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This December marks the first year of implementation following the groundbreaking ESA commitment. The commitment supports increased access to good quality comprehensive sexuality education.

In keeping with its mandate, UNESCO’s immediate goal is to strengthen the ability of countries to respond to, and withstand the Ebola crisis both in affected countries and beyond.

This booklet sets out the rationale for the education sector to address homophobic bullying, by providing an overview of the nature and consequences of homophobic bullying in educational institution.

An estimated 246 million girls and boys are harassed and abused in and around school every year. Girls are particularly vulnerable to school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV).

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS), under the support from UNESCO, launched a regional workshop on Growth and Changes, which brought together almost 100 representatives.

UNESCO is a supporter of the “&Proud LGBT Film Festival”, which will be held at the French Institute in Yangon from 14 to 16 November, 2014.

Produced by the UNESCO International Bureau of Education, in collaboration with UNESCO Offices, this guide has been designed to support teacher training as well as teaching practices in the classroom.

Asian Young Key Populations-Led and -Serving Networks collaborate to influence the Post-2015 Development Agenda. Twenty-seven youth advocates working with 19 youth-led in 13 countries in Asia.

Schools should be a safe environment where the child acquires knowledge and develops his/her personality. We are all responsible for assuring the child an environment free from bullying and violence.

University textbooks in mainland China largely ignore LGBT issues and when they do address them the information is often inaccurate and portrays the community as psychologically abnormal.

For many children in Asia-Pacific, school is not a safe space for learning, but a place where they are forced to deal with threats of bullying, harassment, assault and even rape.

In 2011, IIEP and partners undertook an assessment of the impact of HIV and AIDS on education in Kenya and an analysis of the implementation of the 2004 Kenyan education sector policy on HIV and AIDS.