Plan International: Learn without fear

The report „Learn without fear" outlines Plan International's global campaign to end violence in schools. It focuses around corporal punishment, sexual violence and bullying in schools. The scale and severity of these forms of school violence, their causes and consequences and ways in which law and policy can be improved are presented. Authors of the report also included descriptions of already implemented intervention programmes tackling school violence.

Violence in schools is a global problem that can take a form of corporal punishment, sexual abuse, neglect, verbal and emotional abuse, bullying, peer-to-peer violence, youth gangs, weapons or harassment on the journey to and from school.
An internal survey carried out in 2007 across all the countries in which Plan International
operates found that the main school violence issues affecting the children
and communities are corporal punishment, sexual violence and bullying. The report aims to improve understanding of school violence and fill in some gaps identified in previous research.

Source: www.plan-international.org