The UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) seeks an Education Policy Officer to contribute to policy analysis relevant to Sustainable Development Goal 4.7 towards education for building peaceful and sustainable societies across the world. Application deadline: October 31.
The 2021 two-week online Global Solutions Lab (June 13-26) is focused on developing strategic solutions for reaching the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Highlighting the need to mainstream Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) within education systems, a new report reviews the latest research on SEL, its impact on student health and school climate, and its transformative role in building happier classrooms.
Read the full transcript of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’s Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture 2020 speech “Tackling the Inequality Pandemic,” where he outlines a vision of a new social contract and a Global New Deal.
These free online courses, offered by universities and NGOs, often provide a hands-on experience with international organizations that are working to achieve the SDGs through their work.
For children in Chad, getting an education can involve manual labour. That’s because, every year, there’s a chance that the rainy season will destroy their school, and they will have to join their teachers in rebuilding it. This is the story recounted in the children’s book “Rain School”, which is on the reading list of the UN’s SDG Book Club.
“Through proper training and strengthening of tools for people working to eradicate violence against women, the Government of Yucatán complies with the tenets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, said the head of the General Secretariat of Government (SGG), María Fritz Sierra at the closing of the workshop “Education for peace, transformation of conflicts, breaking the cycles of violence.”
The power of sport to help make sustainable development a reality and, in particular, the 2030 Agenda – the United Nations’ blueprint to transform the world for the benefit of all – has been explicitly recognized by a General Assembly resolution.
More investment is needed in human rights education and strengthening of civil society to address inequality and sustainability. This was the key message from the Ninth International Conference on Human Rights Education (ICHRE) held in Sydney, Australia.
UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development signed a ‘Partnership Agreement’ for a project to embed concepts of Peace, Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship in textbooks of core subjects for the schools of Sikkim State.
The ‘High-Level Forum on the Culture of Peace’, which took place on September 7 at the UN Headquarters in New York, highlighted the role of education and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Sustainable Development Goal #4 seeks to provide inclusive, equitable, and quality education and lifelong learning opportunities for all –
but after 2 years of pursuing this goal the question of ‘how’ still remains. The UN convened a high-level meeting to help answer this question. “Access to quality education is not only a goal in itself, but a fundamental building block of creating a better world of sustainable peace, prosperity, and development,” said current General Assembly President Peter Thomson during the opening segment.