Video: girls say no to sexual violence at schools
Girls' education
A moving new film tells of the sexual violence and fear that girls in many countries face just for going to school.
Six girls in six countries 鶹APP who were all born in 2000 鶹APP appear in the video made by the charity as part of its 鶹APPMillennium Children鶹APP series.
They reveal that they are approached or sexually taunted by boys and men as they walk to school. They face being molested or raped when they leave their classroom to go to the toilet. And some teachers even offer good grades to girls in return for sex.
Gender-based violence at school is wrecking the education of many girls across the world 鶹APP making them too afraid to go to school. One girl said: 鶹APPI don't go to school anymore. I'm scared to go because I was sexually assaulted there.鶹APP
But another said: 鶹APPI love education. This bad experience cannot stop me from going to school.鶹APP
The film was produced and, at times, filmed by young people as part of Plan's youth engagement project 鶹APPGlobal Voice for Change鶹APP. The organisation is , which are set to replace the Millennium Development Goals this year.
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