 |
|
Приветствую Вас Guest | RSS
HOMEPAGE | my profile| sign out |
| it is your chance |
homepage » events
The Human Rights Watch International Film Festival in partnership with Adobe Youth Voices seeks youth-produced film, video and animated works on human rights issues made by youth ages 19 and under for its third annual YOUTH PRODUCING CHANGE program. Armed with digital cameras, computers and their own boundless creativity, young people across the globe are bravely exposing human rights issues faced by themselves and their communities. YOUTH PRODUCING CHANGE provides a platform for youth to share their perspectives with audiences worldwide. To learn more and to submit your film please visit: http://www.hrw.org/en/iff/youth-producing-change! /call-for-submissions To watch the films from the first yea r! of YOUTH PRODUCING CHANGE please visit: http://www.adobe.ca/cfusion/ayv/index.cfm?event=detail&ayvid=223
Deadline: 2009/12/10
|
The UN General Assembly on 17 December 1999 in its resolution 54/120, endorsed the recommendation made by the World Conference of Ministers Responsible for Youth (Lisbon, 8-12 August 1998) that 12 August be declared International Youth Day. The International Day is a great opportunity to rally support and get key actors involved - Governments, non-governmental organizations, academic institutions, businesses, and young people - to focus on what has been done to further the World Programme of Action for Youth. Email us your plans and ideas on how you will be commemorating International Youth Day in your country: youth@un.org. For more information please visit www.un.org/youth |
Would you like to show your students the coolest chemistry and physics tricks and find some new ideas for your science classes? This year Xperimania sends science ambassadors right into the classroom to demonstrate the fun side of science - and your school can be one of their destinations! Concentrating on chemistry and physics, Xperimania aims to boost young people’s interest in science, which is a priority for Europe to remain a knowledge-based economy fostering innovation. In the past two years the Xperimania educational activities – hands-on experiments and chats with science experts – have been a huge success involving thousands of secondary school students each year. This school year Xperimania makes it even easier for the schools to participate, and goes straight to the science classes around Europe: schools can now send their application to an Xperimania science ambassador, who will pay a visit to three selected schools between February - Apri
...
read more
|
"Food security is not only a matter of humanitarian assistance and agricultural development; it is a matter of national security, peace and stability,” Ms. Sheeran said. New York, Nov 17 2009 3:10PM As the number of chronically hungry people tops one billion, the head of the United Nations World Food Programme (<"http:// www.wfp.org/stories/five-reasons-why-we-can-defeat-hunger>statement issued on the second day of the World Summit on Food Security taking place in Rome. "Without food, people
...
read more
|
Following the publication of the special Issue «Transhumanism?», online journal Re-public calls for participations in order to create an online exhibition website for artworks of any kind (but adaptable to the internet like, but not limited to, pictures, videos, comics, caricatures, drawing, digitalized paintwork…) Proposed artworks would ideally be original, created for this exhibition, but it’s possible to propose old ones. The texts which accompany the artworks must be either in English, in Greek, or in French. Artworks must be send via www.transhumanism.gr before the end of November 2009.
An international selection committee, with artist, art professionals, and H+ thinkers will choose the artworks and will propose the structure of their online presentation.
Deadline: 2009/11/29 |
Silver Rose Awards
Make a nomination
The call for nominations for the 2010 Silver Rose Awards are now open. The deadline for submissions is the 25 November 2009.
How can I make a nomination?
You can nominate an individual or organisation by filling out this form, and returning it to us.
Who can make a nomination?
Everyone is welcome to make a nomination, especially member organisations or other organisations and individuals who actively support SOLIDAR's work.
Who can be nominated?
Individuals and organisations whose outstanding work is fuelled by vision and tireless commitment and whose achievements have contributed greatly to the struggle for a just and civil society. For more information, please read the overview page.
What are the categories for nominations?
In 2010, there are two awards categories open for nominations:
1 - European Social Justice: for an organisation or individual working within the 27 EU Member St
...
read more
|
The EWASH Advocacy Task Force (representing some 30 organisations working in water, sanitation and hygiene in the occupied Palestinian territory) is launching a global campaign on the right to water and sanitation in Palestine. IN The campaign will run from 6-13 December, centred around Human Rights Day (10 December).
A number of activities are planned for this week in Palestine and it is hoped that organisations and activists around the world will become involved. For more information please contact opt@cohre.org or go to www.cohre.org/opt
Best wishes,
Lara
Lara El-Jazairi
Legal Officer, Right to Water Programme
Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) www.cohre.org/water
www.cohre.org/opt
www.cohre.org/israel
+972 (0)598518046 +972 (0)543921315 |
Fast to support one billion in chronic hunger FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf
11 November 2009, Rome – On the eve of next week’s World Summit on Food Security, FAO today called for a day-long, worldwide hunger strike against chronic hunger.
"We are suggesting that everyone in the world who wants to show solidarity with the one hungry billion people on this planet go on hunger strike next Saturday or Sunday,” FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf told a press conference.
"I shall personally begin a 24-hour fast on Saturday morning,” he added.
According to FAO statistics 1.02 billion people live in chronic hunger. The World Summit on Food Security
(16-18 November 2009) has been called to agree on immediate action to reverse the situation and build momentum to end the scourge of hunger and malnutrition.
Government Heads
Heads of State and Government from FAO’s 192 Members have been invited to attend and Diouf told the Press Conference tha
...
read more
|
2009 is the 20th anniversary of Universal Children's Day.
The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is the most widely ratified human rights treaty in the world. Today 193 states have ratified the CRC. In fact, only two countries in the world — Somalia and the United States — have not yet given the CRC legal force, although both have signed it. Learn more at: http://www.hrea.org/index.php?doc_id=919
|
|
| |
