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Melissa Griffin

Food Force: The First Humanitarian Video Game | WFP | United Nations World Food Program... - 0 views

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1. Poverty and Hunger 8. Partnership for Development MDG UNIS game free

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  • Melissa Griffin on 10 Jan 12
     
    Since its release in 2005, WFP's video game to teach children about the logistical challenges of delivering food aid in a major humanitarian crisis has been downloaded over 6 million times, and has an estimated network of 10 million players worldwide!
Andrea Law

Infographics - 2 views

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infographics malaria polio poverty water agriculture

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  • Andrea Law on 15 Dec 11
     
    Some excellent infographics by the Gates foundation
kels_giroux

SUTA - 1 views

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    MDG Chase - A game to learn about the MDGs
Clint Hamada

7 billion human beings: Why gender equality matters more than ever! « Gender-... - 3 views

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3. Gender Equality human population

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  • Especially for girls and young women,  access to family planning, to contraception, to education and to the formal labour market is crucial not only for improving their own living conditions, but also in terms of demographic dynamics.
  • improving women’s access to the formal labour market as well as to health care and education is particularly important, as investments in these areas are likely to lead to later marriages, less teenage pregnancies and more stable family structures.
Clint Hamada

Childinfo.org: Statistics by Area - Millennium Development Goals - Overview - 2 views

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3. Gender Equality Iindicators of success

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    3.1 Ratios of girls to boys in primary, secondary and tertiary education 3.2 Share of women in wage employment in the non-agricultural sector 3.3 Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament
Clint Hamada

Gender Equality in Vietnam - wikigender.org - 1 views

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3. Gender Equality Vietnam

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  • it was only in 2006 that the National Assembly passed the country’s first ever Law on Gender Equality.
  • The Marriage and Family Law sets the minimum marriage age to 18 for women and 20 for men
Clint Hamada

Childinfo.org: Statistics by Area - Education - Overview - 3 views

www.childinfo.org/education.html

3. Gender Equality 2. Primary Education statistics

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  • achieving two of them – universal education (MDG 2), and gender equality and empowering women (MDG 3) – is vital to meeting all the others.
  • getting girls into school and ensuring that they stay there has what UNICEF calls a "multiplier effect."
  • Educating a girl dramatically reduces the chance that her child will die before age five
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  • Of the 68 million out-of-school primary-school-age children, 53 per cent are girls (UNESCO Data Centre 2010).  Of the lower secondary out-of-school adolescents, 54 per cent are girls
  • Clint Hamada on 14 Dec 11
     
    universal education (MDG 2), and gender equality and empowering women (MDG 3) - is vital to meeting all the others.
kels_giroux

Oxfam Education: Resources index | Change the World in Eight Steps - 6 views

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1. Poverty and Hunger 2. Primary Education 3. Gender Equality 4. Reduce Child Mortality 5. Maternal Health 6. HIV Malaria 7. Environmental Sustainability 8. Partnership for Development

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    Posters, lesson ideas, and information on MDGS
Andrea Law

WorldMapper - 7 views

www.worldmapper.org/index.html

1. Poverty and Hunger 2. Primary Education 3. Gender Equality 4. Reduce Child Mortality 5. Maternal Health 8. Partnership for Development 7. Environmental Sustainability 6. HIV Malaria

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  • Andrea Law on 08 Dec 11
     
    Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.
kels_giroux

Home - Poverty Over - Christian Aid - 0 views

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1. Poverty and Hunger poverty MDGs resources development

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    Really cool interactive world map that shows evolution of devlopment / poverty over last 200 years. You can view the world, or specific regions.
Andrea Law

IB Global Engage - 0 views

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1. Poverty and Hunger

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  • Andrea Law on 08 Dec 11
     
    Welcome to the Global Engage website, which supports members of the IB community, and particularly teachers, in engaging with our global world. Here you will find information, resources, ideas and opinions, links, and suggestions for action concerned with global issues - and reports of actions taken by the IB community.
John Haug

Hans Rosling: The good news of the decade? - 2 views

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4. Reduce Child Mortality 3. Gender Equality Environmental Sustainability

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  • John Haug on 06 Dec 11
     
    Hans Rosling reframes 10 years of UN data with his spectacular visuals, lighting up an astonishing -- mostly unreported -- piece of front-page-worthy good news: We're winning the war against child mortality. Along the way, he debunks one flawed approach to stats that blots out such vital stories.
John Haug

Female Education Reduces Infant and Childhood Deaths - 3 views

www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm

4. Reduce Child Mortality 3. Gender Equality

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  • John Haug on 06 Dec 11
     
    The single biggest factor, by far, in reducing the rate of death among children younger than five is greater education for women. In all countries worldwide, whether females increase schooling from 10 years to 11, say, or two years to three, infant mortality declines, according to a recent study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.
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