Explore our free educational programs and capacity-building resources that help educators foster deep learning competencies through real-world problem solving.
Explore our free educational programs and capacity-building resources that help educators foster deep learning competencies through real-world problem solving.
Thursday 8 March was celebrated as the International Women’s Day. The theme for this year’s celebrations was Ending Impunity for Violence against Women
For many of us, this theme may strike a cord in our core nerves. We have either experienced, witnessed or been affected by violence against women in our society. According to Dr. Sam Thenya,...
It has been observed that the more one is exposed to violent media especially children they tend to make it part of their behaviour. Media therefore, by extension is a language presenting violence.
Emmanuel Silva is the creator of this piece.
He wants to give a strong message to women, to stand up and don't shut up.
Keeping silence is abetting Domestic Violence.
Tags:
domestic, violence, women, rights, abuse
This is my submission for the contest.
Fairly simple, but this work shows that behind everything pleasant, there could lie something else that you don't see. The world is a beautiful but dangerous place.
Dave Marks
To be different is to be evil, odd, the enemy...
I might be speaking another language,having another culture, religion, or belonging to another ethnic group but does that make me ugly, evil?
And unfortunately, some streams of ideas are promoting such a culture of violence and intolerance - like Huntington and Fukoyama, who believe that wars,...
If I speak my mind, wouldn't you react so violently?
If I say what I feel, what I think, wouldn't you have some tolerance to accept and understand my ideas?
Wrestling became the ultimate method of behaving with each other...the only link between human being in a world with such a violent culture, with a language of violence...
so why don't we try to change such a culture?
The painting depicts the anger prevalent in youth, due to the mutilation of ideals in society and the isolation of an individual. Media fuels it further by publishing views, events and pictures of undue success, standards and disturbance. Due to this cynicism, jealousy and skepticism increases among youth that gives birth to a kind of violence...
The excessive inundation of violence in language faced by children today is leading to appalling results. It is a poison for sensitive hearts, halting and blocking their proper development and growth, and manifesting in numerous psychological problems. It prevents them from becoming an independent, responsible adult; the young soul wilts like a...