Culture and Education
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Back to school in Haiti: ‘Madame, can you stop what the gangs are doing to us?’
When UNICEF’s Representative in Haiti Geetanjali Narayan stepped into a classroom in Port-au-Prince at the start of the new school…
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Record number of attacks on education, global fund warns
While September traditionally marks the start of the school year across the northern hemisphere, a staggering 93 million children are…
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UN tells the world: Stop making Africa look small
The UN General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to encourage governments, schools and tech companies worldwide to stop using maps that…
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After Israeli seizure of Kalandia training centre, UNRWA warns of impact on youth
The seizure of a vocational training centre in occupied East Jerusalem has left hundreds of Palestinian young people without access…
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What’s journalism worth in disasters and emergencies? A lot, says a new UN report
A single New York Times article on a disaster generated an additional $500,000 in official aid. That’s just one of…
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Youth advocates gather in New York to launch new AI standards
As artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly transforms everything from how we learn, to the job market, children are adopting the technology more…
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Sudan: ‘It made me dream again’: The students refusing to let war stop their education
Sarah Tekhlu was ready to give up on university. An Eritrean refugee, she had already been displaced once from Khartoum…
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For Brazil’s Indigenous youth, visibility is resistance
As climate change reshapes Indigenous territories across Brazil, a new generation is turning to culture and digital platforms to defend…
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‘Sudan is losing another generation’ to war, Mohammed warns
More than 1,000 days of war in Sudan have left millions of children out of school, displaced or exposed to…
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Mount Olympus and D-Day beaches among new World Heritage Sites
From the peaks of Mount Olympus in Greece to the shores of the “D-Day” beaches in France, 25 cultural or…
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