September in Review & International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and Girls ! #NoExcuse !

 

credits:  Shutterstock

Violence against women and girls remains one of the most prevalent and pervasive human rights violations in the world. Globally, an estimated 736 million women - almost one in three - have been subjected to physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence, non-partner sexual violence, or both, at least once in their life.

This scourge has intensified in different settings, including the workplace and online spaces, and has been exacerbated by post-pandemic effects, conflicts, and climate change.

credits: UNESCO

https://www.unesco.org/

"Generative AI is revolutionizing the way people access information, produce, receive and interact with content. While these innovations offer previously unimaginable positive gains, they also raise concerns for the overall protection and promotion of all human rights, with a particular concern for the safety of woman and girls."

Technology Facilitated Gender-Based Violence in Times of Generative AI

in UNESCO report

The solution lies in robust responses, including investment in prevention. However, alarmingly, data on how much nations are committing to counteract violence against women and girls remains glaringly sparse.

Note: The report can be proposed for Higher Education students to read discuss and  make heir own conclusions.

via VSS/ Victims Support Services

• Education: 

How much does the world care about ending violence against women and girls? We don’t know.

What we do know, is that the human cost of violence against women and girls is incalculable.

The adverse psychological, sexual and reproductive health consequences of VAWG affect women at all stages of their life. For example, early-set educational disadvantages not only represent the primary obstacle to universal schooling and the right to education for girls; down the line they are also to blame for restricting access to higher education and even translate into limited opportunities for women in the labour market.

While gender-based violence can happen to anyone, anywhere, some women and girls are particularly vulnerable - for instance, young girls and older women, migrants and refugees, indigenous women and ethnic minorities, or women and girls living with HIV and disabilities, and those living through humanitarian crises.

The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence

https://www.unwomen.org/

• Activities for schools:

Of course your school can join 16 Days of Activism as transcurricular school project. UNiTE campaign (Nov 25- Dec 10) — an initiative of 16 days of activism concluding on the day that commemorates the International Human Rights Day (10 December).

Join the global movement with the #NoExcuse slogan calling for urgent investments to prevent violence against women and girls

via Google Images Archive

Activities for students:

• Are you using your creativity to promote a message #NoExcuse to violence? 

• Do you use your free time to engage with grassroots organizations working for a world where women and men have equal rights? 

• Are you perhaps questioning gender stereotypes that contribute to a culture of violence against women in online and offline conversations?

Join with your students the global movement with the #NoExcuse campaign calling for urgent investments to prevent violence against women and girls.

And now, here are the most read posts of September: 

Education for Peace ! International Day of Peace : #ActionsForPeace Global Goals

Oh ! La ! Rentrée 2023-2024 ? Pas comme les autres ?! Quelques lignes !

The season holiday is almost there. Some of you are already out-of-school, others are at school giving their lessons for three, four weeks until Christmas holiday.

The streets are beautiful! Christmas and music. No, No! Not Have Yourself a Merry Christmas ;-) 

Be brave and and happy ! Your students love calm and happy teachers. And don't forget! #NoExcuse !

See you soon for another subject and activities.

G-Souto 

25.11.2023

update 25.11.2025

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references: UNESCO/ Unites Nations/ UN Women/ UNITE

September in Review & Dictionnaire Historique de Langue Française 2022 !

 

Dictionnaire Historique de la Langue Française

édition ultime, revue et enrichie par Alain Rey

https://dictionnaire-historique.lerobert.com/

Deux ans après la disparition de Alain Rey, cet amoureux de la langue française, Le Robert vient de sortir, le 20 octobre 2022, ultime version du Dictionnaire historique de la langue française, entièrement réactualisé.

Alain Rey, le linguiste et lexicographe s'est éteint à l'âge de 92 ans, le 28 octobre 2020. L'observateur des évolutions de la langue française a toujours aimé partager sa passion avec le grand public : 

À chaque nouvelle édition du Petit Robert, "il commentait avec gourmandise les nouvelles expressions. "'Keuf' et 'meuf', on a très bien fait de les intégrer au début des années 1990, parce que, maintenant, ce ne sont plus des mots de verlan et des mots de jeunes, ce sont des mots de tout le monde, des mots de français familier", estimait-il le 8 mars 2013. 

