venerdì 12 novembre 2021

ERRADICAR EL TRABAJO INFANTIL


 Erradicar el trabajo infantil, 

construir un futuro mejor

En un Comunicado de prensa del Dicasterio para el Servicio del Desarrollo Humano Integral se informa acerca de la Conferencia internacional: “Eradicating Child Labour, Building a Better Future” que se llevará a cabo online el próximo 19 de noviembre

Vatican News

En un Comunicado de prensa del Dicasterio para el Servicio del Desarrollo Humano Integral se informa acerca de la Conferencia internacional: "Erradicar el trabajo infantil, construir un futuro mejor" que se llevará a cabo el próximo 19 de noviembre. En el texto se recuerda que el Papa Francisco en su Mensaje a la Reunión Mundial de la FAO sobre la Erradicación del Trabajo Infantil en la Agricultura, del 2 de noviembre, dijo:

Más aún cuando se manifiesta como explotación, el trabajo infantil se convierte en un flagelo que hiere cruelmente la existencia digna y el desarrollo armonioso de los más pequeños, limitando considerablemente sus oportunidades de futuro, ya que reduce y lesiona sus vidas para satisfacer las necesidades productivas y lucrativas de los adultos

Por su parte, UNICEF y la Organización Internacional del Trabajo (OIT) informan que, en la época de la pandemia del COVID-19, el progreso hacia la eliminación del trabajo infantil se ha estancado por primera vez en 20 años, con una inversión de la tendencia a la baja y cifras que alcanzan los 160 millones de niños en todo el mundo. En este contexto, la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas ha declarado 2021 como el Año Internacional de la Erradicación del Trabajo Infantil.

Fomentar iniciativas coordinadas

Para llamar la atención sobre este flagelo y fomentar iniciativas coordinadas para proteger a los niños, la Comisión vaticana COVID-19 del Dicasterio para el Servicio del Desarrollo Humano Integral, junto con la Misión Permanente de la Santa Sede ante la FAO, promueve una Conferencia Internacional sobre el tema: "Erradicar el trabajo infantil, construir un futuro mejor", que se celebrará el 19 de noviembre, en formato virtual, de 14.30 a 16.30 horas.

Persistencia del trabajo infantil en el siglo XXI

La conferencia se centrará en la persistencia del trabajo infantil en el siglo XXI y en los obstáculos para superar este flagelo. Se prestará atención a las cuestiones de salud y educación para comprender cómo afecta el trabajo infantil a la dignidad de los niños. Por último, se destacará la importancia del diálogo y la cooperación internacional para abordar conjuntamente un problema que traspasa las fronteras territoriales y culturales.

Derechos negados a los menores en el trabajo

Además, durante este encuentro se proyectará un vídeo que recoge el pensamiento y las declaraciones del Santo Padre sobre el tema, y otras breves aportaciones en vídeo, realizadas sobre el terreno, tratarán de los derechos negados a los menores en el trabajo, de cómo promover su dignidad y del compromiso de la Iglesia para construir un mundo en el que se haya curado la lacra del trabajo infantil.

La dignidad de los niños en el centro

La reunión se abrirá con los saludos del Prefecto del Dicasterio para el Servicio del Desarrollo Humano Integral, el Cardenal Peter K. A. Turkson; el Premio Nobel de la Paz Kailash Satyarthi y el economista jefe de la FAO, Máximo Torero. Entre los ponentes se encuentran: Cornelius Williams, Director Asociado de Protección de la Infancia de UNICEF; Michelle De Cock, Jefa de la Unidad de Investigación y Evaluación de la OIT; Nasreen Sheikh, fundadora de Empowerment Collective, en Nepal. También habrá testimonios sobre el terreno, la perspectiva de las ONG que trabajan contra el flagelo del trabajo infantil y el compromiso de la Iglesia local. Asimismo, se ofrecerán modelos empresariales que pongan la dignidad de los niños en el centro. La reunión será clausurada por Monseñor Fernando Chica Arellano, jefe de la delegación de la Santa Sede ante la FAO, y por Maurizio Martina, Asesor especial del director general de la FAO.

