Enfance et jeunesse
Innocenti Report Card
In keeping with UNICEF's mandate to advocate for children in every country the Centre's Report Card series focuses on the well-being of children in industrialized countries. Each Report Card includes a league table ranking the countries of the OECD according to their record on the subject under discussion. The Report Cards are designed to appeal to a wider audience while maintaining academic rigour.
Bilan Innocenti
Le Centre de recherche Innocenti de l'UNICEF (IRC) a été créé pour renforcer la capacité de recherche de l'UNICEF et soutenir son action en faveur des enfants dans le monde entier. Conformément au mandat de l'UNICEF d'agir en faveur de l'enfance partout dans le monde la série de rapports du centre se concentre sur le bien-être des enfants dans les pays industrialisés. Chaque fiche de rapport comprend un tableau classant les pays de l'OCDE concernant un sujet bien determiné en particulier. Ces bulletins sont conçus pour faire appel à un public élargi tout en maintenant la rigueur académique nécessaire.
Report Card de Innocenti
El Centro de Investigación Innocenti de UNICEF (IRC) fue creado para fortalecer la capacidad de investigación de UNICEF y para apoyar a la defensa de los niños en todo el mundo. Continuando con el mandato de UNICEF de abogar por los niños en todos los países la serie "Reporte de Calificaciones del Centro" se centra en el bienestar de los niños en los países industrializados. Cada reporte de calificaciones incluye una tabla de clasificación que ordena a los países de la OCDE de acuerdo con su historial sobre los temas en discusión. Los Reportes de Calificaciones están diseñados para atraer a un público más amplio y mantener el rigor académico.
Innocenti Report Card (Italian version)
In linea con il mandato dell'UNICEF di difendere i diritti dei bambini in ogni paese la serie Report Card del Centro INNOCENTI si concentra sul benessere dei bambini nei paesi industrializzati. Ogni Report Card include una graduatoria che classifica i paesi dell'OCSE in base ai dati forniti sull'argomento in discussione. Questa serie è stata progettata per attrarre un pubblico più ampio mantenendo sempre il rigore accademico.
State of the World's Children
Each year the United Nations Children's Fund's (UNICEF’s) flagship publication The State of the World's Children closely examines a key issue affecting children. The report includes supporting data and statistics.
Situation des enfants dans le monde
Chaque année la publication phare de l'UNICEF La situation des enfants dans le monde examine de près un problème principal affectant les enfants. Le rapport comprend des données justificatives et des statistiques et est disponible en versions anglaise française et espagnole.
Estado mundial de la infancia
Cada año la principal publicación de UNICEF El estado de los niños del mundo se examina detalladamente los problemas que afecta a los niños. El informe incluye datos de apoyo y las estadísticas y está disponible en versiones en inglés español y francés.
World Youth Report
Innocenti Working Papers
The UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre (IRC) was created to strengthen UNICEF's research capability and to support its advocacy for children worldwide. The Working Papers (formerly Innocenti Occasional Papers) are the foundation of the Centre's research output underpinning many of the Centre's other publications. These high quality research papers are aimed at an academic and well-informed audience contributing to ongoing discussion on a wide range of child-related issues.
Innocenti Discussion Papers
These papers are signed pieces by researchers on current topics in social and economic policy and the realization of children’s rights. They may discuss technical issues in a focused manner or in a less detailed manner than Working Papers.
Innocenti Research Briefs
Innocenti Research Briefs are a series of short papers intended to provide the latest data analysis methods and information on a wide range of issues affecting children. The series addresses various sub-themes in a concise and accessible format convenient for programme managers and decision makers.
Music: Nigeria’s new export
It is a cold evening in Antwerp Belgium’s second-largest city famous for diamonds beer art and high-end fashion. Inside a small restaurant a mix of the latest American pop and rap—clearly enjoyed by diners—is playing on a radio.
Raphael Obonyo: From poverty to the pinnacles of power
My name is Raphael Obonyo from Kenya. I grew up in Korogocho the third-largest slum in the capital Nairobi where people live in grinding poverty.
Profs de l’impossible: De la classe au grand écran
« Rendre aux professeurs leur qualité de héros formidables de la vie parce qu’ils changent les destins des enfants et ils changent le futur du monde. » Tel est l’objectif ambitieux du film documentaire Profs de l’impossible (titre provisoire) actuellement réalisé par la société de production française Winds. L’idée soufflée par l’UNESCO qui est partenaire du film est de donner à voir à travers plusieurs portraits des enseignants qui s’investissent au-delà de ce que requiert généralement le métier et de montrer l’universalisme de leur engagement.
