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Reaching the Youth: countering the Terrorist Narrative Year of publication: 2012 Author: Thomas Koruth Samuel This monograph studies the issue of the dynamics of youth and terrorism, paying close attention to the methods used by terrorists to entice the youth, the message or the narrative of the terrorists, and the possible counter-narrative that could be subsequently developed. 
The State of the World’s Human Rights: April 2024 Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: Amnesty International Le Rapport d’Amnesty International décrit la situation des droits humains dans le monde en 2023 dans 155 pays différents. Les équipes de journalistes et d’enquêteurs de l'ONG peignent un portrait plutôt sombre, avec notamment un recul du droit des femmes, les conséquences dramatiques du réchauffement climatique sur les populations les plus vulnérables, le recul du droit de manifester, ou encore la prolifération de la haine en ligne dans le monde. La multiplication des conflits armés et le choc du 7 octobre ont également eu des conséquences dramatiques. Cependant, quelques bonnes nouvelles sont aussi à noter, avec des avancées pour les droits des personnes LGBTI par exemple. Amnesty International Report describes the human rights situation worldwide in 2023 in 155 different countries. TheNGO's teams of journalists and investigators paint a rather gloomy picture, with, in particular, a decline in women's rights, the dramatic consequences of global warming on the most vulnerable populations, a decline in the right to protest, and the proliferation of online hate around the world. The multiplication of armed conflicts and the shock of October 7 have also had dramatic consequences. However, there is some good news too, with advances in LGBTI rights for example. 
Learning Counts: Spotlight on Basic Education Completion and Foundational Learning in Africa, 2024 Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: Global Education Monitoring Report Team | Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) | African Union The African Union’s designation of 2024 as the Year of Education highlights the critical importance of education for equipping young Africans with the skills essential for their own and for the continent’s development. It is also a recognition of the multiple challenges ahead before every child can complete primary school having acquire the foundational skills that open the door for lifelong learning. Currently the out-of-school population is rising, one in five children do not complete primary school and, of those who do, only about one in five achieve minimum proficiency in reading and mathematics. African countries have set targets on primary completion and foundational learning but to effectively translate their ambitions into results, the 2024 Spotlight continental report emphasizes the importance of coherence between their curricula, textbooks, teacher guides and assessments. It evaluates the alignment of these policy documents with each other but also with a global standard of what students are expected to know and by when. It also assesses how these key documents are used in classrooms and what the implications are for children’s opportunities to learn. This report is the second in a series of three envisaged between 2022 and 2025, each covering some 12 countries of which a selection is examined in depth, in dialogue with education ministries and national stakeholders. The focus countries for this second Spotlight report cycle were Mauritania, Niger, South Africa, Uganda, and Zambia. The statistics and analysis presented in this publication aim to feed into the policy dialogue mechanism under the auspices of the African Union and its Continental Education Strategy for Africa. In particular, the Spotlight series aims to spark debate on foundational learning among African countries and encourage them to identify areas for joined action, given that they share a lot of policy challenges. 
Dialogue on Quebec Food Autonomy Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: Institut du Nouveau Monde (INM) Food autonomy is more than ever a crucial subject for Quebec society. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the fragility of our food system and has created a new opportunity to talk about this strategic issue. Several players are saying it: it It is time to bring agricultural producers closer to citizens, and to create new forms of solidarity between them.To do this, the Union des producteurs agricoles (UPA) wishes to set up a real opportunity for dialogue between the two ends of the production chain food, that is to say producers and citizens.The Dialogue on food autonomy is an opportunity for citizens to participate in the development of a social contract on issues related to food autonomy and to facilitate a dialogue between them and producers, who are an essential link. of this strategic issue. It provides opportunities for open and constructive exchanges between agricultural producers and citizens, first separately and then in a common group. It will then be offered to all of Quebec. 
Encyclopedia on Democracy and Citizen Participation Author: Malorie Flon | Émilie Béorofei Corporate author: Institut du Nouveau Monde (INM) As part of its Strategic Meeting on Democracy and Citizen Participation, the INM has set up an online information pack, the first contents of which you will find on this site.A vast deliberative process, the Strategic Rendezvous aims to enlighten the people of Quebec on the current transformations of our democracy: a representative system that no longer responds, on its own, to the democratic requirement; a growing demand from certain citizens to participate in decisions that affect them; increasingly complex social issues and collective challenges, which public and private authorities must tackle; institutions forced to adapt quickly and continuously to a constantly changing world.The Briefing Kit tackles these questions by providing basic notions of the concepts involved: democracy, participation, citizenship, etc. To questions frequently asked during public debates, the dossier offers some possible answers. It outlines, for the reader who wants to dive into it, definitions of the different types of citizen participation: public, electoral, social. In order to better understand what is practiced in Quebec in each of these categories, the reader will turn to The authorities of public participation in Quebec.Are you a practitioner or would you like to deepen your knowledge of the practice of citizen participation? The Toolbox is here for you! It contains references, guides, methods and examples of experiences that will equip you to implement, in turn, participatory practices. 