Para seguir la reunión, regístrese en el enlace:

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_A1tudxQbQKSJuCqY2N_USg

 

martedì 9 novembre 2021

UNESCO - REINVENTING OUR FUTURE TOGETHER

 


Reinventing our future together: 

a new social contract for education

UNESCO's Commission on the Future of Education has just published its report Reinventing our Future Together: A New Social Contract for Education. Education is seen in terms of a social contract - an implicit agreement between members of a society to cooperate for a shared benefit. Challenges include climate change, threats to democracies, the digital revolution, etc. The report is presented more as an invitation to think and imagine than a plan. The OIEC and GPENreformation contribution to the report is here.


Réinventer notre avenir ensemble : un nouveau contrat social pour l'éducation


La Commission des futurs de l'éducation de l'UNESCO vient de publier son rapport intitulé Réinventer notre avenir ensemble : un nouveau contrat social pour l'éducation. L'éducation est vue en termes de contrat social – un accord implicite entre les membres d'une société à coopérer pour un bénéfice partagé. Les défis incluent le changement climatique, les menaces pour les démocraties, la révolution numérique, ecc. Le rapport est présenté plus comme une invitation à réfléchir et à imaginer qu'un plan. La contribution de l'OIEC et GPENreformation pour le rapport est ici.


Reimaginar nuestro futuro juntos: un nuevo contrato social para la educación


La Comisión del Futuro de la Educación de la UNESCO ha publicado ahora su informe titulado Reimaginar nuestro futuro juntos: un nuevo contrato social para la educación. La educación se ve en términos de un contrato social, un acuerdo implícito entre los miembros de una sociedad para cooperar en beneficio compartido. Los desafíos incluyen el cambio climático, las amenazas a las democracias, la revolución digital y más. El Informe se presenta más como una invitación a pensar e imaginar que como un anteproyecto. La contribución de la OIEC y GPENreformation para el informe está aquí.
Global Catholic Education

giovedì 4 novembre 2021

CAMEROUN - ATELIER DE REFLEXION

 


CAMEROUN

IAPDA

Atelier de réflexion et de partage avec les enseignant-e-s encadreurs des GEP sur les techniques de promotion des compétences de vie courante favorables à la paix et à la non-violence chez les élèves

6 Novembre 2021


 Au Cameroun, l’effervescence des actes de criminalité et d’incivisme mettent en mal le vivre ensemble et fragilise davantage la cohésion sociale, socle de notre unité nationale. Plusieurs faits sont à décrier au rang desquels s’illustrent les différentes crises sociocultu-relles et politiques et leurs dérives barbares qui ne cessent de semer la terreur au sein des populations. Depuis 2017, la paix a connu une saveur amère avec la crise qui sévit dans les régions du Nord-ouest et Sud-ouest (NOSO) du pays, s’ajoutant aux crises causées d’une part par les groupes terroristes et extrémiste Boko Haram dans l’Extrême-Nord du pays et, d’autre part, par le brassage socioculturel entre les réfugiés centrafricains et les populations hôtes de la région de l’Est.

 Ces différentes crises ont occasionné des séquelles indélébiles sur l’imaginaire de paix chez les jeunes, surtout avec des atrocités inouïes qui sont exposées tout le temps dans les rues et relayées par les réseaux sociaux. L’insensibilité à la violence et au sang semble avoir gagné l’esprit des gens, surtout les jeunes qui n’hésitent plus à commettre des actes souvent mortels.

 En effet, le milieu scolaire est devenu le théâtre d’acte criminels ayant occasionnés la mort de plusieurs élèves et enseignants.  Les comportements déviants et violents, aggravés par la consommation des stupéfiants, sont devenus monnaie courante : vols, viols collectifs, agressions mortelles, pornographie, etc. Pour preuve, entre 2018 et 2020, l’on a enregistré plus de 20 cas d’agressions graves entre élèves et enseignants en milieux scolaires avec près de 12 décès, très souvent à l’aide d’une arme blanche et sous l’effet de la drogue.  ......

