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Social Psychologist Erich Fromm Diagnoses Why People Wear a Mask of Happiness in Modern Society (1977)January 13, 2021 at 4:00 AM  Tags: Psychology, Google, College, Current Affairs, Philosophy, Un, Albert Camus, Facebook Twitter, Josh Jones, Erich Fromm, Camus, Durham NC Follow, Maria Popova, Jacobin, Fromm, Frankfurt School 74 people like this. Like The UN’s World Happiness Report Ranks “Socialist Friendly” Countries like Finland, Norway, Denmark, Iceland & Switzerland as Among the Happiest in the WorldDecember 22, 2020 at 4:00 AM  Tags: Google, Politics, College, Economics, Current Affairs, Switzerland, Un, Albert Camus, Bhutan, Forbes, Buddhist, Bill Maher, Facebook Twitter, Ryan, Josh Jones, Durham NC Follow 68 people like this. Like The UN’s World Happiness Report Ranks “Socialist Friendly” Countries like Finland, Norway, Denmark, Iceland & Sweden as Among the Happiest in the WorldDecember 22, 2020 at 4:00 AM Tags: Google, Politics, Sweden, College, Economics, Current Affairs, Un, Albert Camus, Bhutan, Forbes, Buddhist, Bill Maher, Facebook Twitter, Ryan, Josh Jones, Durham NC Follow 114 people like this. Like Children and the Internet at UN Internet Governance Forum: Issues around gaming, online harms, educationNovember 26, 2020 at 2:50 AM The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed children into spending more time online, whether it be for education, recreation, or simply by the virtue to being stuck indoors. It has also increased challenges for parents, policymakers, and companies alike, given that children are exposed to online harms as they spend more time online. On the other hand, the pandemic has shown the deep digital divide, wherein millions of children do not have access to a device and internet connection.
The United Nations Inter...Tags: Travel, Europe, UK, News, Education, Microsoft, Children, Australia, Youtube, China, Canada, United Kingdom, Italy, United Nations, Commission, Portugal 14 people like this. Like Teaching peace in a time of violenceNovember 12, 2020 at 5:30 AM In September 2020, President Trump signed an order calling for a commission on “patriotic education,” in response to what he considered anti-American sentiments seeping into school curricula around the United States. He accused teachers of teaching a “twisted web of lies” by including lessons from the New York Times’ 1619 Project, which examines American history through the lens of the African slave trade. His remarks were denounced by the American Federation of Teachers and the Association of H...Tags: Books, Featured, Education, Peace, Unesco, United States, Nelson Mandela, Hawaii, New York Times, Paris, Un, American Federation Of Teachers, Social Sciences, Trump, UN General Assembly, Online products 24 people like this. Like When Louis Armstrong Stopped a Civil War in The Congo (1960)November 2, 2020 at 7:00 AM  Tags: Google, Music, Politics, College, Ap, History, Moscow, New Orleans, Un, Congo, Npr, State Department, Pepsico, Louis Armstrong, Eisenhower, Martin 129 people like this. Like 16-year-old Australian student to address UN about Covid hardship among young womenSeptember 22, 2020 at 8:17 PM Exclusive: Mayela Dayet, a student at Sydney Secondary College, says ‘there’s been an absolute decline in mental health’ among young women during CovidA 16-year Australian student, Mayela Dayet, will address the United Nations general assembly on Wednesday night to present the findings of a survey that shows young women and girls are shouldering a greater economic, domestic and emotional load and working harder during the Covid-19 pandemic.The study, released by humanitarian organisation Plan In...Tags: Health, Education, Australia news, Poverty, Mental Health, United Nations, Un, Coronavirus outbreak, Mayela Dayet, Sydney Secondary College 4 people like this. Like 'I had to kill so many people': the battle to protect children in conflictsSeptember 9, 2020 at 2:15 AM 25,000 grave violations were committed against children in conflict in 2019, says the UN, which hopes to highlight issue with new international dayWhen Islamic State fighters rolled into Mosul, Iraq, they made promises.“When they arrived they promised us salvation, a better life, but within months our schools were closed and we were living in fear, prisoners in our own city,” says Usama Salem, 11. Continue reading...Tags: Education, Children, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Society, World news, Middle East and North Africa, United Nations, Schools, Global development, Un, Yemen, Mosul Iraq, Child Soldiers, Conflict and arms, Usama Salem 41 people like this. Like Facebook Messenger provides governments, agencies with free developer tools to combat Covid-19March 23, 2020 at 9:27 AM Big tech has been making a huge effort to mobilize its power to help people work better together to battle the ongoing coronavirus pandemic — whether it’s creating search and information portals or making sure the most authoritative voices are surfacing above the noise, or gathering compute power to supercharge research efforts to find vaccines.
