Interview with Muqaddisa Mehreen, Education Specialist, UNICEF Pakistan
7 December 2010 – NEW YORK
Muqaddisa Mehreen has over 12 years of experience as a development professional with expertise in social policy, knowledge management and gender and international development. A PhD Fellow at the University of Massachusetts John.W.McCormick Graduate School of Policy Studies (Boston, USA), Mehreen is working as an education specialist with UNICEF Pakistan country office to mainstream gender into policies and processes. She has written a number of publications on gender issues in the education in Pakistan and has been associated with some of the leading think tanks in South Asia and Americas including MIT, Harvard and McGill university.
NEW YORK, USA, 1 December 2010 – In efforts to address and prevent the often overlooked global youth population falling through programming, policy and funding cracks, the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE), in collaboration with the IASC Education Cluster, held a Policy Roundtable on “An Enabling Right: Education for Youth Affected by Crisis” in Geneva, Switzerland, earlier this month.
Young people today will face challenges that require them to be more creative, more adaptable and more resilient than ever before. Poverty, climate change, conflicts, natural disasters and the economic crisis call for more sustainable solutions. Education is the key to solving the problems of the global community. This series features six documentary films focusing on the personal stories of students in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Egypt, Ghana, Nicaragua and the Sudan and contexts in which child-friendly school policies are being implemented.
BALOCHISTAN, Pakistan, 15 November 2010 – Sitting in her family’s tent, Reshma, 8, proudly shows her mother a textbook she received from the temporary learning centre – or TLC – here in a relief camp located at the Jaffarabad Flour Mill.
Since the beginning of the month children in Haiti have streamed back to school amidst challenges in securing proper learning spaces, materials and teachers. The Global education cluster, the body designated by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) to lead education recovery in humanitarian response, has estimated that over 2,890,000 children will be back in school for the 2010-2011 school year.
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, 1 November 2010 – Fatmata Musa Kula Sowa, 12, a high school student from southern Sierra Leone, recently made a journey to the nation’s capital, Freetown, in order to help promote Girls’ Education Week.
Along with more than 75 other female students, she presented a petition to the Speaker of Parliament and a cross-section of parliamentarians calling for stricter legislation in support of girls’ education.
