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1.- INTERNATIONAL LITERACY
DAY
2.- ICAE 7TH WORLD
ASSEMBLY - TASK FORCE ON MIGRATION AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY
3.- STAND-UP AGAINST POVERTY
IN THE GLOBAL MONTH OF ACTION
4.- CALL FOR PAPERS: BROADCAST
EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: ''GENDER ISSUES''
5.- 2006 16 DAYS THEME
ANNOUNCEMENT
6.- CONGRATULATIONS
TO BURKINA FASO FOR RATIFYING THE PROTOCOL
7.-
CONSULTATION TOWARDS
NAIROBI IS CLOSED; NEW STEP FOR WSF 2007 PREPARATION IS STARTING NOW
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1.- INTERNATIONAL LITERACY DAY
THE
SECRETARY-GENERAL
MESSAGE ON INTERNATIONAL LITERACY DAY
8
September 2006
http://www.unesco.org/education/literacyday_2006/KofiAnnanmessage_eng.pdf
Literacy sustains development. That is the theme of this year’s
International Literacy Day. It recognizes
that higher literacy rates are essential to economic growth, poverty
eradication, social participation and
environmental protection. It reminds us that literacy is the
platform for developing a society’s human resources.
Literacy begins with primary education, and achieving universal
primary schooling
by
2015 is one of the Millennium Development Goals. Yet primary
education does not reach every child; there
are more than 100 million girls and boys who never enrol in school.
Even for those who are enrolled, the quality
of primary schooling may be so poor that it leads to only a fragile
command of basic literacy skills. And while
official statistics put the number of illiterate adults at more than
770 million, that figure does not include the
millions more who are ill-equipped to deal with everyday needs of
learning, understanding and communicating.
Clearly, in many parts of the world, development has not yet
delivered one of its most important outcomes --
more literate and better educated populations. At the same time,
those societies are being robbed of the crucial
tool for development which literacy represents -- a tool that
enables people to take advantage of new learning
opportunities, respond to changing occupational demands, undertake
greater responsibilities, build their way out
of poverty and protect themselves against disease -- especially
HIV/AIDS.
Women and girls who are deprived of literacy lack a vital weapon in
freeing themselves from inequality and
discrimination. As we are reminded by the overall theme of the
United Nations Literacy Decade (2003-2012),
literacy is freedom.
The
precious gift of literacy can sustain development only if it is
itself sustained --
by
post-literacy programmes, further opportunities for education and
training, and the creation of
“literate environments” in which literacy can thrive. On this
International Literacy Day, let us pledge
to step up national and international efforts for improved literacy
levels worldwide. Let us give literacy a real
chance to transform individuals and societies around the world.
Kofi A. Annan
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INTERNATIONAL LITERACY DAY 2006: UIL’S ACTIVITIES
http://www.unesco.org/education/literacyday_2006/PR-LitDay06.pdf
In
the context of International Literacy Day 2006, the UNESCO Institute
for Lifelong Learning will
– as in past years – hold an information seminar on literacy for
journalists. This year, the event will be
held on 6 September in Leipzig, the capital of Saxony. Literacy is a
relevant issue in the “new Länder”,
a region with high drop-out and unemployment rates. Partners of this
event are the Federal Literacy Association
and the Ernst Klett Publishing House and, for the first time, a
regional literacy project in Saxony called PASS alpha.
On 8 September, Adama Ouane, Director of UIL, will speak at an
event organized in Berlin by the German Adult Education Association
and the Federal Literacy Association, to celebrate International
Literacy Day. The German Minister for Education and Research,
Annette Schavan, will be one of the speakers and will present awards
to the winners of a national writing competition for literacy
learners.
UIL
is a cooperating partner of the Frankfurt Book Fair – the world’s
biggest book fair – in organizing the “Frankfurt Book Fair Literacy
Campaign/LitCam” (www.litcam.org
), a new initiative establishing a focus on a new area: Education
for the Future. The initiative will be launched at an international
opening event on 2 October under the patronage of the Indian author
and UN-Undersecretary-General Shashi Tharoor. The keynote speech
will be given by Vimala Ramachandran from the Educational Resource
Centre, India. Other speakers will be H.R.H. Princess Laurentien of
the Netherlands, Chair, Stichting Lezen & Schrijven (Reading &
Writing Foundation), Adama Ouane, Director of UIL, and Abdul Aziz
Bin Habtoor, Vice-Minister for Education, Yemen. Literacy and basic
education projects from India (Nirantar), Brazil (Alfasol), Senegal
(ARED) and England (Booktrust) will be presented. The programme will
also include a panel discussion and an exhibition of various
international organizations working in the field of literacy and
basic education. One of the highlights of the event will be a
discussion with learners from all world regions about their learning
experiences.
