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UNESCO Seeks "Gender-Responsive" Schooling in Africa
August 09, 2017
In May, the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) hosted an Inter-Agency Task Team on Education and School Health in Zambia pushing for government authorities to implement "gender-responsive education" and "comprehensive sexuality education" in school curricula to further the UN's "sustainable development" health and education targets.
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UNESCO Examines Universities' SDG Promotion
August 09, 2017
UNESCO's International Association of Universities has published a global survey of higher education's role in promoting the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), finding that universities are implementing the SDGs "at all levels" but mostly have failed so far to develop a "strategic plan" to push sustainable development among students.
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UNESCO Monitors Progress on "Global Citizenship Education"
August 09, 2017
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) released a study in May showing widespread success in its agenda to insert "sustainable development" and climate education in national curricula around the world, tempered by lagging results in the replacement of lessons on "national citizenship" with its doctrine of "Global Citizenship Education."
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UN Women Seeks "Gender-Responsive" SDG Fulfillment
August 09, 2017
In the lead-up to the UN's High Level Political Forum to review progress on fulfilling the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), UN Women hosted a program in May on how to achieve "gender-responsive implementation" of the SDGs through the broad concepts of gender equality and women's "empowerment."
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UNESCO Seeks "Gender Sensitive" Arab Media
August 08, 2017
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) hosted a training event aimed at teaching journalists in the Arab world how to protect against “gender bias” in reporting and how to use media to help “progress” society in line with the Sustainable Development Goal of “gender equality and women’s empowerment.”
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