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Health in United Nations: Millennium Development Goals
The Millennium Declaration, sets out an historic commitment to eradicate extreme poverty and improve the health of the world’s poorest people by 2015. The Declaration and the resulting internationally agreed targets for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) place health squarely at the centre of the international development agenda and champion it as a key driver […]
Proyectos de la UNESCO para comienzos del año
Compartiendo los valores de Global Education Magazine, la UNESCO ha lanzado esta primavera una serie de proyectos para seguir contribuyendo con sus objetivos de paz y entendimiento a través del fomento de la cultura y la educación. La primavera siempre ha sido vista en el imaginario de cada cultura como un nuevo renacer o comienzo […]
UNHCR’s work on HIV in the Americas
In Latin America and the Caribbean there are around 3.6 million internally displaced persons and about 445,000 refugees / asylum seekers facing a series of challenges due to their displacement, a situation that exposes them to a risk and vulnerability to HIV. Border areas reports in most cases a higher HIV prevalence due to […]
Critical Pedagogy Against Capitalist Schooling: Towards a Socialist Alternative. An Interview with Peter McLaren
JMBT: The first question I would like to ask you is: Considering the fact that you are a critical educator, which would you say are the main components that distinguish a critical education from a traditional one? PM: While I am a critical educator and have the utmost respect for the field, I do not work in […]
Salud para la Educación
La definición de salud se refiere a un estado en el que el organismo ejerce normalmente todas sus funciones. Es por este motivo por el que venimos a pedir salud, si, pero Salud para la Educación. El diagnóstico actual de la educación es enfermizo y, lo que es más duro, crónico. Las funciones principales que […]
Global Education Magazine: World Refugee Day (June 20th 2013)
Download the magazine here While the world-society close its eyes, refugees, stateless, asylum seekers and internally displaced people are suffering each day. This edition wants to raise awareness about transcultural links to develop a new identity “Earth-Homeland”. Sağlık! The mission of Global Education Magazine is to propose a moral agreement between all interested people to […]
El VIH/SIDA como Objetivo de Desarrollo del Milenio: el caso de Nicaragua y su Índice de Desarrollo Humano
Itahisa Pérez-Pérez Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Departamento de Ciencias Sociales e-mail: itahisaperez@gmail.com / twitter: @Itahisa_perez [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/87456452″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Resumen: Nicaragua se sitúa en el puesto 129 de los 187 países que forman parte del Informe de Desarrollo Humano (2011), retrocediendo 14 puestos al estar situado en 2010 en […]
Tending to the Whole Person: Healthcare Chaplaincy and the United Nations Millennium Goals 2015
Rabbi D’vorah Rose Founder, director at Integrating Spirituality with Healthcare Practice. email: DLRose@rabbidvorahrose.com / web: http://rabbidvorahrose.com/ Abstract: Healthcare chaplaincy is a young field. The study of the impact of spirituality and religiosity upon health status is also a newer field. This essay examines in broad strokes what healthcare chaplaincy currently offers, reviews some of the current spiritual […]
Education: an Essential Component in Guaranteeing the Right to Health?
Cristina Sirur. Volunteer journalist for Doctors of the World Spain. e-mail: cristinasirur@gmail.com Mariana Ruiz de Lobera. Management of Knowledge and Learning Officer. Doctors of the World Spain. e-mail: mariana.ruizdelobera@medicosdelmundo.org A reflection from Doctors of the World Spain Abstract: The following article is a reflection on how is the health situation in the […]
Habilidades para la vida: una estrategia para promover la salud y el bienestar infantil y adolescente
Juan Carlos Melero Trabaja para la Fundación EDEX e-mail: prevencion@edex.es [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/85130966″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Resumen: La distribución mundial de la carga de morbilidad pone de manifiesto que, en el momento actual, los principales factores de riesgo responsables de las causas más frecuentes de pérdida de salud y muerte están relacionados con […]
