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Thema 5 |
Informationsgesellschaft |
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Workshop 5.1 |
"World Conference on Women Beijing + 10. Education as a key qualification for girls and women" |
 Samstag, 10.09.2005, 11.30-13.15 h
World University Service
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- Cicek Bacik, MOVE, Deutschland
- Gudrun Graichen-Drück, Referatsleiterin i.R. des Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung, Deutschland
Moderation: Muriel Lucia
The Platform of Action, adopted by the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995, identified the need to ensure women’s full and equal access to education and training as one of 12 areas of concern requiring urgent action by governments and the international community.” What has been done in the South and in the “North” to achieve the objectives? The two speakers will discuss and compare the Beijing goals with the situation today considering a couple of examples from Germany - with a focus on female migrants - and some countries of the South.
Sanchita Basu: Migrant women in Berlin: Scope of school education and thereafter
The migrants are not only poor and a big percentage of them live on state aid, but they are under qualified and under skilled as well. Why is it so? Are they less intelligent than their German counterparts? The most common answer, which we get from the politicians as well as from the academics, is their incapability as well as their reluctance to learn German language. Why even now the third generation migrant doesn’t learn German properly. Is that the only answer for the failure of two generations to be successful citizens of this society? Or does the majority group also have some responsibility? These will be the focal viewpoints of my lecture.
Gudrun Graichen-Drück: What’s up with education of females in the countries of the south with a focus on West-Africa?
It is widely understood that education for girls and women is one of the major foundations of progress and wellbeing of a population. But even ten years after the Beijing Conference considerably more women than men are illiterate and even worse, in many developing countries less girls go to school than boys. Female enrolment in general education increases, but not fast enough. What obstacles prevent parents from sending their daughters to school? What can be done to encourage girls and their mothers to go for education? There are successful examples of joint action between local authorities and international cooperation.
| Kontakt
Bianca Brohmer, World University Service, Project Global Learning in Dialogue
E-Mail brohmer@wusgermany.de, Homepage http://www.wusgermany.de/
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Aktualisiert: 08.09.2005, hbr
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