World #poverty could be cut in half if all adults completed secondary #education

A new UNESCO policy paper shows that the global poverty rate could be more than halved if all adults completed secondary school. Yet, new data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) show persistently high out-of-school rates in many countries, making it likely that completion levels in education will remain well below that target for […]

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Aprender a sentir, pensar, actuar con la #naturaleza @TEDxCuenca

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En esta charla, el PhD Javier Collado Ruano, nos habla de la importancia de mirar biomiméticamente cómo la naturaleza resuelve sus problemas para poder aplicar soluciones parecidas a nuestros propios problemas como especie y sociedad. Es profesor titular de Filosofía de la Educación en la Universidad Nacional de Educación de Ecuador, Doctor en Difusión del […]

SEDARVP-Ghana

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SEDARVP-Ghana is a local N.G.O known as Social Education Development and Rural Volunteer program with its headquarters located in the northern part of Ghana. It is a non-profit making, non-partisan, non-religious, non-racial and non-ethnic centred organization. Sedarvp-Ghana is one of the fastest youth and women empowerment growing volunteer organisations in Ghana which aims at bringing […]

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Interview with Ms @IrinaBokova, Director-General of @UNESCO

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© GEM.Ms. Irina Bokova, Director General of UNESCO became Honorary Membership at Global Education Magazine. Javier Collado Ruano: Today, 5th December 2015, being International Volunteer Day, we welcome our special guess, Ms. Irina Bokova, Director General of UNESCO. I have had the opportunity to talk with her during the 2nd UNESCO Forum on Global Citizenship Education held in February 2015 in […]

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International #Volunteer Day

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Salimatou Fatty Founder/CEO- Salimatou’s Foundation for Education Global Youth Ambassador- A world at school Assistance Programmer Officer-Teaching Award Trust Assistance Summer Camp Coordinator- Education For African Future salimatoufatty@gmail.com . . . . I am Salimatou Fatty, a proudly Gambian volunteer for young people. I am very enthusiastic about issues concerning the girl-child, youths, children and […]

La Sonrisa Nómada: un proyecto #voluntario transcultural

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Iván y Diego en su ciudad natal: Lugo. Javier Collado Ruano: Estimados/as lectores/as, hoy tenemos el gusto de entrevistar a Iván Doel Varela y Diego Segade Blanco, del equipo “La Sonrisa Nómada“. Les conozco desde hace años y su rica visión de mundo y larga experiencia en temáticas sociales son un ejemplo para nuestra sociedad. […]

Residuos Sólidos: La Cooperación Internacional entre Brasil y Haití

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Ana Verena Menezes Abogada, Internacionalista y Mestre en Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo por la Universidad de Salamanca (España). anaverena.m@gmail.com . Resumen: El trabajo a seguir discute la Cooperación Sur- Sur entre Brasil y Haití en relación a la temática de los residuos sólidos. Para realizar este análisis se adopta como ejemplo el proyecto de […]

Liberating the “Untouchables”

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By Jose kalathil kalathil.jose@gmail.com . As the world celebrated the Toilet Day on 19 November, the world’s 2.3 billion people did not have reason to be merry, as they lacked private toilets. In India, they number 774 million. Among them, according to government, 11,000 are engaged in the centuries-old practice of physically removing human excrement from ‘dry’ […]

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Sustainable Development Goals

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One of the main outcomes of the Rio+20 Conference was the agreement by member States to launch a process to develop a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which will build upon the Millennium Development Goals and converge with the post 2015 development agenda (click here for information on different work streams). It was decided […]

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Three #UN agencies join forces to boost #education of adolescent girls and young #women

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The heads of UNESCO, UNFPA and UN Women sealed a partnership to empower adolescent girls and young women through education, by signing a joint programme agreement at the headquarters of the United Nations Population Fund in New York. The agreement was signed today by UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova, UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin […]