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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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Women, Men, and Peace: new issue of the Alliance for Peacebuilding online publication
The Alliance for Peacebuilding just released the third issue of their free semi-annual online publication, Building Peace: A Forum for Peace and Security in the 21st Century. This last issue, Women, Men, and Peace, explores questions of gender and peace through the … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Fragile States, Gender Based Violence, Peace, Peace Education, Peacebuilding, Women
Tagged Afghanistan, Africa, Alliance for Peacebuilding, Azra Jafari, Building Peace, Conflict, Don Steinberg, Fragile States, Gender Equality, Gender Gap, Kristen Gresh, Peace, Peacebuilding, Policy, Research, Security, UN Security Council Resolution 1325, United Nations, USAID, Valerie M. Hudson, Violence, Women Men and Peace, Women's Empowerment, World Learning
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Education Under Attack: 2014 Report
The Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack just released a study that identifies 70 countries where attacks occurred between 2009 and 2012, including 30 where there was a pattern of deliberate attacks: Education Under Attack 2014 is a global study that charts the … Continue reading
Posted in Child Protection, Conflict Management, Education, Fragile States, Gender Based Violence, Girls' Education, Human Rights, International Development, Peace, Peacebuilding
Tagged Afghanistan, Africa, Bahrain, ban ki moon, Because I am a girl, Côte d’Ivoire, Central African Republic, Child Protection, Colombia, Conflict, Council for Assisting Refugee Academics, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Development, Education, Education First, Education For All, Education Under Attack, Egypt, Ethiopia, Fragile States, GCPEA, Girls' education, Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, I am Malala, India, Indonesia, Institute of International Education, International Development, Iran, Iraq, Israel/Palestine, Kenya, Libya, Lucens Guidelines, Malala Yousafzai, Mali, Mexico, Millenium Development Goals, Myanmar, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia, Save the Children, Scholars at Risk Network, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Thailand, The Philippines, Tides Center, Turkey, UNESCO, UNHCR, United Nations, Violence, Yemen, Zimbabwe
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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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The State of the World’s Girls 2013 – “In Double Jeopardy: Adolescent Girls and Disasters”
Plan’s annual report on the world’s girls investigates what happens to adolescent girls in disasters, and how to better protect girls’ rights and well-being. Plan International just released the seventh report in its annual State of the World’s Girls series. In Double … Continue reading
Posted in Child Protection, Education, Fragile States, Gender Based Violence, Girls, Girls' Education, Human Rights, International Development
Tagged adolescent girls, Africa, Because I am a girl, Central Africa, Child Protection, disasters, Education, Education First, Education For All, education in emergencies, Emergencies, environment, Ethiopia, Fragile States, Gender Equality, Gender Gap, Gender-Based Violence, Girls' education, HIV, Human Rights, impact of war, Pakistan, Plan International, protection against gender-based violence, Research, South Sudan, United Nations, Valerie Amos, West Africa, Women's Empowerment, Zimbabwe
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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
USAID Findings: Evidence in Youth Education in Crisis and Conflict
USAID just released its latest research regarding international youth and education programming. Cross-posting from USAID: “Three new “State of the Field” reports summarize the findings of 122 unique studies and consultations with over 75 subject matter experts across three topics … Continue reading
Posted in Child Protection, Conflict Management, Education, Fragile States, Girls' Education, International Development, Peacebuilding
Tagged Africa, Child Protection, Conflict, Education, Education For All, Fragile States, Human Rights, International Development, Peacebuilding, USAID, Youth
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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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Tina Robiolle, PhD 