Tag Archives: Objetivos del Milenio

Education Summit in Cape Town

Coinciding with the 2010 FIFA World Cup, South Africa will host an important event that should not go unnoticed: The Global Education Summit. The summit will take place from July 7th to 11th.
The summit objective is to strengthen and reinforce efforts to reach the goal of “Education for All by 2015” as proposed in the [...]

Education: a right of a child

On November 20, 2009 we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of Children.  This is a significant day throughout the world,  especially for those institutions and organizations who work daily to improve the future for children.
Unfortunately, however, the Declaration of the Rights of the Child remains a relatively unknown document.  The [...]

December 10th:
International Human Rights Day

On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and called upon all Member Countries to publicize the text of the Declaration and “to cause it to be disseminated, displayed, read and expounded principally in schools and other educational institutions, without distinction based on [...]