Campaigns

10.12.2003 Kenyan lawmakers have welcomed an historic court ruling, in which a man convicted of raping a four-year-old girl was jailed for life, terming it an important step towards deterring rising cases of sexual violence against children in the country. Leer más
Organización:  United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network
Temas relacionados:  [África] [Kenya] [Conflicto] [Género] [Derechos Humanos] [Pobreza] [Población] [Educación] [Niños]

04.12.2003 Aïcha is an 11-year-old girl living in Morocco who has done something no other girl or woman in her family has accomplished. She is the first female member in her family to attend school. She is in the fourth grade. Leer más
Organización:  United Nations Children's Fund
Temas relacionados:  [Marruecos] [África] [Género] [Derechos Humanos] [Pobreza] [Población] [Educación] [Niños]

27.11.2003 This book presents a number of established gender analysis frameworks and suggests modifications to suit educational settings, highlighting strngths and limitations and using case studies drawn from education. Leer más
Organización:  Oxfam Great Britain
Temas relacionados:  [Género] [Derechos Humanos] [Pobreza] [Población] [Educación] [Desarrollo]

24.11.2003 Raweya, a 15-year-old girl from a destitute rural area in Egypt, has a dream. Some day she will be a doctor. But obstacles loom large. Poverty, as overwhelming as it can be, is just one among many. Thanks to an education initiative, she now attends a community school, something that was unthinkable for girls in the past. Leer más
Organización:  United Nations Children's Fund
Temas relacionados:  [Egipto] [Género] [Derechos Humanos] [Población] [Educación] [Niños]

12.11.2003 Reacting to a global monitoring report that shows most countries are not on track to meet a 2005 goal for gender parity in education, UNICEF has said that it was not too late for governments to launch “credible efforts” to get more girls into school. Leer más
Organización:  United Nations Children's Fund
Temas relacionados:  [Género] [Pobreza] [Educación] [Niños]

11.11.2003 A newly established independent women's community radio station in Herat, Afghanistan, has become an invaluable mouthpiece for thousands of Afghan women. Given the high percentage of illiterate women in the country, with little or no access to education, radio provides one of the most powerful ways to reach and educate women, allowing them to connect in the conservative male-dominated society. Leer más
Organización:  United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network
Temas relacionados:  [Afganistán] [Medios] [TIC] [Género] [Derechos Humanos] [Pobreza] [Población] [Educación] [Desarrollo]

06.11.2003 Gender parity in education remains a distant prospect in 54 countries, including 16 countries in sub-Saharan Africa as well as India and Pakistan, despite worldwide focus on Education for All, specially on girls' education. Read more
Organización:  LearningChannel
Temas relacionados:  [África] [Asia y el Pacífico] [Género] [Derechos Humanos] [Deuda] [Pobreza] [Población] [Educación] [Niños]

03.11.2003 Girls attending secondary school in Nyanga Township, Zimbabwe are attracting unwanted attention from soldiers from a nearby army training camp that houses recruits from across Africa. CAMFED has launched an appeal to build a hostel near to the school that will house them in supervised and safe accommodation during term time. Leer más
Organización:  CamFed
Temas relacionados:  [África] [Zimbabwe] [Conflicto] [Género] [Derechos Humanos] [Pobreza] [Educación] [Niños]

03.11.2003 Three years ago in Dakar (Senegal), more than 160 countries attending the World Education Forum pledged to achieve gender parity in education - equal enrolments for boys and girls - by the year 2005. According to the Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2003/2004, however, many of them are unlikely to meet that target. Leer más
Organización:  UNESCO - Communication, Information and Informatics Sector
Temas relacionados:  [Género] [Pobreza] [Población] [Educación] [Niños]