Alain Rey [1928-2020]

crédits: Eric Feferberg / Archives Agence France-Presse

Tout au long de sa vie, Alain Rey a tenté, dans ses dictionnaires, ses livres, ses articles, sa présence dans les médias et dans de nombreuses manifestations, de représenter "les enjeux, les richesses, mais aussi les mystères de la langue : pour lui, les mots sont des accumulateurs d’énergie, parfois des armes, dont il est sain de percer le mystère." 

Cette nouvelle édition, 2022, revue et enrichie par Alain Rey retrace l’origine et l’histoire de plus de 95 000 mots, expressions et locutions. 

Un dictionnaire unique, à lire 'comme un roman'. Pour chaque mot : son étymologie, sa datation, une description fine de ses évolutions de forme, de sens et d'usage au cours des siècles. 

Dictionnaire Historique de la Langue Française

édition ultime, revue et enrichie par Alain Rey

https://dictionnaire-historique.lerobert.com/

• Enseignants/ Teachers French language:

L'origine et l'histoire de plus de 95 000 mots, expressions et locutions, racontées par Alain Rey. Un deux volumes et près de 3 000 pages, cet ouvrage exclusivement en papier, coûte 139 € (euros). 

Pour chaque mot: son étymologie, sa datation, une description fine de ses évolutions de forme, de sens et d'usage au cours des siècles un dictionnaire unique qui nous raconte l'aventure millénaire.

Cher, c'est vrai, mais un outil précieux pour ceux qui aiment la langue française. Et surtout pour tous les enseignants. À feuilleter en librairie.

And now here the posts of September 2022 :

International Day of Peace !

Escolas : Centenário José Saramago ! Ler Saramago ! Actividades & Recursos

Et voilà la Rentrée ! L'anxiété des jeunes et le manque d'enseignants ! Tout va bien se passer !

Hoping you will enjoy my suggestions of August (English) and the new edition of Dictionnaire Historique de la Langue Française (Français).

There are some interesting subjects as Centenary of José Saramago, Nobel Prize in Literature, Peace and le manque d'enseignants en Europe.

Pink October

https://gsouto-digitalteacher.blogspot.com/

Don't forget! It's Pink October ! Such an important subject to talk to your students, sharing some good resources (books, films) and propose some activities.

Teach your students to be alert about cancer! 

See you soon!

G-Souto

23.10.2022

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September in Review & International Day of the Girl Child : My Voice, Our Equal Future !

 

International Day of the Girl

credits: via The Indian Express

The International Day of the Girl Child focuses attention on the need to address the challenges girls face and to promote girls’ empowerment and the fulfilment of their human rights.

Girls worldwide are demanding a life free from gender-based violence, access to health, skills, recognition and investment as leaders of social change.

Progress for adolescent girls has not kept pace with the realities they face today, and COVID-19 has reinforced many of these gaps. 

credits: UNESCO

https://www.facebook.com/unesco

This year, under the theme, My Voice, Our Equal Future, let’s seize the opportunity to be inspired by what adolescent girls see as the change they want, the solutions- big and small- they are leading and demanding across the globe.

In 2020, we commemorate 25 years since the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.

In the past 25 years, 180 million more girls have enrolled in primary and secondary education! But, no country has yet achieved gender equality.

Generation Equality was also launched in early 2020 as a multi-year, multi-partner campaign and movement for bold action on gender equality. 

Today’s more than 1.1 billion girls are poised to take on the future. Every day, girls are breaking boundaries and barriers, tackling issues like child marriage, education inequality, violence, climate justice, and inequitable access to healthcare. Girls are proving they are unstoppable.

credits: UN

https://www.un.org/en/

A clear narrative and actions related to the needs and opportunities of adolescent girls and their solutions is central to the Generation Equality mission.

As adolescent girls worldwide assert their power as change-makers, International Day of the Girl 2020 will focus on their demands to:

• Live free from gender-based violence, harmful practices, and HIV and AIDS ;
• Learn new skills towards the futures they choose ;
• Lead as a generation of activists accelerating social change.

credits: UNESCO

https://www.facebook.com/unesco

Education:

"3/4 of all primary-age children who may never set foot in school are girls. And the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to further halt the fragile progress on #GenerationEquality."

Students must understand how lucky they are because they live in countries where school education is fundamental.

So, invite them to get involved on the International Day of the Girl 2020.

Ways to involve students:

• Sharing stories of inspiring adolescent girls or girl-led organizations who are developing innovative solutions or leading efforts towards positive social change, including gender equality, in their communities and countries. Let’s amplify their leadership, actions and impact to inspire others.  