Grand angle: À Montréal, l’école de la deuxième chance
Réussir là où l’école traditionnelle a échoué. C’est le défi que doivent relever chaque jour les enseignants du Centre d’intégration scolaire de Montréal (Canada) qui accueille des élèves aux parcours accidentés. Gagner leur confiance est un préalable à tout apprentissage.
Actualités: Au Pérou, la restauration du pont suspendu de Q’eswachaka
Chaque année au cours de la première semaine du mois de juin les habitants du district de Quehue au Pérou se réunissent pendant trois jours pour restaurer le pont de corde qui relie les deux rives de la rivière Apurímac. Cette tradition andine séculaire est inscrite depuis 2013 sur la Liste représentative du patrimoine culturel immatériel de l’humanité.
Notre Invitée: Nelly Minyersky, la reine verte
Par leurs campagnes de dénonciation de la violence de genre et des féminicides comme #NiUnaMenos (« Pas une de moins ») et leur combat pour la légalisation et la dépénalisation de l’avortement les femmes d’Argentine montent au créneau et transcendent les clivages. À 90 ans la juriste Nelly Minyersky est une de leurs représentantes les plus actives. Au point d’être baptisée par certains « la reine verte » de la couleur des foulards des partisans d’un avortement libre et sûr qui défendent une « loi pour ne pas mourir ».
COVID-19 pandemic and gender aspects
The year 2020 marks two important landmarks in gender equality achievement: the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform of Action and the 20th year of implementing Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women Peace and Security. Unfortunately the Covid-19 pandemic caused cancellation and postponement of many important international meetings including a shortened version of the 64th session of the Commission on the Status of Women but it is also risking to heavily jeopardize the progress made over recent years.
Cyber-crime during the COVID-19 pandemic
The pandemic of COVID-19 and the imposed lockdown has led to more people to be confined at home with many more hours to spend online each day and increasingly relying on the Internet to access services they normally obtain offline.
Zoom: Archive treasure: The unpublished album of David Seymour
It all began in the autumn of 2017 with the exploration of UNESCO’s audiovisual collections after their transfer to the Organization’s archives. Most of the collections had barely been indexed in their almost seventy years of existence. Walking through these archives was a bit like visiting Jorges Luis Borges’ The Library of Babel. With thousands of documents in the archives the only way to get an idea of how the collection was organized was simply to open the drawers of the many old filing cabinets and take a look inside.
How organized crime is expanding during the COVID-19 crisis
Over the last century organized crime has demonstrated a remarkable capacity to rapidly adapt to mutated social political and economic conditions. While in some cases this adaptation was the result of a reactive response to improved legislation targeting their interests in many others it was ignited by the pursuit of new possibilities for economic profit. Examples in this sense include how quickly criminal groups adapted to new scenarios created for instance by geopolitical changes the integration of global markets or the generalized use of the world wide web as a marketplace for a variety of licit and illicit goods and services.
The principles of equality and non-discrimination under viral attack: Stigma, hate speech, xenophobia, racism and discrimination during the COVID-19 pandemic
The principle of equality – the belief that all human beings are born free and equal – along with the correlated prohibition on discrimination are foundations of society. Equality is one of the most basic aspects of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and a pillar on which the United Nations (UN) was founded in 1945. Yet following the emergence of the coronavirus in December 2019 this long-established fundamental human right is being increasingly threatened. Indeed as the UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues Fernand de Varennes observed “COVID-19 is not just a health issue; it can also be a virus that exacerbates xenophobia hate and exclusion.”
Community resilience: Insights from UNICRI experience in the Sahel-Maghreb
In physics “resilience” is a measure of how well a material such as rubber or metal responds to pressure by bending adapting and changing without breaking. However this concept is more than a scientific term. Resiliency can also describe a community’s ability to bounce back from pressures including natural disasters economic downturns and - in the case of UNICRI’s Pilot Project on Countering Radicalisation and Violent Extremism in the Sahel-Maghreb - violence and terrorism. In the Sahel and Maghreb the pressure on communities is certainly intense and ever-growing. Conflicts in Libya and Mali threaten to spill over porous borders while drought and desertification have increased food insecurity and heightened intercommunal tensions. Increasingly active extremist militant groups have brought violence and chased out tourists which once had been an importance source of income. Now more than ever an approach aimed at building the resilience at a community level is needed - one that can empower communities to respond to these pressures by adapting and changing without “breaking” and entering into conflict.
