VOICES RISING
YEAR IV - NΊ170
February 24, 2006
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1.-
ICAE Paving the way towards the World Assembly - Nairobi 2007
2.- POLYCENTRIC WSF 2006 KARACHI: INDIVIDUAL REGISTRATION POSTPONED TO
FEBRUARY 28TH
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4.- CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS
5.-
A GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE AND POTENTIAL OF LEARNING
6.- UNAIDS new website
1.- ICAE Paving the way towards the World Assembly - Nairobi 2007
Virtual Seminar
March 6 -
24, 2006
ICAE is
organizing a Virtual Seminar among its members - preparatory to ICAE World
Assembly that shall be held in January 2007 in Nairobi, before World Social
Forum.
The Virtual Seminar aims at providing the opportunity for all national and
regional members of ICAE, to reflect on nature, functions and role of global
networks in the present context. And also about the limitations,
opportunities and challenges of global networks, that make us evaluate
organizational structures as well as their functions, interlinkage and new
networking opportunities that come up.
The objectives of the Virtual Seminar are:
- To provide a participation space for all ICAE and GEO members,
with relation to the preparatory process of ICAE World Assembly and the
definition of strategic and organizational aspects.
- To promote the reflection on global networks, their functions and
challenges in the present global context, incorporating new perspectives,
experiences and lessons learnt, as part of the preparatory process of ICAE
World Assembly, and as a new step for the renewal of ICAE.
This is how we are planning to organize it:
* It will be a three-week seminar, from March 6 to 24: the first week
will focus on definition, types of network and functions, advantages and
challenges of global networks. The second one will be a brainstorming on how
we want ICAE to be in 2009, and the third one will relate to more logistic
aspects such as the name or slogan of the assembly, issues and courses of
action, and work commissions for the Assembly. (See programme below)
* The seminar will be coordinated from Montevideo, with weekly summaries
through a moderated list, that is to say, we will try to gather short
messages into single messages so as to make reading easier.
* The technological requirements to participate in this seminar are very
simple, just an email address through which members will daily receive the
key papers (about 2 pages long), as well as the comments and suggestions
that any participant may be willing to make in a spontaneous and simple way,
just like in face-to-face seminars. Thus, you will only have to be able to
open your email, preferably daily, at any time, so as to read the inputs and
participate when you deem convenient, by simply replying to the list.
Considering that it is an international seminar, there might be some time
lag, due to time differences, but we will try to sort this out so as not to
interfere with reading.
Programme
Session 1: March 6 - 10
Introduction - Paul Belanger
Global
Networks. Functions. Organizational Models - Ana Laura Rivoir
Sharing and
learning from the experience of some global networks: Advantages and
challenges of global networks
Cecilia
Alemany - Social Watch
David
Archer - Global Campaign for Education/ CIRAC (Reflect -Action)
Ximena
Machicao - REPEM
Kumi Naidoo
CIVICUS-GCAP
Analyzing
in depth how networks operate in the present global context -
Jeanine
Anderson
Summary of
the week
Session 2: March 13 - 17
Brainstorming: How do we want ICAE to be in 2009?
Contributions from the Executive Council, regional and national members
Babacar
Diop Buuba - ICAE Vicepresident for ICAE in Africa
Summary of
the expectations and visions for ICAE towards 2009. (The systematization of
this session could give place to a 2nd. virtual seminar)
Session 3: March 20 24
Exchange of
proposals on:
Definition
of a Slogan for the Assembly
Thematic
lines to be dealt with in depth at the Assembly.
Issues /
work guidelines
Creation of
commissions for the organization of the Assembly
Summary of
proposals
Final
conclusions
Contacts
Marcela
Hernandez: secretariat@icae.org.uy
2.-
POLYCENTRIC WSF 2006 KARACHI: INDIVIDUAL REGISTRATION POSTPONED TO FEBRUARY
28TH
WSF Bulletin
February 17th, 2006
Individual registration to take part in the Polycentric 2006 WSF Karachi
(Pakistan) has been postponed to February 28th, 2006. The form is available
at the link:
http://www.wsf2006karachi.org/registration/individual.aspx.
Press registration is also open. See the form at the website:
http://www.wsf2006karachi.org/registration/MediaRegistration.aspx
Registration of organizations and activities closed on February 16th. See
the list of registered events at the website:
http://www.wsf2006karachi.org/registeredevents.html
The polycentric WSF 2006 Karachi (Pakistan) will take place from
March 24th to 29th, 2006.
Click here for further information.
