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Meghan Flaherty

Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women - 0 views

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women UN peace

shared by Meghan Flaherty on 24 May 10 - Cached
  • violence against women is an obstacle to the achievement of equality, development and peace
  • violence against women constitutes a violation of the rights and fundamental freedoms of women
  • violence against women is a manifestation of historically unequal power relations between men and women, which have led to domination over and discrimination against women by men and to the prevention of the full advancement of women, and that violence against women is one of the crucial social mechanisms by which women are forced into a subordinate position compared with men
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  • opportunities for women to achieve legal, social, political and economic equality in society are limited, inter alia, by continuing and endemic violence
  • the term "violence against women" means any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life.
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National curriculum gets our history badly wrong - 0 views

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Australia curriculum reform

shared by Teachers Without Borders on 12 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Take, for example, the history syllabus. After a full quota of compulsory schooling, Australian students will be none the wiser about the origins and central tenets of liberalism: the basics of individual rights, representative democracy and the market economy, and the importance of civil society. Not to put too fine a point on it, but these are the absolute fundamentals of Western civilisation. And they are missing from the national curriculum.
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Nigeria: FG to restructure Colleges of Education curriculum - 0 views

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Nigeria teacher education reform pre-service

shared by Teachers Without Borders on 14 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • The National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) is to restructure the curriculums and programmes offered by the Colleges of Education in the country in a bid to produce quality teachers in Nigeria who are knowledgeable, skilled and professional in their attitudes.
  • Dr Agada explained that for Colleges of education to realise their full potentials towards the production of the kind of teachers Nigeria needs in the 21st century, there is need to review and reposition Colleges of Education and all NCE awarding institutions for effective performance that meets international standards.
  • the restructuring was necessitated by public outcry about the inability of NCE graduates to effectively deliver instruction at the primary school.
  • Teachers Without Borders on 14 Jan 11
     
    The National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) is to restructure the curriculums and programmes offered by the Colleges of Education in the country in a bid to produce quality teachers in Nigeria who are knowledgeable, skilled and professional in their attitudes.
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the Namibian: Bible to be reintroduced in schools - 0 views

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Namibia curriculum reform religion

shared by Teachers Without Borders on 03 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • FORMAL approval is being awaited from the Ministry of Education for the reintroduction of Bible study in public schools as part of the existing Religious and Moral Education (RME) subject.
  • “The purpose of Government’s RME curriculum is to develop knowledge of the diversity of religious beliefs as a source for moral education, while the purpose of CCN’s curriculum is to use the Bible as source for moral education.  This will help prevent the growing threat of moral decay in Namibian society and strengthen Biblical instruction in the school curriculum,” said Kapere.
  • She told The Namibian that Bible study at schools was done away with in Namibia after Independence, and the main reason for this is because the Constitution classifies Namibia as a ‘secular state’.“To focus on one specific religion would have been objectionable by the other religions,” she said. “Christianity is taught now, but it’s more historical than theological. With the new programme, children will go deeper into what the Bible says.”
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  • The Namibian Constitution guarantees “freedom to practice any religion and to manifest such practice”, and “a learner at a State school or hostel has the right to practice any religion which is not against public policy.”  
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Stopped time: Japan tsunami hits school - CNN.com - 0 views

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Japan earthquake school teachers emergency_education

shared by Teachers Without Borders on 22 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • The school is only 100 meters from shore. A CNN crew accompanied Asokawa, principal of the school, on Tuesday as he climbed the steps and inspected the total damage to the school for the first time. There is mud, seaweed and fishing nets in the top floor of the 3-story building.
  • On one of the walls of the school the clock is frozen at 2:46 -- the time when the 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck. Toys, bags, wood, sand and seaweed are tangled in confusion. A stool hangs from the ceiling. Backpacks were orderly placed on cupboards, where 107 students ages 6 to 12 left them on Friday, when they ran for their lives.
  • But Asokawa is worried: the school has 108 students. One child was absent that day and he is missing. The rest of his students are in a nearby shelter, taken care of by their teachers, he said.
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  • Togura Elementary School stands in the middle of what once was a town and now barely has any marks of human existence. The force of the water erased concrete roads and placed a full-grown tree in the school corridor, it's roots blocking the way.
  • "I will wait for the kids to come back," he told CNN, as he continued going through his files.
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Child Earthquake Survivors Relive Trauma as Radiation Fears Add to Stress - Bloomberg - 0 views

