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Gender
Violence in Schools
Welcome
to the Gender Violence in Schools webpage. This is part of a DFID-funded
research project to raise awareness about gender violence in schools
and disseminate information on interesting initiatives.
Latest
Gender Violence Research
Educating
girls as a ‘social vaccine’ against HIV
The global AIDS epidemic
is increasingly affecting women. In sub-Saharan Africa, which has been
hit the hardest by the disease, 57 percent of those infected are women.
Research has shown that in the early stages of the epidemic, highly
educated women were more vulnerable to HIV infection than the less educated.
Is this still the case?
Learning
about HIV/AIDS and gender stereotypes in schools in southern Africa
Most young people
learn about sexuality and HIV/AIDS in school. Giving teenage pupils
space to explore, debate and ask questions is just as important as checking
that they know how HIV is transmitted and avoided. Can teachers help
in the fight against AIDS and gender stereotypes?
Education
and health for adolescent girls in Chad’s refugee camps
More than 220,000 Sudanese from Darfur have fled the ongoing violence
in their region and crossed the border into the desert of eastern Chad.
Most of the refugees are now in camps; however, several thousand remain
outside camps, waiting to be registered. With the crisis continuing,
it is estimated that many more refugees will flee to eastern Chad. In
the midst of this crisis is the education and reproductive health of
adolescent girls being neglected?
Making
the difference: how schools influence gender identity
Research in
Botswana and Ghana indicates that daily life in schools is affected
strongly by gender. A joint project by researchers at the University
of Sussex in the UK, the University of Botswana and the University of
Cape Coast in Ghana found that institutional practices and traditions
can lead to a highly gendered school environment rarely challenged by
students or teachers.
A
safe place? Tackling sexual violence in the education sector
Schools
and universities are vital to the prevention of sexual violence. They
are places where students learn values and so can reinforce or break
this vicious cycle. Sexual violence within the education sector itself
is also a neglected problem. A report from The Panos Institute, London,
recommends multi-level strategies to tackle these issues.
Violent
response: protecting African schoolgirls from sexual abuse
Why is
sexual violence so prevalent in Africa’s schools? Why is predatory aggressive
masculinity condoned? What are the links between abuse in schools, lack
of information and poverty? How should schools tackle abuse and intimidation
of female students?
Recent
focus
Poor
selection: how do poor people make education decisions?
Jamaican
boys behaving badly: changing schools to change male behaviour
Voices
of the stigmatised: listening to the street children of Tanzania
Ask
your aunty: sex education in rural Uganda
Sensitive
matters: HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns in Zimbabwe
Friends
in deed – preventing HIV through peer education in South African schools
Behaving
badly? Young men and sexual health
What's
the use? Condom use in urban Cameroon
More
Gender Violence Highlights...
August
2001 Insights Gender Violence Special Issue:
Conspiracy
of silence? Stamping out abuse in African schools
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