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Youth

Curated content for: Youth Jump to: Resources Features Blog Posts Infographics Videos Resources More ‘Youth‘ Resources Features Blog Posts Mar08 It’s international women’s day. Don’t forget to tag us now that you feel #prettypowerful From getting out to vote and entertaining two children off school due to it being a

Youth

Curated content for: Youth Jump to: Resources Features Blog Posts Infographics Resources More ‘Youth‘ Resources Features Blog Posts Sorry, we couldn’t find any posts. Please try a different search. Infographics Videos Natural Born Settlers Maker Iris Zaki, a self-described liberal from Tel Aviv, wanted to get behind the politics of

Primary Education

Curated content for: Primary Education Jump to: Resources Features Blog Posts Infographics Resources More ‘Primary Education‘ Resources Features Blog Posts Sorry, we couldn’t find any posts. Please try a different search. Infographics Videos Natural Born Settlers Maker Iris Zaki, a self-described liberal from Tel Aviv, wanted to get behind the

Adult & Community Education

Curated content for: Adult & Community Education Jump to: Resources Features Blog Posts Infographics Videos Resources More ‘Adult and Community Settings‘ Resources Features Blog Posts Mar08 It’s international women’s day. Don’t forget to tag us now that you feel #prettypowerful From getting out to vote and entertaining two children off

Global Citizenship Education Practitioners

Curated content for: Global Citizenship Education Practitioners Jump to: Resources Features Blog Posts Infographics Videos Resources More ‘Global Citizenship Education Practitioners’ Resources Features Blog Posts Mar08 It’s international women’s day. Don’t forget to tag us now that you feel #prettypowerful From getting out to vote and entertaining two children off

One World Week 2013

In 2013, the theme for OWW was ‘The World Young People Want’. One World Week is a week of youth-led awareness raising, education and action that takes place throughout Ireland during the third week in November every year and links into the EU Global Education Week. During One World Week

Cartoon satire of ‘development’

What is ‘development’? What is done in the name of development? Who ‘does’ development and who is it done to? These are just some of the questions explored in a cartoon book launched earlier this year in India by the charity Survival: the movement for tribal peoples. The cartoon book

Female Genital Mutilation

Female Genital Mutilation is a hugely contentious issue worldwide. According to a report published by the  WHO, UNESCO, UNIFEM and others, FGM is practiced in 28 African countries, in parts of Asia and the Middle East. However, it is increasingly found in Europe, Canada, the US, Australia and Asia –

Child Soldiers

“Should child soldiers be prosecuted for their crimes?” “In modern day warfare, children, both girls and boys, are increasingly becoming the subject of military recruitment, targeted attacks, and sexual violence. The diversity of armed groups and the widespread and easy availability of small arms and light weapons have led to

Paying the bills and taking from their tills: pitching development in an age of austerity

21st Century Development animation that accompanied Bill Gate’s speech By Gentleman Scholar and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Last month Bill Gates delivered a timely, long awaited speech to G20 leaders on international development, titled 21st Century Development: Innovation with Impact.  Thinking that Mr Gates could cover everything that

Chibundu Onuzo and the Spider King’s Daughter

20 year old Nigerian Chibundu Onuzo is currently in her final year in King’s College London studying history. Not only is she busy writing essays, attending lectures and working on her dissertation, she is also hard at work promoting her debut novel  ‘The Spider King’s Daughter’. In February 2011, Onuzo

The One Percent-ers

Can you name the wealthiest person in the world, or how about five of the top twenty?

Senegal music legend Youssou N’Dour announces a bid for the presidency

Presidential elections are scheduled in Senegal for February 26th next and world renowned Youssou N’Dour has confirmed his candidacy saying: ‘I’ve travelled the world and been seen by people all over the world and I think I have the ability to govern Senegal. I am the alternative.’ N’Dour has long

Two sides of the Global Food Crisis – Food Shortage vs. Food Wastage

There are two sides to the current world food crisis: with food shortages for hundreds of millions of people in developing counties resulting in widespread malnourishment with little or no access to food this is in stark contrast to the rise in affluent lifestyles and a free-flowing abundance in access

Climate change: iceberg right ahead?