No one is left behind in the fight of the EU against violent extremism
31st January 2019 at the European Parliament in Brussels several officials experts researchers and journalists concerned with finding solutions to the rise of violent extremism in the Maghreb and Sahel region gathered to share insights on a 5 million euros European Union (EU) funded programme implemented by UNICRI.
Youth: The phenomenon of returning foreign terrorist fighters and its challenges
The phenomenon of foreign terrorist fighters (FTFs) is a matter of great concern for the international community. Newspapers and media are full of stories pertaining to the radicalization of young people who left their country of origin to engage in violent extremism in other countries.
The resiliency of the UN staff member’s oath of office
This is not the first time that I have been asked how we can succeed in advancing the values of the United Nations in the most critical situations. It is a good question. Even those who have served in peace missions for over thirty years cannot provide a single answer to this question.
Infocus: The companion to international humanitarian law. A practical approach to the dissemination of International Humanitarian Law
Lived-experience-and-strengths-based strategies for persons with mental illness who offended and their family members
This essay describes lived-experience based strategies for persons with mental illness who offended (PMIO) and their families. These recommendations are derived from the results of a multidisciplinary research project which aimed to develop multidisciplinary strengths-based strategies for PMIO and their families. These recommendations can inspire a broad range of practitioners and policy makers from the criminal justice system as well as the mental health systems working with PMIO and their family.
Youth engagement and resilience against violent extremism in the Sahel
On the sidelines of the 74th session of UNGA on 24 September 2019 UNICRI the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) and the Global Center on Cooperative Security (the Global Centre) - in collaboration with the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Permanent Mission of Senegal to the United Nations - organised a panel on the critical role that youth play across the Sahel in preventing and countering violent extremism.
The process to radicalization and violentization
During these last years some countries around the world have been attacked by terrorists’ violence and the number of citizens who choose to become foreign fighters has increased.
The school under a bridge in New Delhi
For the past nine years Rajesh Kumar Sharma has been operating a makeshift school between two pillars of the aerial metro that runs across India’s capital. More than 200 children from the surrounding slums attend this open-air classroom every day.
Coronavirus: In Timbuktu youth is at the forefront of raising awareness against COVID-19
In its efforts to raise awareness against the coronavirus the association “The voice of the students of Timbuktu” has just trained around thirty young people in respect of measures to stop the contagion. The training can be recognized as a means to strengthen the prevention of COVID-19 in Timbuktu where nothing seems to worry the population.
影像: 珍责档案:大卫 • 西摩未面世 的影集
The young people of Mali: Key players against COVID-19
The world is shaken by an unprecedented health crisis. Its multiple ravages are echoing all over the world and the media seem to revel in it as information concerning the situation becomes vital. Needless to say Covid-19 made its appearance at the end of 2019 in Wuhan the capital of the province of Hubei in China and at the start of 2020 continued to spread in an overpowering and dominant way not only characterized by its speed but also in its capacity of adaptation across all continents of the world. China has been overwhelmed. In France there are no longer yellow vest protests. Italy no longer sings and the art world present in the country has closed its doors. It would seem that America in tears suddenly forgot its superpower. The virus rapidly spread also in Latin America with more than 11 thousand cases in 24 hours in Brazil. All of this to show the very serious impact that Covid-19 has provoked on daily life around the world. In fact on March 11 it qualified as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) exceeding the number of 100 infected countries to all areas of the globe.
An interview with Claudina Macuacua, President of the Tribunal for Minors in Mozambique
What are the main causes of the juvenile delinquency phenomenon in Mozambique? The phenomenon of minors in conflict with the law has different roots and reasons. It started with the civil war which ended in 1992 and killed parents who went off to fight leaving children alone and abandoned. In most cases both the mothers and the fathers lost their lives and neither returned to their homes thus children became orphans and remained alone with nobody to look after them. These children began living on the streets trying to earn a life by carrying out little bits of work such as cleaning cars. But in the majority of cases they ended up begging and starving. As a consequence these children grew up carrying out petty crimes and later on they committed bigger offences.
