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Reviewing the Korean Sustainable Development Strategy and Policy in Response to COVID-19 Year of publication: 2021 Author: Soeun Ahn | Dokyun Kim | Hongrim Lee | Yoonseon Park | Jaehyuk Lee | Jungseok Lee | Hanwoom Hong | Woohyun Jung | Baeseok Jeon | Garim Jeon Corporate author: Korea Environment Institute (KEI) Through the ‘Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)’, the United Nations (UN) has established tasks, including 17 policy goals and 169 targets, that civilization must resolve by 2030. It is recommended that each country build its own implementation mechanism, which sets its own policy goals and targets, tailored to its respective national context. South Korea established the ‘National Sustainable Development Goals (K-SDGs)’ in 2018, consisting of 17 policy goals and 122 targets. In 2020, the country prepared the Fourth Basic Plan for Sustainable Development (2021-2040). The K-SDGs were revised and supplemented in consideration of recent changes in conditions.This study aims to develop a national K-SDGs strategy by examining factors that threaten sustainable development, with a focus on the COVID-19 pandemic. 
Spotlight on Basic Education Completion and Foundational Learning in Africa, 2022: Born to Learn Year of publication: 2022 Corporate author: UNESCO | Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) | African Union This publication is the first in a three-part Spotlight series. It is produced by a partnership between the Global Education Monitoring Report, the Association for the Development of Education in Africa and the African Union.The report focuses on why learning levels in the region are low. All children are born to learn yet only one in five children in Africa who reach the end of primary school achieve the minimum proficiency level required to continue their education and fulfil their potential. Combining completion and learning statistics, the report shows that children in Africa are at least five times less likely than children in the rest of the world to be prepared for the future.Given the historically low levels of learning on the continent, fresh thinking is needed to translate the CESA and SDG 4 commitments into focused, coordinated, well-informed and appropriately funded actions. The report contains eight policy-oriented recommendations for driving change. 
Addressing Hate Speech: Educational Responses Year of publication: 2022 Author: Nicole Fournier-Sylvester Corporate author: UNESCO | UN. Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect This paper is part of a collection of discussion papers, commissioned and produced by UNESCO and the United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide (OSAPG).The papers are a direct contribution to the United Nations Strategy and Plan of Action and are published in the context of the Multistakeholder Forum and Ministerial Conference on Addressing Hate Speech through Education in September and October 2021.The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the pertinence of the United Nations Strategy and Plan of Action, generating a wave of hate speech across the world –further exacerbating intolerance and discrimination towards particular groups and destabilizing societies and political systems. The discussion papers seek to unpack key issues related to this global challenge and propose possible responses and recommendations. 
International Conference on Global Citizenship Education and International Solidarity Year of publication: 2022 Corporate author: Association québécoise des organismes de coopération internationale (AQOCI) Sharing of practices and reflections on education for global and solidarity citizenship. The conference was initiated by the international committee of the Festival des Solidarités (Festisol) and led by AQOCI (Quebec Association of International Cooperation Organizations). Several speakers from several countries discuss the challenges of the decolonial approach to education for global citizenship. The possible emancipation of marginalized people is explored. 
State of the World's Forests 2022: Green Recovery, Creating Inclusive and Sustainable Economies Year of publication: 2022 Corporate author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Forests stand as a vital defense against climate change and biodiversity loss, while also providing livelihoods for millions of people across the world. But they are under threat. In the last 30 years, they’ve lost an area larger than Algeria and Libya combined. FAO’s latest State of the World’s Forests (SOFO) report identifies three pathways that can conserve forests while supporting environmental and economic recovery: halting deforestation, restoring degraded forests, and sustainably using forests to build resilient local economies. 
Security, Food and Nutrition in the World Year of publication: 2022 Corporate author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) This report repeatedly highlights the intensification of the main factors of food insecurity and malnutrition: conflicts, climatic phenomena extremes, and economic shocks, the effects of which combine with those of the increase in some inequalities. The issue is not whether more trials are to come or not; it's about rather taking matters into their own hands with more courage and building resilience in the face of future shocks. 
Global Partnership Strategy for Early Childhood, 2021-2030 Year of publication: 2022 Corporate author: UNESCO The Global Partnership Strategy for early childhood is the result of inter-agency efforts to counter the negative trend in education and to overcome the reduction and closure of services for health, nutrition, sanitation, and child protection in all regions of the world during the COVID-19 pandemic. Well-designed and implemented policies and services for early childhood care, education and development enable all countries to protect and guarantee child rights, achieve high rates of return on their investments in child and family development and widen avenues for transforming societies and lives. 
Campaign "Social Protections, an Essential Human Right!" Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: International Labour Solidarity Centre Around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the inequalities in the individual and collective protection measures that societies had access to face the crisis. Unsurprisingly, we found that not everyone was equal in the face of the pandemic, quite the contrary. Countries with higher rates of social coverage and labor formalization have seen their populations much better prepared and equipped to deal with the aftermath. In contrast, places, where a large number of workers worked in precarious situations, suffered from an increase in the unemployment rate and a much higher rate of contagion.It is therefore with the current pandemic context in mind that the CISO has decided to set up the annual campaign under the theme of social protection for all, to raise awareness among the Quebec public about the precariousness of work. in the South and the North and the importance of social protection floors to protect the most vulnerable workers. Through this campaign, we want to present social protections not as a privilege but as an essential human right for all. 
2018-2019: NO to Modern Slavery: Forced Labor, a Struggle to End Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: International Labour Solidarity Centre The CISO has embarked with its partners on a three-year campaign against forced labour. In 2017-2018, he called for the ratification of ILO Convention 189 on the rights of domestic workers and publicized the violations of their rights here and elsewhere in the world. This year, it is tackling the task of making known the existence of forced labor in the agri-food and electronics sector in order to promote greater and effective mobilization against this scourge which offends the conscience and the rights of all workers in the world. 
The Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Fundamental Rights and Civic Space Year of publication: 2022 Author: Filip Pazderski | Giada Negri | Chayma Khazzani | Ivana Rosenzweigova | Boglarka Szalma | Luben Panov | Carlotta Besozzi Corporate author: European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) This report was compiled for the European Economic and Social Committee at the request of the Diversity Europe Group by a consortium of four partners - European Civic Forum, Civil Society Europe, European Center for Not-for-Profit Law and the Institute of Public Affairs. It examines how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the work of civil society organisations (CSOs) across Europe. It also focuses on how solutions implemented in individual EU Member States have impacted CSOs' ability to exercise their fundamental rights and freedoms.The report is based on in-depth analysis of existing studies and reports, a survey, 29 expert interviews and three focus groups. It showcases a number of ways in which the pandemic has affected the functioning of civil society organisations in the EU. The observations emerging from the different stages of the research were characterised by a high degree of consistency, validating the picture depicted.