Institut de Drets Humans de Catalunya

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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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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Raising Awareness of Global Education Amongst Young People

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Okafor Akachukwu International Development Consultant at Nonprofit Organization Management in Nigeria. e-mail:akachukwu_okafor@yahoo.com web: www.akachukwu.tumblr.com Abstract: Global education is a transformative learning process that is very essential in creating and promoting mutual understanding across racial, cultural, religious, political and geographical divides. Young people as agents of change have a lot of responsibility in fostering global […]

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ELSA – take your future in your own hands!

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By Natalia Buczek Young Volunteer at ELSA nataliabuczek@wp.pl European Law Students’ Association (ELSA) is an international, independent, non-political, non-profit-making organization run by and for students. ELSA was founded in 1981 in Vienna by representative from Poland, Hungary, Austria and Germany. The organization was created to strengthen international relations and a better understanding in that time, which was difficult on political and legal […]

Carta de presentación de ACNUR. Por Francesca Fontanini.

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Los últimos años han sido marcados por una sucesión interminable de conflictos y crisis humanitarias, en medio de incertidumbres, sociales, políticas y económicas. Una de las primeras consecuencias de tal escenario es el incremento de las personas forzadas a desplazarse y buscar protección en otros países. La combinación de estos factores ha reducido el “espacio […]

La Educación como un Derecho. Por Jorge Sequeira.

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Hace más de cuarenta años, las naciones de la tierra afirmaron en la Declaración Universal de Derechos Humanos que “toda persona tiene derecho a la educación”. Sin embargo, pese a los esfuerzos realizados para asegurar el derecho a una educación de calidad para todos, persisten grandes desafíos. La educación es un derecho humano fundamental, esencial para […]

South Africa is one of the most unequal societies in the world

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This is despite the fact that the achievement of equality is one of the core founding values of our Constitution. Our failure to achieve greater income equality is reflected in the fact that our Gini index has deteriorated from 66 in 1996, to 70 in 2008. Inequality has also increased within all our population groups […]

2013: International Year of Water Cooperation

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The side event, organized in the framework of the “UN-Water Day” at Rio+20, aims at raising awareness about the UN IYWC and the opportunities that this year-long event will bring along for Member States and other stakeholders. In December 2010 the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) declared the year 2013 as the United Nations International […]

UNU Conference on Earth System Governance

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Earth System Governance Tokyo Conference: Complex Architectures, Multiple Agents United Nations University Tokyo, 28–31 January 2013 The Tokyo Conference on Earth System Governance will be held 28-31 January 2013 at the United Nations University (UNU) headquarters, Tokyo, Japan. This conference will be the fourth in a global series organized by the Earth System Governance Project. The […]

The Humanist Quantum Interference: Towards the “Homo Conscienciatus”

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Available for blinds [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/63468663″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Versión en español Welcome to Global Education Magazine! A digital magazine inspired in the universal values of the Declaration of Emerging Human Rights that aims to contribute to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by United Nations (MDGs), which is supported by the Regional Offices […]