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Stop Violence Against Women
SAFE SCHOOLS
EVERY GIRL'S RIGHT
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Violence stops girls going to school
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Education is the human right of every girl
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Governments must provide safe schools for girls
Every day, in some places of the world, girls are
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Assaulted on their way to school
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Teased and insulted by their classmates; and even threatened with sexual assault
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Offered higher marks by teachers in exchange for sexual favours, even raped in the staff room.
Amnesty International is therefore calling on government officials and bodies, including schools, in collaboration with all relevant parties, to take the following six steps to stop violence against schoolgirls.
Step 1: Prohibit all forms of violence against girls
Step 2: Make schools safe for girls
Step 3: Respond to incidents of violence against girls
Step 4: Provide support services for girls who have suffered violence
Step 5: Remove barriers to girls' access to school
Step 6: Protect girls from abuse
Take action to stop violence against school girls
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Violence against women has been a serious human rights violation worldwide. From home to armed conflict, women's human rights were violated in different ways, while the perpetrators escaped with impunity.
In Darfur, Sudan, tens of thousands of women were raped and used as a tool to humiliate the opposition groups;
In Asia, hundreds of thousands of women who were forced to be "comfort women" by the Japanese Army still awaits adequate compensation and sincere apology from the Japanese government;
In China, women who is giving birth to a child exceeding the birth quota under the one-child policy were forced to undergo sterilization or abortion;
In Hong Kong, domestic violence persists and women were deterred from leaving the batterers for various reasons (inadequate economic support and legal protection, etc.).
In response to the degrading situation, Amnesty International launched the global "Stop Violence Against Women" (SVAW) campaign in 2004, aiming at upholding women's rights to be free from (threats of) violence and to end impunity for perpetrators of women's rights abuses.
Amnesty International Hong Kong has also put the SVAW campaign as one of our core work. AIHK has been in close collaboration with other local women's groups in advocating women's rights from a human rights perspective.
ACT NOW to stop violence against women!