education

America for Dummies

festival@artsengine.net — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:40:54 -0700

Niaz Mosharraf challenges his peers on their knowledge of current-affairs and asks questions like: "Why do we know more about K-Fed than Kofi Annan?"

Monica Garcia - Southwest Workers Union

Hub Intern — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:02:44 -0700

This interview was conducted by a fellow participant at the US Human Rights Network National conference in Chicago April 17th-20th, 2008.

To empower people of color, workers, youth and grassroots communities through education, local leadership development, training, hands-on organizing and mobilizing. We strive to build membership based organizations, coalitions and networks to gain power to achieve environmentally safe and sustainable communties, jobs and fair wages with dignity and justice.

African Soul, American Heart

kabbie — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:30:42 -0700

A short selection from a work in progress, African Soul, American Heart, about the efforts of one of the Lost Boys of Sudan to return to his home village and help the next generation of Sudanese meet the challenges of the 21st century.

Disability Rights and Education - Yemen

Hub Intern — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:12:19 -0700

This video is part of the World Enabled Series, a one of a kind global media project that shows the unheard stories of people with disabilities, and uses their stories as tools to inspire change and help create a World Enabled.

The Faces of Children International

Hub Intern — Tue, 06 May 2008 08:02:59 -0700

Journey into the lives of impoverished children and see how sponsorship brings a hopeful smile to their faces.

Tibetan Youth

ryry — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:44:54 -0700

Protest outside China's New Delhi embassy by Tibetan students to commemorate the Tibetan National Uprising Day. Footage of Tibet. Interviews with ex-political prisoners who escaped Tibet for India.

Miradas: del Pacífico al Índico, Derechos Humanos únicos para culturas distintas

GlobalHumanitaria — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:24:35 -0800

'Miradas: del Pacífico al Índico' es una exposición fotográfica sobre la relación entre la diversidad cultural y los derechos humanos creada por Global Humanitaria a partir de fotografías de Juan Díaz. La integran 118 fotografías, tomadas en 5 países, que muestran cómo las creencias figuran en el corazón de realidades cotidianas como las familias, los mercados y las bodas.

Agnan-Agnan Dreams

Gayle Ellett — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:52:54 -0800

Nine-year-old Satra has been mute for as long as she could remember. But her determination to secure a good ducation reverberates clearly amid the trictures of her Yakan culture.
Directed by Sheron Dayo

Educational Integration of Roma Children in Bulgaria

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:50:27 -0800

At an estimated 10 million people, Roma are the largest, yet most discriminated-against minority in Europe. In Bulgaria, 70 percent of young Roma, (approximately 30,000 children), attend sub-standard schools in segregated Romani neighborhoods. Inadequate material conditions and the poor quality of education provided by unmotivated teachers contribute to low attendance rates of Roma pupils. Altogether, they alienate Romani children from schools and perpetuate the cycle of illiteracy, unemployment, and poverty.

Slovak education system fails Romani children

Amnesty International — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:15:46 -0800

Romani children in Slovakia are being denied the right to a proper education by a system that routinely discriminates against them.
Huge numbers of children are being segregated into Roma-only schools, while others are being placed in 'special' schools despite not having any mental or learning disabilities.
In some parts of eastern Slovakia, 100 per cent of schools are segregated. Romani children often receive a second-rate education and have a very limited chance of progressing beyond compulsory schooling. In 2006, only 3 per cent of Roma children reached secondary school.