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It is said that a picture paints a thousand words.

So imagine what a picture from Iraq, one of the bloodiest countries in the world, has to say.

Al Jazeera’s Owen Fay reports.

For many children in Gaza, under seigne by Israel, school can be a refuge from the violence they witness in their daily lives - but that violence is creeping into their schoolyards and classrooms.

Al Jazeera’s Jacky Rowland reports from Gaza on the work being done in schools to tackle the problem.

It starts in high school.

Army officers training teenagers in military style drills, a daily one hour class, which in some schools across the United States, has long been a part of the curriculum.

Ma Yan was born into a life of grinding poverty in rural China. She lived on a bowl of rice a day. But she loved to study and never gave up her dreams of achieving more. When she was 13, she started writing a diary, pouring into it all her hopes for her future.

Everywoman continues with the story of Ma Yan and her struggle to go to school.