All: Youth leadership to end school-related gender-based violence
Lessons from whole-school interventions to prevent school-related gender-based violence
School-related gender-based violence affects millions of children around the world. UNGEI champions a whole school approach to end SRGBV so that all children can be safe to learn.
- 24th January 2025
Breaking new ground in measuring school-related gender-based violence
If we want to eradicate SRGBV, we first need to understand the nature of this issue and get a better sense of its scale in different contexts. Only then we will be able to effectively call on policymakers to implement policy and programmatic changes that ensure school environments are free from violence.
- 28th November 2024
The power of youth to create a world free of violence
We must change the record of youth exclusion at the highest levels of decision-making. The first-ever Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence Against Children set itself to include youth in its agenda and political declaration. Now, we must ensure that youth voices, expertise, and solutions are heard in keeping governments accountable for their pledges.
- 22nd November 2024
The power of partnership to end violence in and around schools
Safe to Learn’s calls to action and tools have helped governments around the world identify the steps they must take to prevent and address violence in and around schools. Now, it’s their turn to ensure schools are environments where children are safe to learn, develop, and thrive.
- 3rd October 2024
Is now the most critical moment of influence for the first Global Ministerial on Ending Violence Against Children?
With six weeks to go until the first ever global Ministerial on ending violence against children we are at a tipping point to protect the 1 billion children who experience violence every year.
- 25th September 2024
Schools offer unique opportunities to prevent violence against children
A billion children spend a significant proportion of their time in school every day, making school settings a key factor in interventions to save more children from violence.
- 26th March 2024
Empowered and protected: how schools must support children to prevent SRGBV
Schools have a responsibility to empower students to prevent school-related gender-based violence.
- 22nd January 2024
Why education has to start with keeping children safe
It is not enough for children to attend school. We must also ensure they are safe doing so. Violence prevention and response should be integrated into education policy and programming to ensure safe schools for all students.
- 11th January 2024
To end school-related gender-based violence, we must progress gender equality
School-related gender-based violence is a particularly egregious form of gender-based violence because it happens to children who sometimes do not even recognise it as violence.
- 29th September 2023
Transformative solutions to end school-related gender based violence must centre survivors
Through collective advocacy messaging and political recommendations on the intersections of gender and violence, we can influence the political stakeholders who can enable efforts to end gender-based violence in, around and through schools.
- 6th July 2023
Safe: Preventing gender-based violence in and through schools
Together for Girls and partners hosted a Solutions Summit side event. Global leaders, experts, and youth activists shared the latest data on violence in school settings and highlighted school-based interventions for catalyzing broader social change to end violence.
- 16th June 2021
Data-driven advocacy for safe and gender equitable schools
“Social Responsibility within Changing Contexts” was the 2021 conference theme for the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES). CIES is dedicated to increasing understanding of educational issues, trends, and policies through comparative, intercultural, and international perspectives.
- 21st May 2021