Unite for Peace

Girls pay a high price in conflict. This has to stop and that’s why peace is so needed.

With the power of your support, we are standing with girls to #UniteForPeace and urging decision makers to take immediate action to protect girls in conflict.

Together we call for all parties to conflict, humanitarian actors, national governments, and donors to:

1. Implement immediate ceasefires and commence meaningful peace talks, ensuring that girls and young people’s voices and specific needs are included.
2. Stop and condemn all grave violations against children in conflict, including recruitment and use by armed forces and armed groups, killing and maiming, sexual violence, attacks on schools and hospitals, abductions, and denial of humanitarian access.
3. Support safe and inclusive education for children and young people, including peace education, funding for the implementation of the Safe Schools Declaration, and alternative learning approaches when schools are closed or journeys too dangerous.
4. Make sure girls, boys, and young people have equal access to food, water and shelter, and that services for survivors of violence are prioritised to ensure access to comprehensive case management, sexual and reproductive health, psychosocial and rehabilitation support.
5. Provide employment opportunities so girls, boys and young people have tailored options and are less exposed to recruitment to armed groups, exploitative relationships and other high risk survival strategies.