How to #UniteToProtect

We are pleased to invite you as a key ally to join us in the Campaign to raise momentum and rally towards the important agenda of protecting education from attack. Through the month of August, we hope to get connected and stay engaged with you and your community and amplify our voices on this crucial agenda.

We encourage you to record a 90 seconds video message and/or engage with us on social media platforms with creative content from your respective grassroots communities.

• Through your video message, please tell us what the establishment of the International Day to Protect Education from Attack means to you and your community; and 2) what actions you view as the most crucial to protect education from attack.
• Creative content could be from activities such as sports, art, dance, music, theater, photography, films, webinars and others organized in and around schools by communities engaging with the very right holders of education we seek to protect.

Please submit your content to UniteToProtect@eaa.org.qa and upload them on your social media platforms using #UniteToProtect. We will get in touch if your submitted content is selected for a high-level event to mark the first observance on the 9th of September.

Video Engagement

Your video should be:

• Quality: HD and higher
• Video length: Up to 90 seconds
• Orientation: Landscape
• Framing: Medium close up, to medium
• Shot in landscape orientation in HD
• Clear Audio, external mic, if possible, with minimal background noise

Ideas for your video message:

• Education-related violations of international law must be held to account.
• The global community must commit to the worlds’ most vulnerable learners, especially those in situations of conflict and insecurity.
• As members of the global community, we each have a role to play  to protect the futures of learners. We must unite to protect them from attacks on education.
• Let's unite to protect education from attack. Let's join the community by using #UniteToProtect and take action for the young learners of the world.

Tag EAA and use the campaign hashtag #UniteToProtect

Other ways to #UniteToProtect

• Join the global community in support of the protection of education by using #UniteToProtect on your social media platforms and tell us about you and why you're joining the rally!
• Share your ideas, why you think it is important to protect education from attack, and what can be or should be done.
• Stay engaged by retweeting contents from the allies. Don't forget to tag us!
• Raise awareness on this important agenda with your communities through on/offline conversations and activities in support of the International Day to Protect Education from Attack and invite others to join.
• Stay informed by relevant data and information on attacks on education (see below) and share with your network by creating quizzes and/or polls on your social media platforms!
• Stay connected through #UniteToProtect, #ProtectEducationFromAttack, and #SaveOurFuture for the latest news for your engagement.

Suggested Social Media Posts

Twitter

Thread 1

Tweet 1: Education is the lifeline to recovery, and it must be protected at all costs, especially from attack or threat of violence. The International Day to #ProtectEducationFromAttack is the first necessary step, showing our global commitment to the learners.

Tweet 2: It is not enough for us to simply condemn the atrocious attacks; protection must become an essential issue at all levels of governance and civil society. Sustainable peace must be based on accountability, the rule of law and underpinned by quality education for all. We must #UniteToProtect, we must #SaveOurFuture

Thread 2

Tweet 1: Conflict and insecurity cannot be used as justification for a lack of access to education. Through complacency and tolerance, the global community enables these violations against children. In doing so, we allow what we’ve built to be destroyed. #UniteToProtect #SaveOurFuture

Tweet 2: The international community must act to adopt an effective mechanism of accountability for these human rights violations. #LearningNeverStops #ProtectEducationFromAttack

Instagram

Education is the lifeline to recovery, and it must be protected at all costs, especially from attack or threat of violence. The International Day to #ProtectEducationFromAttack is the first necessary step, showing our global commitment to the learners. It is not enough for us to simply condemn the atrocious attacks; protection must become an essential issue at all levels of governance and civil society. Sustainable peace must be based on accountability, the rule of law and underpinned by quality education for all. We must #UniteToProtect, we must #SaveOurFuture.

#ProtectEducation #ProtectSchools #EducationUnderAttack #LearningNeverStops

Facebook, LinkedIn

Education is the lifeline to recovery, and it must be protected at all costs, especially from attack or threat of violence. The International Day to #ProtectEducationFromAttack is the first necessary step, showing our global commitment to the learners. It is not enough for us to simply condemn the atrocious attacks; protection must become an essential issue at all levels of governance and civil society. Sustainable peace must be based on accountability, the rule of law and underpinned by quality education for all. We must #UniteToProtect, we must #SaveOurFuture

Suggested Social Media Post Collateral

Additional Resources

• Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA)
• International Law Handbook
• Education Under Attack 2020
• Education Under Attack 2018