Marika Tsolakis

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Marika Tsolakis (@MzTsolakis) is a Senior Researcher at the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack. She is the lead author of Education Under Attack 2020, a global study tracking attacks on education in situations of armed conflict and insecurity. She has previously conducted research on education and child protection issues in Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, The Gambia, Senegal, and Brazil and holds a PhD in Education and International Development from the Institute of Education, University College London.

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In a tour for the press organised by a damaged school in Yemen's third-city of Taez on September 3, 2019 to attract attention to their suffering, Yemeni children listen to their teacher on the first day of the new academic year in a destroyed classroom at their school's compound which was heavily damaged last year in an air strike during fighting between the Saudi-backed government forces and the Huthi rebels.

How the UN Security Council Can Protect Education in Armed Conflict

Oct. 7, 2020 Marika Tsolakis