Education institutions, teachers and school leaders can now submit entries for the 2021 Commonwealth education awards for good practice.
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Enter the 2021 Commonwealth education awards for good practice
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The Commonwealth and UN are jointly supporting the development of a groundbreaking training manual to help young people build peace and stability in Kenya.
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Commonwealth spearheads Country Level Implementation of UN peace manual in Kenya
Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland today addressed the High Level Segment of the UN Human Rights Council’s 43rd Regular Session in Geneva.
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Climate crisis is a global human rights challenge
Cricket legends will play a ‘Peace at the Crease’ charity cricket match in Barbados on 17 October.
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Commonwealth cricket match will see legends bat for charity in Barbados
Education ministers met in London to review progress and challenges in realising the Nadi Declaration, an agreement made in Fiji to ensure quality education for all.
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Ministerial group reviews progress to meet Commonwealth education targets
On her visit to India, the Commonwealth Secretary-General travelled to the city of Gorakhpur in India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh. She took part in the launch of the Out of School Children Project, and attended the country’s first ever Sustainable Development Goals Choupal.
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Commonwealth Secretary-General visits Uttar Pradesh
Former international hockey player Joie Leigh takes part in the 4th annual debate on Sport and Sustainable Development, hosted by the Secretariat to celebrate the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace in April 2019.
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Blog: Bridging the gap for environmental sustainability through sport
The Commonwealth is participating in the second phase of a project to explore the meaning of identity for young Bangladeshis. The Amader Porichoy (Our Identity) project - a partnership with Moringa Entertainment Limited - was launched in 2019, with the screening of the film Shongram (Struggle) set during the liberation of Bangladesh in 1971.
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Being Bengali: Beyond Language and Culture
At a conference in Antigua this week, disability rights’ advocates said that they don’t want special favours. Instead, they are calling for their basic human rights to be respected, protected and fulfilled. The second ‘I Am Able’ conference brought together more than 120 delegates from governments, charities, donor agencies and disabled people’s organisations from the eastern Caribbean.
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Caribbean disability conference: ‘we are an opportunity, not a burden’
The Commonwealth’s Countering Violent Extremism Unit has launched a project to explore what it means to be a young Bangladeshi, as the country approaches 50 years of independence.
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Question of Identity? Bangladesh approaches 50 years of independence
Leading health officials are calling for urgent action to reduce the number of cancer cases in the Commonwealth, which are above global averages.
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Health officials urge action amidst rising cancer cases in Commonwealth
Global experts have commended an international framework which helps countries and sports bodies measure the contribution sport makes to the sustainable development goals (SDGs).
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International framework on measuring sport’s contribution gains traction
The Commonwealth is assisting in strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights in eSwatini through the sharing of expertise between institutions.
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Commonwealth to help bolster human rights work in eSwatini
Malta has hosted a consultation on a new toolkit designed to strengthen education systems and deliver 12 years of free and quality education to all girls and boys in the Commonwealth.
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Malta consultation on education management toolkit will improve learning outcomes
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As a result of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the 10th Commonwealth Sports Minister Meeting has been postponed and will be reconvened alongside the new dates for the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games.
Health ministers from Southern African countries are being urged to secure the political will to prioritise funds which will fast-track the delivery of universal health coverage in the region.
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‘Funding universal health coverage benefits go beyond well-being,’ Southern African ministers told
Well-designed sport and physical activity strategies can make valuable contributions to national development and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. That was the message from experts and policy makers who gathered for the three-day annual meeting of the Commonwealth Advisory Body on Sport (CABOS).
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Sport policy boosts countries’ fitness in more ways than one
Commonwealth sport policy experts will meet in Mauritius today to draw inspiration from the pioneering sport reforms the country has undertaken with the Secretariat’s support.
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Sport reforms in Mauritius attract Commonwealth experts
Commonwealth countries have been told to reform laws restricting press freedom and to encourage media to work freely on all issues of public importance.
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‘Reform and uphold media freedom by law’ officials tell leaders
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The 2nd Open Ended Working Group Meeting on Model Indicators on Sport and the SDGs will be held at International Labour Organisation (ILO) headquarters in Geneva on November 20th 2019.
A Commonwealth handbook launched today will help East African judicial officers proactively handle cases of violence against women and girls (VAWG), which affects up to one in three women in their lifetime.
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New book will help East African judges handle cases of violence against women
Senior judges and officials have urged leaders to work with judiciary and the civil society to remove discriminatory gender laws and introduce equal rights in the legal system.
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'Enshrine equal rights for women in law’ senior judges tell leaders
The Secretary-General has outlined how sport can be harnessed to boost international development by “changing perceptions and altering attitudes”.
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Sport has ‘unparalleled potential’ to boost equality and peace
An enhanced focus on policy reform and scaling access to sport for development programmes will maximise the sport’s contribution to the sustainable development goals.
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Balance programming and policy reform to maximise sports contribution to SDGs
Ministers have welcomed the Commonwealth’s “timely” intervention to assist St Kitts and Nevis in developing community dialogues as part of the Government’s “holistic approach to crime reduction”.
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Ministers welcome ‘timely’ intervention to assist St Kitts and Nevis in developing community dialogues