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UNICEF leads on global initiatives to connect millions of children and young people to world-class digital solutions so they can leapfrog to a brighter future. Even in schools, a lack of trained teachers, inadequate education materials and poor infrastructure make learning difficult for many students. Others come to class too hungry, ill or exhausted from work or household tasks to benefit from their lessons. This learning crisis – the rift between the levels of learning children receive and those they, their communities and entire economies need – hit a global scale even before the COVID-19 pandemic brought education systems to…
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Definitions of law often raise the question of the extent to which law incorporates morality. John Austin’s utilitarian reply was that law is “commands, backed by risk of sanctions, from a sovereign, to whom people have a habit of obedience”. Natural lawyers on the opposite side, similar to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, argue that law displays basically moral and unchangeable laws of nature. The idea of “pure law” emerged in ancient Greek philosophy concurrently and in connection with the notion of justice, and re-entered the mainstream of Western tradition through the writings of Thomas Aquinas, notably his Treatise on Law. With many…