REPORT HIGHLIGHTS KILLINGS OF STUDENTS AND ACADEMICS WORLDWIDE OVER FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND CONSCIENCE
December 2nd, 2021
Universities in Afghanistan, Iraq, Haiti, Madagascar, Nigeria and Yemen have been highlighted as institutions where academics or students were killed because of their beliefs or activism in the past academic year, though a report from campaign group Scholars at Risk (SAR).
The independent not-for-profit corporation hosted at New York University, USA, is an international network of higher education institutions defending academic freedom and the human rights of scholars worldwide.
In its latest report, SAR said data collected from September 2020 to August 2021 ...
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