Global Education Magazine: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (October 17th, 2012)
Download the magazine here This edition is dedicated to the memory of the 15 million people who die every year of hunger, treatable diseases, and other conditions related to poverty on our planet. People who publish items on this magazine take their lives seriously. Global Education Magazine is inspired in the universal values of the Declaration of Emerging Human Rights that […]
Launch of Post-2015 Thematic Consultation on Environmental Sustainability
Launch of Post-2015 Thematic Consultation on Environmental Sustainability UNDP and UNEP are pleased to announce the launch of the post-2015 global consultation on environmental sustainability. This is one of a series of national and global (thematic) consultations convened by the United Nations Development Group to help shape the post-2015 development agenda. This is an […]
MERCOSUR “en pocas palabras”
El Mercado Común del Sur – MERCOSUR – está integrado por la República Argentina, la República Federativa del Brasil, la República del Paraguay, la República Oriental del Uruguay, la República Bolivariana de Venezuela y el Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia*. El MERCOSUR tiene como Estados Asociados a Chile, Perú (Decisión N° 39/03), Ecuador (Decisión N° 43/04), Colombia (Decisión N° 44/04), Guyana** (Decisión N° […]
Global Issues of Poverty
Global Education Magazine logo meaning from Global Education Magazine Poverty is a very relative term and can be rather difficult to define due to the great number of factors that influence it. It is not solely determined by the personal position held by an individual. It is a concept that also influences important policies and social services made […]
Global Education Week 2012
Global Education Week 2012 “MOVING TOWARDS ONE WORLD ! ” The European Global Education Week is an annual awareness raising event encouraging global education practices in the member States of the Council of Europe and beyond. Global Education (which encompasses development education, human rights education, intercultural education, peace education and conflict resolution) works on […]
The Hand is the Organ of the Mind of Matter
by Wendy Agnew wagnew@rocketmail.com Available for blinds [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/63383587″] Montessori’s famous words, ‘the hand is the organ of the mind’ seemed to resonate large at Magnificent Hill, a teaching and learning farm in Haliburton Ontario. Every autumn, we take our junior high class on a nature odyssey and, for the second time, we found ourselves […]
The World We Want – Seizing Opportunities
By Cliona Doyle Coordinator of the Dóchas EU Presidency Project. Cliona@dochas.ie The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty provides a much needed opportunity for reflection amongst the global community involved in the fight against poverty. We must not let such opportunities pass, without assessing the success of the relevant battles thus far and addressing […]
Inter-American Center for Peace and Security (ICPS)
Viktor Sebek served as the Executive Director of the Advisory Committee on Protection of the Sea (ACOPS), set up by former British Prime Minister Lord Callaghan in 1952. He developed and coordinated policy aspects of global environmental projects in sub-Saharan Africa, South East Asia, Central and South America and the Russian Federation. He also acted […]
Educação para o consumo na busca pela sustentabilidade
Helio Mattar Diretor-Presidente do Instituto Akatu pelo Consumo Consciente e-mail: heliomat@heliomattar.com.br web: www.akatumirim.org.br Resumo: Ao assumir como missão a mobilização de pessoas para o uso do poder transformador de seus atos de consumo consciente como instrumento de construção da sustentabilidade da vida no planeta, o Instituto Akatu pelo Consumo Consciente elegeu a criança e […]
After Rio+20 and Beyond 2015: Advancing the Campaign for a Global Citizens Movement
Uchita de Zoysa: author, strategist and frontline leader in mobilizing civil society and stakeholder alliances for shaping the global sustainability movement – is Global Coordinator of The Widening Circle campaign for a Global Citizens Movement, Chairman of Global Sustainability Solutions, Executive Director of Centre for Environment and Development, and the initiator of the Peoples Sustainability […]
