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100% 90%
80%
51.70% General student on staff violence
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Gender-based violence
24.10%
25.90%
50%
63.80% 32.80% Inadequate infrastructure (e.g. lack of latrines, sanitation facilities, water,
Physical attacks on educational institutions by third parties (groups/individual
0%
Structures unfit to withstand natural disasters (e.g. floods, earthquakes, etc.)
10%
25.90%
20%
Structures not resilient to natural disaster
30%
41.40%
50%
40%
General student on student violence
70%
60%
Figure 11: Reasons for feeling unsafe in the workplace. Source: Stromquist, N. 2018. The Status of Teachers and the Teaching Profession. Education International. p. 17.
Thirty-five per cent (35%) of women over the age of 15 — 818 million women globally — have experienced sexual or physical violence at home, in their communities or in the workplace.174 At the time of writing, education unions are campaigning for the June 2019 adoption of a binding ILO instrument with a strong focus on combating genderbased violence in the work world. Although there are currently 189 ILO conventions on rights at work, this will be the first of the ILO’s conventions to focus on gender-based violence.
Unions are taking action to ensure their female members are safe at work The EI World Women’s Conference showed that numerous unions are acting to stop genderbased violence at work. For example:
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-- In Romania, the FSLE175 initiated formulation of a law on the protection of teachers against violence in schools, signed an agreement with the national police in support of the campaign against domestic violence, and organised meetings with parents to discuss the issues. -- In Botswana, the BTU176 has been putting pressure on the government to make sexual harassment in the workplace illegal, conducting capacity-building workshops to empower women to feel able to speak about and report sexual violence, and organising men’s forums to help prevent SRGBV. -- In the Philippines, ACT has participated in “One Billion Rising”, a global campaign to end violence against women, and in the annual solidarity march for International Women’s Day (8th March). They have also been lobbying to strengthen women’s rights within national legislation. -- In Sweden, Lärarförbundet are forming a union network to enable women in unions to speak to and support each other, creating a dedicated website for members to seek support and guidelines on existing procedures for reporting sexual violence and harassment, and they have collaborated with a student organisation on an open letter calling for an education system free from sexual harassment.
0302 NOITA CUDE 174 See: ITUC. Gender-based violence at work. Retrieved from: https://www.ituc-csi.org/gender-based-violence-at-work-583 175 Fédération des Syndicats Libres de l'Enseignement 176 Botswana Teacher Union
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