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Participation Message to children and young people from Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice

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Participation Message to children and young people from Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice

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Clare Haughey MSP - Minister for Children and Young People

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May Dunsmuir, President of the Health and Education Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland

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We are part of the Digital Communications Team in the Scottish Government. Our aim is to help policy colleagues engage with the public using digital tools and techniques.

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The Children and Young People's Commissioner Scotland

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The Children and Young People's Commissioner Scotland

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Upcoming Professional Learning for FREE!

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Upcoming Professional Learning for FREE!

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Find all the FREE professional learning opportunities available to you here:

https://oneworldcentre.org.uk/professional-learning/

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Activate Your Rights

In partnership with the Scottish Government and Children in Scotland, we've created an activity pack on children and young people's rights. These exciting activities we co-designed by children and young people across Scotland. You can download the whole pack, or the individual sections depending on what you want to focus on.

There's also articles, videos, podcasts, and quizzes in the ActivateYourRights section of young.scot for young people to access themselves.

If you have accessed the resources above, we would be interested in hearing your thoughts!

You can fill in an optional, anonymous surveywhich will help us monitor how the resources are being used and how we could improve them.

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Young Scot Corporate - Activate Your Rights

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A website signposting some excellent resources, searchable by topic, level, curriculum area and issue.

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Practical resources to support active and participatory learning on global issues

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What's in my bag - original photos and stories

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What's in my bag - original photos and stories

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This year, nearly 100,000 men, women and children from war-torn countries in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia have fled their homes and traveled by rubber dinghies across the Aegean Sea to Lesbos, Greece.

Refugees travel light, for their trek is as dangerous as it is arduous. They are detained, shot at, hungry. Smugglers routinely exploit them, promising safety for a price, only to squeeze them like sardines into tiny boats. Most have no option but to shed whatever meager belongings they may have salvaged from their journeys. Those allowed to bring extra baggage aboard often toss it overboard, frantically dumping extra weight as the leaky boats take on water.

Few arrive at their destinations with anything but the necessities of life. The International Rescue Committee asked a mother, a child, a teenager, a pharmacist, an artist, and a family of 31 to share the contents of their bags and show us what they managed to hold on to from their homes. Their possessions tell stories about their past and their hopes for the future.

"You will feel that you are a human. You are not just a number."

When vicious fighting erupted in Yarmouk, an unofficial camp for Palestinians just south of the Syrian capital, Aboessa managed to escape with her husband and their 10-month-old daughter, Doua. After crossing the border to Turkey, they spent one week sheltering in another forlorn camp before jumping into a rubber raft bound for the safe shores of Europe.

The Turkish police patrolling the coast stopped them and detached the boat's motor in order to force them to turn back, but the refugees kept going, steering the boat through the sea's strong currents with makeshift paddles.

Hat for the baby
An assortment of medication, a bottle of sterile water, and a jar of baby food
A small supply of napkins for diaper changes
A hat and a pair of socks for the baby
Assortment of pain relievers, sunscreen and sunburn ointment, toothpaste
Personal documents (including the baby's vaccination history)
Wallet (with photo ID and money)
Cell phone charger
Yellow headband

"Everything is for my daughter to protect her against sickness. When we arrived in Greece, a kind man gave me two jars of food. Another man gave us biscuits and water when he saw my baby."

Name: Omran*
Age: 6
From: Damascus, Syria

Little Omran, sporting a cheerful blue shirt, is on his way to Germany with his extended family of five to live with relatives. Because his parents knew they would travel through forests to avoid detection, they made sure to pack bandages for scrapes and cuts.

1 pair of pants, 1 shirt
A syringe for emergencies
Marshmallows and sweet cream (Omran's favorite snacks)
Soap, toothbrush and toothpaste
Bandages

Name: Iqbal*
Age: 17
From: Kunduz, Afghanistan

Iqbal dragged his weary body out of the boat with only a backpack. The teenager had traveled hundreds of miles and dodged bullets to escape from the warring province of Kunduz in northern Afghanistan, fleeing east to Iran, then traveling by foot to Turkey. Now in Lesbos, he's uncertain of where to go next. He has kept in touch with a friend who already made the journey to Germany. He has a brother studying in Florida.

