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Over 400 participants from national, regional and international organizations and 22 children from six African countries gathered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 11 – 12 May 2006 to discuss how violence has affected children, particularly the girl child, and seek ways in which the violence could be ended. 

Representatives of various religions and experts on issues related to violence and child protection gathered in Toledo, Spain, 9 – 11 May 2006, to discuss the impact of violence on children and how faith communities can come together to take leadership in their societies to protect children.

An Inauguration of the new Building at the Pluralistic Spiritual Centre in Memory of Bruno Hussar at Neve Shalom – Wahat al-Salam was held on30 April 2006 followed by a Conference on Peace Building.

Initiatives part of the GNRC and Interfaith Council promotion of media education for children

The calls made in the ‘Children’s Voices’, stressed at a meeting in Tanzania attended by GNRC

The children who died and still are suffering from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster was in focus at an interfaith ceremony arranged by the World Council of Churches and Green Cross International at the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva on 26 April.

Mutirão Offered Around Ethics Education Initiative

At their recent meeting in Geneva the Youth representatives to the Interfaith Council decried the ‘bad’ media effects on children and proposed strategies to promote ethics education instead

Discussions centered on the Interfaith Council, media and its development in 2006

GNRC Africa strengthens its quest to involve children and young people in peacebuilding

International Congress on Intercultural and Interfaith Dialogue held in Bilbao, Spain

The resource kit recently used in Sweden was further implemented at the workshop in Colombia within the context of displaced populations