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Gwen Stamm

DeclaracioICIP_010610_ang.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

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    Barcelona Declaration of the Human Right to Peace adopted on June 2, 2010 will be submitted to International Congress in December as part of the World Social Forum organized to celebrate the end the UN Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence. At this time nations from around the world will discuss and adopt the final text of the Declaration to submit to the UN.
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Ghanaian Teachers Discuss Computer Use at ICT Forum - International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) - 0 views

  • One of the things that came up during the meeting is that it is hard to find qualified tutors to teach ICT in primary schools.
Jason stewart

Al Azhar-West Dialog Project - 2 views

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    The Project is an open Q & A forum started by junior faculty at Al Azhar University to advance pluralism and mutual understanding between Islam and the West.
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Santiago Declaration on the human right to peace - AEDIDH - 0 views

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    The International Congress on the Human Right to Peace, held in Santiago on 9 and 10 in December 2010, concluded with great success with the adoption of the Santiago Declaration on the human right to peace and the establishment of the International Observatory of the Human Right to Peace. The Congress was organised in the context of the World Social Forum on Education for Peace, held in Santiago in December in 2010 and was the culmination of the SSIHRL Global Campaign for the international codification of the human right to peace.
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http://www.ei-ie.org/educationforall/en/newsshow.php?id=1523&theme=educationforall&country=global - 0 views

  • The World Social Forum (WSF) is an international event that draws thousands of people to exchange views on globalisation, human rights and workers’ rights. A special focus in this year’s Forum has been African issues, in particular developments in Tunisia and Egypt, as well as the lack of action on development and poverty in Africa.
  • Participants agreed that unions in western Africa must pursue their efforts to urge governments to take appropriate political measures for quality education. They expressed their concerns about how it could be that countries with limited natural resources, such as Cape Verde, Mauritius and Tunisia, were among the best performers in education, while the richest countries in the region justified their bad performances with budgetary restraints.
  • “There is no doubt that child labour is part of the daily reality in Africa. Despite the legal tools existing to fight it, including governments signing relevant international conventions, the questions is why nothing appears to be happening?”
stephknox24

Peace Education: Language and Civil Society - 3 views

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    Peace Education curriculum from the US Department of State English Language Programs
Teachers Without Borders

ReliefWeb » Document » UN agency calls for more support for its school feeding programmes - 0 views

  • Nancy Walters, the chief of school feeding policy at WFP, told a New York forum on hunger that the programmes have many benefits beyond the immediate goal of ensuring children do not go hungry. They help children stay in class, reduce levels of diseases and other health problems, empower girls, lift education standards and free many youngsters from having to work.
  • Some 66 million schoolchildren in dozens of countries currently receive meals through the programmes, and Ms. Walters said WFP would continue to fund and implement them with the help of its current partners.
  • "We have seen the impact of fortified biscuits on anaemia levels in Bangladesh, for example. We know about the impacts in terms of gender, social protection, stability, income transfer, freed parental labour, combating child labour impacts and how school feeding can be a platform to local production, nutrition, hygiene and HIV information." She also emphasized their value to efforts to reach the social and economic targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which have a target date of 2015.
Teachers Without Borders

Experts discuss the challenge of achieving universal, quality education | Back on Track - 0 views

  • “Kids are enrolling in school in much greater numbers than ever before,” she said, “but that really masks the fact that they’re actually not learning very much. One example is that in Uganda, half the kids in third grade can’t read a single word.”
  • “We know how to train teachers. We know how to put in curricula. We know what the right things to do for kids are to give them all the right skills,” added Mr. Wong. “But the investment required, and the time and the commitment, is not there if you don’t have the political support.”
  • A Brookings Institution analysis of the wealthiest philanthropic donors in the United States found that global education was a very low priority for them. Ms. Winthrop said she believed this was because a focus on enrolment – which is on track to meet the Millennium Development Goal on education – has “lulled people into thinking that the global education agenda is done, check, we can cross that off the list.”
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  • “It’s not just [about] putting them into school…. It’s making sure they’re coming out with the right skills that make them employable and make them so creative and innovative that they might actually go ahead and start their own business.”
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The CANVAS Core Curriculum provides a wealth of information on a broad range of topics relevant to waging nonviolent conflict. - Peace and Collaborative Development Network - 1 views

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    The CANVAS Core Curriculum provides a wealth of information on a broad range of topics relevant to waging nonviolent conflict. It combines theoretical insights about nonviolent struggle with practical knowledge that is based on the authors' and activists' real world experience.
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Poorer African states put children first: study | Reuters - 0 views

  • The African Child Policy Forum (ACPF) research looked at health, education and other social spending as a proportion of the overall budget in order to gauge governments' commitment to nurturing children -- key to improving long-term national economic prospects.
valerie taylor

WSIS Platform of Communities: Sugar Labs project: Replacing textbooks with OERs - 1 views

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    "The basic mission is to create OERs to replace textbooks in every school subject for every age or grade level for every country in every language needed. Children commonly take five subjects at a time, including Physical Education, divided into semesters, for 12 years of primary and secondary education. There is some variation in this plan, which does not change the fact that this comes to a requirement for more than 100 semester class OERs, without counting electives. The real count is doubtless greater than 300, including academic and vocational subjects, and numerous languages."
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