1 pair of pants, 1 shirt, 1 pair of shoes and 1 pair of socks
Shampoo and hair gel, toothbrush and toothpaste, face whitening cream
Comb, nail clipper
Bandages
100 U.S. dollars
130 Turkish liras
Smart phone and back-up cell phone
SIM cards for Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey

"I want my skin to be white and hair to be spiked - I don't want them to know I'm a refugee. I think that someone will spot me and call the police because I'm illegal."

When war broke out in Syria, the pharmacist's father would recall fond memories of Germany, where he lived for eight years while practicing medicine there. The pharmacist wanted a similar life of peace and hope. He fled with his family to Turkey, where he met a smuggler who arranged his trip to Europe.

With one bag strapped across his chest, the pharmacist climbed into an overcrowded dinghy with 53 others, including a handful of young children. Miraculously, the group made the crossing safely until, near the shores of Greece, they were met by the coast guard, shouting at them to stop the boat.

Money (wrapped to protect it from water)
Old phone (wet and unusable) and new smart phone
Phone chargers and headphones (plus extra battery charger)
16GB flash drive (containing family photos)

"We didn't realize it was the police. We were told by friends not to stop because they will take you back to Turkey. We didn't know the Greek language. We couldn't understand what they were saying. We held the children. I thought to myself, 'Let me reach the beach and anything you say I will do.'"

Their boat was punctured and everyone ended up in the sea. The pharmacist treaded water for 45 minutes before he was rescued.
Read about the pharmacist's full journey from Aleppo to Germany
"I had to leave behind my parents and sister in Turkey. I thought, if I die on this boat, at least I will die with the photos of my family near me."

Nour has a passion for music and art. He played guitar in Syria for seven years and painted. As bombs and gunfire echoed in the distance, Nour grabbed the items closest to his heart before leaving for Turkey - things that today evoke bittersweet memories of home.

Small bag of personal documents
A rosary (gift from his friend; Nour doesn't let it touch the floor)
A watch (from his girlfriend; it broke during the journey)
Syrian flag, Palestinian charm, silver and wooden bracelets (gifts from friends)
Guitar picks (one also a gift from a friend)
Cell phone and Syrian SIM card
Photo ID
1 shirt

"I left Syria with two bags, but the smugglers told me I could only take one. The other bag had all of my clothes. This is all I have left."

From: Aleppo, Syria

This family lost everything. When they left Syria, each member took one to two bags. During the course of the journey to Turkey and then Greece, their boat began to sink. There were seven women, four men and 20 children. They managed to salvage just one bag among them.

1 shirt, 1 pair of jeans,
1 pair of shoes
Toiletries
1 diaper, 2 small cartons of milk and some biscuits
Personal documents and money
Sanitary pads
A comb

"I hope we die. This life is not worth to live anymore. Everyone closed the door in our face, there is no future."

Name: Hassan*
Age: 25
From: Syria

"This is all I have. They told us we could only bring two things, one extra shirt and pants."

Learn more about the IRC's work in Lesbos where we provide clean water, sanitation, trash removal and protection and information services to refugees staying in the Kara Tepe camp and other locations on the island.

*Last names omitted to protect the privacy of those interviewed
Photos by Tyler Jump; Produced by Kulsoom Rizvi Nearly 60 million people have been forced to flee their homes by war, conflict and persecution - more lives uprooted than at any time since World War II. Produced by the International Rescue Committee, "Uprooted" keeps the spotlight on the individual human beings behind the tragic numbers in this global refugee crisis.

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This year, nearly 100,000 men, women and children from war-torn countries in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia have fled their homes and traveled by rubber dinghies across the Aegean Sea to Lesbos, Greece. Refugees travel light, for their trek is as dangerous as it is arduous.

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Editorial

Credit: Reza Dalvand

2023 is the halfway point in the world's journey towards the Global Goals. It is the midpoint between the Goals being agreed by all 193 UN member states in 2015, and the target date of the Goals in 2030. The UN Sustainable Development Goals are 17 ambitious objectives agreed by the UN in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, reduce inequality of all kinds, and protect the planet and nature.

While progress has been made on many of the Goals, Covid-19, conflicts new and ongoing, and climate crisis threaten the progress of all the Goals. We are maybe halfway through the Global Goals, but we are not halfway there to achieving them. So, what role do we play as educators?

SDG 4 focusses on education and we know that children and young people want change; they recognise the importance of climate and social justice, equality and outdoor learning for their future life and work in the 21 st century. With the launch of the new Learning for Sustainability Action Plan 2023-2030 we have the impetus and framework to transform education in Scotland.