UIL
is currently carrying out a series of in-depth studies on literacy
policies, strategies, innovative pedagogigal approaches and costs.
At
the end of November 2006 an international seminar on “International
Pedagogical Approaches in Literacy” will be held in Hamburg. Both
will feed into the Literacy Initiative for Empowerment (LIFE) for
the coordination of which UIL has now taken the responsibility.
Another major activity is a Forum of African Ministers on literacy
which UIL is currently preparing, in cooperation with
BREDA (Bureau Régional de l’UNESCO pour l’Éducation en Afrique) and
the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA).
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WORLD LITERACY DAY PRESS RELEASE
PRESS RELEASE FROM GCE
Embargoed until 0600 Friday 8th Sept 2006
From: "Alex Kent" <alex@campaignforeducation.org
Outrage grows at failure to address global adult literacy crisis
Today there will be events in over a hundred countries to celebrate
United Nations International Literacy Day. Sadly it is only on this
day each year that we hear about the billion adults who are unable
to read and write. Governments concentrate their resources on
getting children into school. With over 100 million children still
out of school this is an important effort. But in the process,
governments have abandoned generations of adults who never had the
chance to go to school.
There is a direct link between the billion adults who are illiterate
and the billion people who live on under a dollar a day around the
world. As Gorgui Sow of the Global Campaign for Education (GCE)
commented:
"Without an education you are almost certainly destined to live
in poverty. You are more vulnerable to HIV/AIDS and your children
are more likely to die in infancy or grow up malnourished. The
effects are passed across generations.
If you are a woman without an education you are less likely to send
your daughters to school – and you are much
more likely to die in childbirth."
Two thirds of the adults who cannot read and write are women.
The only way to break this cycle is to invest in adult literacy.
Unfortunately research by the Global Campaign for
Education shows that there has been almost no significant investment
in adult literacy programmes in the past two
decades. David Archer, head of education at ActionAid and author of
the GCE report " Writing the Wrongs: International Benchmarks on
Adult Literacy" commented:
"Governments across Africa, Asia and Latin America have ignored
adult literacy for too long and international donors
have done the same. Almost no aid goes to support adult literacy.
Yet the Global Campaign for Education has shown how literacy is an
essential catalyst for development and for democracy. The outrageous
lack of action by governments is a violation of human rights on a
global scale."
"Writing the Wrongs" is based on the largest ever survey of
effective literacy programmes, involving people in 49 countries.
It shows that there is now global consensus on how best to invest in
adult literacy. It identifies 12 simple benchmarks that distinguish
successful programmes. Some of the core insights include:
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Governments need to take the lead but work closely with others;
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Literacy should be seen as a continuous process (there is no
magic line that is suddenly crossed);
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Literacy teachers should be paid and should be given
professional training;
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Participatory methods of teaching are essential, so that
everything taught is relevant to the real lives of learners.
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Good quality programmes cost between $50 and $100 per learner
per year and should run for at least three years.
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Governments should invest at least 3% of their national
education budgets in adult literacy programmes.
Lucia Fry, Coordinator of GCE commented:
" There can be no more excuses. We know what works and we know
that it can be afforded. Now all we need is the political will to
make this investment. The global community cannot continue to ignore
the right to education of a billion adults."
Notes to Editors
1. The Global Campaign for Education is a coalition of NGOs
and trade unions working in over 100 countries for the right to
free, good quality education for all. GCE is a member of the UN
Girls' Education Initiative, the Global Call to Action Against
Poverty and the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS.
www.campaignforeducation.org
2. For interview please contact: David Archer
david.archer@actionaid.org
+44 20 7561 7504
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Alex Kent
Campaigns and Communications Coordinator
Global Campaign for Education
Office: +27 11 447 4111
SA Cell: +27 76 428 5390
UK Cell: +44 7977 157879
www.campaignforeducation.org
National Institute for Literacy
http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/literacy_day/ild_history.html
Celebrated annually on September 8, since 1966, International
Literacy Day calls attention to the global effort to promote
literacy, and education, as a central United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) mission.
