All: Empowered and protected: how schools must support children to prevent SRGBV
Amplifying voices, healing wounds: a survivor's journey to end childhood sexual violence
Florence Keya, co-founder of the Brave Movement, speaks about how prioritizing the safety and well-being of girls is key to creating a better future for women.
- 8th March 2024
Why investing in education means investing in child safety
All children have a right to learn. The threat of violence stops many from going to school and many more from achieving learning outcomes. If they are serious about education, governments must invest in understanding the nature and drivers of violence against children and use data and evidence to ensure their safety.
- 1st February 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
Data and advocacy: the way forward to effective gender-based violence prevention policies
Kanga Rasi, Social Justice Advisor and Africa Campaign Director at the Brave Movement, speaks about the power of data to advocate for policies to prevent gender-based violence.
- 24th November 2023
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
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