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The LEGO Foundation and UNICEF support conflict-affected children in Iraq through play
Baghdad, 16 December 2015 – UNICEF Iraq received a contribution from the LEGO Foundation that will help give around 50,000 children in Iraq a chance to play and learn. The organizations welcomed the contribution of 4,800 boxes containing LEGO play materials. The donation is part of the three-year global partnership between UNICEF and the LEGO Foundation signed in early 2015. Through the partnership, the two organizations promote quality early learning through play for children around the world. While play helps children address stress, it also performs a critical role in the development of the intellectual, emotional, social and creative skills needed to build the foundation for human development and lifelong learning.
Iraq has seen decades of conflict. Currently, nearly 3 million children have had their education disrupted, and nearly 1 million are internally displaced. Furthermore, over 100,000 Syrian children have taken refuge in Iraq.
Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Iraq (SRSG), Mr. Ján Kubiš, reaffirmed the United Nations’ commitment to children. “Many Iraqi children bear emotional scars from the violence around them, but it is those rendered homeless by conflict who suffer the heaviest consequences. Millions of children, in camps for displaced people and refugees as well as those in host communities have limited or no access to education or recreational activities. It is with their predicament in mind that UNAMI and UNICEF called on LEGO for assistance to extend children affected by the crisis in Iraq with a combination of study and play in the form of creative toys, which might be the first for many of them since they lost their homes and possessions. The donation from LEGO Foundation should be a reminder to Iraqi politicians of the responsibility they share for the future generations, who deserve to live a life of peace and normalcy.”
Generations of children in Iraq have grown up in the midst of conflict, and have witnessed unimaginable acts of extreme violence and have been displaced from their homes and communities. Some children have been displaced multiple times as conflict reaches their new homes. “The opportunity given by the LEGO Foundation should also be used to call for more support to humanitarian programmes, particularly child protection,” Kubiš added.
Representing UNAMI at the delivery ceremony in Baghdad, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Iraq, Gyorgy Busztin appealed to the Iraqi politicians to think about the children of Iraq as they “are the hardest hit by violence and lack of stability. Their fate needs to be the responsibility of all decision makers. We want for them a happy future, away from violence, conflict and displacement in a country that provides equal rights to all its men, women and children. We want national reconciliation for Iraq that will give back to the children of Iraq what they were deprived of, play, learning and happiness, in other words a full childhood. The LEGO toys will teach them to build so that in the future they will be able to reconstruct their villages and towns ruined by terrorism. They will prove that building is superior to destruction” added DSRSG Busztin.
“The negative impact of this crisis on children cannot be over-emphasized,” said Peter Hawkins, UNICEF Representative in Iraq. “Continuing violence has cheated millions of children of their fundamental rights to safety, education and play. Many children have come into this world and grown up knowing only displacement and conflict. The donation from the LEGO Foundation is one positive step forward, allowing some of the most disadvantaged children to play and learn in a fun and safe environment and become the next generation to build a better future for Iraq.”
“Play is the most effective and inspiring way for children to acquire the skills needed to create new possibilities and meet the many challenges of the future. In the midst of violence and instability, playing and education can help to alleviate trauma for conflict-affected children,” said Mirjam Schöning, Global Head of Programmes and Partnerships at the LEGO Foundation. “Through play, children can address stress and develop physical, intellectual and social skills, as well as creativity. Together with UNICEF, we work to put a stake in the ground for children and their development through quality play-based learning.”
The LEGO play materials will be distributed to 538 schools, 46 community centres and 8 child-friendly spaces across Iraq, giving over 50,000 children access to learning activities. The LEGO Foundation and UNICEF will provide training to build the capacity of teachers, facilitators and community members who will then guide children through LEGO activities as part of the initiative.
Photos by UNAMI PIO.
Flat Lighting. Had both lights equal distance from the subject 45 degree angle, angled downward. Both lights flashed to create a one to one ratio on the subject. This was a challenge only because I've been taught not shoot at a one to one ratio if wanting to provide interesting lighting. It was hard to remember to stage a very symmetrical lighting set up.
A reproduction of an original photo that went technically wrong, but one that I cherish for certain reasons. And one, which I may never upload.
