This brief calls attention to the need for dedicated resources and policies that address the unique needs of young children and their families, caregivers, and communities during acute emergencies. By raising awareness and providing evidence-based recommendations, the brief aims to encourage collaboration across different sectors and stakeholders to work together to create fundamental, lasting changes. Go to the brief.
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Living in a democratic and always changing world, children have to learn the basic facts about their rights and to acquire the needed democratic life skills. Such democratic life skills can be reinforced through the surrounding environment itself, such schools. A Child Friendly School is a framework designed by UNICEF as the answer to the above needs. A Child Friendly School is a school that recognizes and nurtures the achievement of children's basic rights. A school is considered child friendly when it provides a safe, clean, healthy and protective environment for all children Go to the article
Join KM Gopakumar, legal advisor at Third World Network, and Jyotsna Singh from the People’s Health Movement as they delve into the ongoing negotiations surrounding the Pandemic Treaty. Over the past two years, World Health Organization members have been discussing a new document aimed at strengthening global pandemic response, drawing from lessons learned during the COVID-19 crisis. However, with the deadline for submitting a draft text to the World Health Assembly approaching in May 2024, high-income countries seem poised to obstruct efforts by those in the Global South to foster solidarity and collaboration in pandemic response. Go to the recording.
The Caribbean Observatory on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and several other organizations have published a policy guide on Towards a better future: Enacting policy and legislation to guarantee comprehensive sexuality education for youth in and out-of school. Go to the resource.
The School Threat Assessment Toolkit is designed to aid schools in employing behavioral threat assessment (TA) and management as part of a comprehensive violence prevention strategy. Authored primarily by Dewey Cornell and Jennifer Maeng, and with input from school safety leaders, experts, government agencies, and the US National Center for School Safety, the toolkit offers guidance on training, implementation, and assessment of school TA teams. It aims to ensure fidelity to student rights while providing practical tools like documents, forms, videos, and additional resources to support schools’ efforts. Go to the resource.
News Story (Feb 17/24) :WHO chief's dire warning: Disease X outbreak 'a matter of when, not if'5/1/2024 Fox News: Tedros said he issued a similar warning in 2018 and was proven right when COVID-19 struck. World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus has issued a new warning about the likelihood of Disease X breaking out, telling global world leaders it is "a matter of when, not if" a new pathogen and pandemic will strike. Tedros, who goes by his first name and is not a medical doctor, told attendees at the World Government Summit in Dubai earlier his week he gave a similar warning in 2018 that a pandemic was likely to hit, and he was proven right with the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus. Complaining that the world is still ill-prepared for a new pandemic, Tedros once again touted the urgent need for a global treaty to be agreed upon by May and dismissed suspicions of it being a WHO power grab as outlandish.Go to news story
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released the web version of the second edition of its Global Accelerated Action for the Health of Adolescents (AA-HA!) guidance. Updated statistics on adolescent health and navigation within the comprehensive document are provided in the updated edition. Chapter 5.3 describes implementation strategies for key sectors including education. This chapter also provides links to additional SH resources published by WHO. Go to the full document here.
From the UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report team. This is part of a series of blogs, aiming to inform about some of the core challenges and solutions to collecting quality data, which were further discussed in depth at the first ever Conference on Education Data and Statistics, convened by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) from 7-9 February 2024. Read the four part series here:
This second edition of the SDG 4 Scorecard demonstrates the efforts that countries have been making since 2015 towards achieving their 2025 and 2030 national benchmarks – their targets, which represent their intended contributions to the achievement of SDG 4, the global education goal.. More information here.
OECD has announced the dates for a series of webinars on "mindshifts" towards the future. “OECD Learning & Teaching Compass: MindShift through Upgrading Perspectives in Education”.
The titles, dates and registration links are below. (Go to this calendar for updated links)
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