Our global education expert shares her guide to Global Citizenship Education: what it actually is, why it matters right now, what it looks like in real classrooms and in families, kindergarten through graduation, and how to include global citizenship education throughout your life.
Ten questions to ask your child's teacher about global citizenship, why each one matters, and how you can help prepare your child for success in a connected world.
Here’s the sentence I’d tape to every family’s fridge and every teacher’s desk: fifteen minutes a day, every day, outlasts a themed activity or month every single time. Why? It's the power of compounding.
A “Countries of the World” week in April is a lovely photo op. What actually shapes a kid’s intercultural being is the small, repeated practice, the map that stays up, the question that comes back around, the habit that becomes a reflex.
A cultural exchange happens when people from different countries or communities come together to share their traditions, stories, art, and everyday life. Whether its through travel, study abroad, joint projects, festivals, or even online collaborations, it helps transform distant cultures into real faces and voices removing prejudices and stereotypes.
Asylum, as an internationally recognised lifesaving right, provides options for starting a new life to those who leave their homes due to war, violence, or any other serious human rights violations. But if not guided well, this journey towards asylum can bring problems.
When a person flees his country to a safe place, he leaves with a desire for safety, personal dignity, and a chance to live a better life.
Every single application for asylum and policy debate on immigration and refugees revolves around a human being who has left a home, a personal story in search of a safe and secure future, free from violence and threats.
Asylum is a lifesaving protection. When people migrate to other countries for safety, they bring a lot of changes to the host countries…and the policies governing them.
The hardest and most painful thing one can imagine is to leave one's own home, family, and friends. The reason behind this may be different for each person. If I take my own example, I left my home for a higher quality of education and to explore opportunities in international human rights organisations. Since coming to the UK, I have seen people belonging to different corners of the world who came here for work, protection of life, and as refugees.
There are countless stories of people leaving their motherlands and fleeing to seek asylum in other countries to avoid conflicts, violence, and any kind of persecution or fear of being killed.
After coming to the UK to pursue my Masters in Human Rights, I have learned how asylum has been applied and exercised in developed countries.
A stateless person, as defined by the 1954 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, is a person who is not considered a national of any state. This means that they do not hold formal citizenship of any state.