27 Aug 2018

Secretary-General Appoints Michelle Bachelet of Chile United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

UN Release: United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, following approval by the General Assembly, has appointed Michelle Bachelet of Chile the next United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.   She will succeed Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein of Jordan, to whom the Secretary-General is grateful for his commitment and dedicated service to the United Nations. Ms. Bachelet...
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07 Aug 2018

NORRAG Special Issue 01 in Spanish: The Right to Education Movements and Policies: Promises and Realities

Leer este story en español The Spanish contextualisation and translation of selected articles from NORRAG Special Issue 01: The Right to Education Movements and Policies: Promises and Realities is now available in the NORRAG Resource Library. NSI Spanish edition was prepared by Felicitas Acosta, Professor and Researcher, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina NORRAG Special...
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01 Aug 2018

NORRAG Special Issue 01 in Spanish: The Right to Education Movements and Policies: Promises and Realities

Leer este story en español The Spanish contextualisation and translation of selected articles from NORRAG Special Issue 01: The Right to Education Movements and Policies: Promises and Realities is now available in the NORRAG Resource Library. NSI Spanish edition was prepared by Felicitas Acosta, Professor and Researcher, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina NORRAG Special...
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Radhika Iyengar
26 Jul 2018

Let local governments and small-scale organizations lead us towards Sustainable Development

In this Blog post, Radhika Iyengar, Director of Education at the Center for Sustainable Development, The Earth Institute, Columbia University, advocates for countries local-level interventions targeting multiple Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) objectives. She gives an example of such initiatives: a solar-powered “Computer Center for Women” in Telangana state of India and Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.   Sachs...
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23 Jul 2018

SDG 4 Data Week, Understanding the Monitoring of SDG 4 videos and resources

NORRAG recently organised two Brown Bag lunches on 11 and 13 July at the Graduate Institute, Geneva “SDG4 Data Week: Understanding the Monitoring of SDG 4: Targets, Actors, Data and Resources”, with the support of the Education Network of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). The series aims to provide members of the...
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Emma Wagner
19 Jul 2018

Time to act: Calculating & securing the finances to fund education for the world’s refugees

This post is published as part of the debate series: Towards Evidence-Based Financing for Education in Emergencies, by NORRAG and INEE, intended to promote discussion of and explore the linkages between financing and evidence for education in emergencies (EiE). In this post, the author discusses a global plan to finance refugee education. Emma Wagner is...
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Silvia Montoya
11 Jul 2018

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About SDG 4 Indicators… But Didn’t Know Who – or How – to Ask

Silvia Montoya is the Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). In this blog post she explains how new tools from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics chart a course for education stakeholders to address the 2030 Education Agenda. This post is published in connection with “SDG4 Data Week: Understanding the Monitoring of SDG 4:...
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