Фокус: Архивное сокровище: Неопубликованный альбом дэвида сеймура
Giving children their right to dream
Since I was young I have always dreamed that what I wanted to do when I would be an adult was to work with something that would have contributed to make this world a better place. Most of the children in Mozambique may have the same dream but unfortunately do not have the same chances to achieve their dreams because there are things that they must do which are more important than ‘just’ following up on a dream: finding a way to eat or bringing food home; finding a way to get to school which is more often than not hours away from their houses avoid tearing their own clothes while playing because they will not get new ones as easily stay away from trouble... and when you are a kid left alone all day long these are not easy tasks. Indeed it may be that parents have to stay out of the house all day long to work and crianças (children) have to be responsible for carrying out a proper healthy life full of dreams.
Судьба пассажиров «клотильды» – последнего американского рабовладельческого судна
В мае 2019 года археологи объявили об обнаружении в Алабаме остатков «Клотильды» – последнего известного невольничьего судна причалившего к берегам США 52 года спустя после запрета работорговли. Известие попало в заголовки новостей во всем мире. Однако в центре внимания СМИ были не столько несчастные жертвы ужасного плавания сколько судовладелец капитан и сам корабль.
Учителя невозможного: От уроков до большого экрана
«Ученики устраивались на небольших досках которые приносили с собой. Условия были крайне непростыми» – вздыхает учитель.
معلمون أمام المستحيل: من قاعة التدريس إلى الشاشة الكبيرة
ذيملاتلا يتأي« :ةسرح لكب ملعلما حّضوُيو انه نم اهيلع اولصح بشخلا نم عطقب عضولا نكي مل .اهيلع اوسلجيل ،كانهو.»ةّرلماب لاهس
أفكار: الفن المعماري التقليدي،مصدر إلهام لمساكن الغد
ةدّبعلما اهعراوشب ،ةثيدحلا ندلما نإ ةهجاولم ةلهؤم يرغ ،ةيجاجزلا اهجاربأو امبو .ةرارحلا تاجردل عقوتلما عافترلاا طسولأا قشرلا في ةيديلقتلا تايانِبلا نأ ةمئلام ايقيرفأ في وأ جيلخلا نادلب في وأ نكملما نم ،ةئوهتلا ليهستو لظلا يرفوتل نكس ميمصتل ماهلإ ردصم لكشت نأ.ةئيبلل يعارمو مادتسم
Учитель на все руки – надежда китайской глубинки
Большинство жителей затерянной среди гор деревушки Хэйхумяо в китайской провинции Хэнань мечтает лишь о том чтобы уехать в город. Уезжая учиться в университет остаться в городе намеревался и Чжан Юйгунь. Однако после получения диплома он вернулся в родную деревню уже в качестве учителя чтобы в свою очередь дать шанс на лучшую жизнь местным детям.
Мохамед Сидибе: Задача учителей – вернуть детям доверие к взрослым
Он стал сиротой в пять лет был ребенком-солдатом во времена гражданской войны в Сьерра-Леоне но смог изменить свою жизнь благодаря школе. Активист и участник Глобального партнерства по образованию Мохамед Сидибе рассказал «Курьеру ЮНЕСКО» что во многом обязан одной учительнице.
Наш гость: Нелли Миньерски – «зеленая королева»
Проводя кампании против гендерного насилия и фемицида такие как #NiUnaMenos [в переводе с испанского «Ни одной меньше»] и участвуя в борьбе за легализацию и декриминализацию абортов женщины в Аргентине заявляют о себе и борются за свои права. Юрист Нелли Миньерски в свои 90 лет является одной из самых активных их представительниц. Некоторые даже прозвали ее «зеленой королевой» – по цвету платка который носят сторонники права на репродуктивный выбор и безопасный аборт и принятия «закона во избежание смерти».
High school cybercriminals wreaking havoc. Why are more youths committing online crime?
In June this year UK authorities tracked down and arrested two people suspected of ring leading the largest international English speaking online cyber criminal forum. They were charged with stealing and selling the details of 65000 bank accounts they had ransacked from computers infected with malware. They had sold the details at varying prices according to their origin with US bank details going for $3 EU bank details for $5 and UK bank details for $7. Furthermore they had provided advice through their online forum on the best ways to use the details to wire money purchase items online or pay for other services. According to the authorities more than 8 million pounds (US$12.5 million) had subsequently been stolen from these accounts. The kicker – the two alleged criminals Nick Webber and Ryan Thomas were both teenagers (18 and 17) and still in high school.
