Category Archives: school violence

What role can schools play to end violence and sexual harassment?

Posted on 7 May 2021 by GEM Report

🔊 Listen to this blog By Manos Antoninis Effective sex education programmes can help combat sexual violence in school and in society. When will it be safe for a woman to walk herself home at night without the threat of … Continue reading →

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Accelerating the universal prohibition of corporal punishment in educational settings

Posted on 30 April 2021 by GEM Report

Physical violence or the prospect of it affects children in every country, community and culture around the world. Sadly, much of that violence occurs in educational settings at the hands of teachers and caregivers. Continue reading →

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Together against bullying in school

Posted on 4 November 2020 by GEM Report

Stefania Giannini, Assistant Director-General for Education, UNESCO Their names are Monica, Yamin, Jimmy, and Colette, just four of the millions of students across the world affected by bullying in school. In Zambia, Monica is bullied by her classmates for being … Continue reading →

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Fighting gang violence in El Salvador by empowering young minds

Posted on 19 September 2018 by GEM Report

By: IBREA Foundation “Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed,” wrote the poet Archibald MacLeish for the preamble of UNESCO’s constitution in 1945. Having … Continue reading →

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Teachers are central to any effective response to school-related gender-based violence (part 1)

Posted on 24 November 2017 by GEM Report

School-related violence can be physical, psychological or sexual; occur on school grounds, in transit or in cyberspace; and include bullying, corporal punishment, verbal and emotional abuse, intimidation, sexual harassment and assault, gang activity and the presence of weapons among students. … Continue reading →

Posted in Gender, Human rights, school violence, Sexual violence, SRGBV, Uncategorized | Tagged Gender, school violence, SRGBV, Target 4.a, violence | 6 Comments

Boko Haram won’t win

Posted on 24 February 2017 by GEM Report

By Zannah Mustapha, founder of Future Prowess Today, a conference is being held to look at the humanitarian crisis unfolding in north-eastern Nigeria and the Lake Chad region. I live this crisis every day. I have seen a thousand orphans … Continue reading →

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Let’s decide how to monitor school-related violence

Posted on 18 January 2017 by GEM Report

Today, a large symposium is opening in South Korea on School Violence and Bullying: From Evidence to Action, with more than 250 participants from 70 countries coming together to discuss how to combat the issue. A new Global Status Report … Continue reading →

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Target 4a – What is at stake for monitoring progress on effective learning environments?

Posted on 12 October 2016 by GEM Report

4.a Build and upgrade education facilities that are child, disability and gender sensitive and provide safe, non-violent, inclusive and effective learning environments for all The concept of effective learning environments is minimally captured by the proposed indicators … Continue reading →

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Fighting Poverty and Hunger for Quality Education

Posted on 16 August 2016 by GEM Report

By Salam Al-Nukta, youth advisor to the GEM Report The youth population is continuously increasing, and is estimated to reach 1.8 billion this year. Obviously, it is a large population of mass power. Yet, as we say goodbye to another … Continue reading →

Posted in Arab States, Conflict, Learning, Nutrition, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, refugees, Refugees and displaced people, school violence, sdg, sdgs, syria, Uncategorized, Youth | Tagged conflict, education, equality, learning, post-2015, quality, SDGs, youth day | 6 Comments

Education is indispensable in strengthening the bonds that hold communities and societies together.

Posted on 16 November 2015 by GEM Report

The GMR is based at UNESCO headquarters in Paris and, while none of the Report team was directly affected by the weekend’s tragic events, a black mark has been left on us all. The impact is felt even more as … Continue reading →