This year, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan advocated for
increased efforts to close the education gap, which he calls "a
fundamental inequality in our globalizing world." The UN launched
the United Nations Literacy Decade in January 2003 - an
initiative agreed by all countries to energize work towards reaching
the goal of increasing literacy levels by 50 per cent by the year
2015. "Let us rededicate ourselves to playing our full part in that
mission," he says.
Following are excerpts from the declaration by UNESCO
Director-General, Federico Mayor on International Literacy Day,
1996:
"Today, nearly seven years after the launching of the International
Literacy Year in 1990 and the convening of the
World Conference on Education for All in Jomtien, Thailand, during
the same year, I am pleased to report that significant progress has
been made in creating a literate world. Indeed, the number of
literates has increased by over 400 million since 1990. This is both
a continuation and acceleration of the progress that has been
achieved over the past 50 years with the inspiration and, very
often, under the leadership of UNESCO. In 1950, when UNESCO first
sought to gather statistics on adult illiteracy, it was estimated
that roughly three adults in five were literate. By the year 2000,
we project that four out of every five adults will be able to read
and write. This is progress of historic significance that has been
achieved even as the world's population has more than doubled".
"This is an intolerable situation. Illiteracy is not a fact of life,
but a consequence of inaction on the part of governments and
societies. Its consequences are pervasive and powerful. If we wish
to combat poverty, injustice and the violence that so often results
from them, we must begin by mobilising minds through education and
literacy. The facts are crystal clear. Those societies that, over
the past decades, have invested most heavily in the education of
their citizens have been the ones that have advanced most rapidly
and where the conditions of life have been fundamentally
transformed. A literate world is not only one where people can read
and write, it is a world in which the human potential has been
liberated and placed in the service of progress. There is, in short,
no secret about what is required to build a better world for
tomorrow. It is increasingly evident that we must begin by
investing substantially in improving education today: investing not
only our financial resources but our imagination and hope as well.
Investing not only in the education of children, but also in the
education of parents, especially mothers, who are their children's
first teachers and who, throughout childhood and adolescence,
continue to play the central role in sustaining the child's
motivation for learning. "International Literacy Day must be a
celebration of the vast potential of education and literacy, a
potential that, when fully exploited, can literally re-make the
world".
History
1945 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO) founded.
1946 First meeting of the UNESCO General Conference.
1965 World Conference of Ministers of Education on the
Eradication of Illiteracy.
1966 Establishment of International Literacy Day upon
recommendation of the 1965 World Conference of Ministers.
1967 First UNESCO International Literacy Day celebration.
1975 International Reading Association begins association
with UNESCO.
1979 First International Reading Association Literacy Award
presented.
1980 Creation of the Noma Prize, by the late Shoichi Noma, a
Japanese Publisher
1985 Fourth International Conference on Adult Education.
1989 Establishment of the King Sejong Award by the Republic
of Korea.
1990 "International Literacy Year" proclaimed by the United
Nations.
1993 International Reading Association Literacy Award
presented to the Sebenta National Institute of Swaziland. National
teleconference on the importance of professional development
opportunities for Chapter 1 teachers.
1994 International Reading Association Award presented to
National Centre for Literacy and Adult Education of Malawi.
International video teleconference on Lifelong and Family Literacy,
Literacy in the Classroom, and Literacy in the 21st Century.
1995 International Reading Association Award presented to
Community Academic Services Program (CASP) of the Province of New
Brunswick, Canada.
1996 The International Reading Association Literacy Award
presented to the Mini-Schools Project in La Saline District of
Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
1997 5th International Conference on Adult Education, Hamburg
Germany.
1998 The Malcolm Adiseshiah International Literacy Prize was
created by the Government of India to commemorate the late Malcolm
Adiseshiah, former Deputy Director-General of UNESCO and Chairman of
the International Literacy Prize Jury.
2000 "Literacy in the Information Age" panel discussion held
at the United States Library of Congress in coordination with the
International Literacy Day commemoration.
2001 National Adult Literacy Survey was released, the survey
reported new information about adult illiteracy in America.
2002 UNESCO's International Literacy Day celebrated for the
38th time with the theme "Literacy as Freedom," which linked
literacy to development.
