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EDUCATION UNDER ATTACK 20141036 Women under Siege Project, “Libya,” 2011.1037 “Libya: Anti-Qaddafi Forces Seize Strategic Complex, University in Sirte,”Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 9 October 2011.1038 “Bomb blasts rock Libyan city of Benghazi,” Al Jazeera, 11 May 2013; andSherif Dhaimish, “Bomb targets Benghazi school, no injuries,” 18 May 2013.1039 Essam Mohamed, “Tripoli schoolgirl abductions raise questions,” Libya TV,30 September 2013.1040 Aimen Eljali and Houda Mzioudet, “Yet another girl abducted; teachersprotest in Tripoli,” Libya Herald, 28 September 2013.1041 This profile covers attacks on education in 2009-2012, with an additionalsection on attacks in 2013.1042 Adam Nossiter, “Soldiers Overthrow Mali Government in Setback forDemocracy in Africa,” New York Times, 22 March 2012; and “Mali coup: Juntaforces ‘overrun rivals’ camp’,” BBC News, 1 May 2012.1043 Scott Baldauf, “Mali coup leaders pledge to hand over power as Tuaregrebels take Timbuktu,” The Christian Science Monitor, 2 April 2012.1044 “Mali: Islamists seize Gao from Tuareg rebels,” BBC News, 28 June 2012;Adam Nossiter, “Jihadists’ Fierce Justice Drives Thousands to Flee Mali,” NewYork Times, 17 July 2012; and “Mali profile: A chronology of key events,” BBCNews, 17 November 2013.1045 “French troops in Mali take Kidal, last Islamist holdout,” BBC News, 31January 2013.1046 Information provided by Human Rights Watch on 30 May 2013; and RickGladstone, “U.N. Official Sees Desperation, Hunger and Fear on Visit to Mali,”New York Times, 26 February 2013.1047 “Schools Re-open in Mali’s Timbuktu,” IRIN, 4 February 2013; UNSC,Children and Armed Conflict: Report of the Secretary-General, A/67/845–S/2013/245, 15 May 2013, para 97.1048 Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre and Norwegian Refugee Council,“MALI: Stability slowly returning but durable solutions a remote possibility formany IDPs,” 11 October 2013, 7, 11; and information provided by Human RightsWatch on 18 November 2013.1049 UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), “Education (all levels) Profile - Mali,”UIS Statistics in Brief (2011).1050 The World Bank, “Literacy rate – Adult, total,” The World Bank Data (2010).1051 Global Education Cluster, “Mali 2013: Education Cluster Bulletin – March2013”.1052 HRW, “Testimony of Corinne Dufka before the Senate Foreign RelationsCommittee, Subcommittee on African Affairs,” 5 December 2012.1053 Global Education Cluster, “Mali 2013: Education Cluster Bulletin – March2013”; Global Education Cluster, Evaluation rapide à distance - Situation etbesoins éducatifs au Nord du Mali (Gao – Kidal – Mopti – Tombouctou) Août2012, August 2012, 7.1054 Global Education Cluster, “Mali 2013: Education Cluster Bulletin – March2013”; and Global Education Cluster, Evaluation rapide à distance - Situation etbesoins éducatifs au Nord du Mali (Gao – Kidal – Mopti – Tombouctou) Août2012, August 2012, 10.1055 For detailed list of schools occupied and number of students affected, seeMinistère de l’Education de l’Alphabétisation et de la Promotion des LanguesNationales and Mali Education Cluster, “Analysis of Flood Affected and OccupiedSchools in Southern Mali – September 2012”; UN Office for the Coordination ofHumanitarian Affairs (OCHA), “Mali: Complex Emergency,” Situation Report No.16, 26 September 2012, 5; and UNICEF, “Mali Situation Report,” 30 September2012, 2.1056 HRW, “Mali: Islamist Armed Groups Spread Fear in North,” 25 September2012.1057 Ministère de l’Education, de l’Alphabétisation et