IBEC- International Body For Education And Capacity Development

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1 in 3 have experiences physical or sexual violence and 200 M of girls-women have suffered ge***al mutilation.

Women occupy only 24% of parliamentary seats worldwide.

Women earn 23% less than men globally !

+ The theme of International Women’s Day 2020 is, I am Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights. The theme is aligned with UN Women’s new multigenerational campaign, Generation Equality, which marks the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the most progressive roadmap for the empowerment of women and girls, everywhere.

+ The Generation Equality campaign is bringing together people of every gender, age, ethnicity, race, religion and country, to drive actions that will create the gender-equal world we all deserve.

+ This year we will also be celebrating other major UN anniversaries, such as the 10th anniversary of the establishment of UN Women, among others.

+ The emerging global consensus is that despite some progress, real change has been agonizingly slow for the majority of women and girls in the world. Today, not a single country can claim to have achieved gender equality. Multiple obstacles remain unchanged in law and in culture. Women and girls continue to be undervalued; they work more and earn less and have fewer choices; and experience multiple forms of violence at home and in public spaces. Furthermore, there is a significant threat of rollback of hard-won feminist gains.

+ The year 2020 represents an unmissable opportunity to mobilize global action to achieve gender equality and human rights of all women and girls.

Everything you do now, is for your future. So, of your and .

+ World Civil Defence Day which was created by decision of the International Civil Defence Organisation (ICDO) General Assembly in 1990 is celebrated every year on 1of March. This Day commemorates the entry into force of the ICDO Constitution as an intergovernmental organisation in 1972.

+ By a general assembly resolution, the theme of the World Civil Defence Day for the year 2020 was decided to be "Civil Defence and First Aider in Every Home.' The significance of this theme is great.

+ Since its emergence in the 15th Century, the concept of has introduced revolutionary outcomes, particularly in regards to assistance, and it has brought a towards a more sophisticated of .

+ However, is receiving red flags as intensify leading to devastating , torrential causing sweeping $floods, and massive never witnessed before. In the meantime, people working in are expected more than ever to keep up with the fast pace of , and what such changing have in store.

+ Given the fact that emergency service, overall, operates under the umbrella of — , it was essential to dedicate a year in which the devotes its efforts to reflect the vital role of civilians' involvement in emergency services.

+ With that being said, at least a member of a must be ready for such occurrences, which requires them to be familiar with the notions of first aid

+ On Zero Discrimination Day, 1 March, we celebrate the right of everyone to live a full and productive life—and live it with dignity. Zero Discrimination Day highlights how people can become informed about and promote , , and, above all, a for . Zero Discrimination Day is helping to create a global movement of solidarity to end all forms of discrimination.

+ On Zero Discrimination Day this year, IBEC is challenging the faced by and in all their in order to raise and mobilize to promote and for women and girls.

+ IBEC highlights areas where change is urgently needed: equal participation in political life; and laws that empower; — for equal work; ending gender-based ; provide care without or barriers; equal and free access to primary and secondary ; and .

"You don't make progress by standing on the shorelines, whimpering and complaining. You make by implementing ."

- Shirley Chisholm

“ shall be directed to the full development of the human and nature, and strengthening for and fundamental . It shall promote , , and among all , racial and religious and shall further the of the United Nations in the maintenance of .“

Article 36 of AGENDA 21, UN

“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.“
- Marian Wright Edelman,
President, Children's Defense Fund

"We have forgotten our most ancient and tested survival strategy — to act with the future in mind."
- Severn Cullis-Suzuki ,
Environment and Culture Activist and Author

"I cannot do all the good that the world needs. But the world needs all the good that i can do."
- Jana Stanfield

+ A team of researchers led by Dayana Yahalomi of Tel Aviv University in Israel have found an multicellar organism that doesn't breathe; in fact, it lives its life completely free of oxygen dependency.

+ Henneguya salminicola is a cnidarian, belonging to the same phylum as corals, jellyfish and anemones

+ Exactly how it survives is still something of a mystery. It could be leeching adenosine triphosphate from its host, but that's yet to be determined.

+ H. salminicola provides an opportunity for understanding the evolutionary transition from an aerobic to an exclusive anaerobic metabolism.

"The biggest risk is not taking any risk."
- Mark Zuckerberg

"You must gain control over your money, or the lack of it will forever control you."
- Dave Ramsey

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"Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures."
- John F. Kennedy

Faster One Wins !

"The world is changing very fast. Big will not defeat the small. It will be the fast defeating the slow."
- Rupert Murdoch, American Media Mogul
Be faster enough to catch up to the new realities-based skillsets.

Health

"He who has Health has hope,
and he who has hope has everything" - Native Arabian Proverb

Earth

"We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children." - Native American Proverb

Dalai Lama - Peace

"Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace." - Dalai Lama

Coral Reef Bleaching

+ Coral reefs harbour the highest of any globally and directly support over 500 million people worldwide, mostly in countries.

+ They are among the most threatened ecosystems on Earth, largely due to unprecedented and , combined with growing local pressures.

+ Over the last three years, reefs around the world have suffered from mass events as a result of the increase in global surface temperature caused by anthropogenic .