• Participating in a youth-led digital activation launching on International Day of the Girl. Young people across the world are developing a digital activism campaign, aiming to raise the diversity of girls’ voices and their vision for a reimagined future.  

And now, time to the review of the most popular posts of September.

Here are the most popular posts of the last month:

European Day of Languages : Celebrate at school or at home ! Resources & activities

Literature : Joan Aiken, the writer of supernatural thrillers and charmingly quirky children’s novels.

Women in science & Youth Skills Day ! Yes ! Day of Friendship !

Hoping you're doing well at school. Your students need you! They could understand how crucial is education during lockdown. And to be at school to learn face-to-face. Some of them were completely alone with no support to learn.

Help those students to believe in their abilities.

Perhaps you returned to the school but in some classes you must teach remotely because there is a case or two of infected COVID-29.

It's important to talk with all your students and tell them the social distance is essential, inside and outside school! And waring the masks.

Education, hope and resilience! The three most important words to share! It's a difficult time to all of us.

via Google Images Archive

"We can and must be the generation to end extreme poverty, defeat injustice and inequality – and end the climate crisis."

G-Souto

26.06.2020

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September in Review & Georges Simenon novels !

Georges Simenon, 1973

Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images

https://www.theguardian.com/books/

The prolific and incredible Belgian writer, Georges Simenon, was dead 30 years, on the 4 September 1989.

His serious novels that involve elements of crime and melodrama continue to fascinate writers and readers.

He has at last achieved, at the age of 60, what one French critic (Jacqueline Barde) calls "son grand roman, son premier roman." 

And in this first "pure" novel, even the hitherto confused should be able to see why André Gide long ago described this author as "perhaps the greatest and most truly 'novelistic' novelist in French literature today." 

"Gide wholehearted enthusiasm for Simenon and Dashiell Hammett must be a persistent obstacle for those who insist on drawing a sharp line between "entertainment" and "literature."

Georges Simenon, années 50

credits: Mondadori Portfolio

https://www.lemonde.fr/livres/

Born in Liège (Belgium) on 13th February in 1903, began writing in his teens. In a decade or so he wrote two or three hundred books under 17 pseudonyms, of the most hack description - spy stories, westerns, sentimental novels for girls, and other.

In his late twenties, Simenon moved up several notches with the creation of Commissionaire Maigret (1930) and other less known but rewarding fictional detectives. 

Maigret's War of Nerves

Georges Simenon, 1981

https://www.amazon.com/

Contractually bound to a Maigret novel a month plus a short story a week, he began turning out work of extraordinary quality.

Simenon's career is as improbable as any in modern literature. Georges Simenon, the masterly Belgian novelist whose Inspector Maigret mysteries and many other highly regarded works made him one of the most widely published authors of the century.

Maigret tend un piège

(en français facile)

Georges Simenon

https://www.amazon.co.uk/

Simenon wrote 84 Maigret adventures and 136 other novels under his own name, and some 200 novellas under 17 pseudonyms early in his career.

His work consists of 391 titles, and he is best known as the creator of the fictional detective series consisting of 75 books featuring Inspecteur Maigret, translated into more than 50 languages. 

"It is not too much to say that Simenon is one of the great revolutionists of the detective story. Maigret novels operated, like the work of Hammett and his fellow pulpsters in America, to enable the detective story to achieve novelistic stature, while the intellectuals of the period were still praising S. S. Van Dine, who denied the possibility."

Anthony Boucher

Liens utiles/ Links:

Georges Simenon

Sur la piste de Maigret

Écouter sur Georges Simenon

The Myth of Simenon

Literature's Enduring hero: The Inpesctor Maigret's novels

Georges Simenon

illustrator: Loustal

http://frenchculture.org/

“A little knowledge distances us from people, a lot of knowledge brings us closer.”


Inspector Maigret

And now, time to the review of the most popular posts of September


Here are the most popular posts of the last month:

NASA Contest Mars rover : your best name ideas !

Peace Day : #CyberNonViolence #ClimateAction4Peace

Harry Potter fans : Magical Places from films

Music, Photography, Environment & Youth

Oh! La Rentrée 2019-2020? : 7 nouveautés sous le signe de la réussite

Summer holidays, last break !


Hoping you're enjoying to teach! New students are always so good!

G-Souto

06.10.2019

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