SAFE SCHOOLS DECLARATION of May 2015
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The Safe Schools Declaration is a political instrument throughwhich states acknowledge the full range of
challenges facing education during armed conflict and make commitments to better protect students, staff, and educational facilities inwar time. The Declarationwas developed through consultationswith states led by Norway and Argentina in Geneva, andwas opened for endorsement at the Oslo Conference on Safe Schools on May 29, 2015, in Norway. (The Safe Schools Declaration: A Framework For Action – Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (protectingeducation.org)
This declaration with Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (protectingeducation.org) as one of the main actor aims at protecting education in times of conflict. The impact of armed conflict on education presents urgent humanitarian, development and wider socialchallenges. Worldwide, schools and universities have been bombed, shelled and burned, and children, students, teachers and academics have been killed, maimed, abducted or arbitrarily detained. Educational facilities have been used by parties to armed conflict as, inter alia, bases, barracks or detention centres.
Such actions expose students and education personnel to harm, deny large numbers of children and students their right to education and so deprive communities of the foundations on which to build their future. In many countries, armed conflictcontinues to destroy not just school infrastructure, but the hopes and ambitions of a whole generation of children
To archieve the objectives of the Safe School Declaration, there is a guide line which was spearheaded by the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA) in 2012, and further led by Norway and Argentina, with a wide range of States supporting the initiative. accordign to ICRC (The Safe Schools Declaration and the Guidelines for Protecting Schools and Universities from Military Use during Armed Conflict | International Committee of the Red Cross (icrc.org).
As of February, 2022, 114 states have endorsed the Safe Schools Declaration, which remains open for additional countries to join( According to ReliefWeb, all four countries affected by the crisis in the Lake Chad region – Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria – have endorsed the Safe Schools Declaration, providing a vital opportunity for collaboration to protect education and save lives. The Declaration offers a common framework to develop policies and strategies to deliver safe education to students in the region, and ensure that schools can be safe places for learning instead of places to avoid during conflicts
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Berinyuy Cajetan is the founder and publisher of Human Rights and Legal Research Centre (HRLRC) since 2017. He has intensive experience in strategic communications for Civil Society Organizations, campaign and advocacy, and social issues. He has an intensive experiencing in human rights monitoring, documentation and reporting.