Non-state Actors in Tertiary Education: A Shared Vision for Quality and Affordability? (Policy Paper 47) Year of publication: 2022 Corporate author: UNESCO Non-state provision accounts for more than one third of tertiary education students worldwide, a considerably higher share than in primary or secondary education. Providers are diverse, respond to a variety of needs, and often blur the line between the state and non-state sectors. Non-state actors are also important players in the financing of tertiary education through households, market mechanisms and public–private partnerships. As a result, these actors play a significant role in influencing regulations and policymaking, and in shaping the tertiary system as a whole. Governments must ensure quality and equity, the key dimensions of Sustainable Development Goal target 4.3, regardless of how state and non-state actors share responsibilities. 
Gender Equality and Child Labour: A Participatory Tool for Facilitators Year of publication: 2006 Author: Anita Amorim | UnaMurray | Ségolène Samouiller | Sandhya Badrinath Corporate author: International Labour Organization (ILO) Ending child labor and promoting equality between boys and girls, men and women, go hand in hand. This educational tool is designed to demonstrate the necessity of adopting the concept of gender in order to understand the complexity of the phenomenon of girls and boys work and to highlight the impact of gender on children's choices, both with regard to job opportunities and the financial resources available and different for boys and girls.This educational tool aims to help male and female trainers in Yemen to raise awareness among young people, especially adolescents, and to understand child labor and gender equality. It is based on the basic principle that adolescents have an important role to play by strengthening their awareness of social justice issues and at the same time influencing their society in order to bring about positive change in it. By holding girls and boys accountable and recognizing the value of their contributions, we hope to harness the creative richness and commitment of adolescents to combat child labor and promote gender equality. 
A Guideline for Formulating Child Rights Protection Policies in the Arab Region according to the Human Rights Approach Year of publication: 2015 Author: Adel Azar | Ahmed Abd al manaem | Abdul Latif Mahmoud | Ibtisam Al-Jafarawi | Mahmoud Bastami Corporate author: Arab Council for Childhood and Development (ACCD) This work aims to build an indicative guide for children protection policies in the context of promoting the transition from the approach of the fragmented model that deals with the needs of the child within the framework of the existing conditions and even its reproduction. It also considers the services that the child needs, to move from this approach, to the approach of the scientific model that aspires to comprehensive change. This guide is concerned with providing a comprehensive and integrated vision of children's rights policies, formulating standards and implications for these rights and programming them to ensure their enforcement, and building effective policies that guarantee the rights and well-being of children in the Arab region. 
Violence against Women, its forms and Legal Protection Mechanisms against it in light of Law No. 15-19 of 2015 Year of publication: 2020 Author: Houbah Abdel Qader,Awad Fateha Violence against women is a real appearance of a social phenomenon. It has been widespread in recent years since the beginning of this millennium, as violence in its material and moral appearance has become a real threat to all vulnerable groups in societies. Violence against women in all its forms is also considered a crime punishable by law, which requires combating, criminalizing it, and emphasizing its perpetrators. Since violence against women is a crime recognized today locally and internationally, most laws and legislations have come to condemn it. It also recognizes its serious, health and psychological effects on women specifically. This research paper discusses the forms of physical and moral violence practiced against her, and to identify the mechanisms adopted by the criminal Algerian legislator following the recent changes taking place in the Penal Code for the year 2015 in order to combat violence. 
A Geographical - Political Analysis of the Determinants of women's empowerment in Iraq Year of publication: 2020 Author: Zainab Ali Mazloum, Lateef Kamel Kelaiwy Empowering women is one of the modern topics that geopolitics is concerned with, especially after the United Nations adopted in the eighties of the twentieth century the strategy of empowering women against the background of discrimination against them on the basis of gender and depriving them of equal opportunities compared to males in the fields of learning and work as well as drawing state policy, that empowerment The political status of women is based on two main variables: the first is the removal of legislative, administrative, and social determinants that hinder women's political participation, and the second is the creation of political measures and measures that support women's participation and increase their effectiveness by developing their capabilities, nah As for employing those capabilities in the institutional framework of political units, so states at various levels and orientations, including Iraq, are keen to eliminate gender differences and women's empowerment through achieving comprehensive development in general and political development in particular because they mimic political empowerment, however Iraq has said a lot in this field by doing The many political transformations and wars that affected the state, as well as the great challenges that faced and still face the Iraqi political decision-maker with its various political, security, economic and social dimensions.