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1. Quality Education

(Category)

Created on 25 December 2015

2. COVID-19 Derails Education in Southern Africa

(Africa)

... in their home country until they sought greener pastures in South Africa. But the pastures are no longer green. With education halted in the face of coronavirus across Southern Africa, Gava's children ...

Created on 18 August 2020

3. The Path Forward for Higher Education After COVID-19

(UN INSIDER)

... the global academic community to explore new ways of teaching and learning, including distance and online education, according to UNESCO estimates. This has proven challenging for both students and educators, ...

Created on 10 July 2020

4. Kazakhstan Needs Young Graduates as Teachers for Education Reforms to Succeed

(Central Asia)

By Milena Melnikova* TARAZ (IDN) – Since 2016, the educational system in Kazakhstan has undergone numerous reforms, and in October 2018 President Nursultan Nazarbayev announced further reforms, including ...

Created on 12 September 2019

5. Transforming Education for a New Generation of Leaders

(OPINION)

... wants to be an aerospace engineer. A vocal advocate for girls’ education, she created a robotics team at school to show that girls can also participate in the area of technology, and “to make it a space ...

Created on 12 August 2019

6. Conference Calls for Mainstreaming Human Rights Education

(Quality Education)

By Neena Bhandari SYDNEY (IDN) – More investment is needed in human rights education and strengthening of civil society to address inequality and sustainability – the main objectives of the United Nations ...

Created on 03 December 2018

7. UN Reviews Education Programme on Slave Trade, Warns of Racism

(UN INSIDER)

... follow-up to the commemoration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, the UN Secretary-General submitted a report to the General Assembly on 'Programme of educational ...

Created on 23 November 2018

8. Education Isn't the Only Key to Female Employment in Morocc

(Middle East)

... Brookings. This decline not only contradicts global and regional trends, but also comes despite significant efforts both by the Moroccan government and NGOs to increase women’s education, in hopes of ...

Created on 23 July 2018

9. Global Citizenship Education Vital For Intercultural Literacy

(UN INSIDER)

By Santo D. Banerjee UNITED NATIONS (IDN) – Educating younger generations on global citizenship through intercultural literacy is a serious civic educational and moral issue, said Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, ...

Created on 27 May 2018

10. Behind January 6 Insurrection: America Is an Oligarchy, Not A Functioning Democracy

(OPINION)

... securing essential goods such as healthcare and education. Thus, economic inequality matters enormously, but as a grave symptom of a broader problem—that of massive, and growing, fragility of society as ...

Created on 17 January 2021

11. High Atlas Foundation Grows Trees in Nurseries Built on Moroccan Jewish Community Land

(Africa)

... empowerment, youth development, education, and health. Since 2011, HAF has Consultancy Status at the United Nations Economic and Social Council. [IDN-InDepthNews – 16 January 2021] Photo: Aberrahim is ...

Created on 16 January 2021

12. The Politicisation of “White Victimhood” Nothing New to Trump’s Presidency

(OPINION)

... racial equality, many of the formal mechanisms for these wages have disappeared. We live in hyper-segregated neighbourhoods, but racist housing covenants are now illegal. Public education is tremendously ...

Created on 14 January 2021

13. Whither the G20 in a World of Declining Multilateralism: Part 2

(OPINION)

...  Military expenses are on a continuous increase. In 2019 they reached the unprecedented amount of 1,917 billion dollars – enough to solve all problems of food, health and education worldwide. The UN is ...

Created on 13 January 2021

14. Whither the G20 in a World of Declining Multilateralism: Part 1

(OPINION)

... terrifying words in English are: “I am from the Government, and I am here to help”.   Any public or social cost was just a brake on the market. Reagan wanted to privatise even the Ministry of Education: ...

Created on 13 January 2021

15. The Rationale for Scotland Returning to the European Union

(OPINION)

... England was in 1707. Over the years they were amicably joined at the hip. The Scots retained their own legal and educational systems. In recent years much more power, including health and transport, has ...

Created on 12 January 2021

16. A New UN Report Calls for Living in Balance with The Planet

(Health & Well Being)

... the lives they value. The adjusted HDI measures a nation’s health, education, and standards of living, to include two more elements: a country’s carbon dioxide emissions and its material footprint. The ...

Created on 10 January 2021

17. Why We Care

(OPINION)

... protection of life on land and to biodiversity. Soon after assuming its hub role, the university established a site for education and research to promote the conservation of the globally diminishing gazelle ...

Created on 09 January 2021

18. Unionists Grieve the Demise of South African Labour Leader

(Africa)

... at other mines across South Africa, events which collectively made 2012 the most protest-filled year in the country since the end of apartheid. Tribute was also paid by the National Education, Health, ...

