In the predawn stillness, Little Rhobi could hear the rhythmic breathing of her younger sisters and brother beside her. She sidled out of bed, her feet silently hitting the dirt floor, and passing them with a final glance, slipped outside just as the sun began to rise. Her feet carried her quickly toward the jungle, a route chosen to avoid...

by Carol-Lyn McKelvey, FAUSA/AIWC Cologne

Here’s what’s been happening around the world in the field of Education this month. We encourage you to click on the associated links to learn more!

Looking for an impactful way to honor the mother figure(s) in your life this Mother’s Day? Then check out Mother’s Day Movement for a way to “pay back”

by Pam Perraud, AAWE Paris/FAUSA

One of the most important parts of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is SDG #4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. UNESCO considers its work in Global Citizenship Education to be vital to the attainment of this goal by teaching human rights and peace education and by shining...

by Mary Adams, AWC The Hague

The Palermo Protocol defines Trafficking in Human Beings as:

the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or...

by Emma Avila Collazos, AWC Bogotá

In 2020, schools in many countries across the world needed to switch to online learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to UNESCO (2020), an estimated 826 million students were unable to attend face-to-face lessons due to the pandemic. Each school was able to support their students’ transition to this mode of learning differently,

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By Ann Zulliger, AWC Zurich

In 1992, a book appeared that was important enough to be translated into 30 foreign languages and 30 million copies were printed. Donella Meadows was the lead writer of The Limits to Growth, a book that has gone through three updates and outlined scenarios that presented the various consequences of our behavior that could affect the...