ACNUR y TOTTO lanzan una campaña innovadora por la niñez para el Día Mundial del Refugiado
LA VUELTA AL MUNDO EN UNA MOCHILA Para rendir homenaje y solidarizarnos con cada una de las personas que han tenido que huir por causa del conflicto armado y la violencia, el Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Refugiados ACNUR celebra desde el 2001, cada 20 junio, el Día Mundial del Refugiado. La […]
Sexual Violence in Mogadishu: ‘Ending Impunity is Far from Reality on the Ground’
Ifrah Ahmed Communication Advisor, Minister of Women and Human Rights, Somali Federal Government. Human rights defender working to fight Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) the practice, worked before in Ireland and currently in Somalia. Ifrah, also works as a social workers with various NGOs and hopes to make a difference for women and girls of Somalia. […]
Rape in Somalia: Women and ‘Double Victimisation’
Patrick Mugo Mugo Institutional Filiation: Aljazeera Television Producer (F/L), Eastern and Horn of Africa, Nairobi Bureau and also Conflict and Policy Researcher at Horn and Eastern Africa UN’s-mandated University Graduate with Masters of Arts in Media, Peace and Conflict Studies (2012) Contacts; patrickmaragi@gmail.com,@PMugoMugo , www.mugomugo.com . Abstract: Rape is crime that ought to be punished and […]
Dadaab Refugees Fear Repatriation will deny them the Right and Freedom to University Education
Mugo Mugo Conflict Researcher and Co-Founder of African Media Initiative on Development (AMID-Africa). Masters of Arts Student of Peace, Development, Security and International Conflict Transformation at Innsbruck University March 2014. Holder of Masters Degree in Media, Peace and Conflict Studies from UN’s-Mandated University for Peace (2012). e-mail: patrickmaragi@gmail.com / web: @PMugoMugo . Abstract: Among the refugee community […]
The Peace Process Will Not be Tweeted
Monica Curca email: monicabcurca@gmail.com / peaceforsale@gmail.com website: http://peaceforsale.org/ Abstract: Of late new media and digital technologies have been instrumental in bringing about social change throughout the world. This article asks if it is possible for new media and digital technologies to also bring peace? Media and communications have a long history in being used as an instrument for […]