29.10.2003 In a non-decrepit dusty by lane of Jallo village, in Pakistan, near the Indo-Pak border, a group of women and young girls gather literacy and life skills in makeshift classrooms. Find out more about the project that has empowered these women who were deprived of education opportunities. Read more
Organización:  LearningChannel
Temas relacionados:  [Pakistán] [Sur de Asia] [Género] [Derechos Humanos] [Salud] [Pobreza] [Población] [Educación]

23.10.2003 Indraani Singh flies planes for a living, but off duty she pilots a school for the children of Chauma village in Haryana’s Gurgaon district.“I believe most of our problems can be solved through better education. This is my way of doing something towards that end,” she says in her office-shed. A report from Civil Society Leer más
Temas relacionados:  [India] [Género] [Derechos Humanos] [Pobreza] [Población] [Educación] [Niños] [Desarrollo]

23.10.2003 A practical skills training centre in China's Gansu province has helped many girls and women learn literacy and life skills. Learn more about this project from the beneficiaries themselves. Leer más
Organización:  NetAid Foundation
Temas relacionados:  [China] [Asia Oriental] [Asia y el Pacífico] [Género] [Derechos Humanos] [Pobreza] [Población] [Educación] [Niños]

17.10.2003 UNESCO Bangkok has facilitated the development of a toolkit for promoting gender equality in education in Asia. Its aim is to promote Goal 5 of the Dakar Framework for Action which calls for gender parity by 2005 and gender equality by 2015. Leer más
Organización:  UNESCO - Communication, Information and Informatics Sector
Temas relacionados:  [Género] [Derechos Humanos] [Pobreza] [Población] [Educación] [Niños]

17.10.2003 Nadya, one of a tiny minority of female teachers in Afghanistan says her country needs more female professionals in general as a means of promoting greater women's participation in the male-dominated society. Leer más
Organización:  United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network
Temas relacionados:  [Asia Central] [Afganistán] [Género] [Pobreza] [Población] [Educación]

09.10.2003 As excitement builds to a fever pitch in the last week of the FIFA Women's World Cup USA 2003, children around the world will be celebrating Global Girls Football Day, jointly designated as 11 October by UNICEF and FIFA. Leer más
Organización:  United Nations Children's Fund
Temas relacionados:  [Medios] [Género] [Derechos Humanos] [Educación] [Niños]

07.10.2003 Traditional roles, home confinement and early marriage have kept girls out of Egypt’s classrooms. But the country's push for universal education is fast changing this scenario, as more and more girls are joining schools. Leer más
Organización:  United Nations Children's Fund
Temas relacionados:  [Egipto] [África] [Género] [Derechos Humanos] [Pobreza] [Población] [Educación] [Niños]

06.10.2003 Afghanistan is celebrating the entry of the millionth girl in school after the fall of the Taliban regime. The Taliban government had banned education for girls and women were secluded from all walks of life. Leer más
Organización:  United Nations
Temas relacionados:  [Asia Central] [Afganistán] [Conflicto] [Género] [Pobreza] [Población] [Educación] [Niños]

29.09.2003 The BBC and UNICEF have joined hands in highlighting the obstacles that girls
face in order to pursue education in Arab countries. The 20-part series also highlights the educational divide between girls living in the city and those living in rural areas in Egypt, Syria, Sudan and Yemen. Leer más
Organización:  International Planned Parenthood Federation
Temas relacionados:  [Asia Central] [Medios] [Género] [Salud] [Pobreza] [Educación] [Niños] [Desarrollo]

25.09.2003 UK-based development organisation, CAMFED’s activists took the stage at the Zimbabwean International Book Fair to stress upon the importance of educating rural girls. Leer más
Organización:  CamFed
Temas relacionados:  [Zimbabwe] [Conflicto] [Género] [Derechos Humanos] [Pobreza] [Población] [Educación]

11.09.2003 The Girls Primary Education project is a five-year project, which seeks to improve access to formal education for young girls in nearly 150 villages in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Leer más
Organización:  CARE International UK
Temas relacionados:  [India] [Sur de Asia] [Género] [Pobreza] [Educación]