Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2006
Editor(s)
Fiona Leach and Claudia Mitchell
ISBN
1858563887
Publisher
Trentham Books Limited
Language
en-US
Abstract
Recognizing that school based gender violence is a global phenomenon that has remained largely unexplored, despite numerous international commitments to promote girls’ education, this chapter outlines recent international development policy objectives and priorities relating to gender equality and education. It then positions these development priorities against the international human rights legal framework. Finally, the chapter concludes that failure to bridge the gap between development priorities and human rights principles by fully appreciating the costs and consequences of school-based gender violence in terms of the discrimination that it is will ensure global failure to achieve gender equality in education well into the future.
Recommended Citation
Erika George,
Chapter 2: Failing the future: development objectives, human rights obligations and gender violence in schools
,
in
Combating Gender Violence in and Around Schools
13
(Fiona Leach and Claudia Mitchell ed.,
2006).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/3863
