The Greatest Tech Breakthrough Would Be Getting Cell Phones to Rural Women — Global Issues

The Greatest Tech Breakthrough Would Be Getting Cell Phones to Rural Women — Global Issues

A cell phone gives rural women access to financial services, training, networks, and, importantly, information and knowledge. Credit: Prashanth Vishwanathan (CCAFS) Opinion by Nicoline de Haan (nairobi, kenya) Monday, March 06, 2023 Inter Press Service Dr. Nicoline de Haan is Director of the CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 06…

BRAC Resets Program Aimed at Empowering Adolescent Girls in Africa — Global Issues

BRAC Resets Program Aimed at Empowering Adolescent Girls in Africa — Global Issues

A girl reads a story book with lessons on life skills at an ELA club in Uganda. Credit: Uganda/BRAC by Naureen Hossain (united nations) Wednesday, February 22, 2023 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Feb 22 (IPS) – BRAC’s Empowerment and Livelihood Program (ELA) has benefitted tens of thousands of girls, and…

Climate Crisis is a Child Crisis and Climate-Resilient Children, Teachers and Schools Must Become Top International Agenda — Global Issues

Climate Crisis is a Child Crisis and Climate-Resilient Children, Teachers and Schools Must Become Top International Agenda — Global Issues

From climate change to child marriage, education is seen as the solution. ECW Director Yasmine Sherif protests early marriage with young delegates at the Education Cannot Wait Conference held in Geneva. Credit: ECW by Joyce Chimbi (geneva & nairobi) Friday, February 17, 2023 Inter Press Service GENEVA & NAIROBI, Feb 17…

Act on the Taliban and Secure Our Right to Education, Afghan Women and Girls’ Plea — Global Issues

Act on the Taliban and Secure Our Right to Education, Afghan Women and Girls’ Plea — Global Issues

Somaya Faruqui, Education Cannot Wait Global Champion and Captain of the Afghan Girls Robotics Team speaking during the Spotlight on Afghanistan at the ECW High-Level Financing Conference in Geneva, Switzerland. Credit: ECW/Michael Calabrò by Busani Bafana (geneva & bulawayo) Thursday, February 16, 2023 Inter Press Service GENEVA & BULAWAYO, Feb 16…

ECW High-Level Financing Conference Raises More than 826 Million USD to Keep Crisis-Impacted Children in School — Global Issues

ECW High-Level Financing Conference Raises More than 826 Million USD to Keep Crisis-Impacted Children in School — Global Issues

Gordon Brown, United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education, Chair of the High-Level Steering Group, asked an Education Cannot Wait High-Level Financing Conference to stand in support of the children of Syria and Turkey who are displaced due to the earthquake. These children, join 222 million others without an access…

Parents want charters because schools are for kids, not unions — politicians, wake up!
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Parents want charters because schools are for kids, not unions — politicians, wake up!

As if state legislators and union leaders fearmongering about charter-school costs weren’t enough, Mayor Eric Adams, when he should be championing the city’s kids, is instead caving and joining that crowd. There’s no reality to charter schools costing $1 billion extra in any foreseeable future, but that doesn’t stop the ridiculous narrative against the increasingly…

Bhutans Civil Servants are Building a Digital Government System — Heres How — Global Issues

Bhutans Civil Servants are Building a Digital Government System — Heres How — Global Issues

Opinion by Ian Richards, Amy Shelver (geneva, switzerland) Tuesday, February 07, 2023 Inter Press Service GENEVA, Switzerland, Feb 07 (IPS) – New UNCTAD software does to digital government what IKEA did to furniture, allowing Bhutan’s government employees to create their own user-friendly services for citizens online. Tedious government procedures aren’t just…

Global Leaders Urge Participation in High-Level Financing Conference to Fund Education for 222 Million Crisis-Impacted Children — Global Issues

Global Leaders Urge Participation in High-Level Financing Conference to Fund Education for 222 Million Crisis-Impacted Children — Global Issues

Yasmine Sherif, the Director of Education Cannot Wait, sees the ECW High-Level Financing Conference as crucial to turning the agreements from the Transforming Education Summit into action. Credit: ECW by Joyce Chimbi (nairobi) Friday, February 03, 2023 Inter Press Service NAIROBI, Feb 03 (IPS) – The world is in the throng…

Senior UN Leaders Show Their Support to Afghan Women and Girls, Urge Taliban to Reverse Their Bans — Global Issues

Senior UN Leaders Show Their Support to Afghan Women and Girls, Urge Taliban to Reverse Their Bans — Global Issues

Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed called for the Taliban to reverse its decisions that have limited women’s and girls’ rights. CREDIT: UN by Naureen Hossain (united nations) Tuesday, January 31, 2023 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Jan 31 (IPS) – Recent visits to Afghanistan by senior-led UN delegations underscore the urgency to…