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Category Archives: Africa
Global citizenship education in crisis situation: 5 main recommendations
Happy to announce the release of a study I conducted for UNESCO/Education Sector on the promotion and implementation of global citizenship education in crisis situations, available soon online. Crisis situations affect the realization of human rights of many people and … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Africa, Child Protection, Education, Fragile States, Global Citizenship Education, Human Rights Education, International Development, Peace Education, Uncategorized
Tagged Crisis Situations, Education, Education and Conflict, education in emergencies, GCED, Global Citizenship, Global Citizenship Education, Human Rights Education, peace education, UNESCO
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“Victories over Violence, Ensuring Safety for Women and Girls,” a practitioners’ manual
Women’s Learning Partnership just released an interesting practitioners’ manual Victories over Violence: Ensuring Safety for Women and Girls (authors: Mahnaz Afkhami, Haleh Vaziri). Women’s Learning Partnership is a nonprofit organization consisting of 20 autonomous national partner organizations based in the Global … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Africa, Child Protection, Education, Gender Based Violence, Girls, Girls' Education, Human Rights Education, Women
Tagged Abuse at Home, Afghanistan, Africa, Child brides, Child Protection, Educating for Safety and Peace, Education, Female Genital Mutilation, forced marriage, Haiti, Haleh Vaziri, human trafficking, Mahnaz Afkhami, Malaysia, Nepal, Prostitution, rape, sex slavery, Sexual Assault, Sexual Harassment, United States, UNSCR 1325, Violence against women, Women and Girls in Peacemaking, women and peacebuilding, Women's Empowerment, Women's Learning Partnership
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Re-thinking gender in peacebuilding: new International Alert report
International Alert just released a new report, Re-thinking gender in peacebuilding by Henri Myrttinen, Jana Naujoks, Judy El-Bushra. This report calls for a more nuanced understanding of the role gender plays in peacebuilding. This report is part of a three-year research … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Conflict Management, Fragile States, Gender, Gender Based Violence, Peacebuilding
Tagged access to justice, Burundi, Colombia, continuum of violence, economic recovery, GBV, Gender & Peacebuilding, Gender in Peacebuilding, Gender-Based Violence, Henri Myrttinen, International Alert, Jana Naujoks, Judy El-Bushra, Nepal, post-conflict, sexual violence, Uganda, Violence, Violence against women, Women and Men
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2013 Global Gender Gap Report: 20% of countries have made no progress or are falling behind
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has just released the 2013 Global Gender Gap Report. It ranks 136 countries* (which collectively contain over 93 percent of the world’s population) based on 14 indicators used to measure the size of a nation’s gender … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Education, Gender Based Violence, Girls, International Development, MENA, Women
Tagged Africa, Development, Economic Participation, Education, Finland, G20, Gender Equality, Gender Gap, Gender Gap Report, Health and survival, Iceland, International Development, Middle East, Millenium Development Goals, Nicaragua, North Africa, Norway, Philippines, Political empowerment, Sweden, The World Economic Forum, Women, Women's Empowerment, Yemen
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The Forgotten Education Crisis in the Central African Republic
This post originally appeared on the Education For All blog on October 21, 2013: The Global Partnership for Education provides education funding to crisis countries By Alice Albright World media has captured the Syrian crisis, Egypt’s turmoil and many other … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Child Protection, Conflict Management, Education, Fragile States, Peacebuilding
Tagged Africa, Alice Albright, BLTP, CAR, Central African Republic, Child Protection, Development, Education, Education Cluster, Education First, Education For All, Fragile States, Girls' education, Global Partnership for Education, GPE, Human Rights, humanitarian crisis, Somalia, Teachers, UN Security Council, UNICEF, United Nations, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Yemen
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Investing in Girls’ Education Delivers Results: let’s innovate!
Today, we are celebrating the second International Day of the Girl Child. Indeed, on December 19, 2011, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 66/170 to declare 11 October as the International Day of the Girl Child, to recognize girls’ rights … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Child Protection, Education, Gender Based Violence, Girls, Girls' Education, Women
Tagged #dayofthegirl, #education2015, #girlrising, #post2015, #voicesagainstviolence, Africa, child marriage, Child Protection, Development, e-discussion, e-learning, Education, Education First, Education For All, Female education, Fragile States, Gender Equality, Gender Gap, Ghana, Girls' education, Global Citizenship, Global Partnership for Education, Human Rights, I am Malala, Innovating for Girls’ Education, International Day of the Girl Child 2013, International Development, Malala Yousafzai, Millenium Development Goals, online platform, Run the World, Singles, UN Women, UNESCO, UNICEF, United Nations, United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, Women and education, Women's Empowerment, Youth, Youth Advocacy Group
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Peace Operations in Africa: Lessons Learned Since 2000
More than 50 peace operations have deployed in Africa since 2000, including multiple African-led or hybrid African Union/United Nations initiatives. The frequency of these deployments underscores the ongoing importance of these operations in the playbook of regional and multilateral bodies … Continue reading
Malala’s UN address: Education for all is the only solution
Malala Yousafzai marked her 16th birthday, on Friday, 12 July 2013 at the United Nations, by giving her first high-level public appearance and statement on the importance of education. Malala became a public figure when she was shot by the Taliban … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Child Protection, Education, Fragile States, Gender Based Violence, Girls' Education, Human Rights, Peace Education, Peacebuilding, Women
Tagged Child Protection, Development, Education First, Gender Equality, Girls' education, Human Rights, I am Malala, Malala Yousafzai, peace education, Peacebuilding, United Nations, Violence against women, Women's Empowerment
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“Women Count” Security Council Resolution 1325: Civil Society Monitoring Report 2012
The Global Network of women Peacebuilders (GNWP), a program partner of the International Civil society Action Network (ICAN), is a coalition of women’s groups and other civil society organizations from Africa, Asia and the Pacific, South Asia, West Asia, Latin … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Africa, Peacebuilding, Women
Tagged Africa, Burundi, Colombia, Democratic Rebublic of Congo, Fiji, Gender Equality, Gender Gap, Global Network of women Peacebuilders, Liberia, Nepal, Netherlands, Peacebuilding, Philippines, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Uganda, UN Women, United Nations, UNSCR 1325, Women, Women's Empowerment
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From Ignorance To Inclusion: Gender-Responsive Climate Adaptation in the Middle East And North Africa Region
Gender Action and the Heinrich Böll Foundation‘s newly released report exposes women’s persistent marginalization from climate adaptation projects. Across the MENA region, where women already suffer from social and political exclusion, climate change is expected to further exacerbate existing gender … Continue reading
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