More than 200 organisations across the UK, including charities, trades unions, businesses and schools have backed an initiative that emphasises the importance of global education in tackling the world’s problems. They signed up to the Global Learning Charter at an event in British Parliament yesterday (23 February).
The Charter, organised by the education charity DEA, supports the idea that learning can help tackle some of the global issues that the world collectively faces, such as climate change poverty and religious conflict.
Signatory organisations include schools from the UK and around the world as well as charities such as Amnesty International, British Red Cross, UNICEF UK, Oxfam, Royal Geographical Society, Eden Project and WWF.