Created on 04 January 2021

19. Make 2021 A Fairer, Safer, Healthier World for Children

(Health & Well Being)

... their right to survival, health and education.  "Children born today will inherit the world we begin to build for them today", reminded the UNICEF chief. "Let us make 2021 the year we start to build a ...

Created on 01 January 2021

20. Culture Struggling to Survive COVID-19 Impact

(UN INSIDER)

By Jaya Ramachadran PARIS (IDN) – The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has urged adequate policies and actions to help the culture sector weather the crisis caused by the ...

Created on 01 January 2021

21. The Rich-Poor Gulf Widens 5 Years After Adoption of Sustainable Development Goals

(Health & Well Being)

... than 100 million women and girls could be lifted out of poverty if governments improve access to education and family planning and ensure that wages are fair and equal to those of men. A UN-backed report ...

Created on 30 December 2020

22. The Culture of Peace: For a Safer, Saner and Sustainable World

(OPINION)

... institutional transformation.” Transformation is of the most essential relevance here. The Programme of Action identifies eight specific areas - including education, equality between women and men, human ...

Created on 28 December 2020

23. US Africom Launches Operation Octave Quartz to Relocate Forces to Somalia

(Horn of Africa)

... Head; Mrs. Etenesh Nigussie, Communications Affairs Bureau Head; Mr. Yosef Tesfay, Trade, Industry, Urban Development Bureau Head; Dr. Tesfay Solomon, Education Bureau Head; Dr. Gebrehiwot Legesse, Water ...

Created on 26 December 2020

24. More Nigerian Schoolchildren Seized in Second Mass Kidnapping

(Africa)

... will continue with my education.” [IDN-InDepthNews – 21 December 2020] Photo: Kidnapped Nigerian Schoolboys. Source: 24x7news IDN is flagship agency of the non-profit International Press Syndicate. ...

Created on 21 December 2020

25. Great Expectations! The Non-Proliferation Treaty and The Coming of The Messiah!

(OPINION)

Viewpoint by Tariq Rauf* from Vienna for IDN Great Expectations is a novel published in July 1861 by the renowned British writer, Charles Dickens. It depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip ...

Created on 14 December 2020

26. How Nigerians Remember Maradona

(OPINION)

... And that matters, too. He has lived a life almost scandal free, has a museum dedicated to his name, and has been devoted to a number of good causes to empower children, especially around education and ...

Created on 10 December 2020

27. Pacific Ocean’s Delicate Ecology Under Threat

(Climate Action)

... continued into the 1990s, and it persists today. Target species include reef fishes, lobster, prawn, crab and squid. To prevent overfishing, governments should address the issue of poverty and poor education ...

Created on 09 December 2020

28. Vanuatu's Development Success Overshadowed by COVID-1

(OPINION)

... in mortality rates and significant progress in education. All of these are among the factors the UN regards as critical in determining whether a country is considered as a least developed country or not. ...

Created on 08 December 2020

29. Africa Alliance Launched to Combat Misinformation on COVID-19

(Africa)

... for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural ...

Created on 07 December 2020

30. Human Exploitation of the Biosphere Threatens Mass Extinction

(OPINION)

... health care. If they qualify for university education, the tuition is free, and students are given an allowance for their living expenses. Mothers or alternatively fathers can take paid leave of up to ...

Created on 06 December 2020

31. How the U.S. Is Locking Out China from Latin America and the Caribbean

(USA and Canada)

... laws or to cut subsidies for health and education (as the International Monetary Fund and the U.S. Treasury Department often do); nor does China privilege the private sector. These are the “non-market ...

Created on 04 December 2020

32. Gaza Strip Rapidly Becoming 'Unliveable

(Middle East)

... and the world and restore the right to free movement for business, medical care, education, recreation and family bonds. Only by fully lifting the debilitating closure, in line with UN Security Council ...

Created on 29 November 2020

33. Morocco's Multiculturalism Fosters Sustainable Developmen

(Africa)

... into jointly designed and managed cultural projects that are also educational and developmental. Civil society groups, with their flexibility to engage with people and agencies at all levels and sectors ...

Created on 26 November 2020

34. Stunning Lack of G20 Responsibility for the World’s Poor

(Poverty)

... why poverty needs a specific action. There are tons of study on the subject, on the relations between poverty and education, poverty and democracy, poverty and social movements, and the list goes on. What ...

Created on 25 November 2020

35. EU Called Upon to Urgently Engage in Peace Efforts for the Horn of Africa

(Horn of Africa)

... Civile, Romania, Antonella Napoli, journalist, Italy; Prof. Dr Jan Nyssen, Department of Geography, Ghent University, Belgum; Dr Jan Nouwen, Coordinator Global Health Education, Erasmus University, The ...

