Education about Human Rights begins in Childhood
Français Version Sonia Colasse Author the children bilingual book: “The Adventures of Enzo” e-mail: soloinfinity.ws@gmail.com website: www.soloinfinty.com/enzo . Since 1948, we celebrate every year the International Day of Human Rights. Humans Rights, what a nice expression you might say. But, we all know that they are not always respected as they should. Moreover, does every country have […]
Les droits de l’homme commencent dès l’enfance
English Version Sonia Colasse Author the children bilingual book: “The Adventures of Enzo” e-mail: soloinfinity.ws@gmail.com website: www.soloinfinty.com/enzo . Dans l’histoire de l’humanité, nous pouvons célébrer chaque année depuis 1948, la journée mondiale des droits de l’homme. Les droits de l’homme, c’est une jolie phrase, me direz-vous! Cependant, on peut se rappeler qu’elle n’est pas toujours respectée à […]
Statement by FW de Klerk on the Death of Nelson Mandela
FW de Klerk, as Honorary Member at Education for Life NGO Resource: FW de Klerk Foundation It was with the greatest sadness that I have learned of the death of Nelson Mandela. My wife Elita and I would like to convey our deepest condolences to his wife, Graça Machel, the Mandela family and their friends, to […]
Building a Global Citizens Movement: Towards a World Citizens Movement. The Johannesburg Compass: Questions and Orientations
Resource: deeep.org 1. Who are we? As citizens, global and local, and participants of the ‘Building a Global Citizens Movement Johannesburg Conference 2013’, we acknowledge our responsibility for the planet and for humanity and we take responsibility for our individual and collective actions. Collectively, we acknowledge that to reach a just and sustainable world […]
The Reversibility of Economic Social and Cultural Rights in Crisis Contexts
Felipe Gómez Isa Lecturer in Public International Law and researcher for the human rights institute, Instituto de Derechos Humanos Pedro Arrupe at Deusto University, Bilbao, (Basque Country, Spain) e-mail: felipe.gomez@deusto.es / web: www.idh.deusto.es . Abstract: International human rights law has increasingly imposed clearer and more precise obligations on states in the area of ESCRs. But at the same […]
Collaborative Proposal Development Towards Sustainable Communities
James Furze University of the West of England, Faculty of Environment and Technology James.Furze@uwe.ac.uk . Quanmin Zhu Professor at University of the West of England, Faculty of Environment and Technology Quan.Zhu@uwe.ac.uk . Feng Qiao ShenyangJianzhu University, Faculty of Information and Control Engineering fengqiao@sjzu.edu.cn . [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/118106567″ params=”color=ff6600&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Abstract: Sustainable communities require consideration from […]
Dadaab Refugees Fear Repatriation will deny them the Right and Freedom to University Education
Mugo Mugo Conflict Researcher and Co-Founder of African Media Initiative on Development (AMID-Africa). Masters of Arts Student of Peace, Development, Security and International Conflict Transformation at Innsbruck University March 2014. Holder of Masters Degree in Media, Peace and Conflict Studies from UN’s-Mandated University for Peace (2012). e-mail: patrickmaragi@gmail.com / web: @PMugoMugo . Abstract: Among the refugee community […]
Augmenting Human Rights with Human Responsibilities
Sue L. T. McGregor Mount Saint Vincent University (Canada), Faculty of Education. Her research interests include consumer studies, transdisciplinarity, integral thinking, moral leadership, and home economics philosophy. She is Principle Consultant for the McGregor Consulting Group e-mail: sue.mcgregor@msvu.ca / web: www.consultmcgregor.com . Abstract: The central premise of this paper is that human rights will be […]
The Value of Education for Refugee Livelihood
Callixte Kavuro University of Cape Town, Safety and Violence Initiative, Parliamentary Monitoring Group callixtekav@gmail.com . Abstract: Central to the development of humanity and community is education. Education is universally recognised as one of the essential human rights and economic freedoms. For economic progress, it is regarded as an indispensable vehicle of empowering the disadvantaged and […]
Instilling Global Citizenship within the International School Network
Adam Carter Global Citizen, Teacher and Social Action/Education Expert. Founder and director of Cause & Affect Foundation as well as the creator of Academic Social Action Collective. e-mail: adrockisland@gmail.com / web: http://about.me/adamcarter . Abstract: Promoting “global citizenship” has become a popular trend within international schools. There is a huge benefit for students, schools and […]