de la Promotion desLangues Nationales and Mali Education Cluster, Rapport d’évaluation desbesoins éducatifs dans les régions du Nord du Mali (Gao et Tombouctou), July2013, 12.1058 Mali Education Cluster, “Task Force Meeting Minutes,” 31 January 2013;ACTED, Evaluation de la situation humanitaire – Cercle de Niono (Mali), 12February 2013; Ministère de l’Education, de l’Alphabétisation et de la Promotiondes Langues Nationales and Mali Education Cluster, Rapport d’évaluation desbesoins éducatifs dans les régions du Nord du Mali (Gao et Tombouctou), July2013, 12; and information provided by Human Rights Watch on 18 November 2013.1059 Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict, Where are they…?: The situation ofchildren and armed conflict in Mali (New York: Watchlist, June 2013), 26.1060 Global Education Cluster, “Mali 2013: Education Cluster Bulletin – March2013”.1061 Informe sobre la situación de derechos humanos en Jalisco, 2012, 109-112.1062 International Crisis Group (ICG), Peña Nieto’s Challenge: Criminal Cartelsand Rule of Law in Mexico, Latin America Report no 48 (ICG, 19 March 2013);HRW, World Report 2012: Mexico (New York: HRW, 2012); Paris Martinez,“Mapping the presence of Mexican cartels in Central America,” In Sight Crime:Organized Crime in the Americas, 2 July 2013; National Security Student PolicyGroup, The War on Mexican Cartels: Options for US and Mexican Policy-makers(Cambridge, MA: Institute of Politics - Harvard University, September 2012); andBrandon Darby, “Mexican officer: military at war with cartels in Nuevo Laredo,” 9March 2013, Breitbart.com.1063 ICG, Peña Nieto’s Challenge: Criminal Cartels and Rule of Law in Mexico,Latin American Report no 48 (ICG, 19 March 2013), ii.1064 HRW, World Report 2013: Mexico (New York: HRW, 2013), 6-7, 14.1065 Lauren Villagran, “Mexico tunes in to needs of drug war survivors,” TheChristian Science Monitor, 24 August 2012; ICG, Peña Nieto’s Challenge: CriminalCartels and Rule of Law in Mexico, Latin American Report no 48 (ICG, 19 March2013); Francisco Reséndez, “Lista oficial de desaparecidos es de 26 mil 121:Segob,” El Universal, 26 February 2013; and HRW, Mexico’s disappeared: Theenduring cost of a crisis ignored (New York: HRW, February 2013), 3.1066 Elisabeth Malkin, “As Gangs Move In on Mexico’s Schools, Teachers Say‘Enough’,” New York Times, 25 September 2011.1067 UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), “Education (all levels) Profile –Mexico,” UIS Statistics in Brief (2011).1068 “Attackers set kindergarten ablaze in Mexican border city,” CNN, 7December 2010; and Cindy Casares, “Juárez Kindergarten Burned for Refusing toPay Criminals,” 6 December 2010.1069 Agence France-Presse, “Fears of violence shake Mexico schools,” Relief Web,2 October 2011.1070 “Religious Sect Destroys Schools in Mexican Town,” Fox News Latino, 14 July2012; Allison Jackson, “Mexico: Religious Sect Blocks Access to Schools,” GlobalPost, 23 August 2012; Grace Protopapas, “Mexico: Religious Cult BlocksChildren’s Education,” The Argentina Independent, 23 August 2012; SofiaMiselem, “Mexico Police Deployed After Sect Blocks Schools,” AFP, 27 August2012; and “Mexico sect says no to public education, burns the schools,” CasaGrande Dispatch, 1 September 2012.1071 Dudley Althaus, “In Sandy Hook’s wake, Mexico ponders school safety,”Global Post, 20 December 2012.1072 “Bomb Wounds 2 in Northeast Mexico,” Latin American Herald Tribune, 30August 2010.1073 “Four Students Kidnapped from School and Brutally Executed inCuernavaca,” Mexico Gulf Reporter, 9 March 2012; “4 students killed in235