Children and Youth
Идеи: Города в эпоху глобального потепления: Уроки традиционного зодчества
Смогут ли современные города с заасфальтированными дорогами и стеклянными небоскребами выдержать ожидаемый рост температур? Маловероятно. В отличие от них традиционные жилища в странах Ближнего Востока Персидского залива и Африки оптимально приспособлены к жаркому климату обеспечивая тень и способствуя циркуляции воздуха. Если мы хотим создать более устойчивую и экологичную городскую среду нам следует прислушаться к опыту зодчих прошлых веков.
The young child must grow
It is not unusual for Western NGOs to create and export programme models and development tools to Africa. What is less common is for this process to happen in reverse: when a wealthy Western nation imports a tried and tested African model to help address its social problems. This is exactly what has happened with Khulisa Crime Prevention Initiative a South African organisation that has successfully undertaken its programmes in the UK demonstrating the universality of its approach.
In the spotlight. Breaking the silence: The story of Colombian drug kingpin Escobar through the eyes of his son
The idea of making “Sins of My Father” first came about around the end of 2005 when I had an opportunity to meet Sebastián Marroquin the only son of Pablo Escobar. Sebastián was born Juan Pablo Escobar in 1977 but was granted a name change shortly after his father’s death for security reasons. By the time of our meeting he had been living in Argentina for a decade but few people knew about him or his story.
The unseen violence: Violence in the family
In 2010 German police registered approximately 6 million offences in their crime statistics. Less than 10 per cent of these offences involved violence against persons. However police crime statistics do not necessarily reflect actual crime levels but depend on the willingness of the population to report them. They tell us nothing about the “dark figure” of crime and this applies particularly to the family domain which is also not documented separately in German crime statistics.
Школа под мостом в Нью-Дели
Девять лет назад Раджеш Кумар Шарма открыл школу между двумя колоннами поддерживающими линию надземного метро в индийской столице. Каждый день уроки под открытым небом посещают более 200 детей из бедных кварталов Нью-Дели.
FBI outreach program promotes child safety, identification
Building on its long history as an authority in fingerprinting the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) uses its expertise to help parents and guardians protect America’s children through the Community Fingerprinting Program and the National Child Identification Program. Both of these initiatives capture children’s fingerprints in a format that parents can keep in case of an emergency with their child.
The role of civil societies on youth empowerment in post-war Sierra Leone
In Sierra Leone young people constitute about 34 per cent of the country’s total 5.6 million estimated population. The broad definition of youth in Sierra Leone includes people between 15-35 years old of whom 70 per cent are unemployed and 53.4 per cent are illiterate. As a result the lack of employment and educational opportunities has become one of the major concerns of the Government of Sierra Leone (GoSL). In this complex context numerous local civil society organizations together with the GoSL have played a significant role in empowering young people who were the most active players in Sierra Leone’s decade civil war (1991-2002). According to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Report the conflict was caused by years of bad governance endemic corruption and the denial of basic human rights which created deplorable conditions for Sierra Leoneans. Amidst this context most of the country’s civil society organizations were established during and after the end of the war aiming above all to empower minority groups including youth and women monitor government activities supplement human services and advocate for human rights. Hence these organizations have given substantial support and hope to the country’s post-war recovery and development and to the improved status of youth.
Jeunes reporters migrants: Raising issues with participation
100 young people from Italy France Senegal and Burkina Faso were the protagonists in the Jeunes Reporter Migrants (JRM) experience: an educational project which aims to give back a voice to people who do not have any other ways of sharing their stories and views in the mainstream media. These young people have been selected from schools or from the most disadvantaged suburbs. In Italy and France some of them have experienced migration at first-hand. The topic of the entire project is “Citizen journalism” a new form of citizen media where individuals can write and/or comment on issues they feel have been left-out or that tend to be covered only superficially by the mainstream media. In this case the main issue was “migration.” The young people involved in this workshop met for six months in small newsrooms with the goal of producing reports on migrants and their concerns about living in Europe and in developing countries. In September 2010 they met in four different international exchanges programmes and they worked together to write news articles and reports which can be viewed on the website: jeunesrms.org
Teenagers in conflict with the law and justice in Brazil
Brazil has the world’s third largest prison population. Of the roughly 500000 prisoners currently being held in the Brazilian prison system 59 per cent are youth between 18 and 29 years of age. The number of adolescents (between 12 and 18 years old) who have been deprived of their liberty in the socio-educational system is around 18000.
Широкий обзор: Монреаль: Школа второго шанса
Преуспеть там где традиционная школа потерпела неудачу – таковы мотивы движущие в их повседневной работе учителями Монреальского центра образовательной интеграции для трудных детей. Они лучше других знают что первый шаг к успешному обучению – это завоевание доверия учеников.
