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"(...) human rights must be the bedrock for all progress moving forward."
Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO Director-General
Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10 December. It commemorates the day on which, in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
In times of crisis such as the current Covid-19 pandemic, striving to ensure that all human enjoy equal rights, such as equal access to healthcare, education and public space is ever more important.
Theme 2021: Equality
This year’s Human Rights Day theme relates to 'Equality' and Article 1 of the UDHR – “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.”
This must start as early as possible, on the benches of schools. UNESCO is leading human rights education, to ensure all girls and boys know their rights and those of others. This is the spirit for global citizenship education, to strengthen respect for cultural diversity on the basis of solidarity and shared rights.
This is why UNESCO is launching today its Global Education Monitoring Report on Youth and a campaign encouraging youth to hold governments accountable for ensuring everyone’s right to education.
The principles of equality and non-discrimination are at the heart of human rights. Equality is aligned with the 2030 Agenda and with the UN approach set out in the document Shared Framework on Leaving No One Behind: Equality and Non-Discrimination at the Heart of Sustainable Development.
Equality, inclusion and non-discrimination, in other words - a human rights-based approach to development - is the best way to reduce inequalities and resume our path towards realising the 2030 Agenda.
Successive financial and health crises have had long-lasting and multidimensional impacts on millions of young people. Unless their rights are protected, including through decent jobs and social protection, the “COVID generation” runs the risk of falling prey to the detrimental effects of mounting inequality and poverty.
Reversing vaccine inequality and injustice
Vaccine injustice through unfair vaccine distribution and hoarding contravenes international legal and human rights norms and the spirit of global solidarity. The call for a common agenda and a new social contract between Governments and their people is the need of the hour so as to rebuild trust and to ensure a life of dignity for all.
Advancing the right to healthy environment and climate justice
Environmental degradation, including climate change, pollution and nature loss, disproportionately impacts persons, groups and peoples in vulnerable situation
Building resilience through equality inclusion and human rights
Equality and non-discrimination are key to prevention: all human rights for all ensure everyone has access to the preventive benefits of human rights but, when certain people or groups are excluded or face discrimination, the inequality will drive the cycle of conflict and crisis.
Education
I write often about Human Rights in education. Quality education based on a human rights approach means that rights are implemented throughout the whole education system and in all learning environments.
Teachers can hold activities and events at school. We must stimulate the interest of our students every day by the acts we share in the classroom.
Fighting the injustice of inequality, promoting solidarity, non-discrimination, respect and similar values.
Let us draw inspiration from some good actions to strengthen respect for human rights to children and young people.
Organize lecture series, film or steaming series, book discussions, news, workshops, debates among students, parents, on human rights;
Take part in human campaigns of the day at school;
Get out school with your students and help other young people and old people within your community;
Wear a t-shirt on Human Rights Day. Make a t-shirt made just stating that is Human Rights Day (cross-curricular);
Ask your students (Secondary education) to write out a specific article from the United Nations Declaration;
Invite them to promote human rights on Twitter (school account)
Resources:
Nobel Peace Prize
We can't forget this year, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Nobel Prize in Literature 2021 "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents."
Also on the EU and Human Rights website your students can be informed on EU actviities and reports : Secondary education ; Vocational and Higher Education.
On this day, 16 October, we celebrate the World Food Day. Commemorated annually on 16 October,Secretary-General António Guterres pointed out that currently, almost 40 per cent of humanity, some three billion people, can’t afford to eat healthily.
And as hunger, undernourishment, and obesity are on the rise, the economic impacts ofCOVID-19“have made a bad situation even worse”, he said, noting that the pandemic has left an additional 140 million people “unable to access the food they need”.
Sustainable agri-food system is one in which a variety of sufficient, nutritious and safe foods is available at an affordable price to everyone. Nobody goes hungry or suffers from any form of malnutrition.
Nowadays, almost 40% of the world’s population cannot afford a healthy diet and 2 billion people are overweight or obese due to a poor diet and sedentary lifestyle.
We need to be part of the change. This World Food Day,take action, and share the message!
