Learn Without Fear. Third Progress Report

The report highlights some of the achievements of Plan’s global Learn Without Fear campaign to end violence in school, since its launch in October 2008. The campaign, focusing on the need to end sexual violence, bullying and corporal punishment, has met with a huge response worldwide. This report looks at the cumulative achievements of the campaign to date, as it completes its third year. Since the campaign was launched, there are new laws and policies to protect over 485 million school children from violence and bullying in schools; nearly 53,000 teachers have been trained in non-violent teaching methods; over 30,000 schools are directly involved in the campaign; Plan is working with teachers’ unions in 20 countries, where they play a key role in spreading campaign messages; 311,501 people have attended awareness-raising in the aims of the campaign, helping to change beliefs and attitudes about violence towards children.