Contacts:
E-mail:
mail@wsf2006karachi.org
www.wsf2006karachi.org
Telephone number: 92 21 824-0716 Fax: 92 21 824-0714
Address: 43-4B, Block-6, P.E.C.H.S, Behind Nursery Market, Karachi,
Pakistan.
Website of European Social Forum -
http://www.fse-esf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=17 The ESF website
The European Social Forum (ESF) is an open space where civil society groups
and movements opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital or
by any form of imperialism, but engaged in building a society centered on
the human person, come together to pursue their thinking, to debate ideas
democratically, to formulate proposals, to share their experiences freely
and to network for effective action. This website is therefore an open
space to facilitate the ESF process that was embodied in [Firenze,2002],
[Paris,2003] and [London,2004] and will be in [Athens,2006].
REPORT OF WOMEN'S MEETING IN THE PREPARATORY
ASSEMBLY OF VIENNA 6-8 JANUARY 2006 OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL FORUM
WUNRN
http://www.wunrn.com
Introducers: Josette Rome Chastanet ( World March of Women, France, IFE) and
Sonia Mitralia (Greek Committee for the organization of the Women's
Assembly)
In this meeting took part: 38 women from 12 countries (Catalonia, Italy,
Germany, Austria, Sweden, Turkey, Great Britain, France, Holland, Hungary,
Romania and Greece) and 28 organizations from all over Europe : FSG
(Greece), Cidette (France), Rouge (France), Kokkino (Greece), No Vox
(France), Sud Ptt (France), Hungary hoc.for « HEP » Association, Union
Syndical Solidaires (France), DEA (Greece), Colletivo Bellaciao (Britain),
Imece Women Solidarity (Turkey), Network Health Cobas (Italy), Romanian
Social Forum (Romania), Intersindical Alternativa de Catalunya (Catalunya),
COBAS (Italy), Wilf Europe (Germany), ASF fem Forum and KPO (Austria),
Platki Women (Germany), Steiriche Friedens-Platform (Austria),
Initiative of Homosexuals against oppression and Genoa Initiative 2001
(Greece), Social Forum (Turkey), Hungary Social Forum Association (Hungary),
Abortion Rights, (Britain), National Assembly Agaist Racisme, (Britain),
International Free Women's Foundation, (Pays Bas), IFE EFI, (France), ADEDY
(Greece), Women's World March (Greece).
The meeting of women in Vienna's Preparatory Assembly, reaffirmed that the
attendance of movements for women's rights during the 4th European Social
Forum, will deal with :
1. The organization of an Assembly of Women in the frame of the 4th ESF in
Athens.
The Assembly of Women in the 4th ESF will constitute an autonomous space of
discussion with the objective to allow the women of the European feminist
movement speak and make our special oppression visible.
It should be the CLIMAX and the CENTRAL POINT of movements' attendance for
women's rights within Forum's framework.
The main task of the Assembly of Women will be to converge into a common
place all different thematic tasks in the seminars and the laboratories that
will take place during the ESF, concerning the elaborations of the area of
the "Feminist Alternative Proposal" itself, as well as those of other
countries that will present the dimension of women's rights.
An invitation will be launched for collaboration and participation in the
Assembly of Women, to all organizations and collectivities that will
organize seminars and laboratories that will treat the specific gender
dimension in their works.
Thus, the function of the Women's Assembly will almost be the same with the
one of the Social Movements' Assembly.
2. A European Manifest will be adopted during the Women's Assembly. It will
include the proposals that will come up during the ESF by the workshops, the
seminars and the laboratories of feminists and other social movements that
are fighting for women's rights.
A draft of the European Manifesto will be launched as soon as possible.
The target of this manifest is:
a.. To start a European process of discussion between us, henceforth, in
order to integrate this manifest in the Assembly of Women during the 4th
ESF.
b.. To get acquainted with each other and develop relationships between
networks for women's rights and social movements and try to converge by an
appeal that will analyze the main points of the specific attacks against
women's rights. The Manifest has to overcome our disagreements and unify us,
it must underline some of our basic demands which could serve to develop
campaigns of massive mobilizations with specific goals. Finally, the
Manifest will probably have the function of an "Emergency Appeal" in order
to organize certain unified mobilizations and the massive counter answer of
women to the attacks launched, for example against the right to abort or
against the reactionary politics like the "re-evangelization of Europe" so
popular in Vatican, applied in some countries of the European Union (Poland,
Ireland, Portugal...), against the comeback of slavery and extreme poverty
of women, etc. 3..
