Educar la empatía para construir una humanidad solidaria
Juan Carlos Melero Trabaja para la Fundación EDEX e-mail: prevencion@edex.es web: www.edex.es . [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/6178037″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”200″ iframe=”true” /] . Resumen Desde su origen en África, la historia de la humanidad es la historia de los desplazamientos de personas y grupos por todo el mundo. Movimientos que han dado lugar a la diversidad humana […]
Building Resilience Through the Child-to-Child Approach
Celine Woznica Director of Child-to-Child/Americas, University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health e-mail: nanamericas@gmail.com web: www.child-to-child.org . Abstract: Resilience in children is the ability to recover from traumatic experiences and develop the skills to overcome future challenges. In dealing with adversities, children draw from personal strengths often divided into external (I have), internal (I am), […]
Refugiados do clima: reflexões para o Dia Internacional dos Refugiados
Valdir Lamim-Guedes Biólogo e Mestre em Ecologia pela Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto e-mail: dirguedes@yahoo.com.br web: http://naraiz.wordpress.com/ . Resumo: Refugiado é a pessoa que por motivos de raça, religião, nacionalidade, grupo social ou opiniões políticas está fora de seu país e não pode retornar. Refugiados climáticos são pessoas que se fogem devido às condições ambientais. […]
Like a Rollercoaster. Detention Centres for Foreigners in Poland
Gawel Walczak Project Coordinator at Polish Migration Forum Foundation gawelwalczak@gmail.com . Abstract: In October 2012 a group of foreigners located in detention centres in Poland started a hunger strike. Many of them were asylum seekers who awaited decisions regarding their status behind the bars and barbed wire. They demanded better conditions of staying in those places. […]
‘Post-2015 Development Agenda’: Invest in Refugee Education to Expand Human Capacity
David Dickson Executive Director-Kenya at International Council for Education ddicksonsolidarityhouse@gmail.com . An analysis of the Programme of Action of the 1994 United Nations International Conference on Population and Development and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) leads one to conclude that it is difficult to assess the […]
20 de junio: Día Internacional del Refugiado
Monica di Marco Responsable de Sensibilización y Movilización social aapss@saharasevilla.org website: http://www.saharasevilla.org/ . Un año más, llegan a Sevilla los niños y niñas saharauis, desde los campamentos de Tinduf (Argelia), donde nacieron refugiados y en el exilio, porque sus padres tuvieron que escapar de su país, el Sahara Occidental, ocupado por Marruecos por la fuerza y […]
Interview with “Mama” Hawa Aden Mohamed, 2012 Nansen Refugee Award
Resource: 2012 UNHCR/F.Juez Javier Collado Ruano: Dear readers, it is a big pleasure present Ms. “Mama” Hawa Aden Mohamed: a Somali humanitarian, educator and women´s rights advocate which won the 2012 Nansen Refugee Award. Ms. “Mama” Hawa is a big activist which solidarity showed us many valuable lessons in peacebuilding activism. السلام عليكم(Salaam Aleikum) Ms. “Mama” Hawa, thank you very much for accepting our invitation in […]
Education on the Frontline. By Irina Bokova.
Article by Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO for Global Education Magazine “Education on the Frontline” January 2013 . . . . Official photo, Director-General, Irina Bokova – There are today 28 million primary school-age children, and as many or more young people, living in conflict areas and denied the chance to learn. This […]
Campaña del ACNUR apoya los 16 Días de Activismo contra la Violencia de Género
En apoyo a la iniciativa internacional “16 Días de Activismo contra la Violencia Sexual y de Género”, el Alto Comisionado de la ONU para los Refugiados (ACNUR) ha lanzado en noviembre 2012 una campaña para dar voz a las mujeres refugiadas y desplazadas víctimas de violencia. Creada por la agencia de publicidad Alpha 245 (parte […]
A Race to the Future
Woroud Sawalha at the 2012 Olympic Games in London Ruth Marjalizo: Hello everybody from Nablus, West Bank. Today, I am going to interview Woroud Sawalha. As you might know, she was the first female representing Palestine in the London Olympic Games 2012. Assalamu ‘alaikum Woroud, thank you so much for being with us while you are busy with your exams. […]
