LOUD WHISPERS : Living Dangerously
Last year, during the COVID19 lockdowns, I got a call from an NGO working with young people in Nigeria. Someone had contacted them to draw attention to the plight of a female student in a tertiary institution who was being blackmailed by one of her classmates. She had been manipulated into sending nude images of […]
A Quarter Of Adults Are Too Inactive, Putting Health At Risk
More than a quarter of the world’s adults – or 1.4 billion people – take too little exercise, putting them at higher risk of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, dementia and cancers, according to a World Health Organization-led study. In 2016, around one in three women and one in four men worldwide were not reaching […]
Literacy Opens Wide A Door To The World But Millions Of Adults Are Still Locked Out
On the 50th Anniversary of International Literacy Day Dr Katarina Popović – Secretary General of IUCAE (International Council of Adult Education, Uruguay) and Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia, talks to UNESCO about how, despite the evolution in our thinking on literacy, adults are still missing out. “Literacy is an entrance […]
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