Cybercrime-counterfeiting: The issue of “real-virtual’ interactions
Most professionals define cybercrime as: “Any illegal action in which a computer is the tool or object of the criminal offence.1 “However this definition has the disadvantage of not taking into account the “offline world”. It means that many stakeholders such as the French Customs tend to broaden the de facto concept of cybercrime to acts that involve criminal flows both in the real world and on the Internet by using a computer. This broader view of cybercrime has the advantage of acknowledging - in theory - this type of crime in both the real and the virtual field. While the Internet is a difficult network to observe assess and to conceptualize without technical intermediaries it is reasonable to consider or assume that this broader view of cybercrime leads to a better understanding of the cyber phenomenon and its criminological implications. The well known phenomena of the counterfeiting of physical goods such as luxury goods (watches cosmetics or accessories) and in the leisure industry (DVDs video games or music) and its ramifications on the intersection of the real (factories and distribution networks) and the virtual (Internet) would then be especially relevant to unearthing many issues pertaining to cybercrime. Yet with this hybrid vision of cybercrime it is quite the opposite that happens because reality tends rather to reflect the fragility of the binomial “Cybercrime - counterfeiting.”
Youth and drugs: The Temptation and the disillusion
I am glad to be given the opportunity to talk with young people about drugs especially about the temptation to take addictive substances for fun or need and the dis-illusion victims inevitably face – unable to overcome personal problems with a few grams of dope.
Current issues in youth suicide. A Global address and an east-west comparison
Новости: Ручная работа: Обновление подвесного моста кешуачака в перу
Каждый год в первую неделю июня жители округа Кеуэ в Перу на три дня собираются вместе чтобы сплести и установить новый веревочный мост через реку Апуримак. Эта традиция существующая в Андах на протяжении веков с 2013 года входит в Репрезентативный список нематериального культурного наследия человечества.
محمد سيدي باي: دور المعلّم إعادة الثقةفي النفوس
نم ةسماخلا في ياب يديس دمحم مّتيت لاز لا وهو هدينجت ّمت نأ دعبو .هرمع ،نويلايرس في ةيلهلأا برحلا ءانثأ ًلافط لضفب عضولا اذه نم تلافلإا نم نكمت ميلعتلا نع ًاعفادم هفصوبو .ميلعّتلا ةكاشرلا راطإ في اميس لا ،للك نودّيينبُي ،ميلعتلا لجأ نم ةيلماعلا هل ٌدمت نأ تعاطتسا ةمّلعلم هب نيدي ام .ةدعاسلما دي
زوم: كنوز من الأرشيف: أَلبوم غير منشور لديفيد سيمور
مدرسة تحت جسر في نيودلهي
عست ذنم ،امراش راموك شاجر أشنأ ينب داتعلما نع ةجراخ ةسردم ،تاونس ةمصاعلا في يّوجلا راطقلل نيدومع يرقف لفط 200 نم رثكأ يتأي .ةيدنهلا اوقلتيل موي لك ةرواجلما ءايحلأا نم.قلطلا ءاوهلا في لصفلا اذه في ميلعتلا
مُعلّم متعدد الاختصاصات في قريةصينية معزولة
نويرثك ،ينصلا طسو ،نانيه ةعطاقم في في نوبغارلا وايموهياه ةيرق ناّكُس مه في لضفأ ةايح نع اثحب مهلابج ةرداغم .اضيأ وه رداغ نوغوي غناهز .ةنيدلما داع ،هتداهش لىع لصح الماح ،هنكل ىتح ،اهيف عرعرت يتلا ةيرقلا في سّردُيل.وايموهياه لافطلأ ةصرف يطعي
فالباريزو: مدرسة وراء القضبان
يتلا سيفيف سيول ناوخ ةسردم عقت تاعفترم قوف 1999 ماع تسسأت .لييشلا في ةيئفرلما وزيرابلاف ةنيدم يوأت يتلا ةسردلما هذه ةّيصوصخ لّثمتت في عقومتت اهنوك في امّلعتُم 550 مويلا نوسّردُلما اهيف هجاوي .ةنيدلما نجس بلق ملاع اهب مستي يتلا تاطوغضلا ايموي نيابتب ةطبترلما تابوعصلاو ،نوجسلا مهتيساسحو ينجاسلما تايوتسم ةزئاجب ةسردلما هذه تزاف .ةطرفُلما وحلم سويشوفنوك-وكسنويلا.2015 ةّيملأا
Youth influence in decision making processes
Half of the world’s population is composed of young people and the numbers are growing. Strong shifts in global populations are already visible. The population in the global north is growing older and older with young people making up less and less of the total population. Meanwhile the situation is the opposite in the global south. This has created many challenges challenges that no longer can be referred to as new. What we need to find out is if the world will be up to the task of taking on these challenges.