Created on 24 November 2020

36. COVID-19 Shatters Hopes for Industrial Advance in Africa

(Africa)

... in support for industrial development policy, which is now recognized as playing a key part in achieving economic development and social goals on health, education and well-being, as well as a fresh approach ...

Created on 21 November 2020

37. New Report Sparks Anxiety About COVID-19 Wrecking UN's 2030 Sustainable Development Agend

(Health & Well Being)

... education, especially for girls, are expected to have strong negative impacts on the productive capacity of countries well into the future. The report points to another significant aspect: "The disparities ...

Created on 20 November 2020

38. In Memoriam of Rawlings, A Charismatic Leader and a Stalwart for Pan Africanism

(Africa)

... after independence, Kwame Nkrumah. Cuba’s leadership rekindled the old relationship from the Nkrumah era and offered support, especially in health and education, opening a school in Cuba for Ghanaian ...

Created on 17 November 2020

39. Why Cybersecurity for Small Businesses is More Necessary Now Than Ever Before

(Sustainable Industrialisation)

... measures and knowledge heightens even more. With more devices being used (such as employees' laptops), there becomes even more of a margin for risk, and particularly so without any education on the matter. ...

Created on 15 November 2020

40. The Evil That Men Do Lives After Them

(OPINION)

... as his personal staff, changing public servants continuously and putting people who share his views in their jobs. His Minister of Education does not believe in the public school. His Minister of Justice ...

Created on 09 November 2020

41. Defending Democracy and Our Future: Biden’s Victory and the Struggles Ahead

(OPINION)

... country’s national budget priorities. In addition to tax reform, much of this can be accomplished by reducing massive military spending and making the essential investments in education, social services ...

Created on 08 November 2020

42. Pressing Need to Ensure Responsible African Digitalisation

(Africa)

... home, and education has gone online, including in Africa. But this trend does not include everyone," van Reisen and Broekhuizen point out. Only a quarter of the population of Sub-Saharan Africa has access ...

Created on 04 November 2020

43. Haiti Has a Long History of Being Assaulted by Its Latin American Neighbors

(Latin America & the Caribbean)

... education with Haitian people’s movements in this area. Photo: Jean-Bertrand Aristide returns to Haiti, following the U.S.-led invasion in 1994 designed to remove the regime installed by the 1991 Haitian ...

Created on 02 November 2020

44. How Colonial Policy Is Impoverishing Indian Ocean Coastal Communities

(OPINION)

... the Chagos Islands may shine a light on and facilitate a long-overdue process of decolonisation of the Indian Ocean, and enable education, knowledge, and technology transfer to ensure policy and legal ...

Created on 01 November 2020

45. A Hybrid Cold War Unfolding in The Indo-Pacific Beneath the Covid-19 Mask

(OPINION)

... accidents than from Covid-19, which has claimed a grand total of fifteen lives in the past year on this island of just over 21 million people.  However, livelihoods, education and good governance – ...

Created on 31 October 2020

46. New Research Raises Alarm for Our Most Precious Buffer to Climate Change: Groundwater

(OPINION)

... water, over 2.7 million with sanitation and 3.5 million with hygiene education in six countries – Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Ghana and Nigeria. The Water Security Research Report, discussed in ...

Created on 31 October 2020

47. The Need to Engage Youth Social Entrepreneurs to Accelerate the SDGs

(OPINION)

...  First, we need to ensure that the next generation of business leaders think about social purpose as well as profit. To achieve this, education will be critical. Governments play a key role, like the ...

Created on 30 October 2020

48. Financing and Political Will Critical to Avert A ‘Generational Crisis’ Triggered by COVID-19

(UN INSIDER)

By Santo D. Banerjee NEW YORK (IDN) – The world is at risk of suffering “a generational catastrophe”, as COVID-19 wreaks havoc on the education of students globally, the Secretary-General António Guterres ...

Created on 23 October 2020

49. Breaking Media Stereotypes with Indigenous Storytelling

(UN INSIDER)

... Indigenous People of Color) storytellers and filmmakers. For Sanchez, decolonial media is a vehicle for education, expression and information dissemination on important topics such as the environment ...

Created on 23 October 2020

50. BRICS Civil Forum Evolving from Strength to Strength

(Russia)

... a series of thematic sessions in Food and Healthcare; Education and Science; Economic Development in the Digital Era; Information Strategies and Society; Environment, Climate and Energy; Sustainable Cities ...

Created on 21 October 2020

51. Qality Education

(Tags)

Qality Education

Created on 22 February 2016