In Bartiebougou commune, Komondjari province, another secondary school was burned down by suspected JNIM or ISGS militants. Source: ACLED1"}, {"Country": "Cameroon", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "08 December 2018: In Bamenda city, Mezam department, Northwest province, unidentified perpetrators abducted 17 students whilst they were on their way to the University of Bamenda. The kidnapping was alleged to be intended to discourage students from attending classes. On 13 December 2018, the hostages were released after intervention by the administrative authorities, law enforcement and their families. Sources: Journal du Cameroun (a) and Journal du Cameroun (b)"}, {"Country": "Cameroon", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "11 December 2018 (DOA): In Belo commune, Boyo department, Northwest province, secessionists shot and killed the secretary of the Belo Bilingual High School. Their motivation is unknown. Source: Cameroon Daily Journal"}, {"Country": "Cameroon", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "18 December 2018: In Nkwen neighbourhood, Bamenda city, Mezam department, Northwest province, separatists allegedly abducted six students and a teacher of the Atiela Bilingual High School. The kidnapping was likely related to prior kidnappings intended to reduce school attendance in the region. Source: Cameroon-Info "}, {"Country": "China", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "28 December 2018: In Beijing, students of an on-campus political society at Peking University were arrested, detained and allegedly forced into an unidentified black car nearby for non-violently protesting the university\u2019s decision to dissolve their Marxist society in favour of a Chinese state communist society. Sources: The Straits Times and South China Morning Post"}, {"Country": "C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "05 December 2018: In San-P\u00e9dro city, department and region, Bas-Sassandra district, child gangs armed with machetes and knives, locally referred to as \u2018the microbes\u2019, launched an attack on an unspecified high school as part of a wider assault across the town, injuring at least one student and prompting several schools to shut until further notice. Source: Koaci"}, {"Country": "C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "09 December 2018: Update: In Dabakala town and department, Hambol region, Vall\u00e9e du Bandama district, a student of the Dabakala Modern High School who had been missing since 30 November 2018 was found dead behind an unnamed hospital, partially amputated. The suspected murderer has been arrested and is awaiting prosecution. Source: Koaci"}, {"Country": "Ghana", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "08 December 2018: In Accra, unidentified perpetrators broke into private accommodation and held four British schoolgirls and their teacher \u2013 who were in Ghana for a voluntary mission \u2013 at gunpoint, before sexually assaulting and robbing them. A local security guard attempted to intervene but was shot and seriously wounded by the attackers. The schoolgirls and teacher all returned to Britain following the incident and have been treated in hospital. Sources: ACLED, BBC and Daily Star"}, {"Country": "Guinea", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "03 December 2018: In Labe city, Fouta-Djallon region, unidentified perpetrators threw stones at the Hoggo Mbouro school complex, disrupting classes. The attack is suspected to be linked to an ongoing teachers\u2019 strike which began in October. Source: ACLED1"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "06 December 2018: In New Delhi city, an angry mob vandalised an unspecified school after a female student of the school reported that she had been sexually assaulted by a classmate. Source: ACLED1"}, {"Country": "India", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "05 December 2018: In New Delhi city, students of Delhi University marched from the Delhi School of Economics to Maurice Nagar Police Station to protest the alleged apathy of police over mounting attacks on students in and around the campus. Source: ACLED1"}, {"Country": "Iran", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "01 December 2018: In Tehran, an academic professor from the University of Tehran and an Australian-Iranian research fellow from the University of Melbourne\u2019s School of Population and Global Health were arrested on espionage-related charges after their research challenged the new official position on population control dictated by Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini. Sources: Iran Human Rights and IranWire"}, {"Country": "Japan", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "10 December 2018: In Tokyo, an investigation is underway after both the Tokyo Medical University and Jutendo University admitted that they had discriminated against over 100 applicants on the basis of gender. The universities had intentionally manipulated their admissions programs by falsely claiming that the mostly female applicants had failed their entrance exams. Sources: Inside Higher Ed and The Mainichi"}, {"Country": "Libya", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "07 December 2018: In Sabri district, Benghazi city, two IEDs were found and dismantled at a school. The devices were suspected to have been planted by BSRC militants. Source: ACLED1"}, {"Country": "Libya", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "21 December 2018 (DOA): In Benghazi city and district, Cyrenaica region, local residents complained that an unspecified armed group occupies a public plot of land intended to be used as a school. Source: Alwasat"}, {"Country": "Mali", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "01 December 2018: In Agoufou village, Gourma-Rharous cercle, Tombouctou region, unidentified motorcycle-borne gunmen attacked and threatened a village school teacher before burning down the school