+ According to , the coral reefs in all 29 reef-containing World Heritage sites would cease to exist by the end of this century if we continue to emit greenhouse gases under a business-as-usual scenario.

+ Limiting global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels in line with the provides the only chance for the survival of coral reefs globally.

Rising Ocean Temperature

+ Ocean temperatures are rising at the equivalent of 5 Hiroshima per second.

+ The ocean absorbs most of the excess heat from greenhouse gas emissions, leading to rising ocean temperatures.

+ Increasing ocean temperatures affect marine species and ecosystems .Rising temperatures cause coral and the loss of breeding grounds for and .

+ Rising ocean temperatures also affect the benefits humans derive from the ocean - threatening , increasing the prevalence of and causing more extreme events and the loss of .

World Thinking Day

+ World Thinking Day is celebrated by Girl Guides and Girl Scouts all over the world on 22nd February each year.

+ Its aim is to bring together children from all over the world (nearly 150 countries take part) to celebrate international , raise money and about a global theme, which is changed each year.

+ Theme 2020: DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION

+ Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting values and respects each person for who they are, irrespective of their race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, ability, appearance, gender, identity or experience. This World Thinking Day, and every day, we recognise the importance of working to build a world where this is true for everyone, everywhere.

+ World Thinking Day 2020 builds on the 2019 Leadership theme and helps us explore worldly leadership - seeing the world from the perspective of others, fostering and and celebrating the immense in our Movement.

+ It’s our responsibility to make sure all members – no matter what their identity or background – feel supported and involved in guiding. World Thinking Day is a chance for girls and young women all over the world to connect and celebrate what makes them truly unique.

Ganges - Pollution

+ in the Ganges not only threatens humans, but 140 species and 90 species.

Mother Tongue Based Multilingual Education

+ Globally 40 per cent of the does not have access to an education in a language they speak or understand.

+ Language is fundamental to communication of all kinds, and it is communication that makes change and development possible in human society. Using — or not using — certain languages today can open a door, or close it, for large segments of society in many parts of the world.

+ Every two weeks a language disappears taking with it an entire cultural and intellectual heritage. Only a few hundred languages have genuinely been given a place in and the public domain, and less than a hundred are used in the digital world.

+ Nevertheless, progress is being made in mother tongue-based education with growing understanding of its importance, particularly in early , and more commitment to its development in public life.

+ Today, there is growing that languages play a vital role in development, in ensuring cultural and dialogue, but also in strengthening co-operation and attaining for all, in building and preserving cultural , and in mobilizing for applying the benefits of to development.

Lost Languages.

+ Languages, with their complex implications for identity, , , and , are of strategic importance for and .

+ At least 43% of the estimated 6000 languages spoken in the world are .

+ Due to globalization processes, they are increasingly under threat, or disappearing altogether. When languages fade, so does the world's rich tapestry of cultural . , , , unique modes of and for ensuring a — are also lost.

+ There is an increased need to partners and resources for supporting the of and in favour of language diversity and in all parts of the world.

International Mother Language Day

+ International Mother Language Day has been observed every year since February 2000 to promote and diversity and multilingualism.

+ are the most of preserving and developing our tangible and intangible . All moves to promote the dissemination of mother tongues will serve not only to encourage linguistic diversity and multilingual education but also to develop fuller awareness of linguistic and cultural throughout the world and to inspire based on understanding, and .

+ There is a growing need to safeguard language diversity and hence, the traditions, culture and upheld by them.

+ Mother Tongue based is the need of the hour in this regard.

Poverty - Worker

+ 1in 5 worker still live in moderate or extreme poverty.

- ILO

Hazardous Work - Child Labour

+ 73 million children work in hazardous child labour.

Source:The ILO, Global Estimates Of Child Labour : Results And Trends, 2012-2016, Geneva, September 2017. [These ILO estimates are updated every four years].

Child Labour

+ Worldwide 218 million children between 5 and 17 years are in employment; 152 million are victims of child labour.

Source:The ILO, Global Estimates Of Child Labour: Results And Trends, 2012-2016 Geneva, September 2017. [These ILO estimates are updated every four years].

Employment Growth

+ Employment growth since 2008 has averaged only 0.1% annually, compared with 0.9% between 2000 and 2007.
- International Labour Organization

Contractual Employee - Social Justice

+ Over 60 per cent of all workers lack any kind of employment contract.
- International Labour Organization

Unemployment

+ By 2019, more than 212 million people were out of work, up from 201 million in previous years.

- International Labour Organization

World Day For Social Justice

+ On 26 November 2007, the General Assembly declared that, starting from the sixty-third session of the General Assembly, 20 February will be celebrated annually as the World Day of Social Justice.

+ The Declaration focuses on guaranteeing fair outcomes for all, through , , , and and at .

+ Social justice is an underlying principle for and within and among nations. We uphold the principles of when we promote , or the rights of indigenous peoples and migrants. We advance social justice when we remove barriers that people face because of , , , , , or .

Create Impact

" You cannot get through a single day without having an IMPACT on the world around you.

What YOU do makes a DIFFERENCE, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. "

-Dr. Jane Goodall