The UN report noted “attacks against girls accessing education persist and, alarmingly, appear in some countries to be occurring with increasing regularity.”
In particular, the report mentioned the abduction of 300 schoolgirls in Nigeria in 2014, the shooting of education activist Malala Yousafzai in Pakistan in 2012 and the violent removal of girls from schools by the Somali extremist group al-Shabab in 2010.
According to the document, 2012 saw a total of 3,600 attacks against schools, teachers and students.
The report stressed that the attacks have had a "ripple effect" that should send an alarm signal to parents of other girls.
The authors warned that girls who forsake school may be subject to "additional human rights violations such as child and forced marriage, domestic violence, early pregnancy, exposure to other harmful practices, trafficking and sexual and labor exploitation."
The survey said that the prevention of attacks against schoolgirls should be combined with efforts to grapple with broader issues related to violence and discrimination against women.