Video from our incredibly lovely HAK Innsbruck students who filmed and edited their first Green Screen Stand Up for Equal Rights video advertisement. It was also the first time that Stuart and I worked with students utilizing our Green Screen kit and they were simply amazing. Enjoy!
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Racial and ethnic disparities in health outcomes constitute a crisis, one that requires the attention of health care providers, policymakers, and communities alike. In Seattle and across the nation, people of color suffer from higher rates of illness and mortality than their white counterparts. Health care institutions play a critical role in exacerbating or minimizing health disparities. Equal Treatment? Seattle Hospitals Put to the Test, analyzes the policies and practices of Seattle hospitals to determine how hospitals are serving, or failing to serve, people of color in our city.
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Lunedì 16 dicembre 2024, presso la Triennale Milano, si tiene il photocall per lo Spotify Equal, gala di beneficenza in Italia a sostegno delle donne nella musica.
Il photocall vede la partecipazione di oltre 70 artiste della scena musicale italiana: Miriam Ayaba, Coca Puma, Asteria, Plastica, Assurditè, Hån, Claudym, Kaze, Caro Wow, Tära, Emma Nolde, Matisa, Guinevere, Lysa, La Niña, Cmqmartina, Elasi, Lorenzza, Rizzo, Beba, Caffellatte, Yaraki, Anna Castiglia, Jelecrois, Giulia Mei, Giorginess, Kuban, Martina May, Ste, Missey, Arianna Pasini, Cara, Anfisa Letyago, Anna And Vulkan, Ariete, Sillyelly, Federica Abbate, Svegliaginevra, VV, Sissi, Angelica, Emma, BigMama, Malika Ayane, Noemi, Elettra Lamborghini, Victoria De Angelis, Francesca Michielin, Donatella Rettore, Ditonellapiaga, Arisa, Nahaze, Camilla Magli, Sarah Toscano, Laiala Al Habash, Giorgia, Popa, Ginevra, Myss Keta, Sally Cruz, Shari, Clara, Joan Thiele, Epoque, Anna, Gaia, Annalisa, Rose Villain.
Bank of South Australia Head Office Building
Location:
59 King William Street, Adelaide
Also known as:
Edmund Wright House
Constructed:
1875 to 1878
The former ANZ Bank Building in King William Street, Adelaide, now owned by the South Australian Government and named Edmund Wright House, was designed by E. W. Wright and was built in 1875-78 as the Bank of South Australia. The building is notable for its architectural accomplishment and the significant role it played in developing awareness of the risks to Adelaide’s built heritage.
In a booklet published during the campaign for its preservation in the early 1970’s, it is described as follows: “As a city building it is remarkable in that it is fully three dimensional and not just a facade. Stately and sumptuous, each side relates completely to the next and all are superbly proportioned and detailed.
“The magnificent front, with its thicket of composite and Corinthian columns, is an architectural masterpiece equal to any in Australia. The pillars are delicate things, finely proportioned, each hand carved. The entrance leads through a corridor, flanked with fluted polished columns in richly figured marble, to the superb banking chamber.
“The skills and craftsmanship that have gone into this building are almost unknown today. Every stone has been hand worked, the lavishly used columns are perfectly proportioned, the entasis subtle and the fluting immaculate.
“The capitals, keystone heads, and friezes are the work of William Maxwell, who in his time was Australia’s finest sculptor. In addition to his statues of Burns and John McDouall Stuart in Adelaide, he also carved the Altar in St Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney, and the E.S. & A. Bank in Melbourne.
HD 4903.5 U58 D63 2009
Equal opportunity in the workplace is thought to be the direct legacy of the civil rights and feminist movements and the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. Yet, as Frank Dobbin demonstrates, corporate personnel experts--not Congress or the courts--were the ones who determined what equal opportunity meant in practice, designing changes in how employers hire, promote, and fire workers, and ultimately defining what discrimination is, and is not, in the American imagination.
Photo by: Amitava Chandra
The women-controlled fuel-station is a step ahead of the paradigm of women empowerment. In the regime of gender bias and inequality, it provides a farm-foothold for the youth and bigger dreams.
Internal, opaque white jaw (1) and buccal mass (2) tinted orange by the overlying translucent integument . Distance between oral tentacles at their base (3) is about equal to thickness of a single tentacle base. Foot tapers to a slender posterior point.
Length 20 mm. Menai Strait, Wales, April 2011.
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