International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, 6 February

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FGM is recognized internationally as a violation of the human rights of girls and women. It reflects deep-rooted inequality between the sexes, and constitutes an extreme form of discrimination against women. It is nearly always carried out on minors and is a violation of the rights of children.

HISTORIC SPEECH OF NEW ZEALAND PRIME MINISTER ON Waitangi DAY

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Waitangi Day is the national day of New Zealand, and commemorates the signing, on 6 February 1840, of the Treaty of Waitangi that is regarded as the founding document that established the modern Zealand. It is a day full of historical meanings as the Treaty was signed by the representatives of the british monarchy and local maori leaders.

PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP PROMOTE AT GLOBAL EDUCATION SUMMIT

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During the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) Financing Conference to launch a major new initiative called the Education Data Solutions Roundtable.

GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION SUMMIT IN DAKAR

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Another big conference and big pledges to promote quality and INCLUSIVE education in the developing world. World leaders promised to spend $2.3bn on education over the next three years but this still fell short of what requested by the Global Partnership For Education Secretariat.

SPORT FOR SOCIAL INCLUSION SUMMIT IN MILAN 25th and 26th January

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Milan is hosting a great summit to promote sport for social inclusion, a great way to follow up on the important Kazan Plan of Action to promote sport and physical education. The summit is hosted by Universita' Cattolica of Milan, School of Psycology

Posting of Mark Zuckerberg: FACEBOOK CAN DO BETTER and be more meaningful to people's lives

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Below the posting of Facebook's founder about making facebook more meaningful and have a better impact on people's lives. It is an recognition of the failures of Facebook to deal with fake news. " I'm changing the goal I give our product teams from focusing on helping you find relevant content to helping you have more meaningful social interactions"

OXFAM REPORTS CONFIRMS THAT INEQUALITY IS THE BIG PROBLEM

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Few days before the Davos gathering, as per tradition, the global charity Oxfam publishes its inequality report. "Richest 1 percent bagged 82 percent of wealth created last year - poorest half of humanity got nothing"

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Fostering Employability of youths living with disabilities

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A very interesting project called Inclusive Mindset promoted in Italy by Sodalitas, Fondazione Adecco per le Pari Opportunità, e INNPRONTA can be considered a best practice on ways to promote employability of youths with disabilities in the job market. Long run perspectives and investing on creating a new understanding of disabilities among executives is a key to succeed.

Feeling Thankful

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My family is very thankful that my mother is still living. She is a very unique individual and this article is what happened during this past month.

Reviewing 2017

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In this piece published for Perspectives of The Himalayan Times, we looked at some interesting events related to partnerships that happened last year and we look at some challenges and opportunities for 2018

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