To make this manifest available to mixed organizations and networks in order
to be taken into consideration in the elaboration of the strategy of the
alter globalization movement, face to the new facts of Europe's
construction.
3. The organization of a women's space
This space will be in a central place (not isolated from other movements) in
order to unite stands and kiosks, it will be self-organized and will offer
the possibility to show videos, organize exhibitions etc. It will serve as a
meeting point.
4. The proposal for thematic seminars and workshops that will be useful in
order to describe and analyze the problematic of women's rights and to
construct networks and campaigns.
The seminars and the workshops should take place before the Assembly of
Women so that there will be an interaction between them.
Some of the seminars' titles that have been proposed are: "Preparation of a
european campaign against violence against women. The preparation of the
mobilization for the 25th of November and the demand of a unique European
law against violence due to gender", «Women Rights, secular state, democracy
and equality, feminists for a secular Europe. What kind of Democracy for
another Europe? The role of feminism in politics, feminism and the question
of power, women's rights and feminist strategies in Eastern and Central
Europe countries: threats and resistances", « Which trade-union strategy for
the fight against precarious employment of women?
», «What does it mean nowadays to be a young woman?", « Women and the
Bolkestein Directive», « E.U and liberalization of European economies and
the consequences for women's lives and the equality of the sexes », «Women,
asylum and immigrants : violence and coercive employment and trafficking »,
«Women, asylum and immigration", «Which politics in Europe
for the effective fight against women's trafficking ? The role of civils'
society organizations », "The contribution of women in the resolution of
conflicts, the maintenance and the construction of peace", "Lessons taken
from the action of various NGOs of different orientations like the
feminine ` Friends 1325 ' and examples taken from the functioning of
directives CEDAW in the local and regional legislation", "Immigrants,
Gypsies and women of South in Europe: Poverty, precarious employment,
exclusions, exploitation and discriminations ", "The fight for the defence
and the extension of women's rights to abort in Europe", "Increasing attacks
against the reproductive rights and their repercussions on the equality of
two sexes".
You can be informed for the program, be connected, register or propose the
seminars or your workshops in the electronic address:
http://workspace.fse-esf.org
5. The visibility of the Women Assembly. As we have already stressed, we
demand that the Assembly of Women constitutes a main event of the entire ESF,
and that it takes place in a central space of the Forum. Since the seminars
and the workshops should take place before the Assembly of Women, therefore
the Assembly should be organized either on Friday afternoon
(17-20 hour) 5th of May 2006 or Saturday morning 6th of May 2006 (this will
depend on the hour of the demonstration). We ask the support of the ESF and
the Greek committee, so as, if it is possible, the Assembly of Women does
not coincide with another big event organized at the same hour.
Finally, organizations and individuals can register to a European feminist
mailing-list, after having been in touch with the following e-mail:
soniamitralia@gmail.com
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3.-
CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS
Girls in the World: A Global Anthology
WUNRN
wunrn@WHATHELPS.COM
Edited by Jennifer Hillman Helgren and Colleen A. Vasconcellos
Abstract Deadline: February 28, 2006
We invite proposals for manuscripts to be included in a collection of essays
on the history of girlhood in international and transnational contexts. The
purpose is to understand the centrality of girlhood in shaping women's lives
and to study through a comparative framework how age
and gender, along with a multitude of other identities, mold and influence
women's experiences.
Essays will contribute to developing cross-national perspectives and
methodologies in the history of gender, children, and youth. Moreover, we
feel that given current trends toward globalization, it is imperative that
scholars address ordinary individuals' relationships to war, migration,
economic markets, and institutions. Girlhood is defined broadly, and we
welcome analysis of the category of girlhood itself. Manuscripts examining
girls' experiences in Africa, Latin America, Australia, and Canada are
especially welcome.
While essays may cover a range of topics, regions, and time periods, we are
interested in research that addresses one or more of the following
questions:
a.. How have international developments, such as migrations, wars,
globalization, labor, economic markets, and international diplomacy,
influenced girls' lives, cultures and/or identities?
b.. What have been girls' roles in creating communities and shaping cultures
internationally, nationally, and locally?
c.. To what extent have girls operated as global actors and agents?
d.. What roles have girls played, both symbolically and actively, in global
political arenas?
e.. When are girls' cultures subcultures of dominant national cultures and
when do they cross (and even challenge) national boundaries?
f.. How have girls' cultures been constituted through their responses to
cultural, institutional, and familial expectations?
g.. How do girls' educational, health, legal rights, material culture, and
play vary across time and place?
h.. How do images of and for girls in literature, art, and photography vary
across time and place?
