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Stop Demand works to reduce demand that drives the global sex trade. It works to identify, challenge and seek a shift in attitudes and beliefs that underpin and sustain all forms of sexual violence, sexual exploitation and sexual denigration of women and children. Stop Demand s key platform is education - through public awareness raising, calling for local and global action, co-ordinating campaigns, mobilising the community in particular the male community, media engagement, and collaborating with governmental and non-governmental agencies.
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Call for autistic girls to be supported in post-covid return to school
To mark UN Autism Awareness Day on Friday April 2, researchers are calling for the needs of autistic girls to be better supported during the transition back to secondary school after the coronavirus lockdown.
Until recently, autism was thought to affect many more boys than girls – however, this gap has begun to close in recent years, and the ratio is now thought to be one girl for every three boys. Recent figures indicate that 21% of autistic pupils in English schools are girls.
Although the needs of autistic girls and boys are similar, there are also some important differences. When compared to autistic boys, girls tend to be more anxious, be more motivated to make friends, and mask their difficulties by demonstrating better social communication and interaction skills.
2020 UNESCO regards Media and Information Literacy (MIL) education as one of the central domains in fostering critical thinking, respect for cultural diversity, and open dialogue. This booklet critically reviews the media and information literacy (MIL) education policies and practices in formal, informal, and non-formal settings in five Asian countries (Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand) and explores how MIL education could address emerging and pressing issues such as political extremism, false news, online harassment, and discrimination. Published by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Bangkok, the booklet is designed to support Member States in formulating education policies and strategies on MIL that respond to the current MIL trends and challenges identified in the research. In particular, it seeks to shed light on the factors affecting the overall policies and practices of each count
The polio immunization program must be owned by local stakeholders and decision makers. The frameworks for scaling up public health interventions - for transforming health research interventions into pathways towards achieving development goals - are diverse. Examples of elements of such frameworks include: leadership responsibility, packaging of new ideas, communication, social system strengthening, measurement and feedback, and knowledge management. This paper investigates the process, actors, and contexts of polio immunisation scaling up in Indonesia from 1988 to 2018. The researchers carried out a quantitative survey of 323 actors involved in the polio programme at national and sub-national levels, followed by key informant interviews (KIIs) and a document review (to construct a timeline of the polio eradication programme, with milestones). All data were collected between June 2018 and March 2019.
#FLIRTING: Are you and your partner constantly communicating in quotes from movies you love or calling each other nicknames? These things may seem silly, but it turns out, they’re the sign of a solid relationship. Couples that play together, stay together and a new study backs it up.