Constituency Child Marriage Watch-Munali Chapter
To limit the spread of COVID-19, African governments have closed schools temporarily.
What are some of the ways that school closures will put girls at an increased risk of human rights violations?
Schools are generally safe spaces for girls and those not in school are more vulnerable to human rights violations, including sexual and labor exploitation, human trafficking, female genital mutilation, early pregnancy, and early and forced marriage. Schools provide a channel via which violation or threats can be reported and action taken. This pandemic has shut down this key source of safeguarding and it will most certainly result in reduced protection for girls and less accountability for perpetrators who commit harm.
Parents this is the time to spend time with your children and to monitor them, perpetrators are not far from them cause some might be in the same house as them!!
#Stayalert
