{"id":2075,"date":"2019-01-22T14:09:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T14:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/?p=2075"},"modified":"2019-01-22T14:09:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T14:09:27","slug":"youth-manifesto-calls-on-all-governments-to-endviolence-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/youth-manifesto-calls-on-all-governments-to-endviolence-in-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth manifesto calls on all governments to #ENDviolence in schools"},"content":{"rendered":"

London\/Islamabad-22 January 2019 \u2013 Young people from around the world will call on all governments to end violence in and around schools at the Education World Forum taking place in London from February 20-23, 2019. The Minister for Federal Education and Professional Training, Mr. Shafqat Mahmood is representing Pakistan.<\/p>\n

Representing children and young people from around the globe, Khuthadzo Silima and Jonathan Franca, 18-year-old youth activists from South Africa and the USA, will present a manifesto to government ministers at the high-level event in London, detailing what children and young people need to feel safe in and around school.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe manifesto represents the voices of millions of children and young people who face violence at school every day,\u201d said Silima ahead of the event. \u201cThe message we want to get across is clear, adults must listen to us and take the issue of school violence seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n

The #ENDviolence Youth Manifesto was drafted last month by more than 100 children and young people from around the world, including Silima and Franca. It also drew on a recent UNICEF poll of young people, which received more than 1 million responses from over 160 countries, and suggestions from a series of student-led #ENDviolence Youth Talks held around the world.<\/p>\n

The manifesto calls for action in the following areas:
\nA demand for parents, guardians, schools, policymakers, and communities to take students seriously; to establish clear rules; to make laws restricting weapons; to ensure safety to and from school; to provide secure school facilities; to train teachers and counsellors; and to teach consent and respond to sexual violence.
\nA commitment from students to be kind, to report violence, and to take action themselves.
\nDiversity and tolerance in schools, regardless of culture, gender, identity, disability, sexual orientation, nationality, race, ethnicity, migration status, and religion; and protection for all students \u2013 those who experience violence and those who engage in violent behaviour.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom every corner of the globe, children and young people are asking for help,\u201d said Aida Girma, UNICEF Representative in Pakistan. \u201cThey are demanding that their leaders give them a safe place to go to school, to learn, and to build a brighter future for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

The #ENDviolence Youth Manifesto is part of a collective effort to #ENDviolence in and around schools, called Safe to Learn, led by organizations including UNICEF, the United Kingdom\u2019s Department for International Development (DFID), UNESCO, the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children and the United Nations Girls\u2019 Education Initiative (UNGEI).<\/p>\n

\u201cWith this manifesto, young people have brought to our attention the challenges they face in school every day, including bullying both in person and online, physical violence including corporal punishment, violent discipline and conflict,\u201d added Ms. Girma. \u201cNow is the time for world leaders to listen and take action to end violence in and around schools.\u201d<\/p>\n

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London\/Islamabad-22 January 2019 \u2013 Young people from around the world will call on all governments to end violence in and around schools at the Education World Forum taking place in London from February 20-23, 2019. The Minister for Federal Education and Professional Training, Mr. Shafqat Mahmood is representing Pakistan. Representing children and young people from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2077,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075\/revisions\/2077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}