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Algeria and Nigeria: sharing the deadweight of human mindlessness
Some of the most common reactions to the mass kidnapping of school girls by the jihadist group Boko Haram in Nigeria are to ask questions like: how can this be happening? Why would anyone do something so terrible?
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On the move for equality from words to action
Open Society Foundations General Education Advisory Board Chairman, Mary Metcalfe addresses Education International’s second World Women’s Conference.
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Sexual harassment in UK schools
Sexual bullying in the classroom rarely makes the headlines. But one in three 16-18 year old girls in the UK have experienced unwanted sexual touching at school. What does this tacit acceptance of harassment teach our children?
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Educating Orthodoxy
The Russian Orthodox Church has been expanding its educational activities to include not only seminaries but universities offering a wide range of courses.
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Supporting the rights of Malian youth to education
While Mali is trying to reunite in its large territory strained by a prolonged internal conflict between the north and the rest of the country, its young people are impatient to move forward to build Mali’s future.
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Kyrgyz Conservatives Cite Family Values to Fight Sex Ed
The controversy over sex education is only the latest instance in which nationalist rhetoric and talk of ‘morality’ has influenced public policy in Kyrgyzstan. From EurasiaNet.org.
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Peace Building Through Football
Around the world, local organisations use football as a tool to address social challenges in areas such as health, peace building, children’s rights and education, social integration and gender equality.
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In Lithuania, Sex Education Remains Taboo
KLAIPEDA. Lithuania | There was no sex in the Soviet Union – or so people liked to joke in a time when propaganda to thwart “fetid capitalism” or “Western decadence” warned […]
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To the Mattresses
ZAGREB | In January, Croatian schools began teaching issues of sexuality and gender under a new health education program, but a bitter fight between the Catholic Church and the government […]
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Moldovan Schools Fail to Tackle Sexual Abuse
CHISINAU | By her final year, with graduation looming in June 2011, Ana was terrified of school. For months, two classmates at a special education boarding school in Singerei, northern […]
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