2003-2015 United Nations Literacy Decade - an initiative to
energize work towards reaching the goal of increasing literacy
levels by 50 per cent by the year 2015.
2.- ICAE SEVENTH WORLD ASSEMBLY - TASK FORCE ON MIGRATION AND
CULTURAL DIVERSITY
Nairobi, Kenya
17th - 19th
January 2007
Task Force on Migration and Cultural Diversity
Introductory Statement and Invitation to Participate
NIACE, as a member of the EAEA, has been invited to facilitate a
Commission on Migration and Cultural Diversity for the ICAE World
Assembly.
The main role of the Commission is to:-
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Prepare the programme of work to be done during the Assembly
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Identify speakers and successful experiences that can be
presented at the Assembly
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Prepare materials for the Assembly.
We
would like to invite adult educators with an interest and experience
in this field to join us in this work.
Our
experience and perspectives
Migration is a global phenomenon. It is estimated that 175 million
people in the world are migrants. The flow of migration is either
from poorer countries to richer countries or from poor countries to
equally poor countries. There are push and pull factors involved
which cause people to leave their own country and move to another
either for a temporary period or permanently. Migration also has a
big impact on exporting and importing countries.
NIACE has undertaken some work in the field of migration and
cultural diversity. From our perspective the groups affected and
issues which relate to adult education include:
Migrants seeking humanitarian protection
Migrants who have fled their country to seek asylum and humanitarian
aid in another country suffer from multiple disadvantages which
impact on their opportunities to begin a new life. They may have no
financial resources to meet their basic needs and may be suffering
from physical and mental stress and illness and family separation.
They may need to learn the language and the culture of the new
country before they can participate in the labour market and as
members of a new community. The new country and ‘host community’ are
likely to undervalue the skills and experiences that such migrants
bring with them and perceive the new migrants as a burden. Early
interventions to
value skills and support integration are therefore essential
requirements to enable migrants to begin a new life.
Migrants seeking to improve their quality of life and income
Economic migrants, who move to another country to find employment,
may also suffer from disadvantages. The employment that they gain
may be below their level of ability, since the main labour market
opportunities open to them are low paid, low skilled manual jobs
that the host community has rejected. Such migrants may also need to
improve their language skills and understand the culture of their
new country.
Economic migrants are also vulnerable to exploitation at work. Other
economic migrants fill highly skilled posts where there are
insufficient people from the host community who are trained and
qualified for the work.
‘Illegal’ migrants
Migrants who are living in another country, without official
permission to do so, are the most vulnerable to exploitation and
deprivation.
They have no protection in the legal systems and may be excluded
from health care and other public services. They are essentially a
hidden group, whose existence is not recognised. Among this group
are adults, mainly women, who are trafficked for sexual exploitation
and those working in private unregistered employment such as
domestic servants. Included in these groups are women who believed
that were moving to a new and better life but found themselves
trapped in exploitative situations
Temporary migrants
Some groups of migrants intend to return to their own country when
situations change and/or when they have sufficient money to do so.
The need to consider the integration of these short stay groups into
the host country is sometimes ignored, yet it can be important to
recognise that steps toward integration can help overcome
hostilities to new comers.
Permanent migrant communities
Migrants and their families down several generations can suffer from
discrimination and inequality of opportunity and treatment, which
can result in low levels of educational qualifications, low incomes,
poor job prospects and lack of political representation. ‘Second
chance’ education and intercultural programmes are measures adopted
in several countries to overcome the barriers to the integration of
various community/ethnic groups.
The
impact of migration upon host countries
The
impact of new migration can be seen as positive by certain groups in
host countries, where employment rates are high and there is a
demand for new labour in skilled and unskilled occupations.
Migrants gaining employment also contribute to the tax revenue and
are likely to make fewer demands upon public services because of
their characteristics (they may be young, physically fit and
unmarried). However, the public perception of migrants is often less
positive and they may be stereotyped as a burden on services, using
scarce resources and
taking jobs from local people. They may be seen as being so
different from the host community in terms of their language,
religion, culture and appearance that they are regarded as unwelcome
outsiders. Integration measures that involve adult educators can
make a contribution to enabling migrant communities and host
communities to understand and respect each other.
