he vaccine to reduce the increased violence and attacks against women and girls is education and involve women in peace-keeping and conflict resolution
INTRO
Recent research, including a comprehensive OHCHR (below) study, and global studies show that despite advances in women’s advocacy and rights, that violence against women and girls, especially those seeking education is increasing. Cite this as primary report www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/CEDAW/Report_attacks_on_girls_Feb2015.pdf
EVIDENCE List examples of increased violence and attacks against women / girls and education (below).
SOLUTION(S) The primary deterrent to decrease violence and attacks against women is to 1. empower them through education (see below), 2. involve women more in peace-keeping initiatives, conflict resolution, and violence alleviation planning.
CONCLUSION AND SUMMARY
– First paragraph grabs readers, draws them in, and clearly states an opinion, can use a strong, example of high profile attack (and then on to more – below) and perhaps a quote
– Please write for general audience with short words and verbs, and avoid jargon, clichés, textbook language, and not overuse adjectives and adverbs.
– Strong last paragraph summary that leaves a lasting impression (perhaps include a quote)
Some quotes to possibly use one or two in summary or essay
Education is the vaccine to violence – Edward James Olmos
If you educate a boy, you educate and individual, if you educate a girl, you educate a community – African proverb
When women thrive, all of society benefits – Kofi Annan (former UN Secretary General)
“When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everybody else” -Melinda Gates
With education, I am stronger than violence, oppression, and fear – Malala Yousafzai (2014 Nobel Peace Prize winner and education advocate)
Education is the most powerful weapon which we can use to change the world – Nelson Mandela
Education is the movement from darkness to light – Allan Bloom
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom – George Washington Carver
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire – William Butler Yeats
Education is not preparation for life, but life itself – John Dewey
Include five+ high-profiles attacks on schools between 2009 and 2014 included (below and there are many more):
The cold-blooded killing of 130+ children in a Taliban (TTP) attack at a school in Peshawar in December 2014
Abduction of the Chibok schoolgirls by Boko Haram terrorists in April 2014
2012 shooting of education activist Malala Yousafzai by Taliban in Pakistan
Several incidents of poisoning and acid attacks against schoolgirls in Afghanistan between 2012 and 2014
Forced removal of girls from schools in Somalia to become “wives” of Al-Shabaab fighters in 2010
Abduction and rape of girls at Christian school in India in July 2013
Central America, of which some countries (Honduras) have the highest murder rates in the world, have soaring rates of violence, rape, abuse, forcing girls to leave school, and 80% of Central American refugee girls who cross into USA have are raped.
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/immigration/news/2014/08/12/95556/violence-is-causing-children-to-flee-central-america-2
TWO PART SOLUTION Support girls education + involve women in peace-keeping initiatives and conflict resolution
GIRLS EDUCATION: Please list 4-5 solutions to decrease violence and attacks against women and girls with education as a primary deterrent. Some reasons here: http://www.who.int/gender/documents/women_MDGs_report/en/index4.html
The primary way to reduce and alleviate attacks against women and girls, is to actually ways to continue and support girls education, especially in conflict regions, and some specific actions including: support girls to continue school through and after puberty, provide better sanitation and toilets in schools, provide more safety with schools (boundary walls), safe access (transport / not walking in dark), more female teachers, and as described below – involve women more in security and conflict resolution.
INVOLVE WOMEN MORE in peace-keeping initiatives, strategic violence alleviation planning, and conflict resolution.
In October 2015, women activists, advocates, female human rights defenders, UN Member States and agencies will celebrate the 15th anniversary of the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) and the establishment of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda, to http://womenpeacesecurity.org/media/pdf-2015WPSRoadmap.pdf
Some research, references sources, citations relevant to this essay:
www.nation.co.ke/news/Girls-Schools-Education-Safety-UN-Report/-/1056/2668150/-/6f85p/-/
http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2015/04/boko-haram.aspx
http://globaleducationfirst.org/files/SRGBC.pdf
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/318900/Education-guidance-note-partB.pdf
http://www.worldbank.org/content/dam/Worldbank/document/Gender/Voice_and_agency_LOWRES.pdf
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=50032#.VTN1JJTF9fZ
http://www.bustle.com/articles/72055-the-no-ceilings-report-reveals-disheartening-global-views-on-domestic-violence-but-giving-girls-education
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/catherine-russell/being-a-school-girl-should-not-be-dangerous-business_b_7064672.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-politics/11544371/General-Election-How-to-vote-to-end-domestic-violence-in-Britain.html
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/Attacksagainstgirlseducationontheincrease.asp
http://www.ipsnews.net/2015/03/opinion-education-as-a-cornerstone-for-womens-empowerment
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