GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP

• Global Citizen and partners will be watching closely to see that the UK government stands by this commitment and takes concrete steps to make it less likely that students, teachers, schools and universities will be attacked in coming months.
• The world citizen was typically an intellectual, who traveled widely, met and corresponded with intellectuals in many countries and advanced cosmopolitan views. HOWEVER, there are travels that are seen as means of promoting international understanding like exchanges between schoolchildren.
• “Girls in Emergencies" reception co-hosted by Global Citizen and Coalition for Global Prosperity, Global Citizen and our partners at Send My Friend to School had performed a petition handover to the UK Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, at the event. The petition contained the signatures of 25,549 people and children from 932 schools who want the UK to sign this declaration to make schools around the world safe. At the event Johnson had indicated that the declaration would be signed "very soon."
• Global Civil Society poses a direct challenge to states when groups within one country ignore or oppose official policies to create links with citizens in other countries
• Hegel and Marx conceptualized civil society as the sphere defined by the market economy, and its resulting individualism and socially divisive effects.
• Richard Falk discussed how global civil society promotes a world order based not on state interests but on the interests and rights of human beings.
• Democratic theorists have argued that civil society is essential to liberal democracies as a barrier to an encroaching state.
• The image of a wandering scholar is still part of a cosmopolitan view of the world of learning.
• Human Rights Watch's role is monitoring human rights worldwide and protesting about abuses that was based on USA
• The basic tenet of cosmopolitanism is the belief in universal equality and human rights.
• It is also encouraged by the government to promote friendly relations between countries
• Transnational organizations like Amnesty International, Oxfam, and Greenpeace cite discussions on global citizenship.
• Amnesty International is the best-known human rights campaigning organization with a separate international secretariat and sections in many parts of the world
• The International Monetary Fund highlighted that biofuels were responsible for almost half the increase in the total consumption of key food crops in 2006-2007.
• More than a 3rd of Syrian schools have been destroyed and damaged by fighting leaving nearly 2 million children out of the classroom.
• The UK became the 74th signatory to the Safe Schools Declaration. It was developed through a process led by Norway and Argentina with the objective of avoiding military use of schools. SSD is a commitment that serves as an official assurance that the UK will condemn attacks on schools.'
• According to Jean Ziegler, that the sudden, ill-conceived, rush to convert food into fuels is a recipe for disaster.
• And another 600,000 who have fled their homes are not in school
• Since 1945, the global citizen is usually pictured as the activist on transnational social movements
• Mass tourism, which often shields people from the society they are visiting, has nothing to do with increasing international understanding and may hay harmful effects on the environment and local culture
• The UK Commits to Safer Schools, Urged by the Actions of Global Citizens and Partners: This is vital news at a time of escalating conflict (Katie Dallas)
• The story is much the same with rising conflict across the globe — 246 million children experience some kind of school violence in the world today.
• Safe Schools Declaration— a commitment that serves as an official assurance that the UK will condemn attacks on schools, protect education during armed conflict, and offer supervision, services and teaching to save children’s lives.
• In May 2017, the United Nations Secretary General, António Guterres, urged all Member States to endorse the Safe Schools Declaration
• As of November 2020, 106 countries have endorsed the safe school Declaration.
• The Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA) found that the overall reported incidents of military use of schools and universities declined between 2015 and 2018.
• Global Citizen and partners will be watching closely to see that EVERYONE stands by this commitment and takes concrete steps to make it less likely that students, teachers, schools and universities will be attacked and help every child stay safe in their place of learning.