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the global volume of food wastage is estimated at 1.6 billion tons of “primary product equivalents.” Total food wastage for the edible part of this amounts to 1.3 billion tons. This has an impact on the environment:
Environmental impact in eco-points (EPs) per kilogram of avoidable food waste in households and the catering industry. The higher up the chart the category is, the greater the environmental impact per kilogram.
Reusing food waste may mean that less animal feed, compost, etc. has to be produced. The environmental benefits of these savings have been taken into account in the calculation and in the chart. Image from the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN).
Reducing food losses and waste is critical to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Specifically, SDG 12 aims to ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns, which contains a wide range of targets related to food waste.
Education:
Reference this year’s theme that the power to change is in our hands, he spelled out that “our actions are our future”.
No matter our age, we can all be #FoodHeroes! Make change happen & become a food hero too!
Invite them to follow the journey of food from the farm to their table and the great efforts food heroes make to get it there, no matter the circumstances.
And help students to find out how their choices and actions can make a difference. No matter their age, they can be a food hero!
On a windowsill, balcony or in a garden, tell your students to take some time to grow their own food!
It's a great form of exercise and a fun activity to do alone or with family and friends.
Taking care of our planet is important to Peter Rabbit and his friends, and now, he’s supporting the United Nations and FAO by being a food hero.
Find out about some actions you can take to become a food hero too, from eating more fruits and vegetables to reducing food waste, buying locally grown food or even growing your own at home.
Share these cards with your friends on social media to encourage people to take action and find more on our Trello Board.
Calling all children and teens around the world! If you’re between the ages 5 to 19, we want you to use your imagination and create a poster showing a food journey!
There are many different kinds of journeys that food can take, some that guarantee a healthier future for people and the planet. Choose your favourite and be creative!
Take a photo or scan your poster and submit your entry by filling out the formon our website.
Deadline:5 November 2021.
Three winners in each age category will be selected by a jury and announced on the website in December.
Winners will be promoted by FAO offices around the world and receive a surprise gift bag and Certificate of Recognition.
Don't forget!
To participate, you must be age 5 - 19. The deadline for entries is 5 November 2021.
The world is full of food heroes – from farmers to drivers, shop assistants, food bank or government representatives – who despite various challenges, work hard to make sure that food makes its way from farms to our table. Let’s celebrate their great efforts this World Food Day. And remember, you can become a food hero too!
"Young people are on the frontlines of the struggle to build a better future for all. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the dire need for the kind of transformational change they seek – and young people must be full partners in that effort."
António Guterres, UN Secretary-General
International Youth Day is celebrated annually on 12 August to bring youth issues to the attention of the international community and to celebrate the potential of youth as active partners in the global society.
Theme 2021:
The theme, “Transforming Food Systems: Youth Innovation for Human and Planetary Health”, aims to highlight that the success of such a global effort will not be achieved without the meaningful participation of young people.
"This year’s International Youth Day highlights solutions developed by young innovators to address challenges to our food systems. They are tackling inequities in food security, biodiversity loss, threats to our environment and much more."
Youth engagement is essential to the transformation of education into a means for inclusive youth development and sustainable development more broadly.
Through youth education, engagement, innovation and entrepreneurial solutions, this year’s International Youth Day aims to provide a platform for young people to continue the momentum from the EYF in the lead up to the high-level Food Systems Summit.
This year, International Youth Day will be virtually convened by DESA in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Major Group for Children and Youth.
Youth all over the world, be part of the celebrations by organizing your own event or activity! You can organize an event to celebrate International Youth Day in your community, school, youth club, or workplace.
Are your school or or youth group celebrating #YouthDay? Planning a special activity? UN wants to know!
Oops! I forgot to write about the posts of June. Let's do it ! The world continues to be affected by severe pandemic restrictions. So difficult to all of us. Never ending pandemic.
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Wow! Harry Potter ! Here they are the Potterheads. A bib big fan group !
There are strict measures to deal with the new wave coronavirus across European countries and other countries all around the world. In-Person lessons will restart in some countries: schools and universities.
Many involve the reintroduction of restrictions that had been eased after last lockdowns.
