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/PRNewswire/ -- At this weeks Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C., Senior Danish politician Nicolai...

  Counsel HopeYasmine Sherif is the Executive Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW). A lawyer specialized in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law (LL.M), she has ove

Education Cannot Wait (ECW) has issued an urgent appeal for USD 150 million in new funding to respond to the climate crisis.

NAIROBI, Nov 28 (IPS) - A catastrophic surge in the frequency, intensity, and severity of extreme weather events has placed children on the frontlines of climate emergencies. Nearly half of the world’s children, or one billion, live in countries at extremely high risk from the effects of the climate crisis. Most of these children face multiple vulnerabilities.

EDINBURGH — After India’s G20 summit and the UN General Assembly last month, world leaders will attend the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank meetings in Marrakesh, before heading to the UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai. But there is little optimism that these summits will deliver meaningful progress in tackling our greatest challenges, not because of any

EDINBURGH — After India’s G20 summit and the UN General Assembly last month, world leaders will attend the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank meetings in Marrakesh, before heading to the UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai. But there is little optimism that these summits will deliver meaningful progress in tackling our greatest challenges, not because of any

As part of its engagements at 78th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Dubai Cares, a civil society organization formally associated with the United Nations Department of Global Communications (UN DGC), called on the education and climate sectors to l

Today, we mark the second anniversary of the ban on secondary school girls’ education in Afghanistan and join the world in calling for it to be lifted now.Denying education to girls is a viola

“My dream is to become a teacher,” says 13-year-old Alia. A small glimmer of hope can be traced in her beautiful, almond-shaped, brown eyes. Together with her mother, siblings and aunt, Alia has f

 Youth offer a powerful voice in ECW’s global movement to ensure crisis-impacted children worldwide are offered the safety, hope and opportunity of a quality education. As a global multilater