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As we enter 2021 and wish each other a Happy New Year, the arrival of Covid-19 vaccines is a good reason for optimism regarding humanity’s most immediate threat. Unfortunately, when it comes to our most urgent long-term danger – climate change – there is no vaccine, no bright path before us in the months to come. There is instead what UN Secretary General António Guterres called last month our ‘broken planet’ and our continuing “suicidal…war on nature.”[1]
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As G20 world leaders meet, it is time for a fundamental overhaul of global investment policy to build for the future. That future depends on public services and the people who provide them. Crisis has brought recognition to “front-line” workers, public and private, who are both visible and essential. However, all workers are essential.
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Within the framework of a profoundly sexist culture, the phenomenon of gender-based violence is linked to violence against women, children and adolescents, particularly those from the poorest sectors of society and those belonging to indigenous communities. Paraguay has one of the highest rates of child sexual abuse in South America: one case every three hours. About 650 girls between the ages of 10 and 14 become pregnant each year. And femicide, like domestic violence in general, is increasing every year.
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The World Intellectual Property Organization’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights meets this week against the backdrop of a global health crisis that has fundamentally changed the way we teach and learn. Now copyright law must catch up.
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A turn of the screw: a new prime minister 5 out of 8 states have signed up to the federal governments’ school funding reforms: New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria. Those signed agreements will be honoured by a new conservative Gove...
Read MoreWhat does this mean for the post-2015 agenda? There are several demands that must be made in national forums, and by the collective international voice of teachers. More resources are needed to finance the quality inputs and processes that give meaning to the targets for universal access to pr...
Read MoreTable 2. How Important is Politics in your Life? Similarly, World Values Survey data show that a minority of the population are active members of a political party, of a labor union, of an environmental organization, or of charitable humanitarian organization. There are significant low levels...
Read MoreThey’re on a militant hit-list. Their crime? They belong to a Pakistan teachers’ trade union, an affiliate of Education International. At their behest – and to protect their identity – I’ve changed their names. And their photographs won’t grace this ar...
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