Voir: ATELIER DE REFLEXION







 

mercoledì 3 novembre 2021

UNESCO - EDUCATION THIS WEEK (2 – 5 November 2021)

 


NOMINATION FOR THE CCNGO/Education 2030 Coordination Group (2022-2023)

The current CCNGO/ED 2030 Coordination Group was appointed by the Ninth Meeting of the CCNGO/ED in 2019, to serve until the Tenth Meeting of the CCNGO/ED 2030. The upcoming Tenth Meeting of the CCNGO/ED 2030 (December, online) is therefore due to establish a new Coordination Group. We invite interested CCNGO/ED 2030 member organizations to submit their candidature to become a member of the Coordination Group. We are inviting applications for two international focal points, five regional focal points, and two representatives of the CCNGO/ED 2030 at large nominations open until 15 November. Here: https://forms.office.com/r/g5Fx1WHxc1

 

GLOBAL EDUCATION MEETING

UNESCO will co-host, with the Government of France, the Global Education Meeting’s high-level segment at its headquarters in Paris and online (watch the event live), on 10 November 2021 from 2:30-6:00pm (Paris time).

Meeting documents

The high-level segment will aim to create a global political momentum to raise the profile of education and its investment imperative. It will adopt the “Paris Declaration” to renew national and international leaders’ commitment to invest in education – domestically and internationally – and to accelerate progress toward Sustainable Development Goal 4 (Quality Education).

During the meeting, the SDG 4 - Education 2030 High-Level Steering Committee will be officially launched. This renewed global cooperation mechanism will play a central role in monitoring Member States’ progress, international actors’ contributions as well as recommend priority actions for education.

The event will be held at UNESCO Headquarters and online with interpretation in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Spanish and Russian.

UNESCO GENERAL CONFERENCE


The UNESCO General Conference, taking place @HQ from 9 to 24 November 2021, features a rich array of education events, including the launch of the much-anticipated Report on the Futures of Education and the Global Education Meeting on 10 November.

 Click here to see the list of all education events organized during the General Conference.


HIGHER EDUCATION


Invitation to the first in the series of UNESCO’s Higher Education Conversations, focusing on the Global Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning Higher Education and the regional recognition conventions.

 This first conversation will be held on Thursday, 4 November from 13:00 – 14:15 (GMT +2) on Zoom and opened by Ms Stefania Giannini, Assistant Director-General for Education. It aims to bring together policy makers and higher education stakeholders dealing with recognition issues to enhance an understanding of the UNESCO higher education conventions and facilitate their implementation.

 Download the programme

 

UPCOMING ED EVENTS

4 November

International day against violence and bullying at school including cyberbullying, linked to this event: Special session on cyberbullying
Global and regional higher education conventions – Higher education conversation series

3 – 5 November

LAC Regional Forum on Education Policy: How to use information systems in education policymaking.
To register

5 November
COP 26:
Together for tomorrow: Education and climate action
Press release: Only half of the national curricula in the world have a reference to climate change, UNESCO warns

8 November
UNESCO-IBE OECD Curriculum Overload: A Way Forward To register

LATESTS NEWS

 

JUST PUBLISHED

 


Getting every school climate-ready: how countries are integrating climate change issues in education


Survey analysis report


Inclusion in early childhood care and education : Brief on inclusion in education



Situation Analysis on the Effects of and Responses to COVID-19 on the Education Sector in Asia

Regional and national reports

 


Mindfulness-based social emotional learning in a hybrid education environment


Guidelines on open and distance learning for youth and adult literacy

 

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If you do not wish to receive this update please email ccngo-ED2030@unesco.org with the exact email address you wish removed from the list in the text of your email with the subject line: Please remove from mailing list of CCNGO on Education 2030. Thank you.