The
impact of migration upon countries of migration
Many countries are experiencing the migration of groups of people
who are trained, qualified and needed in their own countries, in
addition to groups of young people in the prime of their working
lives. These groups may migrate in order to improve their quality of
life and may intend to return at a future date. However, the skills
gaps left behind cannot be easily filled. Some of the migrants may
have false expectations about life and work in the countries that
they migrate to and therefore it is necessary to ensure that full
information is made available about the prospects
both in the home country and the intended country of migration.
This is particularly true for people whose migration plans may be
based upon the promises of people traffickers and others that gain
profit from arranging migration opportunities.
The
issues briefly outlined above are ones that NIACE is contributing as
a beginning of an agenda for discussion. There are other
perspectives based upon the experience and history of the regions in
the world. We would like the perspectives of all regions to be
included in the work of this Commission and to facilitate the
development of the agenda for the ICAE World Assembly.
How
can you participate in the work of the Commission?
If
you would like to participate in the work of the Commission and/or
can offer a paper or an experience of interesting practice please
contact Sue Waddington of NIACE at the email address below during
September/ October 2006. We intend to set up an email group
of interested people and will be able to exchange ideas in
preparation for the Assembly.
NIACE will seek to gain some finance to enable one or two Commission
members to attend the World Assembly from regions that do not have
the resources necessary. We would invite other regions and
organisations that can do so, also to seek resources to enable the
relevant people from all regions to contribute to the Commission and
to attend the World Assembly.
Sue
Waddington
September 2006
European Development Officer
NIACE (National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (England and
Wales))
21 De Montfort Street, Leicester, LE1 7GE, United Kingdom
T: +44 (0)116 204 4290
F: +44 (0)116 285 9703
Sue.Waddington@niace.org.uk
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CALL
ICAE Seventh World Assembly
Nairobi, Kenya, January 17-19, 2007
ADULTS’ RIGHT TO LEARN: CONVERGENCE, SOLIDARITY AND ACTION
ICAE’s World Assembly is open to all ICAE members, partners, friends
as well as to all those networks aligned closely
with the adult education and learning movements promoting Adults’
Right to Learn.
The
primary focus of this Assembly will be to provide a collective space
to strongly affirm the right of all to learn
throughout life and to assert the immense value of adult education
and learning in enabling citizens to fight poverty,
inequality, discrimination and the exclusion of a big part of
humanity. We find it fitting to organise our Assembly alongside the
World Social Forum 2007: to demonstrate our solidarity with other
social movements for change and to underscore the strategic
importance of adult education in making another world possible.
The
years since the last Assembly, in 2001, have clearly shown us the
interconnectedness between Adult Education / Adult Learning and
various efforts from other civil society networks. The Assembly will
give us the opportunity to strengthen this involvement while at the
same time analyzing and improving the particular contributions that
Adult Education / Adult Learning can make on the basis of their
specificities and particular knowledge
This World Assembly marks a return to Africa after 30 years: ICAE’s
first Assembly was convened in Dar Es Salaam,
Tanzania in 1976. We return at the beginning of the 21st.
Century at the advent of a new African Renaissance with its promise
to end violence, elitism, corruption and poverty in the African
continent and to build a just and equitable order. This Assembly's
return to Africa demonstrates ICAE's commitment to actively support
the daily struggles of the continent’s people to build a better
world that respects cultural diversity and where all women and men
could live with dignity, in peace.
The
Assembly is also a civil society preparatory event for CONFINTEA VI
that will take place in 2009. It will provide as well the space for
civil society organisations to prepare our input into the EFA
mid term review, especially in relation to the adult
education-related goals and targets, and in asserting the crucial
role of adult learning in achieving the MDGs and other
international social development targets the global community
committed to realize. The Assembly is envisaged to provide us with
the opportunity to analyze and propose concrete ways of jointly
influencing policy spaces and events that are key for promoting
adult education and learning.
Various commissions will be working during the Assembly to analyse
the challenges to Adult Education and Adult Learning in the current
global scenario, and to jointly explore strategic responses. These
will also address particular issues identified by ICAE members and
partners during a virtual seminar run by ICAE in April 2006. The
topics commissions will be working on are:
- HIV/AIDS, Health and Poverty
- Environment, Ecology and Sustainable Development
- Full and active citizenship: how much does AE contribute to
processes of democratization?
- Migration and Cultural Diversity: Where are we after
Durban? How to foster the “Intersectionality” approach?
