Hello, glad you could join us for the Wikiprogress week in review, a handful of headlines that caught our eye this week. You can find all news articles and blog posts on the progress community in the Wikiprogress Community Portal.
On 2011 thinkers and shakers
Nobel Peace Prize – the contenders (The Guardian 06.10.2011)
The list of contenders for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize compiled by the Guardian reflects a year of overwhelming change: from Arab Spring revolutionaries Lina Ben Mhenni, Wael Ghonim and Israa Abdel-Fattah, to Wikileaks leader Julian Assange and leaker Private Bradley Manning, to the head of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission Sima Samar to a potential second-time prize winner activist Aung San Suu Kyi.On education
Six million new teachers needed to ensure UN goal of universal primary education (UN News Centre 05.10.2011)
As the world celebrated ‘World Teachers Day’ on Wednesday, the United Nations warned 6.1 million more teachers are needed in order to meet the Millennium Development Goal of attaining primary education by 2015. Data published by UNESCO shows 2 million of these are additional posts (sub-Saharan Africa accounting for more than half) and 4.1 million are teachers needed to replace those leaving the profession for a variety of reasons such as retirement, illness or career change.
See more and contribute to the Wikiprogress article on the Millennium Development Goals and the Wikichild article on education
On well-being
Worldwide, residents stay where the good jobs are (Gallup 03.10.2011)
Data from the Gallup Well-Being study has shown a clear relationship between ‘good jobs’ and community attachment. According to the data, in countries where the workforce is employed full time, residents are more likely to be satisfied with the community they live in and considerably less likely to say they will leave them next year.
On gender equality
Afghan women’s rights under threat (IPS 03.10.2011)
On Monday, leading aid agencies Oxfam and Action Aid warned that women’s rights are under threat after 10 years of progress in Afghanistan. Currently half of the nation's school-aged girls have gained access to education and nearly 28 percent of seats in the nation's parliament have gone to women; however co-author of the Oxfam report Louise Hancock has called for action saying now is the "time to take stock of what has happened and what still needs to be done".
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