 

 

 

 

 

martedì 2 novembre 2021

THE FUTURE OF EUROPE


 EU bishops discuss the Future of Europe process

COMECE focused its Autumn Assembly this week on the “Conference on the Future of Europe” and COP26. The European Bishops said Churches should be more involved in the debate if Europe is to have a soul.

 By Lisa Zengarini

 European bishops have expressed disappointment over the limited involvement of Churches in the framework of the “Conference on the Future of Europe”. The Conference is a platform of discussion launched by the European Institutions in March this year where all European citizens can voice their opinions and share ideas on various issues to help shape the future of the Union.

Leaving out the voices of Churches will impoverish  Europe 

The EU initiative and the role of young people in boosting the European integration process was the focus of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) Autumn Assembly which took place in Brussels on October 27-28. In the two-day meeting, European bishops reiterated their support to the Conference and its aim of allowing citizens to have a say on Europe’s challenges and priorities. At the same time, they highlighted the need to further involve Churches and youth at the local, national and European levels.

“This process is healthy and necessary, but leaving out the voice of Churches would impoverish it,” the President of COMECE, Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, said. “A Europe with a soul would allow us to face current challenges such as migration or the rule of law with greater impetus and would show greater respect for freedom of religion,” he pointed out.

Exchanges with young people  

During their session, Bishops exchanged their views with a delegation of young Europeans invited by COMECE. The discussion focused on youth and faith-based initiatives carried out by the Commission and by Justice and Peace Europe in the context of the Conference and of the European Green Deal, which aims to make Europe the first “climate-neutral” continent by reducing its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to net-zero by 2050.

The assembly also engaged in a dialogue with EU representatives on the major challenges facing EU citizens and institutions today, with special regard to the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Among them, Colin Scicluna, Head of Cabinet of the Vice-President of the European Commission in charge of Democracy and Demography who gave the Bishops insights on the working of the Conference on the Future of Europe, its contents and possible outcomes. Further insights on the current state of play were given by Herman van Rompuy, President emeritus of the Council of the EU and current President of the European Policy Centre.

 COP26                      

Another important topic of discussion at the assembly was COP26. Bishops heard from the Coordinator of the European Laudato Si’ Alliance (ELSiA) on its activities. In this context, Cardinal Hollerich addressed a letter to EU leaders urging them to stand for bold action against climate change at the Summit.

Vatican News

http://www.comece.eu/site/en/whoweare


 

lunedì 1 novembre 2021

CONVENTION CLIMATE CHANGE


 MESSAGE OF THE HOLY FATHER FRANCIS

To His Excellency The Right Honourable Alok Sharma
President of COP26, the 26th Session of the Conference of Parties
to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

(Glasgow, 31 October – 12 November 2021)

 EN  - IT

Your Excellency,

As the Glasgow Conference begins, all of us are aware that it has the vital task of demonstrating to the entire international community whether there really exists a political will to devote – with honesty, responsibility and courage – greater human, financial and technological resources to mitigating the negative effects of climate change and assisting the poorer and more vulnerable nations most affected by it. [1]

At the same time, we realize that this task has to be undertaken in the midst of a pandemic that for almost two years has devastated our human family.  Covid-19 has brought immense tragedies in its wake, but it has also taught us that, if we are to succeed in overcoming the pandemic, there is no alternative: all of us must play a part in responding to this challenge. And that, as we know, calls for profound solidarity and fraternal cooperation between the world’s peoples.

Our post-pandemic world will necessarily be different from what it was before the pandemic. It is that world which we must now build, together, starting from the recognition of past mistakes.

Something similar could be said of our efforts to tackle the global problem of climate change. There is no alternative. We can achieve the goals set by the Paris Agreement only if we act in a coordinated and responsible way. Those goals are ambitious, and they can no longer be deferred. Today it is up to you to take the necessary decisions.

