Professor Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, former independent expert of the United Nations Secretary-General study on Violence against Children (UNVAC) and Commissioner and Rapporteur on Children for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Organization of American StatesPlan's campaign has the potential to create momentum for real change. International organisations and governments, teachers and parents should heed Plan's call to action and work together to create safe schools where children learn the skills they need for a brighter future.
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Learn Without Fear
Join Plan International's campaign and help us to influence governments, teachers, parents and others to prevent violence and protect children at school.
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Everyone benefits from reducing violence in schools
Everyone can play their part in reducing school violence
Research shows corporal punishment can cause children to feel suicidal
Children have the right to be safe at school
90 countries legally permit corporal punishment in schools
No country is immune from violence in schools
Violence in schools happens everywhere, every day
Violence in schools has devastating long-term consequences
All violence in schools is preventable
In Zambia one-third of 13-15 year-olds have been raped
Children who suffer family violence are more likely to be bullies
Our teachers should be there to teach us and not to touch us where we don't want or to solicit love favours from us girls. We are irritated by love advances from teachers. I feel like disappearing from the world if a person who is supposed to protect me instead destroys me.
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