UNICEF ,<i> Education Update, violence in and around schools </i>(2004). New York, USA : UNICEF Education Section. | The United Nations Secretary General’s Study on Violence Against Children

PHOTO: NIGERIA: In 1997 in Nigeria, three boys who used to live on the streets sit together holding mugs at a remand home for young offenders or abandoned children in Lagos, the country’s commercial capital. Some 10,000 children live on the city’s streets. From broken homes or extremely poor families, they often cannot find steady jobs and are at high risk of turning to drugs or becoming involved in crimes or other violence. (UNICEF/ HQ97-1159/Giacomo Pirozzi)

UNICEF , Education Update, violence in and around schools (2004). New York, USA : UNICEF Education Section.

The newsletter of the UNICEF Education Section is issued 2-3 times a year. It seeks to disseminate substantive information regarding topics related to UNICEF’s priority area of girls’ education and share good practice examples from UNICEF country programs around the world. Topics of this issue are: Gender Violence in School, violence in schools media coverage, sexual violence and corporal punishment, security and rising awareness. Feature countries include Bosnia, Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Ghana and Algeria.