Last month the 2016 GEM-Report - Education for people and planet: Creating sustainable futures for all was published. It replaces the EFA Global Monitoring Report and has a newly defined mandate to report on the progress of education under the 2030 Agenda. This is the first of a 15 part series, which will report on the progress of SDG4 and will explore...
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One of the world’s most critical challenges despite significant progress over the last decade is maternal deaths. Although maternal deaths worldwide have decreased in recent decades approximately 800 women still die each day from largely preventable causes before, during, and after the time of birth. These deaths are not equally distributed. Ninety-nine percent of preventable maternal deaths occur in low...
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And we’re back!
Having taken the first few articles in this blog to lay some groundwork about global education we are now going to dive deeper into the issues. We are going to begin by looking at POVERTY.
Why Poverty? Because where it exists there is little hope and there is much desperation. It steals individual’s potential, denies them their...
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The 50th anniversary of International Literacy Day (ILD) is being celebrated this year on September 8 with the motto “Reading the Past, Writing the Future”. The focus is on innovation; as “this is the first year of implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In this context the vision of literacy is aligned with lifelong learning opportunities with special...
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FAWCO supports the work of partner Pathways to Safety, which offers services to Americans abroad who may encounter violence in any form- in their home, their workplace or stranger violence. The mission of Pathways is "We educate Americans traveling and living abroad, giving them tools to stay informed about gender-based violence, and we empower victims to survive and...
The FAWCO Human Rights Team is a comprehensive network of advocates working to ensure human rights for all women. The Team keeps members aware of new developments impacting women’s rights, including UN updates, through Human Rights articles, postings, and other advocacy work. We also engage FAWCO Members in awareness and action campaigns. It is our goal to leverage FAWCO’s unique...
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FAWCO's Environment Team is a dynamic and committed group of 15 women from 11 different clubs and FAUSA who work together to publish frequent informative articles. The Team’s aim is to increase member awareness about the environmental issues that confront our planet, such as the major causes of global climate change, energy efficiency, conservation and waste reduction, and issues affecting clean air, soil and...
