Women’s empowerment is key to reducing climate change Empowering women and girls in developing countries ranked second among 76 solutions for curbing global warming to 2 degrees Celsius, according to a new report by the climate research organization Project Drawdown. Gender equality in health and education hasn’t received much public attention as a climate solution, … Continued
The RESOLVE: Life After Brexit Online Dialogue Activity is a skills development & dialogue focused activity where young community change-makers and local peacebuilders can share views and develop skills in order to shape the future of their communities. The RESOLVE: Life After Brexit Online Dialogue Project is designed to support youth leaders to represent themselves to … Continued
More than 30 young people participated in our Erasmus+ RESOLVE: Peace Camps Online Dialogue Activtiy and got to know each other. They have discussed motivations, fears and expectations the participants had. Over the course of the 2 weeks they took part different activities including a workshop on storytelling methods and identifying our place in the … Continued
The next RESOLVE: Network Meeting will be on the 8th of April at 2 pm UK time. The event will bring together young people who are part of the RESOLVE: Network and those who wish to learn about it and join it. During this meeting, Asfar’s Youth board will be introduced for the first time, … Continued
Asfar is happy to announce that the Erasmus+ Youth Entrepreneurial Competence Matrix project has been officially launched. The Youth Entrepreneurial Competence Matrix project has started today with a Kick-off meeting and will last for 12 months. The partnership includes partners from 5 countries (Slovakia, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and UK) who will organise … Continued
As the UNDP notes, the COVID-19 Pandemic presents us all with great challenges as a society, but also tremendous opportunities when it comes to meeting the Sustainable Development Goals and the 2030 Global Agenda. Adapting, for example, to institutions functioning online and working to further human rights and democracy through digital means can show the … Continued
Asfar is happy to announce that the Erasmus+ RESOLVE: Life after Brexit project has been officially launched. The RESOLVE: Life after Brexit project has started today with a Kick-off meeting and will last for 12 months. The partnership includes partners from 5 countries (Hungary, Turkey, Slovakia, Germany and UK) who will organise transnational activities in … Continued
The RESOLVE: Peace Camps Online Dialogue Activity is a skills development & dialogue focused activity where young community change-makers and local peacebuilders address the societies’ social intolerance throughout Europe. The RESOLVE: Peace Camps 2020 is designed to support youth leaders to represent themselves to decision-makers, develop their conflict resolution skills, and ensuring young people are … Continued
If you have attended any RESOLVE projects, you are invited to attend our next RESOLVE: Network Meeting, which is happening on the 3rd March and is part of our RESOLVE: Peace Camps project. The Networking Meeting theme is ‘Reconciliation in a Digital Age’ and will give our RESOLVE: Network members an opportunity to discuss this … Continued
Most international or global days are celebrated to create awareness and educate the community about topics of concern that needs global attention. International days are occasions to educate the public on issues of concern, to mobilize political will and resources to address #globalproblems, and to celebrate and reinforce achievements of humanity on a global and … Continued
The RESOLVE: Peace Camps Online Dialogue Activity is a skills development & dialogue focused activity where young community change-makers and local peacebuilders address the societies’ social intolerance throughout Europe. The RESOLVE: Peace Camps 2020 is designed to support youth leaders to represent themselves to decision-makers, develop their conflict resolution skills, and ensuring young people are … Continued
According to the Guardian, young women in the UK are also adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, with a substantial rise in the number of women aged 20-40 being admitted to hospital with serious COVID cases in the second wave of COVID in the country. In the UK there is a higher proportion of women … Continued
According to the United Nations Human Development Working Paper on ‘Gender inequality and the COVID-19 crisis: A Human Development perspective’, women are disproportionately affected by the Coronavirus Pandemic. The paper explains how ‘women make up more than 85% of nursing personnel and women make up almost half of doctors for all countries except those with … Continued
Asfar is happy to announce that the Eramus+ RESOLVE: Reconciliation for Gender Equity project has been officially launched. The RESOLVE: Equity project has started today with a Kick-off meeting and will last for 8 months. The partnership includes partners from 5 countries (Turkey, Italy, Georgia, Morocco and the UK) who will work to address & increase awareness … Continued
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