Counter-Terrorism Legislation and Fundamental Rights
Vanja Grujic PhD Student on Faculty of Law, University of Brasília, Brazil e-mail: vanjagrujic@yahoo.ca . Abstract: In this article author addresses national security documents of United States (US) and European Union (EU) and later measures their impact on constitutional and fundamental rights. That is why the paper starts with demonstrations of definitions about terrorism that can […]
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
www.iisd.org The International Institute for Sustainable Development is a Canadian-based, international public policy research institute for sustainable development. Since it was first articulated in the Brundtland Commission’s Our Common Future in 1987, sustainable development has never been superseded by a more compelling or universally-acceptable expression of humanity’s shared goals. At its simplest level, any form of […]
Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP)
www.whiteband.org “Challenging the institutions and processes that perpetuate poverty and inequality across the world to defend and promote human rights, gender justice, social justice and security needed for survival and peace” The Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) is a growing alliance that brings together trade unions, INGOs, the women’s and youth movements, […]
Youth Crime Watch of Nigeria, an NGO in Special Consultative status with United Nations Economic and Social Council
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)
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 […]
Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies
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 […]
Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC)
http://www.russiancouncil.ru/ Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) is a non-profit membership organization which represents Russian community of foreign policy experts. Our mission is to facilitate the prospering of Russia through its integration in the global world. RIAC is a link between the state, expert community, business and civil society in an effort to […]
2013 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award: Sister Angélique Namaika
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 […]
The Planetary Cybernetic Intelligence: A Transhumanist and Transcultural Democratic Territory
Versión castellano [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/108871471″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Karibu! The word democracy comes from Greek “demos”, it means people and those who hold sovereign power. Thus, democracy is closely interrelated to metacognition of feelings and fundamental principles of others. For this reason, current global educational policies must support the civic imperative to educate in […]
Global Education Magazine: Human Rights Day
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 […]
