All: Why investing in education means investing in child safety
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
How can we keep kids safe with only $0.09 of U.S. foreign assistance budgeted towards child wellbeing?
To ensure the continued leadership and influence of the U.S. in the prevention of and response to violence against children globally, we are requesting at least $10million in funding to support VACS directed by CDC to meet the demand across a more comprehensive geographic range of implementation relevant to U.S. foreign assistance priorities.
- 26th September 2024
Breaking the cycle of violence against children
Addressing violence against children requires a comprehensive approach that involves prevention and supportive measures to prevent these cycles of violence.
- 13th August 2024
Using data and evidence on violence against children: Why pedagogy matters
Inclusive pedagogy is essential to challenge and shift the power hierarchies that have traditionally determined who gets to ask research questions and who only gets to answer them.
- 1st July 2024
Every child safe: Uniting key actors in the global fight to end violence against children
Join us for this critical discussion of the progress needed to address violence against children, adolescents and sexual and gender-based violence against girls.
- 21st May 2024
To truly invest in children, Africa’s leaders must invest in what keeps them safe
We are more than halfway to the 2030 deadline for achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, but most African countries are struggling to make sufficient progress. Africa has a chance to meet them by investing in its greatest resource: its young people.
- 4th February 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
Why investing in preventing childhood sexual violence is the right thing, and the smart thing
Investing in ending childhood sexual violence is the right thing to do, and we must protect kids and support those who have experienced this horrible trauma. Globally, policy and decision makers can save billions investing in preventing child sexual abuse. The returns on investment would cut across physical and mental health, labor, judicial, and other sectors.
- 11th September 2023
Investing in schools and teachers is key to unlocking solutions to school-related gender-based violence
Every child deserves to be safe at home, in their communities, and at school. However, findings from the VACS show that many children experience school-related gender-based violence. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
- 2nd December 2020
Understanding school-related gender-based violence
Every child around the world deserves the opportunity to learn. Education is a basic human right and a necessary pathway to ending extreme poverty. We know that equitable, quality education has an immense power to transform the lives of individuals, communities, and nations.
- 13th July 2020