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  1. Webinar “Now I want to use it to learn more’: using mobile phones to further the educational rights of the girl child in Kenya”

    …his uptake, using mobile phones for multiple purposes including leisure, socialising, and education. However, the Kenyan education policy landscape is fraught with tensions that often curtail the potential for girls to use mobile phones, thus impacting their access to various rights – including that of education. This webinar draws on eight months of data from a research study that focused on the after-school mobile media practices of a group of s…

  2. The right to science | UN general comment | Ideas for collaboration

    …ct me in case you want to join and ‘meet us’ online. I hope some of you will: we need bright minds willing to spend some of their time in promoting the ‘right to science’ beyond standard academic activities. We feel the responsibility to do it, and to do it now. We’ll be glad to tell you more. Claudia Basta: c.basta@sciencefordemocracy.org…

  3. RECORDING AVAILABLE: Exploring COVID from an Indigenous People perspective

    …nt: Exploring COVID from an Indigenous People perspective. Friday, June 26, 2020 at 5:30 PM – 7 PM UTC+01 View the recording: https://hd-ca.org/videos/hdca-webinar-exploring-covid-from-an-indigenous-people-perspective Download the list of panelists The indigenous experience is very different than that of the larger country where they live. Indigenous people often are marginalized, unseen, and forgotten – resulting in a very different experience of…

  4. HDCA WEBINAR: Children during the Pandemic: A View from the CA

    …nd how this may speak to concerns about the effects that the pandemic has had on children’s well-being and capabilities. SPEAKERS Caroline Hart (University of Sheffield): Children living in a Covid-19 World: Reflections from England Kate Sollis (Australian National University): COVID-19 and its impacts on children and young people in Australia: An evidence review Graciela Tonon (Universidad de Palermo): Children`s views on the COVID-19 pandemic: a…

  5. Latin American Network: Introduction

    …ara el Estudio de las Capacidades Humanas (ALCADECA). Since its creation in 2006, ALCADECA has actively promoted debate and collaborative work about Human Development in Latin America both in Spanish and Portuguese. It has organized a number of bi-annual conferences that had taken place in different cities in the region such as México City (2006, Universidad Iberoamericana), Montevideo (2008, 2016, Universidad de la República), Porto Alegre (2010,…

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