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Nelson Mandela International Day
Nelson Mandela International Day (or Mandela Day) is an annual international day in honour of Nelson Mandela, celebrated each year on 18 July, Mandela's birthday.[1] The day was officially declared by the United Nations in November 2009,[2] with the first UN Mandela...
Nelson Mandela International Day commemorates the lifetime of service Nelson Mandela gave to South Africa and the world. It was launched on his birthday, 18 July, in 2009 via a unanimous decision by the UN General Assembly. “It is in your hands to make of the world a...
Apartheid in South Africa Episode 1
As the United Nations adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, South Africa heads in the opposite direction, implementing a system of laws called apartheid to racially segregate its people in every aspect of life. The black majority...
Nelson Mandela – This is his story
In remembrance of Nelson Mandela. Rest in peace. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (/mænˈdɛlə/;[4] Xhosa pronunciation: [xoˈliːɬaɬa manˈdeːla]; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician and...
International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning are now fully open-access!
http://ingentaconnect.com/content/ioep/ijdeglWe are delighted to announce that all 9 volumes of the International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning are now fully open-access.
The journal is free to read and free to write for – there are no author processing charges. There will be two issues per year.
Based at the UCL Institute of Education, this internationally peer-reviewed journal publishes the outcomes of research and current debates on development education and related concepts such as global learning, global education and global citizenship.
Teacher! – Start your FREE Into Film Club
Into Film puts film at the heart of the educational and personal development of children and young people across the UK.
Into Film Clubs are a fun, free and valuable way to help young people grow and learn by providing opportunities to watch, discuss, review and make films.
Into Film – Using film in education and the classroom
Film is the richest of educational resources: providing extraordinary production values in which art, science and technology meet, and its synthesis of art forms to tell compelling stories, as well as the enormous historic, literary, geographic, linguistic, cultural and social value and relevance those stories embody.
Tackling Climate Change: A visit to the Sonomoro Cooperative
One example of how a cooperative in Peru is working to minimise the impacts of climate change on their livelihood. The coffee farmers of Sonomoro Cooperative in Northern Peru have seen dramatic weather changes in their region. Unpredictable...
International Day of Cooperatives
International Co-operative Day is an annual celebration of the co-operative movement observed on the first Saturday in July since 1923 by the International Co-operative Alliance. On December 16, 1992, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed in resolution 47/90...
"Cooperatives are particularly important to agriculture, food security and rural development. In the finance sector, cooperatives serve more than 857 million people, including tens of millions who live in poverty." - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon...
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