Solutions

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Solutions
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Problems and Solutionsa critical analysis!

• 1 Child labour limits opportunities for
  education, however, general bans on child labour
  may end up with children resorting to more
  dangerous work
• Micro
• Combine both work and school
• Recognize educational impacts of working (in
  curriculum)
• Incentive programs
• After-hours school
• co-op find jobs through school
• Meso
• Companies should encourage education at the same
  time as work (within the work setting, or
  flexible hours to allow school attendance)
• Macro
• More government support
• Offering incentives for children to go to school
• Improved economy
• Providing families with additional support in
  order to be able to send children away from home

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Problems and Solutionsa critical analysis!

• 2domestic violence continues to exist globally
  against women due to societal perception of
  gender roles
• Micro
• Self defence courses
• Fair courts
• Legal empowerment (paralegal training)
• Workshops for men and women
• Peace education within schools to break
  stereotypes
• Gender equality education
• Meso
• Leadership programs for women encouraging power
• Community programs informs both men and women
  (inform them both of each others rights through
  education as well as social interaction)
• Macro
• Implementing role models
• Improving gender roles
• Push for more democratic reforms
• UN needs to create a Womens Agency

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• Solutions to Gender Inequality
• Micro
• Once educated, educate fellow community members
• Meso
• Community development and education of gender
  equality by regional/provincial hierarchies
• Macro
• Universal womens rights and equality in the
  workplace

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• Solutions to improve womens rights and quality
  of life
• Micro
• Purchasing products from Always
• Visit www.alwayscanada.com for more information
• Sign online petitions
• Visit http//www.we4change.info/english/ for more
  information
• Educate others about these petitions and
  encourage them to sign them
• Meso
• Community participation in workshops on womens
  issues by specialized resources such as Nobels
  Womens Initiative
• Visit www.nobelwomensinitiative.org for more
  information
• Community participation in fundraising for
  projects such as the Miss G Project, that seeks
  to install womens studies programs in Ontario
  School System

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• Empowerment strategies for women
• Micro (you)
• Find, identify and understand Your role model
  male or female. Empowerment often happens
  through mentorship. Find a female role model
  close to you and articulate what qualities you
  appreciate.
• Meso
• Community programs that use art (in any form
  media, paint, drama, comedy, etc.) as a tool to
  influence behaviour change and change social
  norms.
• More leadership programmes, grants and challenges
  for women.
• Activities that men and women can do together,
  i.e. community development projects.
• Macro
• Law and legislature against domestic abuse
• National policy making boards that ensure that
  50 of members are women. Too many of our top
  decisions are made by men who represent only 50
  of the population.

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• For Child Labour
• Micro Solutions (what you can do!)
• Find out if your government has ratified the
  conventions concerning Child Labour No. 182
  (which is associated with prohibiting children
  from being in the worst forms of labour, making
  a mandatory minimum age for certain employments,
  offering education, rehabilitation, social
  integration, etc.)
• If your government has (like Canada) write to
  your government and ask what is being done to
  implement it
• If they have not, write your government and urge
  them to ratify it
• Organize forums at your school to learn more, or
  share information
• Support federal legislature that will improve
  child labour conditions in your country
• Find out what other initiatives exist and support
  them, or start your own
• Shop Smart know where your stuff was made and
  who made it. Use ethical purchasing to improve
  the lives of many children
• Start a letter-writing campaign or a petition to
  send to local or national authorities outlining
  your concerns
• Meso Solutions
• Organizations should help rehabilitate child
  soldiers and labourers through counseling
• Macro Solutions
• Pressure should be put on all the governments of
  ILO member countries, that have not yet ratified
  the Conventions Concerning Child Labour, to
  ratify it
• Countries should take steps towards addressing
  Child Labour on a federal level through the
  implementation of an action plan associated with
  the convention concerning Child Labour

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• For Malnutrition
• Micro Solutions
• Encourage your government to pursue Triangular
  Food Aid, or Local purchase aid instead of direct
  transfer or tied food aid
• Meso Solutions
• Organizations that provide food aid could change
  their method of delivery
• Organizations that do not provide food aid could
  start
• Macro Solutions
• Enact a policy to increase the Food Aid in
  general, and specifically the food aid provided
  through Triangular Food Aid or Local Purchase
• Note Triangular Food Aid and Local Purchase is
  more beneficial than Direct Transfer because it
  does not merely provide food for one crisis, but
  helps with the economy of the country in need, or
  other developing countries. Iit uses local food,
  or food from other developing countries, rather
  than the food from a developed nation. This
  enables developing countries to gradually be able
  to support themselves, when receiving
  international help instead of them becoming
  dependent on developed countries.

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• Solutions with regards to NGOs and Governments
• There is a great need for NGOs to build a good
  relationship with the governments of those
  countries in order for the projects to be
  successful, especially in the following areas
• Establishing a concrete working relationship
  between the government and the NGOs at national
  and local levels, and internationally.
• Enhancing the commitment by the NGOs and local
  communities toward peace and reconciliation.
• Building a consensus between NGOs and local
  communities, especially with religious leaders,
  chiefs, and community based organizations (CBO)
  Women and Youth groups.
• Establishing concrete relationships with
  humanitarian human rights NGOs.

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THANK YOU!

• ZI, ZIADH, EMILY, DANNY and MARCIA