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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
International Day of Democracy: The Contribution of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies Network
[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/114305025″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Linda Hartling Director, Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies; Cofounder, World Dignity University lhartling@humiliationstudies.org . Evelin Lindner Founding President, Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, affiliated with the University of Oslo, Norway, and Columbia University, NY, USA; Cofounder, World Dignity University e.g.lindner@psykologi.uio.no . Michael Britton Board Member, Human Dignity […]
GreenEarthCitizen (GEC)
Fen Wang President and Founding Director at GreenEarthCitizen greenearthcitizen.fenwang@gmail.com . Honestly speaking, GreenEarthCitizen (GEC) is still a very young organization, less than one year old. Thus, it require us patience, investment with time and commitment, nurturing it to become a potential influential NGO. You see Greenpeace an influential NGO, but never forget that Greenpeace is already 40 years old. […]
Refugees: the Dreamed Return
Ruth Marjalizo Refugees Section Manager ruth.mg@globaleducationmagazine.com Spanish Version World Refugee Day: The Hidden Truth of Refugees from Global Education Magazine on Vimeo. Refugee is a term increasingly used in everyday language. The civil war in Syria is a major current example, but that definition is not new, as refugees have existed throughout the last century. […]
Reflecting on Refugees and Asylum-Seekers Tertiary Education in South Africa: Tension Between Refugee Protection and Education Transformation Policies
Callixte Kavuro Dip Jour (CMC ), LLB (UWC), LLM (UCT) callixtekav@gmail.com ` Abstract: As we celebrate the World Refugee Day at 62nd anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention relating to the Status of Refugee, there is 13 years when South Africa has committed itself to providing international protection and assistance to refugees and asylum-seekers and to promote […]
NESSUN ESSERE UMANO E’ ILLEGALE
Laura Sampietro Universidad Externado, Colombia, Specialization in International Cooperation laura.sampietro1@gmail.com . Sommario: I paesi europei non sembrano essere in grado di gestire il grande flusso di migranti provenienti dall’Africa. Nel caso analizzato, lo stato italiano sembra non disporre degli strumenti idonei per la tutela dei diritti dei rifugiati e in generale nessun governo ha preso […]
