compiled by Carol-Lyn McKelvey, FAUSA & AIWC Cologne
* As the FAWCO Global Issues Teams work to seek intersections and pathways to support each other, Graduate Women International (GWI) is offering a parallel event that highlights how the accomplishment of SDG 13 can lead to the achievement of SDG 4. Click on the link below to join the conversation! From GWI: CSW66 Parallel Event: Climate Crisis and Education: A Women’s Voice Included
To describe the global climate situation as it relates to education, GWI representatives from five diverse regions will tell their country’s story regarding the climate crisis and related sustainability concepts. A future perspective will be presented by GWI young women as eco-anxiety is high among young people. GWI experts on the role of education in the current teaching on climate crises and environmental migration regarding women and girls will be presented. The parallel event supports GWI’s CSW66 written statement, the accomplishment of SDG 13 to achieve SDG 4, and UNESCO’s urging that environmental education be a core curriculum subject by 2025.
The event will be held March 22, 2022, 4-5:30pm Eastern Daylight-Saving Time. Register in advance for this meeting HERE!
* Check out the latest from TheirWorld, as they highlight the need for girls and women to learn and/or increase their digital literacy:
Half of the world’s young people may not have the digital skills needed for future employment by the year 2030. For girls and young women, the challenge is even greater because of gender and cultural discrimination.
Theirworld has been working since 2016 to help young, often marginalised females smash through those barriers – firstly through our Code Clubs and now with our Skills for Their Future project, which last year reached 1,600 girls in Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda.
Watch a video they made to mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science and to find out more about TheirWorld’s work around the world!
* The reaction to COVID-19, and specifically Omicron, has varied widely throughout the US. Although many school mask mandates are now being lifted all over the country, THIS ARTICLE from The Atlantic does a good job of trying to capture the continued frustration and disparities in managing the situation.
*To wrap up the United Nations’ International Day of Education on January 24, click HERE to view Global Minnesota’s program from that day.
In summary, the
program focused on international educational exchange – learners traveling to other parts of the world to gain new perspectives, and learners coming to Minnesota to be part of our world-class and increasingly globally-diverse educational system. Presentations featured international, national, and local advocates and activists who are shaping the future of learning, including a keynote presentation by Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University and President of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
