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How Water Insecurity Impacts Women’s Health

Sapiens

Working in Indonesia and Peru, we also use this research, and our close partnerships with local communities and organizations, to spur action that supports gender equality and the basic human right to water. WATER INSECURITY AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE The statistics on rising water insecurity are distressing. An estimated “1.8

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We must not shut low-income students out of computer sciences

The Hechinger Report

We must reimagine schools’ goals and their learning culture, and invent new approaches for learning both new and traditional subjects and topics. The traditional definition of literacy only includes reading and writing. Department of Labor, one million jobs in computing will go unfilled by 2020. According to the U.S.

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Triumphs and Troubles in Online Learning Abroad

ED Surge

That college requires its 60,000 traditional students—many of whom come from other Latin American countries—to take at least one online course before they graduate. Poor Internet Access Cripples Online Higher Ed When the pandemic careened across the globe in spring 2020, U.S. Today, its Virtual University enrolls 12,000 students.

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Qatar 2022: Controversial geographies And data

Geogramblings

Looking back at the resources that I created (below), I attempted to highlight the issues surrounding human rights alongside logistical controversies such as the climate and resources. Qatar’s laws and cultural norms are based on traditional gender roles and norms. Homosexuality is seen as a violation of these norms.

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Learn how Political Science Students are Improving Wikipedia

MPSA

In a course on African Politics , students created new articles on Voting rights in Nigeria as well as Child soldiers in Uganda. They expanded the entries on the Constitution of Ghana as well as Human rights in Ethiopia.

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Civics U: What Form is Best, and What’s the Difference? Part 2 – Comparing Countries

Civics U

These systems will be reviewed by generally applying the rubrics of government power and elections; property and economics; and human rights. The United States Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor 2020 report on Russia’s human rights practices identifies a number of “significant human rights issues”.

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Educators: We Must Be Champions for Our Trans Students

ED Surge

A Landscape of Discriminatory Policies and Hostile Environments According to the Human Rights Campaign , this has been the “worst year in recent history for LGBTQ state legislative attacks,” with nearly 40 states introducing 238 anti-LGBTQIA+ bills in just the first three months of 2022.

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