The Privatisation in Education and Human Rights Consortium (PEHRC):“We need a narrative change. The privatisation of education is incompatible with equality.”Read the full article
“We need to be able to promote unity in diversity. We puppeteers have always experienced difficulties with religions, and with power in general, because we speak the truth. And now we are the target of the jihadists, who consider the representation of human beings as [...]Read the full article
One of the keys to moving towards a food system that is less dependent on fossil fuels and pesticides is farmer education and training. Challenging the prevailing narrative is part of the process: “Of all the monopolies in industrial agriculture, the most powerful is the monopoly of [...]Read the full article
This photo documentary chronicles the lives of Senegalese migrants who return home after leaving their country in search of a better life.Read the full article
Dijana Šobota:Workers who more positively assess their level of being informed about workers’ rights are more likely to state that their rights have not been violated, while a higher incidence of violations of rights was recorded among those respondents who felt that their level of being informed was [...]Read the full article
“Both countries have one thing in common: the absence of social protection policies. This exacerbates social exclusion and poverty of the populations in both Lebanon and Afghanistan.”Read the full article
“The question is: can the world ignore Africa? The fact that other regions don’t have youthful populations means that Africa has an opportunity to actually help address labour shortages elsewhere and the rest of the world will have Africa’s young people to go and contribute to development. But [...]Read the full article
Bolivia continues to face significant challenges in addressing its digital divide. Although progress has been made with extending the fibre optic network, large numbers of people are still unconnected and digitally illiterate.Read the full article
Iraq’s private sector has suffered greatly from years of armed conflict. Today, the country’s entrepreneurial landscape is comprised of a mosaic of small and medium-sized enterprises that contribute, to a greater or lesser extent, to the country’s economic [...]Read the full article
At the same time as consideration is being given to extending our expiry date as workers, there are people in the last stage of their careers who simply cannot find a job.Read the full article
“Job creation in manufacturing is a key challenge for the Indian economy, if it is to absorb the large number of new entrants to the labour market, enable the transfer of labour from agriculture to other sectors, and so improve living conditions, while making growth sustainable by encouraging [...]Read the full article
According to the United Nations Population Fund, 2.5 million children in Turkey are in need of humanitarian assistance and psychosocial support following the devastating earthquakes that killed more than 50,000 people across the Turkey-Syria border this [...]Read the full article
Despite medical breakthroughs, the stigma attached to HIV remains firmly entrenched in Latin America and the Caribbean, and the impact on those affected is devastating. Structural and economic inequalities are also hindering access to effective [...]Read the full article
Against a backdrop of globalisation and fierce competition between economies, with automation, digitalisation and artificial intelligence for the masses moving ahead at full speed, which approach to education (without falling into dichotomies) is best suited to respond to these [...]Read the full article
According to data published in 2023 by the National Statistics Office of Georgia, the number of foreign students in Georgia’s both public and private universities has almost doubled from around 14,000 from before the war to just over 25,000 [...]Read the full article
Some 30,000 women are currently in prison in Egypt for failing to pay off small loans. NGOs are fighting for a relaxation of the law on debt.Read the full article
The guiding principle of the public library is that everyone deserves free and open access to our common cultural heritage. This places the institution at fundamental odds with capitalist consumer ideals. From New Delhi to Los Angeles, we visit seven ‘palaces for the [...]Read the full article
The growing popularity of artificial intelligence software, capable of generating images, sound and even text in a matter of seconds, is opening up a debate on technological transformation: are our education systems ready for a world where AI is [...]Read the full article
According to the organisations working to protect migrants, the closed camp is like a “prison” and is detrimental to their mental health. Initiatives have emerged on the island to help take the asylum seekers’ minds off these difficulties and give them fresh hope in their search for a new [...]Read the full article
According to experts, deaf children should be exposed to sign language as early as possible. In addition to ensuring access to education, it also helps to prevent the development of various types of mental illness.Read the full article
In recent decades schools around the world have become increasingly obsessed with grades, competitiveness and measurable and comparable results, while other important aspects of the education of our future citizens are being [...]Read the full article