Restavèks and child trafficking in Haiti
Haiti has come to the front of the international news after the earthquake that took place in January this year and caused more than 200000 deaths. Another issue also called the attention of the world: the situation of the child serfs and the trafficking of minors.
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.
Nuestro invitado: Nelly Minyersky, la reina verde
Mediante campañas de denuncia de la violencia de género y los femicidios como #NiUnaMenos y su combate por la legalización y despenalización del aborto las mujeres argentinas abren la brecha y trascienden fronteras. A sus 90 años la jurista Nelly Minyersky es una de sus referentes más activas. Tanto que hay quien la ha bautizado “la reina verde” por el color de los pañuelos de los partidarios del aborto libre y seguro en suma de una “ley para no morir”.
En Valparaíso, dar clases tras las rejas
En la parte alta de la ciudad portuaria de Valparaíso en la costa chilena la escuela Juan Luis Vives existe desde 1999. Hoy en día la escuela acoge a 550 educandos y su peculiaridad es que se halla en el núcleo de la cárcel de Valparaíso. Cada día los docentes que ejercen su profesión allí deben hacer frente a las dificultades del mundo penitenciario a las disparidades de nivel y a las emociones a flor de piel. En 2015 este centro educativo ganó el Premio Internacional de Alfabetización UNESCO-Confucio.
Docentes de lo imposible: Del aula a la gran pantalla
“Devolver a los profesores su condición de héroes extraordinarios de la vida porque son capaces de cambiar el destino de los niños y el futuro del mundo”. Este es el ambicioso objetivo del documental Docentes de lo imposible (título provisional) que realiza actualmente la productora cinematográfica francesa Winds. La idea sugerida por la UNESCO que está asociada a la producción de la película consiste en mostrar a través de varios retratos a maestros que superan las exigencias habituales del oficio y a poner de relieve la universalidad de su compromiso.
No place for young people
In this very moment there are young people who are leaving home to build a future in the best universities of the world but there are also young people crossing the desert to join groups of fighters and young people trying to cross the sea in small boats to escape their harsh circumstances and hope to find something better.
Nueva Delhi: La escuela bajo el puente
Hace nueve años Rajesh Kumar Sharma instaló una escuela precaria entre dos pilares del metro elevado de la capital india. Más de 200 niños pobres de los barrios aledaños acuden cada día a esta clase a cielo abierto.
Profesor para todo en un pueblo Chino aislado
En la provincia de Henan en el centro de China son muchos los habitantes de Heihumiao que desean abandonar las montañas para buscar una vida mejor en la ciudad. Zhang Yugun también se marchó. Pero una vez que obtuvo su diploma regresó para enseñar en el pueblo que lo vio crecer y darles una oportunidad a los niños.
Actualidades: La renovación del puente colgante de Q’eswachaka en Perú
La primera semana de junio de cada año el conjunto de la población del distrito de Quehue en Perú se agrupa durante tres días para renovar colectivamente el puente de sogas tendido entre las dos orillas del río Apurímac observando así una tradición secular cuya práctica se halla inscrita en la Lista Representativa del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial de la Humanidad desde 2013.
El destino de los descendientes del Clotilda, último navío negrero de Estados Unidos
En mayo de 2019 un grupo de arqueólogos anunció haber descubierto en la costa de Alabama el pecio del Clotilda el último barco negrero que llegó a Estados Unidos 52 años después de que se prohibiera la trata de esclavos. En todo el mundo este hallazgo se hizo acreedor de titulares de prensa que evocaron la historia del navío de su armador y capitán con mucho más interés que la de las víctimas de la abominable travesía.
Enseignant à tout faire dans un village chinois isolé
Dans la province du Henan au centre de la Chine les habitants de Heihumiao sont nombreux à vouloir quitter leurs montagnes pour tenter de trouver une vie meilleure en ville. Zhang Yugun lui aussi est parti. Mais une fois son diplôme en poche il est revenu enseigner dans le village qui l’a vu grandir pour donner leur chance aux enfants de Heihumiao.