administration building. Source: ACLED1"}, {"Country": "Mali", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "13 December 2018: In Bor\u00e9 village, Dangol Bor\u00e9 commune, Douentza cercle, Mopti region, eight unidentified motorcycle-borne perpetrators entered the yard of an unnamed school, destroyed a motorbike, and left after stealing three other motorbikes and two mobile phones. Source: Bamada"}, {"Country": "Mali", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "23 December 2018: In Tenenkou village, commune and cercle, Mopti region, Macina Liberation Front militants kidnapped a male Malian national English teacher from the Ecole Fondamentale de Dia. No further details specified. Sources: aBamako (a) and aBamako (b)"}, {"Country": "Mali", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "25 December 2018: In Niambourgou village, Goundam cercle, Tombouctou region, unidentified perpetrators torched the Niambourgou School, destroying several classrooms. The motivation for the attack is unknown. Source: aBamako"}, {"Country": "Mali", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "18 December 2018: In Bamako, employees of the Gabriel Tour\u00e9 University Hospital Center began an indefinite sit-in of two hours per day to protest poor working conditions. Source: aBamako"}, {"Country": "Mexico", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "05 December 2018: In Tuxtla Guti\u00e9rrez city, Chiapas state, unidentified individuals left a package of three potential IEDs near the Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas. Mexican authorities removed the package and are investigating the motivation for the attack. Source: Cuarto Poder"}, {"Country": "Mexico", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "07 December 2018: In Xocomulco neighbourhood, Chilpancingo de los Bravo city and municipality, Guerrero state, unidentified armed men entered three separate schools to attempt to extort teachers for money, leading to the suspension of classes. Source: Quadratin Guerrero"}, {"Country": "Mexico", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "10 December 2018: In Mexico City, students held a demonstration at the Preparatoria Plantel 2 Erasmo Castellanos Quinto High School to demand the dismissal of the director of the campus for his alleged affiliation with what are known as \u2018shock groups\u2019, subversive organisations whose purpose is to break up protests. At the end of the rally, hooded individuals threw stones and firecrackers at the door of the Rectory Tower, injuring one person. Two suspected perpetrators were arrested by security personnel of the university. Source: Proceso "}, {"Country": "Nepal", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "07 December 2018: In Simokot area, Humala district, an unidentified group vandalized and looted valuables from three different schools. No further details specified. Source: ACLED1"}, {"Country": "Nigeria", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "03 December 2018: In Iwo city, Osun state, students from Bowen University shared an online video of a dorm building that had been set on fire as part of a protest over mandatory drug testing at the university, sparking panic. The school later said the video was fake and students had only set fire to a mattress. Source: ACLED1 "}, {"Country": "Nigeria", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "04 December 2018: In Esa Oke town, Osun state, gunmen believed to be Fulani herdsmen waited near to the Osun State College of Technology and kidnapped six staff members before killing another. Two students were also kidnapped, but shortly escaped and were brought into police custody. The motivation for the attack is unspecified. Sources: ACLED and Premium Times Nigeria "}, {"Country": "Occupied Palestinian Territories", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "05 December 2018: In Bethlehem city, West Bank, two Palestinian minors returning home from school were shot and injured by Israeli soldiers firing live ammunition. No reason for the shooting was given. Source: ACLED1"}, {"Country": "Occupied Palestinian Territories", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "06 December 2018: In Hebron city and governorate, West Bank, an Israeli soldier fired teargas into an unnamed school. Israel denied that the event took place until a video of it surfaced, at which point Israel claimed the soldier fired it in response to having rocks thrown at him \u2013 a claim not backed up by the video. Israeli soldiers have been repeatedly found to fire teargas and stun grenades indiscriminately into schools.  Sources: Haaretz and Press TV"}, {"Country": "Occupied Palestinian Territories", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "09 December 2018: In al Simeya village, Hebron region, West Bank, Israeli forces confiscated the tents and furniture of the al Tahadi 13 Elementary School before dismantling the walls and foundations of the building, thereby removing the school in its entirety. Source: ACLED1"}, {"Country": "Occupied Palestinian Territories", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "12 December 2018: In Jerusalem, heavily armed Israeli soldiers raided the Abu Dis campus of Al-Quds University, damaging campus property, seizing surveillance footage, and clashing with students who protested their presence there. The soldiers fired tear gas and rubber bullets at the students, who reportedly threw rocks in response. The incident bore similarities to two events which occurred earlier in the month at the offices of the Palestinian news agency WaFa. Sources: MEMO, Jerusalem Post, and The Palestine Chronicle"}, {"Country": "Occupied Palestinian Territories", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "16 December 2018: In Burin village, Nablus governorate, West Bank, a high school was forced to evacuate its staff and pupils after dozens of Israeli settlers from Yitzhar accompanied by Israeli military forces attacked