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ELSEWHERE FOUND

 

 First Read supports family literacy and education in poor communities around the world.

It offers an innovative way of working directly with families to expand and improve early chilhood care and education. First Read also supports improvements in the literacy and other skills of the participating parents and carers, including their ongoing ability to support their children's learning.

 

The Global Campaign for Education is a coalition of child rights activists, teachers’ unions and development organisations from around the world, united in their determination to make the right to educationstee a reality. I chair the UK campaign's policy group and sit on the steering committee.

 

I'm a trustee of the Reading Agency. The Read’ing Agency's mission is to inspire more people to read more. Read works with public libraries, publishers, unions, businesses and broadcasters to support reading.

The Reading Agency's Big Book Share supports prisoners to choose a book and then make a recording of themselves reading it, which is then given to the prisoner’s children. Reading can help to keep the family bond strong and can help an imprisoned parent to be a positive role model to his or her children.

 

CURRENTLY READING
  • The Kites are Flying
    The Kites are Flying
    by Michael Morpurgo

    I've just started reading Morpurgo's latest book. It's set in the Palestinian west bank and told from the point of view of both a travelling journalist and a young Palestinian boy called Said.

     

  • Human Rights

    Individuals and organisations working to protect and promote human rights.
    • Amnesty International
      A worldwide movement of people campaigning for internationally recignised human rights.
    • Environmental Justice Foundation
      EJF is dedicated to protecting the natural environment and the people and wildlife that depend upon it by linking environmental security, human rights and social need.
    • Global Rights
      Global Rights is a human rights advocacy group that partners with local activists to challenge injustice and amplify new voices within the global discourse. With offices in countries around the world, we help local activists create just societies through
    • Human Rights First
      Formerly the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights.
    • Human Rights Watch
      An organisation dedicated to standing with victims and activists to prevent discrimination, to upholding political freedom, to protecting people from inhumane conduct in wartime, and to bringing offenders to justice.
    • International Human Rights Museum Initiative
      Dedicated to promoting the role of museums in helping protect and advance human rights.
    • Rights and Democracy
      Rights & Democracy (International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development) was created by Canada's Parliament in 1988 to encourage and support the universal values of human rights.
    • Survival International
      An organisation helping tribal peoples defend their lives, protect their lands and detemine their own futures.
    • Witness
      Witness uses the power of video to open the eyes of the world to human rights abuses.
    • Open Society Justice Initiative
      The OSI Justice Initiative pursues human rights based law reform initiatives worldwide.