Warsaw [Poland], May 29 (ANI): UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, continues to scale up its operations in Poland to provide aid to refugees from Ukraine who have settled across the country.

New Delhi Mar 27 PTI The unfolding events in Ukraine are a stark reminder that crises can strike anytime and the education system in all the countries must have plans to prepare respond and recover from such emergencies according to UNESCOs Global Education Monitoring GEM reportTeachers need to be equipped to teach in increasingly challenging conditions such as damaged facilities or overcrowded classrooms and to be able to differentiate pedagogy to adapt to learners from education systems that use other curricula and languages it pointed outThe report comes amid a fierce Russian military offensive in Ukraine with the toll on civilians rising as Moscow seeks to pound cities into submission from entrenched positions The unfolding events in Ukraine are a stark reminder that crises can strike anytime anywhere In addition other ongoing crises such as COVID-19 various conflicts and disasters across the globe including those due to climate change are all threatening education continuity and quality especially for those displaced it saidThe report pointed out that in 2021 the UN Refugee Agency reported that more than 84 million people were forcibly displaced globallyIn 2022 this figure is set to rise as more than 15 million children have already fled Ukraine the report saidEducation systems are often under-prepared in the face of crises whether in terms of welcoming the sudden arrival of refugee children protecting the safety of learners and teachers or having to quickly shift to remote learning it saidAll countries must have plans to prepare for respond to and recover from crises which are lacking in many countries and hence it makes already chaotic situations more complicated and leaves frontline actors with limited guidance and tools to respond effectively it addedThe Global Education Monitoring Report GEM Report is developed by an independent team and published by UNESCO It has the official mandate of monitoring progress in meeting the Sustainable Development Goal on educationAs illustrated by COVID-19 teachers who are themselves affected by crisis often act as critical agents of support to colleagues and students alike They can foster a sense of safety and normalcy while supporting families and communities with important information Their support to learners is essential but teachers can only tap into this role if their needs are first addressed it saidAccording to the report since teachers are impacted by crises in various ways they also need to receive adequate psychosocial material and financial support to play the supportive role that learners needApplying an emergency and crisis-sensitive lens in the development and implementation of national teacher policies is essential to ensure that teachers can act as critical agents of support and protection to ensure that quality inclusive education continues and to promote social cohesion and resilienceThis involves anticipating and addressing challenges of recruitment deployment retention and training while also ensuring teacher well-being job security and safe and enabling working conditions the report saidTeacher policies that consider the implications of crisis on the profession can contribute to a motivated quality workforce Such policies are key to ensure that teachers are not just supported and protected but are also prepared to provide vulnerable children with safe learning spaces and quality education and thus protecting this fundamental right for all it added PTI GJS GJS TDS TDS

Kabul [Afghanistan], March 18 (ANI): Amid the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, the UN Refugee Agency chief has called for sustained international support for the war-ravaged country.

Kyiv [Ukraine], March 14 (ANI): Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk announced that ten humanitarian corridors for the evacuation of citizens will operate on Monday.

Kyiv [Ukraine], March 12 (ANI): The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Friday informed that the humanitarian situation in Ukraine is deteriorating at an alarming pace.

Geneva [Switzerland], March 3 (ANI): As many as one million refugees have left Ukraine in seven days since the beginning of Russia's military operation there, said the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) on Thursday.

Kabul [Afghanistan], January 10 (ANI): The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) High Commissioner Filippo Grandi has said that the Taliban has to fulfil some promises if they want their financial resources to be unfrozen.

Telecom giant Vodafone is all set to auction the world’s first-ever text message written in 1992 as a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) in Paris. Vodafone is reportedly eyeing to fetch £150,000 to £200,000 in exchange for the 30-year-old SMS. The auction will take place online on December 21, 2021. Vodafone said that it will donate the […]

Vodafone is auctioning the world’s first SMS. The SMS is expected to sell at around $200,000. Here’s all you need to know about the historic text message. World’s first SMS is being sold 29 years ago, on December 3, 1992, the message was sent by Neil Papworth via Vodafone’s network and received by Richard Jarvis, […]

Kathmandu [Nepal], December 10 (ANI): The Nepalese government has excluded Tibetans from the proposal of issuing identity cards to the refugees in the Himalayan country.