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Noch immer wartet das Parlament auf einen Bericht des Bundesrats, wie es in den Beziehungen mit der EU weitergehen soll. Nun machen die Aussenpolitischen Kommissionen Druck, um mitreden zu können.

Az OĽANO négyes koalíciót akar, de más helyzetre is felkészül – derült ki Jaroslav Naď honvédelmi miniszter, a mozgalom elnökségi tagjának keddi nyilatkozatából. Az OĽANO továbbra is elutasítja Igor Matovič pénzügyminiszter távozását a kormányból.

L’UDC zurichoise «se réjouit» de l’arrivée dans ses rangs de la personnalité qui s’est engagée pour la suppression de la redevance radio-TV.

Ein ehemaliger Sicherheitschef von Twitter wirft dem Online-Dienst nun unzureichende Massnahmen zum Schutz der Nutzer vor. Peiter Zatko, der im Januar vom Unternehmen gefeuert wurde, reichte eine Beschwerde als Whistleblower bei der US-Börsenaufsicht SEC ein.

Claude Hirsch verlor seine Mutter und seinen Vater in Auschwitz. Er selbst überlebte als 13-Jähriger. Nun kehrt Hirsch nach Basel zurück, wo ein Stolperstein ans Schicksal seiner Mutter erinnert.

Enrico Matossi war in den 80er-Jahren das, was Samuel Giger jetzt ist: der «böseste» Thurgauer. Für noch mehr Furore sorgte Matossi aber erst nach der Schwinger-Karriere.

Rohingya refugee girl Rohima Akter, 13, is excited about learning to write in the Burmese language in the UNICEF learning centre in Cox's Bazar.​ ​The new curriculum provides Rohingya refugee children with formal and standardized education.​ Credit: UNICEF Bangladesh

By Joyce Chimbi
United Nations, Aug 23 2022 (IPS)

Syrian refugee children are among the most disadvantaged in Iraq. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, only 53 percent of school-aged Syrian refugee children in the country were enrolled.

Across the globe, in Bangladesh, more than 890 000 Rohingya refugees live in 34 congested camps in Cox’s Bazar. COVID, fire, monsoons, floods, and landslides impacted education.

In Nigeria, since the conflict began in north-eastern Nigeria in 2013, at least 2,295 teachers have been killed, more than 1,000 children abducted, and 1,400 schools destroyed.

Yet, Education Cannot Wait, the global fund for United Nations global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises, believes that progress can be made to prevent the children from Syria, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Chad, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Pakistan, and South Sudan among other regions, from falling off the education system and consequently missing out on lifelong learning and earning opportunities.

“There is no dream more powerful than that of an education. There is no reality more compelling than to attain one’s full potential. We must keep our promise: to provide inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all, as enshrined in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG4) and Human Rights Conventions,” says Gordon Brown, the United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

“While progress is being made, we still have a long way to go. Today, we are faced with the cruel reality of 222 million children and adolescents worldwide in wars and disasters in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and South America who need urgent financial investments to access a quality education.”

This progress has now been documented in ECW’s We Have Promises to Keep: Annual Results Report released today. The annual report comes on the back of ECW’s estimates laying bare the plight of crisis-impacted children and adolescents and how this plight remains less visible to the global community.

A young girl in her classroom in Yemen, where an ECW-funded programme is supporting educators and students by improving access to quality education. Credit: Building Foundation for Development Yemen

According to ECW, 222 million school-aged children and adolescents caught in crises urgently need educational support. These include 78.2 million who are out of school and 119.6 million who are in school but not achieving minimum competencies in mathematics and reading.

Worst still, an estimated 65.7 million of these out-of-school children—or 84 percent—live in protracted crises, with about two-thirds or 65 percent of them in just ten countries, including Afghanistan, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, and Yemen.

Conflict, forced displacement, climate-induced disasters, and the compounding effect of the COVID-19 pandemic fueled increased education in emergency needs, with funding appeal of US$2.9 billion in 2021, compared with US$1.4 billion in 2020.

While 2021 saw a record-high US$645 million in education funding—the overall funding gap spiked by 17 percent, from 60 percent in 2020 to 77 percent in 2021, according to the newly-released annual report.

“ECW’s solid results in our first five years of operation are proof of concept that we can turn the tide and empower the most marginalized girls and boys in crises with the hope, protection, and opportunity of quality education. We can make their dreams come true, whether it’s to become a nurse, a teacher, an engineer, or a scientist,” said Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait.