COP26 can and must offer an effective contribution to the conscientious construction of a future in which daily actions and economic and financial investments can genuinely protect the conditions that ensure a dignified and humane life for the men and women of today and tomorrow, on a “healthy” planet.

We find ourselves facing an epochal change, a cultural challenge that calls for commitment on the part of all, particularly those countries possessed of greater means. These countries need to take a leading role in the areas of climate finance, decarbonization in the economic system and in people’s lives, the promotion of a circular economy, providing support to more vulnerable countries working to adapt to the impact of climate change and to respond to the loss and damage it has caused.

For its part, the Holy See, as I stated to the High Level Virtual Climate Ambition Summit of 12 December 2020, has adopted a strategy of net-zero emissions operating on two levels: 1) the commitment of Vatican City State to achieve this goal by 2050; and 2) the commitment of the Holy See to promote education in integral ecology. We fully realize that political, technical and operational measures need to be linked to an educational process that, especially among young people, can promote new lifestyles and favour a cultural model of development and of sustainability centered on fraternity and on the covenant between human beings and the natural environment. These commitments have given rise to thousands of initiatives worldwide.

Along these same lines, on 4 October last, I joined a number of religious leaders and scientists in signing a Joint Appeal in view of COP26. On that occasion, we listened to the voices of representatives of many faiths and spiritual traditions, many cultures and scientific fields. Very different voices, with very different sensitivities. Yet what clearly emerged was a remarkable convergence on the urgent need for a change of direction, a decisive resolve to pass from the “throwaway culture” prevalent in our societies to a “culture of care” for our common home and its inhabitants, now and in the future.

The wounds inflicted on our human family by the Covid-19 pandemic and the phenomenon of climate change are comparable to those resulting from a global conflict. Today, as in the aftermath of the Second World War, the international community as a whole needs to set as a priority the implementation of collegial, solidary and farsighted actions.

We need both hope and courage. Humanity possesses the wherewithal to effect this change, which calls for a genuine conversion, individual as well as communitarian, and a decisive will to set out on this path. It will entail the transition towards a more integral and integrating model of development, based on solidarity and on responsibility. A transition that must also take into serious consideration the effects it will have on the world of labour.

Especial care must likewise be shown for the most vulnerable peoples, in whose regard there is a growing “ecological debt” related to commercial imbalances with environmental repercussions and to the disproportionate use of the natural resources of one’s own and of other countries. [2] There is no denying this.

The “ecological debt” raises in some ways the issue of foreign debt, the burden of which often hinders the development of peoples. [3] The post-pandemic world can and must restart from a consideration of all these aspects, along with the setting in place of carefully negotiated procedures for forgiving foreign debt, linked to a more sustainable and just economic restructuring aimed at meeting the climate emergency. “The developed countries ought to help pay the ecological debt by significantly limiting their consumption of nonrenewable energy and by assisting poorer countries to support policies and programmes of sustainable development”. [4] A development in which, at last, everyone can participate.

Sadly, we must acknowledge how far we remain from achieving the goals set for tackling climate change. We need to be honest: this cannot continue! Even as we were preparing for COP26, it became increasingly clear that there is no time to waste. All too many of our brothers and sisters are suffering from this climate crisis. The lives of countless people, particularly those who are most vulnerable, have experienced its increasingly frequent and devastating effects. At the same time, we have come to realize that it also involves a crisis of children’s rights and that, in the near future, environmental migrants will be more numerous than refugees from war and conflicts. Now is the time to act, urgently, courageously and responsibly. Not least, to prepare a future in which our human family will be in a position to care for itself and for the natural environment.

The young, who in recent years have strongly urged us to act, will only inherit the planet we choose to leave to them, based on the concrete choices we make today. Now is the moment for decisions that can provide them with reasons for hope and trust in the future.

I had hoped to be with you in person, but that was not possible. I accompany you, however, with my prayers as you take these important decisions.

Please accept, Mr President, my cordial greetings and good wishes.

From the Vatican, 29 October 2021

FRANCIS