LGBTIQ+ youth: bullying and violence at school
Everyone – including children and young people – has the right to education. This includes a safe and inclusive school environment.
Everyone – including children and young people – has the right to education. This includes a safe and inclusive school environment.
School-related violence is a major challenge in many low- and middle-income countries. This is well established by surveys that - if anything - likely underestimate the prevalence of violence in schools.
Growing evidence from multiple countries in Africa documents sexual violence in schools. However, when that violence is committed by teachers it is shrouded in secrecy.
The research on risk and protective factors related to school bullying is extensive. However, the research on risk and protective factors related to school bullying have, firstly, focused on risk rather than protective factors.
Bullying is not a lottery, and it does not occur in a vacuum. More protective factors and fewer risk factors increases the possibilities for a safe and inclusive environment without bullying.
The United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative’s (UNGEI) Gender at the Centre Initiative (GCI) is an international collaboration between civil society and international organizations, aimed at promoting gender equality in education across eight pilot countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
Cineáltas: Action Plan on Bullying is Ireland’s whole education approach to preventing and addressing bullying in schools.
This brief argues that despite knowing the huge scale and wide-reaching impacts of SRGBV, as well as many examples of what works to end it, not enough is being done politically to end violence in schools, and to recognise and address the gendered drivers and dimensions of violence.
This brief highlights the outputs of the Global Working Group to End SRGBV’s Expert Working Group, which references the existing sources of data and measures of SRGBV and suggests several ways to improve the body of evidence.
The education sector needs to know more and do more about violence in schools. Children are exposed to staggering levels of physical, psychological, and sexual violence, perpetrated by teachers, other adults, and students.