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Category Archives: Refugees and displaced people
The Rohingya Children of Karachi
By Baela Raza Jamil, CEO Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA) “Oh Allah I seek Refuge from Being Unlettered, Undocumented and Vulnerable- please protect and enable me to reach my potential.” Areeba is a Rohingya belonging to a migrant family from Myanmar. Her ancestors … Continue reading
Making the most of World Refugee Day
It’s World Refugee Day, a vital moment for raising awareness of the challenges refugees face every day around the world. Refugees have existed since notions of empire and state took root: people who have been forcibly displaced from their home, … Continue reading
Posted in migration, refugees, Refugees and displaced people, Uncategorized
Tagged #Target 4.5, displacement, migration, refugee, refugees
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Educating refugees: Old ways of working aren’t good enough
By Aaron Benavot, originally posted on Promising Practices for Refugee Education The plight of refugees is in the news every day, and not a moment too soon. Refugee children and adolescents suffer from having almost all of their rights taken … Continue reading
Posted in refugees, Refugees and displaced people, Uncategorized
Tagged #Target 4.5, 2019 gem report, education, human rights, IDPs, refugees
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Crowd sourcing solutions to the challenges of refugee education
By Joseph Nhan-O’Reilly, Head of Education Policy & Advocacy at Save the Children, Chair of the Global Book Alliance and a member of the Executive Committee of Education Cannot Wait. Last week, UNESCO headquarters in Paris was abuzz with policy … Continue reading
Posted in Conflict, ICT, refugees, Refugees and displaced people, Uncategorized
Tagged #Target 4.5, conflict, displaced populations, displacement, refugees
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Learning on the run: using ICT for education in emergencies
Natural disasters, extreme weather, bombings and protracted armed conflict can destroy schools and undermine the normalcy of school life. Given the complexity of how education is impacted by emergencies, innovative solutions are needed to ensure that disruption to education is … Continue reading
Posted in Conflict, emergencies, ICT, refugees, Refugees and displaced people, Uncategorized
Tagged #Target 4.5, emergencies, ICT, mobile learning, refugees, Target 4.3, technology
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Education: how to keep the peace
Today, on the International Day of Peace, we should remember one key line taken from the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: “There can be no sustainable development without peace, and no peace without sustainable development”. Stable peace, our latest Report … Continue reading
Posted in Conflict, emergencies, peace, refugees, Refugees and displaced people, sdg, syria, Uncategorized, united nations, violence
Tagged education, learning, peace, SDGs, target 4.7
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Fighting Poverty and Hunger for Quality Education
By Salam Al-Nukta, youth advisor to the GEM Report The youth population is continuously increasing, and is estimated to reach 1.8 billion this year. Obviously, it is a large population of mass power. Yet, as we say goodbye to another … Continue reading
Posted in Arab States, Conflict, Learning, Nutrition, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, refugees, Refugees and displaced people, school violence, sdg, sdgs, syria, Uncategorized, Youth
Tagged conflict, education, equality, learning, post-2015, quality, SDGs, youth day
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What it’s like teaching refugees in Malawi
By Dede Buloba Everyone agrees that education is important in a refugee camp to help those who have had to drop out of school to move across borders. I can speak about this from my experience as refugee, now teaching … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Conflict, refugees, Refugees and displaced people, Teachers, teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged malawi, refugees, target 4.1, Target 4.a, target 4.c
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No child should have to pay the cost of war
By Malala Yousafzai, Student, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Co-Founder of the Malala Fund No child should have to pay the cost of war, to be kept away from the classroom because of conflict. Yet whole generations of refugee children … Continue reading
Posted in Conflict, emergencies, Out-of-school children, refugees, Refugees and displaced people, Uncategorized, violence
Tagged #Target 4.5, conflict, refugees
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Reaching All Children with Education: Lebanon’s national education response strategy to the Syria crisis
By Lebanon’s Ministry of Education and Higher Education In Lebanon, the five years since the beginning of the Syria Crisis have had a significant impact on its people and its institutions. With an estimated 1.5 million Syrian refugees now hosted … Continue reading
Posted in Arab States, Basic education, emergencies, Equality, Equity, fragile states, Legislation, Marginalization, Primary school, Quality of education, refugees, Refugees and displaced people, Report, sdg, sdgs, Secondary school, syria, Uncategorized
Tagged lebanon, refugees, syria, target 4.1
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