Individual manuscript proposals should include:
*a 250-word abstract and title
*author contact information
*your curriculum vitae
Please note how your work will contribute to cross-national perspectives
The submission deadline is February 28, 2006. Please email your proposals
directly to Jennifer Helgren at
jennifer.helgren@cgu.edu and Colleen Vasconcellos at
colleen@mail.h-net.msu.edu
Completed manuscripts will be due in the summer of 2006. If you have any
questions or comments, please contact either editor:
Dr. Helgren
E:
jennifer.helgren@cgu.edu
P: (510) 521-8790
Dr. Vasconcellos
E.
colleen@mail.h-net.msu.edu
P: (678) 839-6032
Dr. Jennifer Hillman Helgren
Ph.D. Claremont, currently a lecturer in Women's Studies at San Francisco
State University and in History at California State University East Bay
Dr. Colleen A. Vasconcellos
Ph.D. Florida International University, currently a Visiting Assistant
Professor of History at the University of West Georgia
We are also both members of the Society for the History of Children and
Youth, and the volume will definitely be affiliated with this organization
as well.
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A GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE AND POTENTIAL OF LEARNING
National
Institute of Adult Continuing Education
www.niace.org.uk
Press
Release
24th February 2006
PR09/06
The
continual advances in technology are having a profound effect on not just
childrens learning but how adults learn aswell. Hundreds of practitioners
from across the country will come together in Birmingham next week at an
event - funded by the Learning and Skills Council and organised by the
National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE) - to celebrate the
progress, ideas and innovation currently being used in the delivery of adult
education.
The
E-Guides National Event 2006 to be held in Birmingham at the
Hilton Metropole Hotel on Wednesday 1st March and Thursday 2nd
March - will include projects illustrating the latest technology and methods
used to teach adults. Delegates have the choice of over 50 different
workshops covering such issues as developments in working with learners with
disabilities and impairments, blogging and podcasting, Internet radio and
mobile learning. The E-Guides programme has trained over 1,200 tutors and
managers as E-Guides, who in turn have trained nearly 9,000 other
staff, to date, in how to embed e-learning.
Mary Moss,
Project Officer, ICT and Learning Team at NIACE, said, This two-day event
offers a flexible programme for delegates to pursue their specific interests
in e-learning. There will be the opportunity to update knowledge on
e-learning developments in adult and community learning and listen to a
variety of dynamic speakers on topics relevant to adult educators. There
will also be the opportunity - through workshops and plenary sessions - to
discuss the best way forward, to consider how to consolidate the skills and
knowledge gained to date and sustain the enthusiasm and momentum generated
by the E-Guide training programme.
She
continued, E-Guide trainers and adult and community learning advisors from
the Joint Information Systems Committee Regional Support Centres will be on
hand to provide advice and support. We are also inviting E-Guides to present
their own Hot Tips. This is an opportunity for practitioners to share
their own experiences of encouraging colleagues to use e-learning in the
classroom and beyond.
Speakers at
the E-Guides National Event will include Jon Gamble, Director of
Adult Learning at the Learning and Skills Council, and John Brown, Group
Development Director at the University for Industry (Ufi). Other
contributions will come from the BBC, Channel 4, Teachers TV, Learning and
Skills Development Agency, Adult Learning Inspectorate, Bectas Community
Learning Resource,
www.aclearn.net and the Joint Information Systems Committee, as well as
from exemplar projects in the field, such as How to Be a History
Detective.
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5.- UNAIDS new website
Kouraich.Jaouahdou@unctad.org
UNAIDS has launched a new version of its website complete with a new
navigation, branding and logo (www.unaids.org).
The website, which will also be available in French, Spanish and Russian,
provides content specifically chosen for each audience group; business and
labour; civil society; donors; media; people living with HIV/AIDS;
policy-makers; researchers; the UN family; and women as well as an easier
more intuitive navigation structure.
The new focus of the website is to include all the relevant documentation
and publications but also to highlight the impact of UNAIDSβ work through
its cosponsors and partners. Each of the new sections provides additional
background information, relevant publications and links to outside sources.
New also is the UNAIDS quarterly newsletter (www.unaids.org/en/mediacentre/newsletter).
The first issue features a letter from the UNAIDS Executive Director,
information on a regional consultation on universal access in Latin America
and UNAIDS support to Kenya. Future issues will be available in French,
Spanish and Russian.
Subscriber information
is available online: (www.unaids.org/Services/Subscribe.aspx).
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