What's to Be Done?

Autor/in	Thompson, Jane
Titel	What's to Be Done?
Quelle	In: Adults Learning, 16 (2005) 8, S.8-11 (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0955-2308
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Poverty; Foreign Countries; Politics of Education; Equal Education; Access to Education; Diseases; Public Health; Elementary Education; Sex Fairness; Developing Nations; Gender Bias; International Programs + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Armut; Ausland; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Disease; Krankheit; Gesundheitswesen; Elementarunterricht; Sexualaufklärung; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Geschlechterstereotyp
Abstract	The most serious long-term problem facing the world at the moment is not terrorism but the desperate level of poverty and inequality endured by those living in the Global South--due in part to environmental problems created by the unsustainable abuse of natural resources. By the late 1990s there was a growing consensus that the prevalence of extreme poverty and inequality, the spread of HIV/AIDS alongside malaria and tuberculosis, and the instability of weak states fed with arms by a largely unregulated arms trade, was no longer tenable. The 2000 Assembly of the United Nations attracted the biggest number of world leaders ever. In a mood of millennium euphoria and managerialist target-setting they agreed to adopt the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which committed all nations to work together to halve the proportion of people living in poverty by 2015. The first Millennium Development Goal--on gender equality in primary education that is supposed to be achieved by 2005--provides a critical test of the viability of the UN's commitment to address international poverty. Yet, to date, 70 per cent of countries have failed to deliver on a goal essential to the achievement of the others. As the people from around the world will be taking to the streets in countries like Edinburgh, New York and Hong Kong, to support the Global Call to Action Against Poverty, the author calls on those who are in sympathy with this campaign to organise something locally or join in planned demonstrations wherever they can. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	National Institute of Adult Continuing Education. Renaissance House, 20 Princess Road West, Leicester, LE1 6TP, UK. Tel: +44-1162-044200; Fax: +44-1162-044262; e-mail: enquiries@niace.org.uk; Web site: http://www.niace.org.uk/publications/adults-learning
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10