An online workshop that supports teachers with how to maintain a human rights approach when exploring environmental issues.
The Starter Workshop, Sep 21st or 22nd 2022
The Starter Teacher Training workshop is designed for teachers who are new to Global Citizenship Education. This online workshop will explore the toolkits, learning models and methodologies needed to establish and maintain an effective GCE programme/module in your school.
Progress your GCE Teaching and Learning, Online Workshop, Oct 18th 2022
This online workshop is essential for post primary schools who have been doing GCE for a number of years. It will help teachers to go further with their students and to strengthen their GCE approach vis a vis the WWGS guiding principles.
Degrowth, WWGS Student Annual Conference, April 2022
Find the recording of the WWGS Annual Student Conference 2022. Links to resources on degrowth are also included.
Modern Day Slavery
The abolition of the transatlantic slave trade began 200 years ago, and many schools marked this event. However, new forms of slavery are prevalent today.
Tax Justice
Tax justice means fairer systems for taxing. Potential loss of tax revenues to the EU amount to approximately one trillion each year and billions are lost from countries in the Global south.
Trade Justice
Trade has always been an important part of society, however current trade rules do tend to benefit the richer countries.
Peace keeping
Peace and stability are central to sustainable development.
Conflict and the Global Arms Trade
The world cannot afford war. People cannot stand by while the numbers of war and environmental refugees soar, while poverty spreads like an epidemic and money for education, health, job training and other needed services are stolen to pay for weapons.
Biodiversity
A 2019 UN report by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has found that nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history.
Resource Extraction
Countries that are rich in natural resources are often poor and suffer from high rates of inequality, corruption, human rights abuse, and environmental degradation.
Wildlife Trafficking and Poaching
Wildlife trafficking involves the illegal trade, smuggling, poaching, capture, or collection of endangered species, protected wildlife.
Sustainable Fishing
Overfishing is the process of catching too many fish at once, so that the breeding population becomes too depleted to recover.
Marine Pollution
Our oceans have become our dumpsters. Marine pollution threatens the health of our coasts and ocean and it comes in many different forms.
Climate Justice
Climate Justice is the reality that it is those that contribute least to climate change (through their emissions) are the ones that are impacted first and worst
Fast Fashion
Being an ethical consumer in today’s world requires first recognizing that consumption is not just embedded in economic relations, but also social and political ones.
The Circular Economy
The circular economy is a process of minimising waste and making the most out of finite resources to achieve sustainable development.
Access to Markets and Industry
Goal 9 focuses on making sure that industries and infrastructure is future-proofed and responsive to the needs of people, giving people the tools to find long term solutions to problems.
Degrowth
For decades, global economies have focused on growth, often at the expense of the environment, traditional land use and land rights of indigenous people and the habitats of plant and animal species.
Child Labour
For tens of millions of children around the world, their basic rights are at risk because they have to work.