As educators we are in the position to ensure all children and young people are aware of the Global Goals, have the skills to hold our elected politicians to account and advocate for the fairer and sustainable future they deserve.

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Features and activities - Stride - online magazine for global citizenship in schools

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We are maybe halfway through the Global Goals, but we are not halfway there to achieving them. So, what role do we play as educators?

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A local Development Education Centre (DEC) wherever you teach in Scotland

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A local Development Education Centre (DEC) wherever you teach in Scotland

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https://www.ideas-forum.org.uk/decs

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https://www.oxfam.org.uk/education/who-we-are/global-citizenship-guides/

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Ken Muir's report - Putting Learners at the Centre

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Ken Muir's report - Putting Learners at the Centre

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https://www.gov.scot/publications/putting-learners-centre-towards-future-vision-scottish-education/

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A selection of curated resources on specific subjects/issues: Anti-Racism | Climate Change | Gender Equality | Rights

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The 5 Scottish Development Education Centres have worked with teachers across Scotland to pull together a series of guides on important themes. These sheets are a curated list of the very best resources for teachers on the topic, including both resources for professional learning and development and also classroom based resources. There are currently four in the series.

The resources in this guide aim to support teachers' professional understanding of human rights issues in Scotland and around the world. It includes tools for improving pupil participation and a range of classroom activities and ideas which support pupils to learn about, through and for rights.

Download the rights resource guide, created by Highland One World with teachers in 2022.

This guide provides links to a wide range of resources for any teacher wishing to become a more skilled and confident anti-racist educator. Suggestions of videos, podcasts, blog posts and teaching resources are included to help teachers understand more about racism, privilege and decolonising the curriculum.

Download the Anti-Racist Education resource, created in collaboration with the Anti-Racist Educator collective in 2020.

This sheet launched in late 2021 brings together the very best global citizenship resources on climate change, supporting learners to explore issues around climate change and take action. The guide contains our top recommendations for essential background reading for Scottish teachers, along with links to comprehensive climate curricula, STEM resources, social subjects and literacy resources and resources to support taking action.
Download the climate change resource guide
This 2021 resource guide pulls together a range of professional reading and classroom activities, all designed to support an exploration of gender inequality, in Scotland and globally. The list was created by WOSDEC in partnership with Oxfam Scotland and classroom practitioners.
Download the Gender Equality resource guide

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Signposts for Global Citizenship - Signposts Series

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One World Centre's online course: An Introduction to Global Citizenship

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One World Centre's online course: An Introduction to Global Citizenship

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FREE and designed for you to take it at your own pace. This short course helps you explore key Global Citizenship ideas and methodologies that you can take in to your classroom straight away!

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https://www.gov.scot/policies/girfec/

There are various documents that can help support your understanding of GIRFEC. You'll find them all on the link above.

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Know Your Rights is a pack of teaching materials to introduce key rights principles to students.

These core materials have been developed by UNICEF Netherlands and are perfect for introducing children's rights to students that are not familiar with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

This downloadable workbook and teachers pack contains a series of materials to help children learn about rights. The pack is aimed at children aged 11 to 12, but with minor adaptions could be used with younger or older age groups.

Ages: 11 to 12

The pack of downloadable materials contains:
Know Your Rights - student workbook Know Your Rights - teacher guidelines Know Your Rights - poster Know Your Rights - CRC Booklet

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Know Your Rights - Child Rights Education Core Materials - Rights Respecting Schools Award

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These core materials have been developed by UNICEF Netherlands and are perfect for introducing children's rights to students that are not familiar with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. This downloadable workbook and teachers pack contains a series of materials to help children learn about rights.

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Children's Parliament: Why is LfS important to Children?

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Children's Parliament: Why is LfS important to Children?

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https://www.childrensparliament.org.uk/learning-for-sustainability/

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https://education.gov.scot/improvement/self-evaluation/vision-2030-report-concluding-report-of-the-learning-for-sustainability-national-implementation-group/

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Roger Hart’s Ladder of Children’s Participation

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Children and young people centred communication

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https://education.gov.scot/improvement/learning-resources/recognising-and-realising-childrens-rights/

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Wee Book of Promises - Children's Parliament

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Wee Book of Promises - Children's Parliament

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As suggested by one of our attendees