By Pauline Rose, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report The widespread use of child soldiers – whose damaging effects on education we examined in the 2011 Global Monitoring Report – came under the global spotlight for the second time in a week on Wednesday, when the International Criminal Court delivered its historic [...]
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As Haiti struggles to recover from the devastating earthquake two years ago, rebuilding education is a major priority – and a small bright light, of sorts. According to Nigel Fisher, the UN secretary-general’s Deputy Special Representative for Haiti, there are now more children in school than there were before the earthquake that struck on January [...]
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Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, president of Liberia, during a state visit to Brazil in 2010. (Photo: A. Cruz/ABr. Creative Commons License Attr. 2.5 Brazil) Français | Español The awarding of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize to Leymah Gbowee and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen, has turned the spotlight on the impact of conflict [...]
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Français | Español By Kevin Watkins, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report The real measure of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report’s impact is not how well it is received by governments, but whether it makes a difference – however small – to the lives of people denied opportunities for education. [...]
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Français | Español A new UN report supplies further evidence of the disturbing trend towards attacks on schools that we documented in the 2011 Education for All Global Monitoring Report, The hidden crisis: Armed conflict and education. The annual report of the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, released on May 11, finds [...]
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Français | Español The Global Monitoring Report team is joining forces with UNESCO’s network of field offices to mark this year’s Education for All Global Action Week (May 2-8), which focuses on girls’ and women’s education. In 2000, governments pledged to achieve gender equality in education by 2015 – the fifth of the six Education [...]
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Français | Español | العربية The 2011 Education for All Global Monitoring Report, The hidden crisis: Armed conflict and education, is launched today at 10 a.m. in New York by Irina Bokova, director-general of UNESCO, with simultaneous launches in a dozen other locations, including Santiago, London, Dakar, Nairobi, Beirut and Beijing. A live webcast of the New York launch [...]
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Français | Español The 2011 Education for All Global Monitoring Report, to be launched on March 1, warns that rape and other sexual violence are depriving millions of children of an education by keeping them in a climate of terror. The report, The hidden crisis: Armed conflict and education, turns the spotlight on the widespread [...]
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