... 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 ...
... 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, ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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, ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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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 ...
... 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: ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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, ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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. ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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. ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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. ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 – ...
... 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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...