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earthquake children schools teacher emergency_education Japan stress

shared by Teachers Without Borders on 25 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • As the tsunami hit her school in Sendai, kindergarten teacher Junko Kamada stood in the window of a second story hall to block the children from seeing the destruction caused by the 1.5-meter wave. Amid dirt-caked chairs, soiled books and damaged equipment, Kamada, 60, is preparing to bring the students back to the school, about a mile inland from the coast. The children will also need counseling to deal with the trauma they have experienced, psychologists say.
  • Schools resumed two days ago in northeastern Japan, the epicenter of the March 11 magnitude-9 earthquake. Classes --some held in homes and makeshift spaces -- are providing a safe place for children to reunite with friends and a semblance of familiarity amid the nation’s worst disaster since World War II.
  • While adolescents attuned to the reality of death may act out their trauma, younger ones find it harder to articulate their distress, she said. People who suffer psychological ailments such as depression in childhood are 10 to 20 times more likely than others to experience those problems in adulthood, according to a 2010 study in the journal Social Science & Medicine. Affected individuals tend to leave school earlier and earn about 20 percent less over their lifetime, the authors found.
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  • “When children suffer from an acute fear, they tend to depend on their mothers more for their safety, and display regressive and immature behavior,” said Naotaka Shinfuku, professor of psychiatry at Seinan Gakuin University in Fukuoka, who studied the impact of the 1995 earthquake in the Japanese city of Kobe. “It’s good for children’s mental health to learn and play in a safe environment if they wish to do so.”
  • “Kids saw their friends for the first time in days,” Saijo, 53, said. “They were very happy, hugging each other -- something we hadn’t seen in a while.”
  • At the Sakuragi Hanazono kindergarten, where Junko Kamada began her teaching career almost 40 years ago, that means not succumbing to grief. “The teachers are incredibly sad,” Kamada said. “They know children they have cared for have died, but they are trying to get the school back on its feet.”
  • Teachers Without Borders on 25 Mar 11
     
    "The teachers are incredibly sad," Kamada said. "They know children they have cared for have died, but they are trying to get the school back on its feet."
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Closure of migrant children schools in China sparks anguish | Reuters - 0 views

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china reuters children schools closure

shared by Teachers Without Borders on 22 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • (Reuters) - China has shut down 24 schools for the children of migrant workers in Beijing forcing more than 14,000 students to drop out, state media said, sparking anger among parents who say they face discrimination. Local officials told the migrant schools that they had not met safety and hygiene standards.
  • While the overwhelming majority of China's 150 million rural migrant workers see their future in cities and towns, they are often treated as unwelcome "interlopers" and have few rights.China's residence permit (hukou) system, which channels most welfare, housing support and healthcare to urban residents, means that migrant workers do not have access to state-subsidized schools.
  • "Our school has closed, forcing some 800 students to drop out," said a representative of the New Hope School, who declined to be named. "There are still 500 students with nowhere to go although the local government has relocated 300 of them."
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Effective policies give children in Angola a second chance to learn  | Back o... - 0 views

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Angola UNICEF ECE education conflict in emergencies reform students

shared by Teachers Without Borders on 08 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Despite recent economic development, Angola remains a society deeply scarred by the still-recent civil war. The conflict caused massive internal displacement and refugee outflows, along with the collapse or destruction of key agricultural, health, education and transportation infrastructures, limiting the government’s ability to provide basic public services. This has resulted in a series of barriers to children enrolling and remaining in school.
  • Children living in emergencies or post-conflict contexts are often excluded from schooling or start school late. Their educational progress suffers and they lack the necessary tools for learning, leading them to drop out of school.
  • Many of today’s adolescents in Angola were born during the prolonged civil war and missed several years of schooling or never had the opportunity to attend primary school at all. These youth often do not fit in the primary school setting, and classrooms are already crowded with much younger children.
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  • UNICEF’s Accelerated Learning Programme, called Programa de Alfabetização e Aceleração Escolar (PAAE) in Angola, provides a second-chance learning opportunity for literacy, numeracy and life skills for adolescents through a condensed and adapted primary school curriculum, which can be completed in two-and-a-half years rather than the full six years of primary schooling. It thus encourages out-of-school adolescents to complete primary education, come back into the school system and continue to the second level.
  • “The Accelerated Learning Programme is a critical national strategy of the Government of Angola but what is more important is that this strategy is translated into a second chance and a renewal of hope for adolescents, and girls especially, to continue to learn and develop,” said Paulina Feijo, UNICEF Angola, Education Project Officer.
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Displaced youth in South Yemen cope with the effects of war | Back on Track - 0 views

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Yemen IDPs youth students education Education Under Attack displacement child-friendly spaces conflict UNICEF

shared by Teachers Without Borders on 08 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • ADEN, Yemen, 15 September 2011 – It is the fourth day of Ramadan in Aden, a port city in the south of Yemen, and the temperature has reached over 40 degrees centigrade. Although it is summer holiday, the yard of Belqis School in Aden is full of children. Some play under the sun, while others attend educational sessions in a tent organized by UNICEF. The children are from families displaced by fighting in the restive region of Abyan between government troops and militants suspected of links to al-Qaeda.
  • Classrooms that once were filled with desks and chairs have now become makeshift homes, with some rooms accommodating up to 24 people.
  • “The sound of the aircraft is still in my ears day and night,” she said. “There were heavy steps coming closer and closer to our door and then suddenly my father opened the door and a guy wearing a military uniform asked us to leave.” Amani added sadly, “I still remember my mother crying, refusing to leave.”
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