International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination 2021

March 21 is International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination  “Racism has been a banner to justify the enterprises of expansion, conquest, colonization and domination and has walked hand in hand with intolerance, injustice and violence.“ — Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Guatemalan Indigenous Leader and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.  I was lucky enough to meet Rigoberta Menchu when

No Education, No Protection

From INEE INEE are pleased to share a new research paper entitled, No Education, No Protection: What school closures under COVID-19 mean for children and young people in crisis-affected contexts. In this paper, The Alliance and INEE have drawn on global evidence and a series of interviews to analyse the consequences of school closures during the pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic

EiE-GenKit – gender responsive quality education

EiE-GenKitINEE, ECW, UNGEI A core resource package on gender in education in emergencies When gender-responsive, quality education is available to all it has the potential to transform societies and build sustainable peace. A joint initiative from the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE), Education Cannot Wait (ECW) and the UN Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI), the EiE-GenKit

International Women’s Day 2021

‘They hold up half the world’ During the pandemic there is plenty of evidence that women and girls have been holding up more than half as they have taken on more responsibilities at home, more employment loss as they are likely to be in informal employment, while being subjected to more domestic violence and online