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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWorldwide Attacks Against Schoolgirls Are on the Rise (3,600 in 2012 alone!)
Worldwide Attacks Against Schoolgirls Are on the Rise
Attacks against girls who seek an education are increasing around the world, according to a United Nations report released Monday.
The report, conducted by the Womens Human Rights and Gender section of the Human Rights Council, shows attacks on schools have happened in at least 70 countries between 2009 and 2014 and that many of the attacks were directed at girls, parents and teachers advocating for gender equality in education. Despite legal protections for gender equality, around 3,600 attacks against schools, students, and teachers were recorded in just the year 2012 alone.
The study mentions Boko Harams kidnapping of almost 300 Nigerian schoolgirls, the shooting of Pakistani activist Malala Yousafsai, acid attacks on schoolgirls in Afghanistan, and the Talibans attack on the Peshawar, Pakistan, school in December that killed at least 132 schoolchildren. The fact that these attacks disproportionately affect girls is not a coincidence, the report suggests.
The Boko Haram, whose name means Western education is a sin in Hausa, has been responsible for the abduction of hundreds of girls in northeast Nigeria as well as threats and attacks against teachers and school infrastructures, the report states. Members of Taliban groups operating in Afghanistan and in Pakistan have also openly declared their opposition to the education of girls and have used violent attacks against girls, their families and teachers as a means of asserting their control over local communities. In Mali, girls have been targeted for sexual and other forms of violence in schools for failing to adhere to strict dress requirements imposed by armed groups.
The report goes on to explain, Within these contexts, the educational rights of girls and women are often targeted due to the fact that they represent a challenge to existing gender and age-based systems of oppression. There is also is a strong link between a lack of education for girls and high child marriage and early pregnancy rates for those girls, the study shows. The report warns that girls not having access to education, or being pulled out early may result in additional human rights violations such as child and forced marriage, domestic violence, early pregnancy, exposure to other harmful practices, trafficking and sexual and labour exploitation.
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http://feminist.org/blog/index.php/2015/02/12/worldwide-attacks-against-schoolgirls-are-on-the-rise/
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Worldwide Attacks Against Schoolgirls Are on the Rise (3,600 in 2012 alone!) (Original Post)
niyad
Feb 2015
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kiva
(4,373 posts)1. I'm not a fan of the source of this quote, but it is so true:
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Snow Leopard
(348 posts)4. not sexist at all
or ridiculous. ;^)
kiva
(4,373 posts)5. Traditionally children of educated mothers in the U.S.
have done better academically http://www2.ed.gov/pubs/OR/ResearchRpts/parlit.html , though as more fathers are becoming hands on parents it seems to be expanding to include to include both parents.
U.N. reports show that educated mothers save lives "In sub‐Saharan Africa, an estimated 1.8 million childrens lives could have been saved in 2008 if their mothers had at least secondary education a 41% reduction." http://www.unesco.org/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/ED/GMR/pdf/gmr2010/MDG2010_Facts_and_Figures_EN.pdf
Perhaps if you would educate yourself on these issues you would be less likely to ridiculous accusations.
TexasMommaWithAHat
(3,212 posts)6. good post
I wish we could "like" individual posts.