By Karen Boeker, AWC Denmark
Education is one of the most effective ways to break the cycle of discrimination and poverty that children with disabilities often face. But access to school for children with disabilities is often limited by a lack of understanding about their needs, a lack of trained teachers, classroom...
by Arandeep Degun, AIWC Cologne
Tiny, mountainous and landlocked, Nepal lies between two giant countries, India and China. Nepal is known for its distinctive geography as “a land of diversity.” Few countries as small as Nepal have such incredible contrasts and complexities. The glamorous beauty of Nepal is exposed by its landscapes: dense swampy forests, lush green valleys, bleak...
by Pam Perraud, AAWE Paris/FAUSA & UN Representative
Defending the Right to Education
In honor of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights from October 15 - December 18, UNESCO is running a digital campaign, #RightToEducation, highlighting the work UNESCO does related to education. UNESCO staff works to encourage states to make the right of a quality...
By Anne-Marie B. Tracey, AWC London
Despite some of the more polarizing gender politics at play in conversation recently on both sides of the Atlantic, most of the native and residence countries of our readership will be located in Groups 1 or 2 on the Gender Development Index – quantifying our privilege of having had quite similar...
Malawi is landlocked, sharing borders with Mozambique, Zambia and Tanzania. Although Malawi has been able to make important economic and structural reforms and sustain its economic growth rates over the last decade, poverty remains widespread, and the economy is undiversified and vulnerable to external shocks (health and weather). The country’s development is guided by a series of five-year growth and development strategies,