Zoom: Un tesoro en los archivos: El álbum inédito de David Seymour
Todo empezó en el otoño de 2017 con el examen de las colecciones de material audiovisual de la UNESCO tras su depósito en los archivos de la Organización. La mayoría de estas colecciones apenas habían sido objeto de catalogación durante sus setenta años de existencia por lo que recorrer los archivos bien podría recordar a una visita de la Biblioteca de Babel imaginada por Borges. Con un fondo de miles de documentos la única forma de averiguar cómo estaba organizada la colección consistía simplemente en abrir uno de los cajones llenos de antiguos archivadores y echar un vistazo a su interior.
Teaching behind bars in Valparaiso
Situated on a hill in the seaport city of Valparaiso on the Chilean coast the Juan Luis Vives school was founded in 1999. Today it has 550 students. What makes it unique is that it is located inside the city’s prison. Every day the teachers who work there are forced to cope with the challenges of the prison world – which include disparities in learning abilities and emotions on edge. The school was awarded the UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy in 2015.
Coronavirus as a burning glass for digital risks?
The digital space represents a global interaction and communication sphere for all people. In this sphere children connect with young people and adults across almost all countries cultures and age groups. The constant improvement and implementation of automatic translation programs for example in social media also means that language barriers in the digital space are becoming increasingly blurred. This evolution which is actually to be welcomed promises at best the emergence of a kind of Internet-based global society but it also presents a dark side. Criminology assumes that many forms of crime - regardless of the respective national criminal law - typically arise from interaction between people. There are few arguments to argue against the fact that this is not the case on the Internet - which actually makes it the first truly widespread and global crime scene in the world. Children too are a natural part of this educated global scene (or space) and are thus exposed to the digital forms of crime that go hand in hand with it. At the European level children aged 9-16 spend an average of 167 minutes each day online (Smahel et al. 2019). In Germany alone 97 percent of minors aged 12 and over use the Internet several times a week (Feierabend et al. 2020). Children are also intrinsically confronted with the digital risks of this area. These risks range from cybergrooming and sexual harassment in social media and online games to the confrontation with extremism and violent content to risks such as cyberbullying and stalking (cf. Bötticher 2020; Gabriel 2020; Rüdiger 2020). Almost 25 percent of children in the European Union who use the Internet have already reported having had at least one negative online experience in the past year (Smahel et al. 2019). The U-25 study from Germany even speaks of minors perceiving the Internet as a culture of injustice (Borchard et al. 2018).
Congo: A class of seventy-six
Saturnin Serge Ngoma a teacher at La Poudrière primary school in Brazzaville Congo gives geometry and grammar lessons to a seriously overcrowded class every day. Teaching in a school that lacks everything is a constant struggle.
Gender in the digital age: Exploring innovative practices and Women’s involvement
In our contemporary globalized world women and adolescent girls in various countries across the globe continue to face constant hardships and obstacles ranging from gender-based violence to prevalent gender inequalities and deeply rooted gendered socio-cultural norms which hinder their emancipation and development and negatively impact the implementation of gender equality and rights. Despite these circumstances different advancements such as emerging innovative solutions and technologies can play a significant role in relation to the development and empowerment of women in various sectors of society globally. It thus becomes ever more necessary to apply cross-cutting approaches such as a critical gender lens and a rights-based approach1 to a wide range of development sectors and issue areas including but not limited to education political participation and economic development while considering at the same time the role that technology can have in these domains and analyzing its socio-cultural global implications.
Our guest: Nelly Minyersky: The green queen
Through their campaigns to protest gender violence and femicide such as #NiUnaMenos (Not one less) and their fight for the legalization and decriminalization of abortion Argentinian women are breaking new ground and transcending borders. The 90-year-old lawyer Nelly Minyersky is one of their most active representatives. So much so that some call her “the green queen” because of the colour of the scarves worn by supporters of free and safe abortions – who demand in short a law “to not die”.
Ideas: Architectural lessons for the future, via the past
Modern cities with their paved roads and glass towers are hardly adapted to cope with the expected rise in temperatures. Designed to provide shade and air circulation traditional buildings in the Middle East Gulf and African countries could inspire more sustainable and environmentally-friendly habitats in other parts of the world.
穆罕默德 • 西迪贝:教师的 作用是恢复我们的信心
Current affairs: An Inca suspension bridge is restored in Peru
Every year in the first week of June the inhabitants of Peru’s Quehue district gather to restore the rope suspension bridge that connects the two banks of the Apurímac river. This centuries-old secular Andean tradition has been inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity since 2013.