Delegates from the Zambia All Party Parliamentary Group on Population and Development (ZAPPD) met in Lusaka to develop a strategic plan to tackle population and development issues. Credit: APDA by Cecilia Russell (johannesburg) Thursday, September 08, 2022 Inter Press Service Johannesburg, Sep 08 (IPS) – Parliamentarians play a decisive role in…
There are 244 million children out of school. Credit: Shafiqul Alam Kiron/IPS by Baher Kamal (madrid) Wednesday, September 07, 2022 Inter Press Service MADRID, Sep 07 (IPS) – More than two-thirds of 10-year-olds are unable to read and understand a simple text. This shocking finding should be enough to be alarmed…
A student teacher at the National Teacher’s College Kabale follows a lecture through his smartphone. Credit: Michael Wambi/IPS. by Wambi Michael (kampala/kabale) Wednesday, September 07, 2022 Inter Press Service KAMPALA/KABALE, Sep 07 (IPS) – Before the outbreak of COVID-19, an education officer in the district neighbouring Uganda’s capital Kampala decreed that…
Opinion by Saber Azam (geneva) Wednesday, September 07, 2022 Inter Press Service GENEVA, Sep 07 (IPS) – Afghanistan is where history has taken it! The Trump-Taliban “Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan,” signed on 29 February 2020, is deemed by many as the submission of a superpower to a group that…
Team Biden’s comment on news that school lockdowns cost America’s kids years of progress boils down to “Don’t blame us!” Seriously: President Joe Biden’s Education Department late last week issued this absurdity: “When President Biden took office, most schools in America remained closed. President Biden got to work. He put…
Helen Grant Opinion by Yasmine Sherif, Helen Grant (new york) Friday, September 02, 2022 Inter Press Service Helen Grant Despite the progress made in recent decades, gender inequality between girls and boys, in all their diversity, is deepening. According to a recent United Nations report, the interlinked crises: of armed conflicts,…
Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait and Jan Egeland, Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council meet students at the Souza Gare school in the Littoral region, Cameroon. The school hosts displaced children who have fled the violence in the North-West and South-West regions. Credit: ECW/Daniel Beloumou by Joyce…
Opinion by Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Anis Chowdhury (sydney and kuala lumpur) Tuesday, August 30, 2022 Inter Press Service SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 30 (IPS) – Most sub-Saharan African French colonies got formal independence in the 1960s. But their economies have progressed little, leaving most people in poverty, and generally worse…
Opinion by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana (bangkok, thailand) Tuesday, August 30, 2022 Inter Press Service BANGKOK, Thailand, Aug 30 (IPS) – Asia and the Pacific is the most digitally divided region of the world, and South-East Asia is the most divided subregion. The Covid-19 pandemic detonated a “digital big bang” that spurred…
Rohingya refugee girl Rohima Akter, 13, is excited about learning to write in the Burmese language in the UNICEF learning centre in Cox’s Bazar. The new curriculum provides Rohingya refugee children with formal and standardized education. Credit: UNICEF Bangladesh by Joyce Chimbi (united nations) Tuesday, August 23, 2022 Inter Press Service…
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