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Why Climate Change Matters for Human Security Year of publication: 2022 Author: Janani Vivekananda Corporate author: United Nations University | United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) This paper outlines the state of knowledge regarding security risks related to climate change, synthesizing the existing scientific evidence to set out five broad pathways of risk. Climate change itself is rarely a direct cause of conflict. Yet, there is ample evidence that its effects exacerbate important drivers and contextual factors of conflict and fragility, thereby challenging the stability of states and societies. Climate change impacts such as coral bleaching, diversity loss, and erratic rainfall can stress livelihoods and drive displacement, increase resource conflicts, and challenge the security and stability of people and states worldwide. Managing these security risks requires action across the entire impact chain: work to mitigate climate change; reducing its consequences on ecosystems; adapting socioeconomic systems; better management of climate-induced heightened resource competition; and strengthening governance and conflict management institutions. And every dimension of the response must be conflict-sensitive and climate proof. Without the right responses, climate change will mean more fragility, less peace and less security. But this paper sets out illustrative examples of how, with a greater understanding of how climate change interacts with social, political, economic and environmental drivers of conflict and fragility, we will be better placed to make the kind of risk-informed decisions is integral to achieving international peace and security. 
Fostering Women's Leadership Year of publication: 2024 Author: Mariagrazia Squicciarini | Anna Rita Manca | Garance Sarlat Corporate author: UNESCO No (leadership) share no gain (for societies and economies)! Leveraging UNESCO’s unique Gender-Based Resilience Framework, this report explores the role of women in leadership positions in both decision-making and high-tech, including in artificial intelligence-related innovations. It further highlights progress towards the G20 Brisbane Target, aimed to accelerate progress on gender equality by reducing the gender gap in labour market participation rates by 25% by 2025. Women remain underrepresented in decision-making, holding only about 26% of seats in national parliaments worldwide on average. In the world of work, female labour participation continues to lag behind men’s, at 47% for women against 72% for men on average. Despite progress by G20 members towards the Brisbane Target, a 2% average gap in absolute terms remained to be filled in 2022. In the high-tech world, women make up only 30% of AI professionals, and even less of leaders. Female inventors in AI account for about 37% of patents filed in 2022-23. 
Pedagogical Guide for an Intercultural, Anti-racist and Gender Perspective Education: Ideas, Experiences and Tools Year of publication: 2017 Author: Carolina Stefoni | Andrea Riedemann | Fernanda Stang | Andrea Guerrero | Antonia Garcés | Marta Camarena Corporate author: Programa Interdisciplinario de Estudios Migratorios (PRIEM) | Universidad Alberto Hurtado | Fundación para la Superación de la Pobreza (FUSUPO) The main purpose of this Guide is, then, to share some ideas, tools and experiences that can help build and walk the path towards an intercultural, anti-racist and gender perspective education in various educational spaces. It is directed primarily - though not exclusively, of course - to all those people who are part of formal and informal teaching-learning processes. It is important to emphasize that the Guide does not pretend to be a recipe for a mechanical application, but a tool box that each educational community can use considering its specific context, its particular needs and its potentialities. 
Reporting on Migrants and Refugees: Handbook for Journalism Educators Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: UNESCO Covering migration: A challenge for journalism educators worldwide This handbook enables journalism educators worldwide to address one of the challenges of the 21st century – migration and refugee matters. In a set of thirteen modules, journalism educators are provided with a comprehensive curriculum. It covers all aspects needed to train analysis, research, presentation, marketing, and ethics of migration coverage.The handbook is unique as it comprises results of communication studies as well as political and social sciences. It has been developed by an international and cross-cultural group of media researchers, media educators and media practitioners.Journalism educators will be enabled to jump-start a new curriculum. Journalism students will learn that matters of migration and forced displacement are concerned about human beings and therefore require knowledge and awareness of accurate facts, reliable sources, ethical reporting and good practices. Experienced journalists will benefit from using the volume as a self-learning tool, and media development organizations may adapt the curriculum to their training plans.The project will impact a more comprehensive coverage of migrant and refugee matters in countries of origin, transit and destination, and a more balanced and informed public debate across countries and cultures. 