Connected Generation. Young people and social networks: Outline
According to boyd and Ellison’s definitive 2007 article the first online social network service (SNS) emerged in 1997 but it is only in the last five years that social networks have made it from obscurity to become a ubiquitous part of many people’s online and offline day to day experience. With 2 billion people predicted to be connected to the Internet by the end of 2010 Facebook now has over 500 million registered users from right across the globe.3 2.1 million new Twitter accounts are registered every week and regional local and niche social network services and social media sites are being launched and are growing daily.
Вальпараисо: Учеба за решеткой
Школа им. Хуана Луиса Вивеса основанная в 1999 году стоит на одном из холмов чилийского порта Вальпараисо и в настоящее время насчитывает 550 учеников. Однако это не простые школьники: все они отбывают наказание в городской тюрьме на территории которой и находится учреждение. Каждый день преподаватели погружаются в особый мир заключенных и насколько это возможно в условиях тюрьмы стремятся передать им знания несмотря на порой огромную разницу в уровне подготовки учеников и их тяжелое психологическое состояние. В 2015 году школа стала лауреатом присуждаемой ЮНЕСКО Премии Конфуция за распространение грамотности.
Конго: Класс из 76 учеников
Сатюрнен Серж Нгома работает учителем начальной школы Ля-Пудриер в Браззавиле Конго. Вопреки ежедневным трудностям он изо дня в день преподает геометрию и спряжение глаголов в переполненном классе в школе не имеющей самого необходимого.
Youth for youth: Working for a world free from fear
Fabrica is the communication research centre founded by Luciano Benetton. It was created in 1994 with the aim of offering young designers from around the world an alternative opportunity for creative growth multicultural exchange and social impact. Fabrica is located in Italy near Venice in Villa Pastega Manera an ancient villa built in the seventeenth century restored and enlarged by Tadao Ando.
An interview with Juan Pablo Escobar (now Juan Sebastian Marroquín Santos)
I was born into a world fertile for violence. With this as my legacy my only choice is to search for peace.
Teenagers, violence and crime in Brazil
One can not speak of violence in Brazil and its increases since 1980 without mentioning the population that it harms: the young. Reports that have been dedicated to analyzing the victims of homicide in the country since 1980 have reached a dramatic conclusion: the cause of increased violence in the country is due to the riseof homicides among young people. Studies carried out by Instituto Sangari show a dramatic and permanent increase in cases of homicide among people between 12 and 24 years of age. While in 1980 the homicide rate among youths between 15 and 24 years of age was 30.0 per 100000 in 2007 that number had grown to 50.1. The rate of homicides among older people however remained stable. In the past 20 years homicides among youths have almost doubled which positions Brazil as 6th in the international ranking of countries with the highest homicide rates among youths in the World Health Organization Statistical Information System (WHOSIS).
Focus on. Security and governance in post-conflict peacebuilding
Peacekeeping and post-conflict peacebuilding are undergoing a shifting paradigm and focus in the international arena. Whilst the international community via the medium of the universal body of the United Nations has intervened in numerous and varied war ravaged countries and regions of the world since its inception after World War Two keeping and then building the peace has been more complicated and protracted than originally envisaged. As the then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan lamented half of those countries that emerge from war succumb back to violence within five years emphasising the depressing fact that it is easier to make the peace than it is to keep it. History has shown us that the transition from internal conflict to a sustainable peace is a fraught one.
Mohamed Sidibay: La función de los docentes consiste en devolvernos la confianza
Huérfano desde los cinco años Mohamed Sidibay fue niño soldado durante la guerra civil de Sierra Leona pero logró salvarse gracias a la escuela. Este defensor incansable de la enseñanza que colabora con la Alianza Mundial para la Educación nos cuenta cuánto le debe a una maestra que le tendió una mano.
Gran angular: Una escuela de segunda oportunidad en Montreal
Conseguir el éxito académico de los alumnos que fracasan en el modelo de escuela tradicional: ese es el reto que afrontan a diario los docentes del Centro de Integración Escolar de Montreal (Canadá) donde se escolariza a estudiantes con itinerarios académicos caóticos. Ganar su confianza es la condición previa para lograr que aprendan.
En el Congo: Impartir clases a 76 alumnos
El docente de la Escuela Primaria de La Poudrière en Brazzaville (Congo) Saturnin Serge Ngoma ha impartido día tras día clases de geometría y gramática a un aula congestionada. Una lucha cotidiana en una escuela que carece de casi todo.