  {"id":204947,"date":"2016-03-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=204947"},"modified":"2019-03-12T18:52:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:52:29","slug":"auto-insert-204947","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-204947\/","title":{"rendered":"UNICEF Special Rep to the State of Palestine Kunugi congratulates Hanan Al-Hroub for winning Global Teacher Prize &#8211; UNICEF statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"7px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><img class=\"lazyload\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27355%27%20height%3D%27102%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20355%20102%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27355%27%20height%3D%27102%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/17d2f9b2cf5dd3ab85257f7900564f2e_image0.GIF\" border=\"0\" height=\"102px\" width=\"355px\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top:10px;text-align:left;padding-bottom:10px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"7px\" \/><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\"><strong>Statement by UNICEF Special Representative to the State of Palestine June Kunugi<br \/>\non Palestinian teacher winning global award<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>EAST JERUSALEM, 15 March 2016 <\/strong>-&quot;I join many others today in conveying warm and sincere congratulations to Hanan Al-Hroub for being awarded with the prestigious Global Teacher Prize.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&quot;It is a welcome affirmation of the difference teachers can make and the value and importance of the teaching profession. Ms. Al-Hroub&#39;s enduring commitment to Palestinian children&#39;s education and non-violence in school is an inspiration to us all.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&quot;Despite the tense environment she lives in, Al-Hroub embraced the ideal and practice of non-violence, and promoted an approach that focuses on active learning through playing and rewarding positive behaviour&quot;.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&quot;Al Hroub adopted this approach after her own children suffered psychological distress following a shooting they witnessed on their way home from school.&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>ENDs-<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;padding-top:6px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unicef.org\/oPt\/Statement_by_UNICEF_Special_Representative_to_the_State_of_Palestine_June_Kunugi_on_Palestinian_teacher_winning_global_award.pdf\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:left;padding-top:6px;font-size:6pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">http:\/\/www.unicef.org\/oPt\/Statement_by_UNICEF_Special_Representative_to_the_State_of_Palestine_June_Kunugi_on_Palestinian_teacher_winning_global_award.pdf<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statement by UNICEF Special Representative to the State of Palestine June Kunugi on Palestinian teacher winning global award EAST JERUSALEM, 15 March 2016 -&quot;I join many others today in conveying warm and sincere congratulations to Hanan Al-Hroub for being awarded with the prestigious Global Teacher Prize. &quot;It is a welcome affirmation of the difference teachers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-204947\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1329,1338],"document-source":[2105],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2441],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-204947","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-press-release","document-category-statement","document-source-united-nations-childrens-fund-unicef","document-subject-education-and-culture","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/204947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/204947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=204947"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=204947"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=204947"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=204947"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=204947"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=204947"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=204947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}