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Tag Archives: target 4.7
What do you wish for the education of the next generation of girls?
2020 is a pivotal year as the global community will mark the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (Beijing+25). The Beijing Declaration is considered as the key global policy document on gender equality and the most … Continue reading
Posted in Gender, Uncategorized
Tagged Gender, gender parity, gender. equality, target 4.7
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The bottom ten countries for girls’ education
The World Inequality Database in Education, WIDE, managed by the GEM Report and the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, highlights the powerful influence of gender, combined with other factors such as ethnicity and location, over which people have little control but … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Equity, Gender, parity, Uncategorized
Tagged Gender, gender parity, gender. equality, girls, girls' education, target 4.7
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Gender gap in primary school enrolment has halved over past 25 years
Sunday is International Women’s Day. The year 2020 is also the 25-year anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing in 1995), which culminated with the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, a key global policy document on gender … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Equity, Gender, Uncategorized
Tagged Gender, gender parity, gender. equality, girls' education, target 4.7
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Want your Digital Health Education Program to Work? Hire a Youth Designer
By Mireille Sekamana, a junior designer from Kigali, Rwanda. She works with YLabs to design digital platforms that provide health education to empower young people in Rwanda. Mireille is taking part in the Switched On Symposium in Istanbul, Turkey, 19-21 … Continue reading
If we do not provide young people with quality sexuality education, the digital world will
By: Joanna Herat, senior programme specialist for health and education at UNESCO, with expertise in comprehensive sexuality education, HIV, and school-related gender-based violence. Joanna is leading the team organizing the Switched On Symposium in Istanbul, Turkey, 19-21 February 2020, around … Continue reading
10 students with a disability talk about the difficulties of accessing inclusive education in the USA
“Being disabled, for many of us, means the end to any hopes of pursuing an education”, said Ashley Cowan D’Ambrosio, a Master of Arts student at the City University of New York with multiple disabilities, including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder … Continue reading
Posted in disability, Inclusion, Uncategorized
Tagged 2020 GEM Report, disabilities, disability, Inclusion, inclusive education, target 4.7
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Pregnant girls must be supported in attending school
In October, Sierra Leone’s government issued a clarification to its 2015 policy that barred pregnant girls from attending school. Sadly, the clarification only reaffirms the government’s position. Based on erroneous perceptions that ‘pregnant girls have the potential to negatively influence … Continue reading
Educating for the social, the emotional and the sustainable
By Andy Smart, Margaret Sinclair, Aaron Benavot, Jean Bernard, Colette Chabbott, S. Garnett Russell and James Williams Earlier this year, the UN Secretary-General reported that “the shift in development pathways to generate the transformation required to meet the Sustainable Development … Continue reading
Posted in curriculum, sdgs, Sustainable development, textbooks, Uncategorized
Tagged afghanistan, curriculum, lebanon, SDG 4, target 4.7, teachers, teaching, textbooks
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A woman has won the ‘Nobel prize for mathematics’ for the first time
The 2019 Abel Prize, also known as the ‘Nobel prize for mathematics’ was won by Karen Uhlenbeck last Tuesday, the first woman to ever receive the award. The award makes her one of the pioneers for women mathematicians, alongside … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Gender, STEM, Uncategorized
Tagged Gender, gender. equality, maths, STEM, target 4.7
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Tanzania has suspended family planning commercials in the country ‘with immediate effect’
At the end of September, the government of the United Republic of Tanzania announced to international agencies that they should “stop with immediate effect airing and publishing any family planning contents in any media channels” running any family planning content … Continue reading
Posted in Gender, Health, sexuality education, Uncategorized
Tagged Gender, media, pregnancy, sexuality education, tanzania, target 4.7
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