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Ethiopia: report on corporal punishment, sexual abuse and bullying in schools

Ethiopia: report on corporal punishmentThe study reveals that bullying is widespread and that corporal punishment is vastly prevalent as a justifiable form of punishment, often condoned by parents. It also reveals that sex for grades is common and rape is most likely to happen on the way to and from school.

Recommendations from the report include raising awareness of existing legal structures and the responsibility of all to counter social stigma, strengthening of reporting systems and building institutional capacity to support any increase in people reporting incidents of violence, along with development of a comprehensive body of research.

The report also suggests that Plan and other non-governmental organisations should monitor and record cases that emerge in project areas.

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    Published: December 2008
Help end violence in schools

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.

Girl, 15 years old, Uganda