PHOTO: Brazil: In December 2001, a girl, Elaine da Paixao Santos, stands in front of a wall on which she has drawn a heart and the inscription "I love you, mom" in Portuguese, on the grounds of the Mother City Foundation in La Paz, a poor neighbourhood in Salvador, capital of the eastern state of Bahia in Brazil. Elaine lives with her grandmother to avoid the fighting in her parents’ home. (UNICEF/HQ01-0442/Claudio Versiani)
Human Rights Watch. (March, 2001). Scared at School: Sexual Violence against Girls in South African Schools. New York: Author.
ISBN: 1564322572

This report highlights the problem of sexual violence and harassment against school girls in South Africa. It reveals that female school children are being subjected to gender discrimination in the form of sexual harassment regularly regardless of ethnicity or socio-economic status. The study calls for gender equality in the school environment and argues that toleration of these abuses will continue to prevent girls from realizing their right to education and equal protection under the law.

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