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Blog post
19 June 2024
Persistent high levels of violence in schools hinders learning
When children are not safe, they cannot learn. The evidence is clear, violence has significant negative impacts on children’s brain development and physical and mental health . Violence also lowers educational attainment and increases risk of school dropouts. When children are deprived of a safe learning environm...
Blog post
02 May 2024
Keeping children safe in school: Let’s make this a priority for the education sector
Schools should be places of safety, where girls and boys can thrive and learn. Yet children are too often exposed to staggeringly high levels of violence, often perpetuated by deeply ingrained social and gender norms and institutionally or nationally endorsed forms of corporal punishment. This has grave consequenc...