PODCASTS SERIES: "Beyond School Books"
'Beyond School Books' is a wide-ranging and provocative series of radio programmes on education in countries affected by conflict and natural disasters.
Each segment explores the role of education in the context of humanitarian response to conflict and post-crisis countries. The topics range from the struggle of Iraqi youths to study amidst war to how architecture is making significant strides in school construction and safety. Journalists, education specialists, young people and international figures speak on ways education can be - and has been - used to rebuild hope and foster social transformation in schools and communities. Special attention is paid to the unique experience of girls and young women in these complicated contexts.
Segments are also distributed on the Public Radio exchange for broadcasters and radio stations around the world at: http://www.prx.org/group/UNICEF
Posted on 03 November 2010
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Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Prize winner for her work with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.
By Anna Azaryeva
UNICEF Radio is hosting a series of podcast discussions with Nobel Peace Prize winners. This is the third in the series.
NEW YORK, USA, 2 November 2010 – In a recent conversation with UN and UNICEF Radio moderator Amy Costello, activist Jody Williams talked about her leading role in the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), and about leading a women’s peace delegation to the Middle East.
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A girl smiles during class in a tent at Celie-Lilavois Primary School in Port-au-Princel. Some 4,700 schools were damaged or destroyed by the earthquake, affecting some 700,000 school-age children. The new school year brings both challenges and opportunities for girls in Haiti.
By Anna Azaryeva
NEW YORK, USA, 13 October 2010 – As schools open for the new academic year in Haiti, the hope is to bring all boys and girls to school, those who attended before the earthquake struck in January 2010, and those hardest to reach, who will go to school for the first time.
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Posted on 22 September 2010
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Children clap during a morning assembly at a UNICEF-supported child-friendly school in Mbabane, Swaziland.
By Pi James
NEW YORK, USA, 21 September 2010 – With 69 million children still not enrolled in school, and only five years remaining until the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG) deadline, the State of Qatar, Save the Children, UNESCO and UNICEF are co-hosting a high-level round table luncheon on 22 September in New York. The topic is ‘The Central Role of Education in the Millennium Development Goals’ and the importance of placing education, particularly for the most marginalized, higher on the global agenda.
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Posted on 31 August 2010
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A girl stands before a sprawling tent camp for people displaced by flooding, in Sukkur, a city in Pakistan's Sindh province.
By Pi James
NEW YORK, USA, 30 August 2010 – Pakistan has experienced some of the worst monsoon-related floods in history, devastating large parts of the country, wiping out towns and villages, and displacing entire communities.
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Posted on 12 August 2010
©UN Photo/Martine Perret. 29 July 2010
A group of men and women practice the Afro-Brazilian artform of capoeira on the beach in Dili, Timor-Leste, preparing for upcoming events such as International Youth Day, 12 August.
By Pi James
NEW YORK, USA, 12 August 2010 – According to UNICEF, nearly half of the world’s population, some three billion people, are under the age of 25, and nearly 70 percent of them live in poor nations.
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Posted on 13 July 2010
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Girls from Marie Auxiliatrice Primary School smile and raise their hands to answer a question in a tent classroom set up on the grounds at another school, in the city of Jacmel, Haiti.
By Pi James
NEW YORK, USA, 12 July 2010 – Today marks the six-month anniversary of the earthquake that devastated Haiti, killing more than 220,000, displacing many more and severely affecting
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