Month: January 2021

Diminished club attendance during the distance learning school year

For members in MVHS Korean Club, their experiences during the school year of 2020-21 are significantly different compared to previous years. Instead of performing at homecoming rallies and skits through its subgroup, the Korean Club Dance Crew (KCDC), and holding in-person meetings with food, the club now posts its dances on YouTube and delivers Korean… Continue reading Diminished club attendance during the distance learning school year

Sexual harassment procedures at FUHSD and Bay Area high schools

Under the leadership of former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Title IX — an expansive piece of federal legislation established in 1972 that prohibits sex-based discrimination in educational institutions — was modified in May of 2020 in regards to implications for alleged perpetrators in sexual assault cases. DeVos and critics claimed that part of the prior… Continue reading Sexual harassment procedures at FUHSD and Bay Area high schools

Virtual Platforms Help Guatemalan Women Bolster Conflict-Prevention Capacity

Scenes from the municipal market in Tucuru, Guatemala. Indigenous women of Guatemala’s Polochic valley are feeding their families, growing their businesses and saving more money than ever before. With the help of a joint UN programme that’s empowering rural women, women's groups in the area have learned to produce shampoo in bigger batches and in different varieties—such as aloe, cacao, avocado and honey—and sell them in local markets. The Joint Programme on Accelerating Progress towards the Economic Empowerment of Rural Women by FAO, WFP, IFAD and UN Women is working to advance advance gender equality and economic empowerment of women in Ethiopia, Guatemala, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Nepal, Niger and Rwanda. In Guatemala, the programme started in 2015, with funding from Norway and Sweden, supporting rural women to develop a range of skills, from sustainable agricultural practices to marketing organic shampoo and learning solar engineering. With better knowledge of their own rights and access to skills, credit and income, women participants can make more decisions within their homes and participate in municipal spaces. Read More: http://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2018/7/feature-guatemala-saving-for-a-rainy-day Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown

Despite major advances in women’s rights in Guatemala since the signing of the 1996 Peace Accords, women, in particular those from indigenous populations, still experience high levels of social exclusion. Only 2 per cent of the municipalities are run by women; more than 4,000 girls between 10-14 years of age give birth every year; and… Continue reading Virtual Platforms Help Guatemalan Women Bolster Conflict-Prevention Capacity

First 100 Days Memo: U.S.-Mexico Policy

Preface The Pacific Council on International Policy is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization whose mission is to build the capacity of Los Angeles and California for impact on global issues, discourse, and policy. By connecting local experience to global affairs, we bring attention to the inextricable ties between domestic and foreign policy and contribute to better… Continue reading First 100 Days Memo: U.S.-Mexico Policy

Transformational Initiatives for Peace

Sustainable peace is inclusive peace, and it is enriched by a diversity of voices and new ideas. To stimulate thinking across and between four very different contexts, the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA) and Shared Studios, a social change company, launched “Talking Peace”, a first-of-its-kind virtual conversation series held as part of the… Continue reading Transformational Initiatives for Peace

Nuestros datos en internet

Diariamente, los datos personales de los usuarios, son utilizados por corporaciones, para sus campañas comerciales. Reciben e-mails, llamadas telefónicas, incluso en las webs que visitan, aparecen productos relacionados con búsquedas que han realizado anteriormente. En la nueva era digital han cambiado tanto las herramientas de marketing como los hábitos comunicativos. Los usuarios de la tecnología… Continue reading Nuestros datos en internet

2020: Security Council Meets Unprecedented Challenges with Innovation … and Perseverance

Inga Rhonda King (left), Permanent Representative of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to the United Nations and President of the Security Council for the month of November, chairs the Security Council meeting on the situation in Mali.

Just as the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the United Nations was getting into high gear early last year, life as we knew it was suddenly upended by COVID-19, including the work of the Security Council. One day after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, the Council stopped meeting in person. After… Continue reading 2020: Security Council Meets Unprecedented Challenges with Innovation … and Perseverance

Periodismo constructivo y de soluciones

A menudo, los consumidores de noticias pueden percibir que los periodistas transmiten una imagen incompleta y distorsionada de la realidad. Esta sensación se debe a que, en ocasiones, se pone el acento en los aspectos más negativos de la actualidad, y se exponen las problemáticas sociales de forma demasiado superficial: sin profundizar en sus posibles… Continue reading Periodismo constructivo y de soluciones

Amish ante el reto tecnológico

Cuando en 1985 vimos la película “Único Testigo” protagonizada por Harrison Ford, para muchos fue la primera noticia de que existía una comunidad denominada amish. Hace 36 años no teníamos Windows, acababa de inventarse el módem que nos conectaba a la incipiente internet, y el primer móvil nacía con un peso de 5 kilos. Desde… Continue reading Amish ante el reto tecnológico