Global citizenship is increasing more and more in popularity due to the global matters facing our world today. Global citizens aid the goals of gender equality and education, they aim to abolish social injustice and contribute to the progress and development of a fairer and just world. All of the worlds issues stem from human acts of breaches of The Human Rights, so it is vital that as a world community we become global citizens, eradicate our worlds complications and begin to respect one another as humans of the world. Global citizenship is essential in insuring the improvement and end goals of gender equality. Because of the Millennium Development Goals, the gender gap has been significantly improved. For example, statistics in 2015 indicated that 41% of paid workers are female, this is a remarkable change considering that in 1990 the percentage of female …show more content…
Because of the ever-increasing amount of conflict and violations of the human rights many organizations are beginning to spread human rights education. On the 8th of September 2014, the United Nations Human Rights Council met and promised to promote and spread HRE (human rights education). As well as that, the NGO Working Group from Japan initiated a plan to increase awareness of HRE. Fuji has also been working among human rights pressure groups to support their campaigning, the Soka Gakkai International (SGI) plan to prevent breaches of these human rights happening in the first place. The SGI’s Geneva Representative argued, “While protection of human rights is the core objective of the U.N. Charter, it is equally important to prevent the occurrence of human right abuses”. This quote is precisely what the global citizens around the world are striving