Achieving the Millennium Development Goals -10 January 2011
The Millennium Declaration represents a historic global commitment, which recognizes that, given today's wealth and technological achievements, permiting mass poverty and hunger to countinue is no longer acceptable to the international community. The Summit reinforced the political momentum and focus on poverty, and helped create a new global partnership for development.
Join the conversationChildren Media and Consumption -10 January 2011
Many computer games, cartoons and programmes are a form of advertising in themselves inasmuch as they are the vehicles for 'merchandising' to youthful viewers. Product trade-marks and logotypes are a nearly universal lingua franca today, a vocabulary shared by young of all classes in a good part of the world.
Join the conversationEducation for a New World -7 January 2011
If educationwere to continue along the old lines of mere transmission of knowlegde, the problem would be insoluble and there would be no hope for the world
Join the conversationEducation for Peace, Human Rights and Democracy -10 January 2011
In a period of transition and accelerated change marked by the expression of intolerance, manifestations of racial and ethnic hatred, the upsurge pf terrorism in all its form and manifestations, discrimination, war and violence towards those regarded as "other"and the growing disparities between rich and poor, at international and national levels alike, action strategies must aim both at ensuringg fundamental freedoms, peace, human rights, and democracy and at promoting sustainable and equitable ecinimic and social development all of which an essential part to play in building a culture of peace. This calls for a transformation of the traditional styles od educational action.
Join the conversationGathered for Worship -7 January 2011
Corporate worship has been vital to the life of the church since the birth of Christianity. The gathering of congregations on Sundays in the name of Jesus is Universal
Join the conversationGeneral Comments of the Committee on the Rights of the Child -17 May 2010
*Includes CD with Concluding Observations *Includes General Comments No. 1- No. 8 (2001-2006): The Aims of Education; The Role of Independent National Human Rights Institutions in the promotioon and protection of the rights of the child; HIV/AIDS and the rights of the child; Adolescent Health and Development in the contesxt of the Convention on the Rights of the Child; Treatment of Unaccompanied and Separated Children; Implementing child rights in Early Childhood; The right of the Child to protection from corporal punishment and other cruel or degrading forms of punishment *Includes other materials for the CRC at 18
Join the conversationHow to be a Perfect Stranger; vol 1 -7 January 2011
These are just a few of the basic, very practical questions answered in "How to Be a Perfect Stranger": A lively, straightforward guide to the basic service and ceremonies af all major religions and denominations in America, it is based on information obtained directly from each of them
Join the conversationHow to Be a Perfect Stranger; vol 2 -7 January 2011
Volume 2 offers interested guest the same straightforward "how-to" information for other religions and denominations in America with smaller memberships
Join the conversationIn the Service of Young People? Studies and reflections on media in the digital Age -10 January 2011
During the past decades, the media landscape and media culture have undergone major changes. Modern information technologiy has given rise to a constanly increasing supply of media products through many news channels, and our perceptions of time and space, the bound between private and public, central and peripheral, have change.
Join the conversationIntergenerational Dialogue on Global Citizenship: Enhancing Youth Participation in India
“Our responsibility should be to help raising the voices of young people, for their narrative to become the one that changes the world today” said Mrs. María Lucía Uribe, Director of Arigatou International Geneva, while reflecting on the intergenerational dialogue that brought together 20 youth from Tamil Nadu, India with members of the Interfaith Council on Ethics Education for Children.
Join the conversationJeunes refugies africains: construire l`avenir -5 May 2010
*Un dossier pedagogique pour les eleves des ecoles secondaires *Une vidéo (67 minutes) et un support de cours pour l’enseignant
Join the conversationJoining Forces to Transform the World Together in Africa
Within the framework of the 2030 Education Agenda, the UNESCO Regional Office for Eastern Africa, with the support of the Government of Japan, organized a regional technical workshop titled "Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and Global Citizenship Education (GCED): Transforming and Sustaining Our World Through Learning". The workshop aimed to support member states unpacking the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4.7 in their national policies and practices.
Join the conversationNurturing Spirituality in Children - Online course
The Arigatou International’s Ethics Education Initiative launched on 25 February an online course on Nurturing Spirituality in Children. The course is part of a series of online courses to complete the Advanced Training Accreditation of the Learning to Live Together Programme.
Join the conversationPeople's need-People's search- our response? -10 January 2011
The theme of the conference was "Peoples's need-People's search- our response?" This theme, dealing with people's vulnerability, is central for diaconia. The lectures, services and other gatherings provided a great amount valuable inspiration and made a strong impression.
Join the conversationPlaying with Fire, How do computer games influence the player? -10 January 2011
In the debate on children, youth and computer games, the question of whether computer games are harmful is often posed. The answers provided are many and varying, making it easy to interpret the research results as contradictory. Questions concerning the harmfulness of computer games often seek simple "yes" or "no" answers, while the research reveals a more complicated picture. Different investigations also have their starting point in different perspectives and questions, which may explain the confusion.
Join the conversationPraying the World -7 January 2011
Christian life is lived consciously and purposefully in mutual relation with God in Jesus Christ.
Join the conversationProtecting the rights of children in conflict with the law -10 January 2011
In their efforts to comply with the Convention on the Rights of the child many States Parties have or are taking legislative measures to adress the problems of children in conflict with law, an area also known as juvenil justice
Join the conversationReligion, Spirituality and Social Action -7 January 2011
The world of today or of the past ha diverse value systems. There are no such things as an Eastern or Western value systems, or for tha matter a Muslim, a Christian, a Jew or a Hindu value system.
Join the conversationReligious Diversity -7 January 2011
Religious diversity is a fact. Not all the religious people in the world are Christian, even to the most wishful of thinkers; and the consequences of a sympathetic or even a realistic view of others for Christian theological or even a realistic view of others for Christian theological positions wich would claim a monopoly on truth are devasting
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