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UNESCO Promotes "Citizenship Education" in Southern Africa
July 20, 2017
In April, the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) supported a meeting of Sub-Saharan African leaders to discuss how "global citizenship education" can promote global perceptions of the concepts of "human rights, citizenship, international relations, peace, conflicts resolution, democracy, and environmental education" in national education systems.
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UNESCO Creates Education Monitoring Database
July 20, 2017
As part of its push to meet education targets under the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has created an online database permitting the public, including rights activists, to monitor countries' education systems and pressure them to expand efforts to fulfill the global "right to education."
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UNESCO Calls for More Teacher Training on "Citizenship Education"
July 20, 2017
Based on a recent study, the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) has called for countries to match their mandatory integration of the "global citizenship education" agenda, which prioritizes diversity and inclusiveness, in their national curricula with a higher level of training for teachers to permit them to appropriately deliver the agenda to students.
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UN Committee Blasts Israeli "Rights Violations"
July 19, 2017
An annual evaluation from a UN Committee established specifically to target Israel over alleged human rights violations concluded that "Israeli authorities continue with policies and practices," including administrative detention and extrajudicial killings, "that negatively impact the human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory."
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UNESCO Pushes "Sustainability" Education in Southern Africa
July 19, 2017
Representatives from a group of Southern African countries recently approved a training course and materials supported by the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) with the aim of transposing the international organization's "Education for Sustainable Development" agenda in school curricula across the region.
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