All: Safe: Preventing gender-based violence in and through schools
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
Youth leadership to end school-related gender-based violence
Young people don’t just want to be sources for data sets or people who need protection. We also deserve agency over our own data and experience and want to be an active part of global efforts to end SRGBV.
- 24th September 2024
How organizations should deal with child protection: findings from an evidence review
Decisions relating to child protection should be made using the best available evidence. Learn more about Giving Evidence's evidence review on organizational responses to child abuse globally.
- 26th June 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
International Day of Education 2023: Prioritizing safe, quality education for every child
While school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV) is prevalent, it is also preventable, and there are evidence-based solutions that show that teachers and school personnel can be significant changemakers when they take active roles in preventing, addressing, and responding to violence.
- 1st January 2023
“For survivors, with survivors”: Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative Conference 2022
Together for Girls and partners held a session highlighting the power of education to prevent conflict-related sexual violence.
- 9th December 2022
"Safe to learn" essay collection: The role data and research play in ending violence in schools
The “Safe to learn” initiative published a collection of essays that examine and tackle the causes of different forms of violence in and around schools. This essay is authored by Dr. Daniela Ligiero, Executive Director & CEO of Together for Girls.
- 30th June 2022
World Education Day 2022: Changing course, transforming education
To mark World Education Day this year, we spoke to Yona Nestel of Plan International and Olanike Timipa-Uge of Teenage Network to learn more about the impact of COVID-19 on girls’ access to education.
- 24th January 2022