(HRW) – As students across Slovakia excitedly prepare for the final days of school this week, it’s a good time to ask what can be done to help the students who are already out of school—but who are a lot less happy about it. Students such as 15-year-old “Amina,” whom I met in northern Nigeria last year. She stepped out of her classroom one morning to find a group of men outside brandishing guns. Scarves covered their faces, leaving only their eyes visible. Bravely, Amina turned and ran to find the school’s headmaster, who then tried to organize the school’s evacuation. But the gunmen didn’t wait. They began shooting at the fleeing children. “One of the boys got shot in the leg, and he later died,” she told me.