“With our strategic partners, we urge governments, businesses, and philanthropic actors to make substantive funding contributions to ECW to help turn dreams into reality for children left furthest behind in crises.”

Towards delivering the promise of lifelong learning and earning opportunities, the report shows ECW investments with strategic partners reached close to 7 million children and adolescents, 48.4 percent of whom are girls, since becoming operational in 2017.

Despite the ongoing multiple and complex challenges of COVID-19, conflict, protracted crises, and climate-related disasters, the annual report reveals that the fund and its partners continue to expand the response to education in emergencies and protracted crises globally.

In 2021 alone, ECW mobilized a record-breaking US$388.6 million. Total contributions to the ECW Trust Fund are now top US$1.1 billion.

Across 19 countries supported through ECW’s Multi-Year Resilience Programmes, donors and partners mobilized more than US$1 billion in new funding for education programmes.

Through its strategic partnerships, ECW reached 3.7 million children and adolescents across 32 crisis-impacted countries in 2021 alone, including 48.9 percent girls. An additional 11.8 million children and adolescents were reached through the fund’s COVID-19 interventions that same year, bringing the total number of children and adolescents supported by COVID-19 interventions to 31.2 million, of which 52 percent are girls.

But these highlights are tempered by concerns over an increase in the scale, severity, and protracted nature of conflicts and crises, continued attacks on education, and record-high displacements driven by climate change, conflicts, and other emergencies.

For instance, the COVID-19 pandemic significantly deepened the global learning crisis. In 2020 and 2021 alone, 147 million children missed over half of in-person instruction, and as many as 24 million learners may never return to school, according to UN estimates.

These challenges notwithstanding, the report provides more evidence of progress made by focusing on quality learning outcomes for the most marginalized children in crises. Of all children reached by ECW’s investments to date, half are girls, and 43 percent are refugees or internally displaced children.

Additionally, ECW grants indicate “improved levels of academic and or social-emotional learning; 53 percent of grants that measure learning levels showcase solid evidence of increased learning levels compared to 23 percent of grants active in 2020.”

Overall, the share of children reached with early childhood and secondary education increased substantially. Early childhood education increased from 5 percent in 2019 to 9 percent in 2021. Secondary education increased from 3 percent to 11 percent for the same period.

On inclusivity, estimates show that 92 percent of ECW-supported programmes demonstrated an improvement in gender parity. Today, more girls and boys are completing their education and or transitioning to the next grade or level, with a weighted completion rate of 79 percent and transition rate of 63 percent.

Teachers were not left behind as nearly 27,000 teachers—52 percent female—were trained and demonstrated increased knowledge, capacity, or performance in 2021.

To address the special needs of children and adolescents traumatized by war and conflict, over 13,800 learning spaces now have mental health and or psychosocial support activities. The number of teachers trained on mental health and psychosocial support topics doubled in 2021, reaching 54,000.

Ahead of its High-Level Financing Conference in Geneva in February 2023, the organization called on government donors, the private sector, foundations, and high-net-worth individuals to turn commitments into action by making substantive funding contributions to ECW.

The funding has already made a difference in Nigeria, where since January 2021, ECW partners facilitated 26,775 new school enrolments, an increase of 49.4 percent over the previous year.

In Cox’s Bazar, where 77 percent of children study at home, ECW partners supported the caregivers with bi-monthly visits and through radio broadcasting and the distribution of educational materials.

And in Syria, a consortium of partners was able to significantly improve conditions for children, with 74 percent of children showing an improvement in mathematics.

IPS UN Bureau Report

 

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‘We Have Promises to Keep’ – Education Cannot Wait results report shows how investments reach 7 million crisis-impacted children and adolescents in the world’s toughest contexts. However, the report indicates there is still much work to be done as 222 million school-aged children and adolescents caught in crises urgently need educational support.

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Az oktatásügyi tárca megkezdte a felsőoktatási intézmények és a Szlovák Tudományos Akadémia (SAV) tudományos és kutatói-alkotói tevékenységének időszakos értékelését. Az alkotótevékenység alapos tartalmi értékeléséről van szó, amely például a publikációkat és a művészeti tevékenységet érinti.

Les premiers vaccins Covid-19 qui fonctionnent sur tous les variants pourraient être disponibles dès 2024.