Global Education Monitoring Report, 2016: Planet: Education for Environmental Sustainability and Green Growth Year of publication: 2016 Corporate author: UNESCO PLANET: Education for environmental sustainability and green growth, a publication taken from the full 2016 Global Education Monitoring Report, explores the knowledge and skills needed for sustainable and inclusive economic growth that does not damage our planet.This publication demonstrates how education can help people understand and respond to environmental issues and climate change. Environmental education can increase green knowledge and build sustainability practices. The publication warns that while education contributes to economic growth, education systems must be careful not to encourage unsustainable lifestyles and all learners must acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development.It also argues that we must continue to learn throughout our lives in order to make production and consumption sustainable, and to provide green skills for green industries. Creating green industries relies on high-skill workers with specific training, yet by 2020 there could be 40 million too few workers with tertiary education relative to demand. Higher education and research should also be oriented towards green innovation and growth; innovation depends on cooperation in higher education and investment in research and development to transform production in vast swaths of the economy.It also recognises that education must change in order to keep up with the changing face of work. Green and transferable skills should be taught in both school and the workplace. The greening of industries requires not only the production of more high-skill workers, but the continued training and education for low and medium skill workers, often on the job. “To ensure the Sustainable Development Goals are implemented, everyone involved needs to think, to work, to organise, to communicate and to report in ways that are completely different from what has been done up till now. Education truly is key to a wide appreciation not just of the SDGs but the new ways of thinking and working that are going to be necessary to fulfil them. So the challenge to all of us is to re-learn, and that does not just apply to educators, but it applies to all of us.” 
National Consultation on the Situation of Prisons in Senegal: Improvement of the Condition of Detention, Social Integration and Prevention of Violent Extremism through Education, 23-24 May 2017, Dakar, Senegal: Report Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: UNESCO Dakar Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 on education highlights the need to include our society’s most vulnerable and most margined members, such as prisoners, in order to ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge, skills, values and attitudes that are needed to build just, peaceful, and sustainable societies.The situation in Senegalese prisons is of a major concern given the overall condition of detention as well as the context of insecurity that characterizes the sector. In 2016, the country had 37 penal institutions for a total prison population of 9,422 prisoners (including pre-trial detainees and remand prisoners), of which approximately 200 were minors.1 Despite the efforts to humanize the prisons by adopting the name, “House of Arrest and Corrections” [Maison d'arrêt et de correction (MAC)] instead of the term "prison," and improving the living conditions in prisons, the fate of prisoners is not satisfactory. The reintegration promoted by Senegal's correctional facilities has largely consisted of a series of education programs, such as literacy and painting, developed by a number of organizations, but the space provided by prison administration, line Ministries, and NGOs are limited and the impact so far has been insufficient. A prison is not just a building, but it is also an instrument of rehabilitation to regain a place in society. This obviously requires the development of training, education and vocational guidance to support smooth reintegration into society.In this context, UNESCO's Dakar Regional Multi-Sectoral Office organized, in partnership with the Senegal National Commission for UNESCO and experts, a “National Consultation on the Situation of Prisons in Senegal: Improvement of the Condition of Detention, Social Integration, and Prevention of Violent Extremism through Education” in Dakar, Senegal, from 23 to 24 May 2017. 
