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Jeffrey Sachs: ‘we need to press governments to follow through on what they’ve promised’. Max Rossi/Reuters

October 17, 2016

Jeffrey Sachs on meeting the Sustainable Development Goals – ‘we need a victory of ideas’

M Niaz Asadullah, University of Malaya; Harini Amarasuriya, Open University of Sri Lanka; Maty Konte, United Nations University; Mizan R Khan, North South University, and Rut Diamint, Torcuato di Tella University

Jeffrey Sachs wants to press governments to follow through on their promises.

Bangladesh’s ruling party ministers say private schools and universities are responsible for the recent surge in terrorism, which includes the attack on a bakery in Dhaka. Suvra Kanti Das/Newzulu

August 2, 2016

Dhaka café attack: don’t blame private education for radicalisation in Bangladesh

M Niaz Asadullah, University of Malaya

If the government is serious about tackling terrorism, politicisation and increased surveillance in private schools and universities will not be enough.

Many Muslim nations fare poorly for gender equity, but there are steps they can take and examples they can follow to make sure girls are properly educated. Flickr/Nevil Zaveri

October 13, 2014

Gender equity in schools in Muslim countries: it can be done

M Niaz Asadullah, University of Malaya

Muslim countries worldwide have problems with gender equality. They dominate the bottom ten countries in the Global Gender Gap Report and none of the ten most successful countries offering equal opportunities…

Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai. Jonathan Brady/PA Wire

October 10, 2014

Nobel Peace Prize win for Malala and Kailash is a beacon of hope for children’s rights

Zaki Wahhaj, University of Kent and M Niaz Asadullah, University of Malaya

In a celebration of the rights of children, the 2014 Nobel Prize for Peace has been awarded to Malala Yousafzai, shot by the Taliban for going to school in Pakistan, and Kailash Satyarthi, who has been…

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Jeffrey Sachs on meeting the Sustainable Development Goals – ‘we need a victory of ideas’

Dhaka café attack: don’t blame private education for radicalisation in Bangladesh

Gender equity in schools in Muslim countries: it can be done

Nobel Peace Prize win for Malala and Kailash is a beacon of hope for children’s rights

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