The goal of the UN Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI) is to narrow the gender gap in primary and secondary education and to ensure that, by 2015, all children complete primary schooling, with girls and boys having equal access to all levels of education. Having made notable progress at global level, the decision of UNGEI’s Global Advisory Committee (GAC) to focus on the regional and country levels will help boost current efforts towards gender equality in education and beyond in a designate more...
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Dubai Cares, a charitable organization that aims to provide primary education to one million children in developing countries, today provided UNICEF with nearly 1.2 million dollars to fund educational programmes in Niger. The Dubai Cares donation will benefit approximately 150,000 school children along with primary school teachers, parent teacher associations, school management committees, education civil servants and NGO’s programmes.
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Elementary education is a fundamental right for all children. Biases and stereotypes prevent many children from marginalised communities prevent them from participating in or benefiting from education. Thousands of girls are either never sent to school or are forced to drop out because of poverty and traditional practice of not educating girls.
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This issue of the monthly e-newsletter on youth reproductive health and HIV prevention focuses on information from a major international youth conference held in April 2008, 'Youth Deliver the Future: Investing in Young People's Health and Development — Research that Improves Policies and Programs.'
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Drawing on evidence of labour conditions in India, the author, Jens Lerche, Department of Development Studies, SOAS, contends that the ILO should broaden its working definition of forced labour to encompass many of large number of modern forms, such as migrant bonded labour, which rely more on economic compulsion than extra-economic coercion and are spread relentlessly by the forces globalization.
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A far-sighted educational trust is reaping the benefit of digging recharge wells long before the need for them. While its own decision is a lesson in conservation, the institution is also going further, imbibing ecological concerns into the students too.
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The essays of the finalists and winners of the 2008 competition entitled 'Shaping the City of Your Dreams' are now available. Follow the link to find the practical proposals of: Pal Saptarshi from India (winner of the first prize), Mengting Wang from China (winner of the second prize), Maria Angelica Rodriguez from Colombia (winner of the third prize), Ashis Himali from Nepal, Hermann Hokou, Ivory Coast, Sara Abreu Machado from Brazil, Katarina Marsha Nugroho from Indonesia
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