Suwon-Osan CONFINTEA VI Mid-Term Review Statement: The Power of Adult Learning and Education; A Vision Towards 2030 Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) The Sixth International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA VI), held in Brazil in December 2009, closed with the adoption of the Belém Framework for Action, which recorded the commitments of Member States and presented a strategic guide for the global development of adult learning and education from a lifelong learning perspective. The third Global Report on Adult Learning and Education (GRALE III), published in 2016, drew on survey data to evaluate progress made by countries in fulfilling the commitments made in Brazil, while also highlighting some of the contributions adult learning and education can make to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The CONFINTEA VI Mid-Term Review, held in Suwon, Republic of Korea, in October 2017, took stock of progress made by Member States in the past eight years, looking ahead to GRALE IV in 2019. This statement represents the overall perspective of delegates and their recommendations for the future. Declaración de Suwon-Osan sobre la Revisión a Medio Término de la CONFINTEA VI: el poder del aprendizaje y la educación de adultos: una visión hacia el 2030 Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) La VI Conferencia Internacional de Educación de Adultos (CONFINTEA VI), celebrada en Belém (Brasil), en diciembre de 2009, se clausuró con la aprobación del Marco de acción de Belém que registró los compromisos de los Estados Miembros y presentó una guía estratégica para el desarrollo mundial del aprendizaje y la educación de adultos desde una perspectiva de aprendizaje a lo largo de toda la vida. El tercer Informe mundial sobre el aprendizaje y la educación de adultos (GRALE III), publicado en 2016, se basó en los datos de una encuesta destinada a evaluar el progreso realizado por los países en el cumplimiento de los compromisos formulados en Brasil, al mismo tiempo que hacía hincapié en algunas de las contribuciones que puede hacer el aprendizaje y la educación de adultos a la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible. La Revisión a Medio Término de la CONFINTEA VI, realizada en Suwon (República de Corea) en octubre de 2017, hizo un balance del progreso realizado por los Estados Miembros en los últimos ocho años, mirando en la perspectiva del GRALE IV para 2019. Este pronunciamiento representa el punto de vista global de los delegados y sus recomendaciones para el futuro. Bilan à mi-parcours de la CONFINTEA VI : Déclaration de Suwon-Osan - Le pouvoir de l'apprentissage et de l'éducation des adultes: Vision 2030 Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) La sixième Conférence internationale sur l'éducation des adultes (CONFINTEA VI) qui a eu lieu en décembre 2009 au Brésil, s’est achevée sur l’adoption du Cadre d'action de Belém qui a permis de rassembler les engagements des États membres et de présenter un guide stratégique pour le développement mondial de l’apprentissage et de l’éducation des adultes du point de vue de l’apprentissage tout au long de la vie. Le troisième Rapport mondial sur l'apprentissage et l'éducation des adultes (GRALE III), publié en 2016, s’est appuyé sur les données d'une enquête afin d’évaluer les progrès accomplis par les pays pour tenir leurs engagements pris au Brésil, tout en soulignant certaines des contributions que l’apprentissage et l’éducation des adultes peuvent apporter au Programme de développement durable à l'horizon 2030. Le Bilan à mi-parcours de la CONFINTEA VI qui s’est tenu en octobre 2017 à Suwon en République de Corée a fait l'inventaire des progrès réalisés par les États membres au cours des huit dernières années en vue du GRALE IV de 2019. La présente déclaration exprime les perspectives des délégués au niveau mondial et fait état de leurs recommandations pour l’avenir. 유네스코 제6차 세계성인교육회의 중간회의 수원-오산 선언문: 성인학습 교육(ALE)의 힘; 2030년을 향한 비전 Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) 2009년 12월 브라질 벨렘에서 개최된 제6차 세계성인교육회의(CONFINTEA VI)에서 벨렘 실행계획(Belém Framework for Action)이 채택되었다. 벨렘 실행계획은 회원국의 성인학습과 교육에 대한 공약을 기록하고, 평생학습 관점에서 성인학습과 교육의 세계적 발전을 위한 전략적 지침을 제시하였다. 2016년 발간된 유네스코의 제3차 성인학습과 교육(ALE)에 관한 글로벌 보고서(GRALE III)에서는 설문조사를 통해 수집된 데이터를 기반으로 2009년 제6차 회의 당시 회원국이 제시한 공약의 이행 현황을 평가하는 한편, 2030 지속가능발전의제(2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development) 이행에 있어 성인학습과 교육이 기여할 수 있는 부분을 강조하였다. 2017년 10월 대한민국 수원시에서 개최된 제6차 세계성인교육회의 중간회의(CONFINTEA VI Mid-Term Review)에서 회원국들은 지난 8년 동안 이행된 활동 현황을 검토하고, 2019년 발간 예정인 제4차 성인학습과 교육(ALE)에 관한 글로벌 보고서(GRALE IV)를 준비하였다. 이 선언문은 성인학습과 교육에 대한 각국 대표의 전반적 관점과 그들이 제시하는 미래에 대한 권고안이다.