Development Perspectives

www.developmentperspectives.ie Development Perspectives is a development NGO that explores, examines and acts upon a range of issues and challenges that face our world. It is essentially a development education organisation that aims to involve people in the local and global development process. A few observations about the world around us from our perspective – • The […]

Youth Crime Watch of Nigeria, an NGO in Special Consultative status with United Nations Economic and Social Council

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ycwnigeria.org Human rights are “basic rights and freedoms that all people are entitled to regardless of nationality, sex, national or ethnic origin, race, religion, language, or other status. Economic, social and cultural rights are socio-economic human rights, such as the right to education, the right to housing, and the right to health. Economic, social […]

Global Education Magazine: International Women´s Day (8th March 2014)

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Download here THIS EDITION IS A TRIBUTE TO THE WOMEN WHO GIVE US LIFE “I saw that displaced women had many difficulties; they lived through atrocities and had enormous trauma. I realised that learning to write and training will help them forget the trauma, and what they had to go through. This is what pushed […]

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Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies

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We are a global transdisciplinary network and fellowship of concerned academics and practitioners. We wish to stimulate systemic change, globally and locally, to open space for dignity and mutual respect and esteem to take root and grow, thus ending humiliating practices and breaking cycles of humiliation throughout the world. We suggest that a frame of […]

Institut de Drets Humans de Catalunya

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The Institut de Drets Humans de Catalunya (IHRC) carries out three parallel. yet independent, lines of work; the promotion, consultation, and teaching of human rights. In each of these areas special attention is given to relations with other institutions, network participation and study and research activities. In the area of promotion, activities of different types are carried out on diverse […]

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2013 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award: Sister Angélique Namaika

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Inspirational Congolese Nun Wins UN Refugee Agency top Honour UNHCR Announces 2013 Nansen Refugee Award Laureate Geneva, 17 September, 2013 – The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today announces that this year’s winner of the Nansen Refugee Award is a Congolese nun who has helped hundreds of female rape and […]

Global Education Magazine: Human Rights Day

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Download the magazine here IN MEMORIAM: NELSON MANDELA We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and repression and liberty and human rights, poverty and freedom from want. Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Address (10 December 1993) AMANDLA! Global Education Magazine is […]

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Post-2015 Development Agenda: Targeting Poverty through Sustainable Peace

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[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/109240604″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] 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: […]

Democracy, Sustainability and the Post-2015 Development Agenda

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Ashish Kothari Founder-member, Kalpavriksh e-mail: chikikothari@gmail.com http://radicalecologicaldemocracy.wordpress.com / www.iccaconsortium.org Abstract: In the context of the ongoing review of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and their possible replacement by a new framework in 2015, it is important to highlight the issues of democracy, ecologically sustainability and socio-economic equity as being central to such a framework. This article puts forth ideas […]

Human Collaboration the Peoples Revolution of a Global Learning Framework

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Richard Close CEO-Servant, The Chrysalis Campaign. As a senior consultant, Richard has developed programs for different companies, including poverty curriculum development in Bridgeport, CT and the development of a UNESCO PPN African portal. e-mail: rclose@richardclose.info web: http://globallearningframework.ning.com . Abstract: “While traditional classrooms wade through indexed text books chapter by chapter in order to pass Friday’s test, […]