Die Schaffung einer unabhängigen Kommission zur Untersuchung von Raubkunst wurde im Nationalrat gutgeheissen. Jetzt empfiehlt sie auch die Kulturkommission des Ständerats. Anstoss gab der Streitfall Bührle-Sammlung.

Immer wieder stürzen Wanderer im Alpstein in den Tod. Experten fordern deshalb bauliche Massnahmen. Der zuständige Bezirksrat Schwende-Rüte sieht keinen Bedarf.

Das Punk-Kollektiv Pussy Riot war am Zürcher Theater Spektakel zu Gast. Mit einer Mischung aus Konzert, Theater und Performance-Kunst machen sie mit Kritik gegen Putins Regime aufmerksam.

Sie trotzen Putin mit provokativer Performance: Die Mitglieder der russischen Punk-Formation Pussy Riot gehören zu den bekanntesten Kreml-Kritikerinnen. Auf ihrer Tournee, die sie ans Theater Spektakel nach Zürich führte, rufen sie zu mehr politischem Engagement auf.

The next ordinary AFET Committee meeting is scheduled to take place on:
Wednesday, 31 August and Thursday, 1 September 2022

The meetings will be web-streamed.

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Une dizaine de blessés ont été enregistrés dans un accident à Dan, commune de Djidja ce dimanche 21 août 2022.

Vers 00 h dimanche dernier, des habitants de Dan, une localité de la commune de Djidja ont été réveillés par un grand fracas. Une voiture de marque Avalon venait de pénétrer une chambre salon construite en terre battue.

« J'étais dans la chambre à coucher avec mon pasteur quand l'incident s'est produit. Ils étaient 13 jeunes couchés au salon. Lui (pasteur) et moi, étions couchés dans la chambre et vers minuit par là nous avons entendu le bruit qui nous a réveillés en sursaut », a confié le sieur D. F..
Le temps pour nous de venir au salon, poursuit-il, il y avait déjà des cris de détresse.
« Tous ceux qui étaient couchés dans le salon se sont retrouvés sous le véhicule. Le véhicule est resté coincé entre la porte d'entrée et le mur qui sépare la chambre à coucher d'avec le salon », explique-t-il.

Selon les sources de 24 heures au Bénin, ces hommes occupaient les pièces depuis vendredi dernier pour des séances de prières de deux jours. Heureusement, il n'y a eu aucun mort. Avec l'aide d'un voisin, ils ont pu sortir tous les 13 jeunes blessés par la fenêtre du salon.
Le conducteur du véhicule a aussi eu la vie sauve. Les blessés ont été conduits à l'hôpital de la zone sanitaire Djidja-Abomey-Agbangnizoun. Le constat a été fait par la police.

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Une dizaine de blessés ont été enregistrés dans un accident à Dan, commune de Djidja ce dimanche 21 août 2022.

Vers 00 h dimanche dernier, des habitants de Dan, une localité de la commune de Djidja ont été réveillés par un grand fracas. Une voiture de marque Avalon venait de pénétrer une chambre salon construite en terre battue.

« J'étais dans la chambre à coucher avec mon pasteur quand l'incident s'est produit. Ils étaient 13 jeunes couchés au salon. Lui (pasteur) et moi, étions couchés dans la chambre et vers minuit par là nous avons entendu le bruit qui nous a réveillés en sursaut », a confié le sieur D. F..
Le temps pour nous de venir au salon, poursuit-il, il y avait déjà des cris de détresse.
« Tous ceux qui étaient couchés dans le salon se sont retrouvés sous le véhicule. Le véhicule est resté coincé entre la porte d'entrée et le mur qui sépare la chambre à coucher d'avec le salon », explique-t-il.

Selon les sources de 24 heures au Bénin, ces hommes occupaient les pièces depuis vendredi dernier pour des séances de prières de deux jours. Heureusement, il n'y a eu aucun mort. Avec l'aide d'un voisin, ils ont pu sortir tous les 13 jeunes blessés par la fenêtre du salon.
Le conducteur du véhicule a aussi eu la vie sauve. Les blessés ont été conduits à l'hôpital de la zone sanitaire Djidja-Abomey-Agbangnizoun. Le constat a été fait par la police.

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Ein Mitarbeiter aus einem Hotel in Monaco crasht einen Ferrari LaFerrari in zwei Motorräder – und das vor den Augen des Besitzers!

Le président de la Confédération a fermement condamné l’agression russe mardi, dans son adresse lors d’un sommet en ligne sur la Crimée.