The Safe Schools Declaration

Article | Last updated: 10/12/2021 | Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The Safe Schools Declaration was developed through a process led by Argentina and Norway, with the objective of avoiding military use of schools and strengthen protection of children and education in conflict. The declaration was launched at the Oslo Conference on Safe Schools: Protecting Education from Attack, 28–29 May 2015. The main objective of the Conference was to for states to endorse the Safe Schools Declaration. Since the Oslo conference, states and civil society work together to increase the number of endorsements and to implement the declaration.

The following States have endorsed the Safe Schools Declaration (as of December 2021):

  1. Afghanistan
  2. Albania
  3. Algeria
  4. Andorra
  5. Angola
  6. Antigua and Barbuda
  7. Argentina
  8. Armenia
  9. Austria
  10. Belgium
  11. Benin
  12. Bolivia
  13. Bosnia and Herzegovina
  14. Botswana
  15. Brazil
  16. Bulgaria
  17. Burkina Faso
  18. Cameroon
  19. Canada
  20. Central African Republic
  21. Chad
  22. Chile
  23. Costa Rica 
  24. Cote d’Ivoire
  25. Croatia
  26. Cyprus
  27. Czech Republic
  28. Democratic Republic of Congo
  29. Denmark
  30. Djibouti
  31. Dominican Republic
  32. East-Timor
  33. Ecuador
  34. Ekvatorial-Guinea
  35. El Salvador
  36. Estonia
  37. Fiji
  38. Finland
  39. France
  40. Gambia
  41. Georgia
  42. Germany
  43. Ghana
  44. Greece
  45. Guatemala
  46. Haiti
  47. Honduras
  48. Iceland
  49. Iraq
  50. Ireland
  51. Italy
  52. Jamaica
  53. Jordan
  54. Kazakhstan
  55. Kenya
  56. Lebanon
  57. Liberia
  58. Liechtenstein
  59. Luxembourg
  60. Macedonia
  61. Madagascar
  62. Malawi
  63. Malaysia
  64. Maldives
  65. Mali
  66. Malta
  67. Marshall Islands
  68. Mexico
  69. Moldova
  70. Monaco
  71. Montenegro
  72. Morocco
  73. Mozambique
  74. Namibia
  75. New Zealand
  76. The Netherlands
  77. Nicaragua
  78. Niger
  79. Nigeria
  80. Norway
  81. Palau
  82. Palestine
  83. Panama
  84. Paraguay
  85. Peru
  86. Poland
  87. Portugal
  88. Qatar
  89. Romania
  90. Saint Vincent and the Grenadine’s
  91. Samoa
  92. San Marino
  93. Senegal
  94. Serbia
  95. Seychelles
  96. Sierra Leone
  97. Slovakia
  98. Slovenia
  99. Somalia
  100. South Africa
  101. South Sudan
  102. Spain
  103. Sudan
  104. Sweden
  105. Switzerland
  106. The United Kingdom
  107. Togo
  108. Ukraine
  109. Uruguay
  110. Vanuatu
  111. Vietnam
  112. Yemen
  113. Zambia
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