“Each group exaggerates the crimes it has suffered, and minimises the crimes committed by its members or institutions. There is not even a consensus on what to call the war in Bosnia: civil war, war of aggression, war of religions.”Read the full article
Experts have applauded the Canadian government’s decision to move toward a universal childcare system, but are also warning that it will exacerbate geographic disparities and create long waiting lists for subsidised childcare.Read the full article
“Women are staging street protests, holding press conferences, organising activities, some are refusing to wear a hijab that fully covers their bodies and faces, while girls are attending schools secretly.”Read the full article
While refugee children are consistently less likely to go to school than others, in Mbera, Mauritania, the percentage of pupils in primary and secondary school is particularly low. But even in this context, ICT and online training are opening new [...]Read the full article
Thirty years after the killings of anti-mafia judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, Sicilian civil society is still working hard to keep saying “no” to the mafia.Read the full article
An entire generation of children in Syria has been forced out of school at an early age and into a war-torn labour market. Many are having to do work that involves very hard labour or puts their life at risk.Read the full article
While workplace childcare policies are relatively new in Bolivia, the country is making progress, for example by promoting breastfeeding rooms and day-care facilities. However, such policies are of little use when employers fail to respect labour [...]Read the full article
After more than four decades of fighting for the freedom of their people, the Sahrawis are now tending to put individual wellbeing and the fundamental rights of the population before the collective struggle.Read the full article
A confluence of economic and social factors are fostering change within refugee communities. The nuclear family and traditional roles have been disrupted by forced displacement, placing education, business management and even community leadership opportunities within women’s [...]Read the full article
Lucía Ortiz de Zárate Alcarazo:Given that technology is a human construct that is socially and culturally conditioned, any prejudices, habits and ideas that are not regularly and rigorously examined are destined to find their way into the design and use of new [...]Read the full article
In Spain, the Fundación Secretariado Gitano reports an average of 300 cases of antigypsyism every year. Roma men and women are denied employment, housing or even entry to leisure or entertainment venues because they are Roma, due to the perpetual presumption of [...]Read the full article
A photo essay illustrating how decades of migration to the United States has created a generation of abandoned children for whom gangs have become a surrogate family.Read the full article
Quality education requires significant investments, above all in human resources. For years, Nigerien trade unions have condemned the widespread use of contractualisation, which makes teachers’ work more precarious and negatively impacts student [...]Read the full article
While Afghan law prohibits child labour, in practice, many Afghan minors work to support themselves and their families, a trend that has been exacerbated by the humanitarian crisis.Read the full article
The political and humanitarian crisis devastating Afghanistan since mid-2021 has exacerbated child labour in the country. These are portraits of children who work to support their families.Read the full article
Yasmine Osman:While the Sahel remains plagued by recurrent conflicts, there are nonetheless positive signs of economic and social development in the countries of the region.Read the full article
In the DRC, access to sanitary towels remains a headache for women. According to a U-Report survey, 31 per cent of respondents considered lack of money to be the main difficulty they faced during their periods.Read the full article
“The trade union sector is now living in unprecedented fear. When the national security law arrived, political groups were the primary target. In July and August, it became clear that trade unions are also a main target.”Read the full article
“If, thanks to my texts, just one little girl were able to say to herself, “So, it is possible”, then I will have contributed to building a female identity in Burkina Faso.”Read the full article
Mexico ranks first in the world in childhood obesity and second in adult obesity. Until recently, studies addressing the causes of obesity have focused on the poor choices made by individuals, but have rarely looked at the obesogenic [...]Read the full article
In a country where the need for education is enormous and families have little income, the idea of tuition-free schooling should enjoy unanimous support. Instead, the government’s initiative has been met with strikes. Parents and teachers are concerned about the conditions under which the [...]Read the full article
“In many African countries humanist groups and individuals are working to make the wider public rediscover their own African humanist tradition – the concept of Ubuntu.”Read the full article