Last week the 3 hour documentary Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron aired on television, thanks to the National Geographic, boasting the latest data and computer graphics in reanimating the final moments of the famous vessel. On the 100th anniversary of the fateful voyage of the most ambitious unsinkable

Consumption in a world of 32:1 – our new animation

Those familiar with this website will not be surprised by the topic of our new animation – on consumption. It accompanies the ethical consumption and hunger modules for teachers and educators, as well as general readers, plus previous blog posts, new resource annotations and the ecological footprinting project work. Let

Infographic: What’s wrong with our food system?

Another brilliant infographic has gone online from GOOD Magazine, this time in partnership with Oxfam Australia and directed at the global food system. Consumption is a reoccurring theme for us (and on this blog!) as it relates to what we consume, how it is produced, who produces it and the

Sweatshops at sea

The P&O cruise ship Ventura off the coast of Monaco. Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Have you ever taken a trip across the Irish Sea on a ferry from Dublin to Liverpool and by chance noticed the men and women working on the ships? Do you know where they

5 Aid myths busted

Overseas aid agendas of governments and proposed cuts in real spending on aid budgets are under review across donor countries. The prolonged global recession, rising unemployment and recovery difficulties ahve fueled many misconceptions, myths and stereotypes about aid and have made their way into classrooms, policy debates and recent ‘what

Fighting back against industries of desire

Artist – Robert Montgomerry (UK) // install in Bristol The central message to UK outfit ‘Brandalism’ who exploded onto the British scene in the past few days was in bringing their motto ‘taking the piss with a point’ to billboards up and down the country using guerrilla-style subervtising. 25 artists

To be saved from or saved by the International AIDS Conference?

The 19th International AIDS Conference (IAC) is being held this week in Washington, bringing together the world’s HIV and AIDS stakeholders in order to try to shape the global response to the epidemic. The world needs effective action and leadership to ‘Turn the Tide Together’ against HIV and AIDS, according

How to teach … slavery

Today’s blog was originally posted in the Guardian’s Education section, in their series ‘How to Teach…’ – which covers everything from teaching about tax, tennis and the referendum on Scottish Independence. This week’s post covers the issue of slavery, written by Valerie Hannah, in preparation for the international day for the

‘It’s just as bad as poverty’ – Africa for Norway spreads the warmth

“People don’t ignore starving people so why should we ignore cold people? Frostbite kills too.” Excerpt from the official campaign Christmas video Imagine if every person in Africa saw the “Africa for Norway” video and this was the only information they ever got about Norway. What would they think about

Israel, Caherciveen, the Telegraph and ‘anti-Semitism’

Recent months have seen a storm of criticism and comment of Trócaire’s campaign to boycott goods from Israeli settlements in the occupied territories. This piece responds to one such commentator, Ruth Dudley Edwards, who accused Trócaire of disseminating ‘hatred’

Viral video shows the extent of U.S. wealth inequality

This six-minute video animation is currently doing the rounds online and builds on the pioneering research by economists Michael Norton and Dan Ariely about American attitudes toward wealth. The video details the distribution of wealth in America, highlighting both the difference between our perception of inequality and the actual numbers.

Chinua Achebe: A literary legend

 “The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held

Why didn’t all the aid reach the poorest? Here’s why.

So you donated a week’s lattes to save refugees from an African civil war; you suspect the refugees received only an ordinary cup of Joe… Julia Lewis, Area Manager, Democratic Republic of Congo in Concern Worldwide, presents a field report on four of the harsh realities in delivering aid assistance

Diseases for us, diseases for them…?

Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) are those that are not passed from person to person. Often, they are referred to as chronic diseases, in that they progress slowly and have a long duration – think diabetes, stroke, asthma, heart attack, obesity, high blood pressure, cancer. These are not the classic ‘diseases of poverty’

The danger of single stories: ‘Africa’

Those interested in good quality lectures, music and humour (and much else!) will already be familiar with TED – https://www.ted.com/ – in 2009, TED posted a talk by Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Adichie (Purple Hibiscus 2003 and Half a Yellow Sun 2006) on the dangers of presenting overlapping dimensions of a