Today, it is the turn of Facebook: the company announced a number of initiatives around Messenger, its messaging platform with 1.3 billion users, to hel...Tags: Health, Social, Startups, TC, Facebook, Apps, Messenger, Education, Developer, Messaging, Hack, Pakistan, Facebook Messenger, Argentina, Un, Hackathon 49 people like this. Like 7 powerful books that bring the UN's sustainable development goals to lifeFebruary 17, 2020 at 3:05 PM  Tags: Books, UK, England, Education, Australia, Iraq, Economics, Sustainability, Unesco, United Kingdom, Innovation, Global development, New Zealand, Nottingham, Un, Melbourne 149 people like this. Like 7 gripping, powerful and original books that bring the UN's sustainable development goals to lifeFebruary 17, 2020 at 3:05 PM Tags: Books, UK, England, Education, Australia, Iraq, Economics, Sustainability, Unesco, United Kingdom, Innovation, Global development, New Zealand, Nottingham, Un, Melbourne 58 people like this. Like Peruvian Scholar Writes & Defends the First Thesis Written in Quechua, the Main Language of the Incan EmpireOctober 29, 2019 at 7:00 AM  Tags: Google, College, Unesco, Literature, Peru, Un, World Bank, Lima, Latin America, Cusco, Facebook Twitter, Gutierrez, Josh Jones, Quechua, Durham NC Follow, Cañas 86 people like this. Like Almost all 10-year-olds in world's poorest countries struggle to readOctober 18, 2019 at 1:01 AM World Bank targets ‘learning poverty’ as research shows major shortfall in basic reading skills among least privileged childrenNine out of 10 children in the world’s poorest countries are unable to read a basic book by the age of 10 – a situation mirrored in reverse in rich countries, where only 9% cannot do so by the same age.Data compiled by the World Bank and the UN also shows that when low- and middle-income countries are taken together – a total of 135 states – more than half of all childre...Tags: Education, World news, Poverty, Global development, Un, World Bank, Literacy, Sustainable Development Goals, Global Education 39 people like this. Like Up to 90% of 10-year-olds in world's poorest countries struggle to readOctober 18, 2019 at 1:01 AM World Bank targets ‘learning poverty’ as research shows major shortfall in basic reading skills among least privileged childrenNine out of 10 children in the world’s poorest countries are unable to read a basic book by the age of 10 – a situation mirrored in reverse in rich countries, where only 9% cannot do so by the same age.Data compiled by the World Bank and the UN also shows that when low- and middle-income countries are taken together – a total of 135 states – more than half of all childre...Tags: Education, World news, Poverty, Global development, Un, World Bank, Literacy, Sustainable Development Goals, Global Education 15 people like this. Like Will Winnetka’s Ayle Guevarra make the finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee? Finalists will be announced this afternoonMay 29, 2019 at 2:05 PM  Tags: London, Education, Washington, Uncategorized, Sport, Soccer, Washington Dc, Long Beach, Beverly Hills, Un, Espn, Local News, Miranda, Valencia, Villanova, Los Angeles County 89 people like this. Like 'Senseless': attacks on schools soar in Afghanistan – reportMay 28, 2019 at 8:03 AM Unicef research shows more than 1,000 schools were closed by the end of last year due to ongoing conflictAttacks on schools in Afghanistan tripled between 2017 and 2018, surging from 68 to 192, according to the UN children’s agency, Unicef, the first increase since 2015.According to figures collected by the agency, the ongoing conflict had left more than 1,000 schools closed by the end of last year, with half a million children unable to get an education. Continue reading...Tags: Education, World news, Afghanistan, South and Central Asia, Global development, Un, Unicef, Global Education 27 people like this. Like Global Learning Xprize splits $10M purse for best teaching app for disadvantaged kidsMay 16, 2019 at 12:49 PM Kids need a good education to have the best chance of succeeding in the world, but in distant parts of developing countries that may be neither schools nor teachers. The Global Learning Xprize aimed to spur innovation in the tech space to create app-based teaching those kids can do on their own — and a tie means the $10 million grand prize gets split in two.