the facility and fired weapons in the air. Source: ACLED1"}, {"Country": "Occupied Palestinian Territories", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "16 December 2018: In Hebron city, Israeli forces attempted to raid a high school building, shooting teargas canisters into the schoolyard, causing 35 students and teachers with breathing difficulties. Source: ACLED1"}, {"Country": "Pakistan", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "11 December 2018: In Balochistan province, the regional government announced its intention to introduce a new Educational Act, which would bar public teachers from calling strikes and holding protests in educational facilities and punish those who do so. Source: Tribune "}, {"Country": "Somalia", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "22 December 2018: In Kismayo city, Juba province, an unidentified armed group killed a school teacher. The motive behind the attack is unknown. Source: ACLED1"}, {"Country": "Sri Lanka", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "04 December 2018: In Colombo city, students organised by the Inter University Students\u2019 Federation marched towards the Presidential Secretariat to deliver a letter expressing concern over police suppression of prior protests and the suspension of their fellow students. Upon reaching the Presidential Secretariat, they were met by riot police who once again violently suppressed the protest by reportedly firing tear gas and water cannons to disperse the non-violent protesters. Sources: ADAderana, MENAFN and DailyMirror"}, {"Country": "Sudan", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "13-14 December 2018: In White Nile state, teachers held a protest against the non-payment of their salaries, forcing schools to remain shut. Source: Dabanga Sudan"}, {"Country": "Sudan", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "19 December 2018: In Atbara city, River Nile state, protests involving students and residents over price hikes and worsening living conditions prompted the Ministry of Education to suspend classes at all schools across the town. Source: Sudan Tribune"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "01 December 2018 (DOA): In Daraa district and governorate, fighting between unspecified parties gradually destroyed all but one of the food distribution centres of the UNRWA at the Daraa Palestinian Refugee Camp, as well as leaving damaged six other installations, including three schools and a clinic. Source: UNRWA"}, {"Country": "Syrian Arab Republic", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "01 December 2018 (DOA): In Damascus, fighting between unspecified warring parties gradually destroyed all three clinics of the UNRWA at the Yarmouk Palestinian Refugee Camp, and damaged to varying levels almost all of its 23 facilities, including 16 schools. Source: UNRWA"}, {"Country": "The Philippines", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "14 December 2018 (DOA): In Mindanao island, the New People\u2019s Army has been using indigenous schools for recruitment purposes. Source: Al Jazeera"}, {"Country": "The Philippines", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "14 December 2018 (DOA): In Mindanao island, military officials at a checkpoint stopped two vehicles loaded with food and medical relief supplies en route to Sitio Dulyan village, telling the teacher, doctors and volunteers on board that they would have to turn back, thereby depriving 120 indigenous families from much-needed aid. Source: Al Jazeera"}, {"Country": "Tunisia", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "13 December 2018: In Ben Gardane town, Medenine governorate, in the midst of a boycott of exams, students threw stones at an unnamed college located along Hospital Road, seriously injuring an employee. Source: Jawhara FM "}, {"Country": "Turkey", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "06 December 2018: In Istanbul, the 28th Heavy Penal Court sentenced an additional university professor to one year and three months imprisonment for signing the \u2018Academics for Peace\u2019 petition calling for an end to fighting between Turkish forces and members of the Kurdistan Workers\u2019 Party. Source: bianet"}, {"Country": "Turkey", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "10 December 2018: In Trabzan city, a journalism student who posted an article on social media titled \u201cJournalism is Not a Crime\u201d was arrested and taken into custody for \u201cinsulting the president\u201d. As no date had been confirmed for her court hearing, she was held in pre-trial detention until 17 December - when her attorneys successfully appealed for her release. Sources: Ahval, bianet I, and bianet II"}, {"Country": "Turkey", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "11 December 2018: In Istanbul, the 37th Heavy Penal Court sentenced a retired physician and academic of the Medical School of Istanbul University to two years and three months in prison for having signed a petition organised by \u2018Academics for Peace\u2019, an organisation opposed to the Turkish military offensive against its Kurdish minority. The sentencing is one example of a wave of detentions and imprisonments for academics speaking out against the leadership in Turkey. Source: bianet"}, {"Country": "Turkey", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "12 December 2018: A further nine academics who were charged with \u201cpropagandizing for a terrorist organisation\u201d were sentenced to a probational one year and three months imprisonment for signing the \u2018Academics for Peace\u2019 petition. Source: bianet"}, {"Country": "Turkey", "Date": "2018-12", "Event_description": "19 December 2018: The Turkish Heavy Penal Court sentenced an additional academic charged with \u201cpropagandizing for a terrorist organisation\u201d to two years and six months imprisonment for signing the \u2018Academics for Peace\u2019 petition. Sources: Ahval and Hurriyet"}]}