What is School Related Gender Based Violence (SRGBV)?
SRGBV comes in various forms such as sexual, physical, verbal, emotional and psychological and occurs in and out of school. Perpetrators of VAG are many but most of the VAG is committed by male pupils and male teachers thereby making schools unsafe for girls. This problem came into the limelight because in most schools enrolment for girls in upper primary school and secondary schools in much lower than boys. Moreover in most schools girls perform poorly during classroom exercises, tests and examinations. This problem is partly attributed to violence and is of concern because they cause high drop out and low education attainment for girls. The Global Statistics on Violence Against Girls with Disabilities The FREDA Research Centre on VAG, based in Canada, reports that (3) • 53% of women with disabilities from birth have been raped, abused, or assaulted (Lynn & O’Neill 1995:278) • The rate of sexual abuse for girls with disabilities is quadruple that of the national average (Razack 1994)