The winners, Onebillion and Kitkit School, both created tablet apps that resulted in serious gains to literacy rates in the areas they were...Tags: Google, TC, Elon Musk, Education, Africa, Church, Tech, Unesco, Xprize, Un, Tanzania, WFP, Matt Keller, Anousheh Ansari, Global Learning Xprize, Kitkit School 26 people like this. Like Climate strike: UK school pupils take part in call for urgent actionFebruary 15, 2019 at 6:23 AM Former UN climate chief says it is time to ‘heed voice of youth’ as thousands join protest Thousands of schoolchildren and young people in the UK are taking part in climate strikes with the support of a former UN climate chief, who said it was “time to heed the deeply moving voice of youth”.Christiana Figueres, who led the historic 2015 Paris agreement, said the fact that children were so worried about their future they were prepared to strike should make adults take urgent action. Continue read...Tags: UK, Protest, Education, Children, Climate Change, Environment, Society, UK News, World news, Paris, Schools, Un, Environmental Activism, Christiana Figueres 34 people like this. Like When South Africa Banned Pink Floyd’s The Wall After Students Chanted “We Don’t Need No Education” to Protest the Apartheid School System (1980)November 30, 2018 at 11:30 AM  Tags: Google, Music, Politics, College, Berlin, Israel, America, Pink Floyd, South Africa, West Bank, Un, Sun City, Canterbury, Syd Barrett, Apartheid, Facebook Twitter 85 people like this. Like How a startup mindset can help the refugee crisisNovember 29, 2018 at 5:31 AM Startup entrepreneurs have a crucial role to play in building a more agile response to the global refugee crisis and also helping to change the narrative around displaced people, TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin has heard.
Speaking during a panel discussing how technology can support refugees to integrate and rebuild their lives, Aline Sara, CEO of NaTakallam said: “I do think that the UN and other large agencies are really looking to innovation, looking to the tech sector to kind of ...Tags: Europe, Education, Climate Change, Entrepreneurship, Berlin, Tech, Pink Floyd, United Nations, Un, Talent, Refugee, Startup Company, Mike Butcher, Reichart, ReDI School, ReDI School of Digital Integration 32 people like this. Like We have a duty to help the children of Palestine | LettersNovember 20, 2018 at 2:00 AM On the UN’s Universal Children’s Day – 20 November – teachers and lecturers urge the UK government to lobby for the release of child prisoners and an end to the mistreatment of children detained under military lawAs teachers and lecturers, we feel strongly that today, on the UN’s Universal Children’s Day, we must call on our government to work with increased determination to achieve improved welfare for the children living in Palestine under occupation and in Gaza. On this day, we are reminded t...Tags: UK, Human Rights, Education, Children, Israel, Society, World news, Teaching, Middle East and North Africa, Palestinian territories, Trade unions, Gaza, Palestine, United Nations, Schools, Un 25 people like this. Like George Washington Writes to the First Jewish Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island: “The Government… Gives to Bigotry No Sanction, to Persecution No Assistance” (1790)November 1, 2018 at 11:07 AM  Tags: Google, Europe, England, College, Washington, Government, America, History, United States, Un, Letters, Rhode Island, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Facebook Twitter, Newport 112 people like this. Like Innovation as a Path to PeaceOctober 12, 2018 at 8:00 AM Can collaborative entrepreneurship facilitate a rapprochement in Cyprus? How can innovation offer a path to peace? This question was asked by two young entrepreneurs in Cyprus. For readers unaware of the Cyprus problem, the island of Cyprus is physically divided into the Republic of Cyprus (a UN and EU member) inhabited principally by Cypriots of ...Tags: Europe, Education, Entrepreneurship, Case Study, Eu, Cyprus, Change, Creativity, Culture, Innovation, Collaboration, Un, Innovation Perspectives, Experience Innovation, Culture & Values 42 people like this. Like Innovative Fashion: Fibers from the FutureAugust 6, 2018 at 12:00 PM  Tags: News, College, Environment, Spain, Philippines, Un, Eco-friendly, Fabric, Salvatore Ferragamo, Piñatex, FAO Food and Agriculture Organization, Orange Fiber, BioGlitz Shine, BioGlitz, Orange Fiber Meet Orange Fiber 77 people like this. Like Sustainable Fashion 101: The True CostJuly 2, 2018 at 3:00 PM  Tags: Europe, College, US, Sustainable Fashion, Un, Fashion Tips, UN Economic Commission, Eco-friendly Fashion 69 people like this. Like With or without Trump, we must back UN's education drive | Larry ElliottMay 14, 2018 at 4:26 AM Rich countries have the chance to show multilateralism is not deal by backing $10bn initiativeAll things considered, the United Nations could have chosen a better week to launch an initiative designed to raise $10bn to invest in global education. That this is not exactly a golden age for multilateralism was underlined last week when Donald Trump decided that the US was going to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal despite strong lobbying from Germany, France and the UK. Trump has his own way of doi...Tags: Europe, Business, Politics, UK, Education, US, UK News, World news, US news, Iran, United Nations, Un, Gordon Brown, Donald Trump, Trump, Larry Elliott 40 people like this. Like UN education initiative is chance to show multilateralism is not deadMay 13, 2018 at 5:51 AM It would be unwise to assume Trump’s US regime will back idea but other rich countries shouldAll things considered, the United Nations could have chosen a better week to launch an initiative designed to raise $10bn to invest in global education. That this is not exactly a golden age for multilateralism was underlined last week when Donald Trump decided that the US was going to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal despite strong lobbying from Germany, France and the UK. Trump has his own way of doin...Tags: Europe, Business, Politics, UK, Education, US, UK News, World news, US news, Iran, United Nations, Un, Gordon Brown, Donald Trump, Trump, Germany France 31 people like this. Like Creative Education: 5 Questions with Moleskine Foundation President Maria SebregondiFebruary 2, 2018 at 3:27 PM  Tags: Education, Africa, Advertising, Un, Moleskine, Literacy, Purpose, Non-profit, Corporate Citizenship, Interbrand, 5 Questions, Manfredi Ricca, Maria Sebregondi, Sebregondi, Moleskine Foundation, The Moleskine Foundation 62 people like this. Like UN is dealing with sexual harassment | EditorialJanuary 21, 2018 at 12:37 PM ‘Our policy is zero-tolerance,’ writes the organisation’s under-secretary-general for management, Jan Beagle. Plus Mark Lewinski on grievance systems in schoolsYour report on sexual harassment at the United Nations (19 January) raises disturbing issues that we take very seriously. As an organisation, we express our deep sympathy for staff members who have felt let down. Sexual harassment is strictly prohibited at the United Nations, and there can be no impunity.The secretary-general, António Gut...Tags: Education, UK News, World news, Teaching, Trade unions, United Nations, Schools, Un, Sexual Harassment, Antonio Guterres, UN Continue, Mark Lewinski 23 people like this. Like The “Humans of New York” Photo Project Becomes a 13-Part Video Documentary Series: Watch It Free OnlineDecember 1, 2017 at 10:00 AM  Tags: Travel, Google, Facebook, Books, Photography, New York, Film, College, Life, New York City, Creativity, New York Times, Un, Bushwick, Nyu, Coney Island 62 people like this. Like |
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