- Adult Education and Solidarity Economy/Social Economy.
- Adult Learners’ Movement and Mobilization.
- Adult Education: Organisation and Financing
- Conflict Resolutions, Peace and Human Rights
- Adult Literacy: a fundamental right.
The
deliberations of the commissions will be guided by common concerns
with respect to equality, poverty eradication, gender justice,
recognition of the particular needs and contributions of indigenous
peoples, lesbians and gays, bisexual and transgender people, people
with disabilities, migrants, women, youth, ethnic minorities, among
other historically disadvantaged groups. The discussions are also
expected to highlight the specific contribution of Adult Education /
Adult Learning in overcoming various forms of discrimination in
varied contexts. Moreover, each Commission will be asked to
discuss, within their given areas of concern, civil society input
and
nterventions in critical global policy spaces especially the
upcoming CONFINTEA VI Conference in 2009, and the EFA and MDG
mid-term review processes.
Each commission will be facilitated by a regional association or
ICAE national member organisation in cooperation with other ICAE
members and partners.
There will also be two plenary sessions addressing cross-cutting
concerns:
- Revisiting ICAE’s advocacy work within the global and
regional contexts. State accountability vis-à-vis AE/Adult Learning.
This debate will include looking at the weakness of the UN, the
challenges towards CONFINTEA VI, etc.
- Adult Education - culture or structure? or culture and
structure? Where should the movement concentrate its focus -on
embedding learning in the work of other social movements, or in a
focus on structured learning? What risks and what possibilities lie
with each strategy?
As
a means to promote a better understanding of the reality of the host
country and the particular work that some of our partner
organisations are doing in Africa, there will be spaces for
structured as well as informal interactions with African
organisations to coincide with the Assembly, including study visits,
organised in cooperation with our Kenyan hosts.
The
World Assembly will be preceded by the Regional African Assembly and
will be followed, in the afternoon of the third day, by the General
Assembly of ICAE, devoted to ICAE governance and Constitutional
matters.
You
can join in the preparatory process of the Assembly though the
Commissions that have been formed
for the preparation of each topic:
Commissions and organisations responsible:
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HIV/AIDS, Health and Poverty (Contact: Margaret Wambete, Kenya
Association of Teachers Living with HIV/AIDS,
wambete@yahoo.com; ICAE, ana@icae.org.uy)
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Environment, Ecology, Sustainable Development (Contact: ICAE,
secretariat@icae.org.uy)
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Full and active citizenship: how much does AE contribute to
processes of democratization? (Contact: Maria Khan, ASPBAE,
aspbae@vsnl.com)
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Migration and Cultural Diversity: (Contact: Sue Waddington, EAEA,
sue.waddington@niace.org.uk
)
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Solidarity and Social Economy (Contact: Iliana Pereira, REPEM,
economia@repem.org.uy)
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Adult Learners’ Movement (Contact: PALAAE,
buubadiop@yahoo.com and KALA,
mgathoni2002@yahoo.com)
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Adult Education: Organisation and Financing (Contact: Heribert
Hinzen, IIZ/DVV, hinzen@iiz-dvv.de)
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Conflict Resolutions, Peace and Human Rights (Contact: Fanny
Gomez, REPEM Colombia:
fannygb@gmail.com)
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Adult Literacy: a fundamental right. (Contact: Maria Khan,
ASPBAE, aspbae@vsnl.com)
Please feel free to distribute this information broadly and we look
forward to your participation at the World Assembly!
3.-
STAND-UP AGAINST POVERTY IN THE GLOBAL MONTH OF ACTION
GCAP is uniting again in global solidarity for the Month of
Mobilisation 2006, which runs from September 16th through to October
17th. During the Month of Mobilisation millions of people across the
world will Stand Up Against Poverty with GCAP.
To find out how you can get involved in the month take a look at the
GCAP Toolkit. The Month of Mobilisation is now just around the
corner and the GCAP Month of Mobilisation Toolkit has now been
launched. In this Toolkit are suggestions for simple actions -such
as sending a solidarity fax - around the launch of the month and for
the
Global Day of Action on World Poverty Day (October 17th). We have
also included some more information on using the GCAP agreed slogan
and other suggestions for events throughout the month.
Below are some next steps forward, so that we can ensure the biggest
possible impact from our events and actions and so that we can help
to publicise your events through the GCAP website and e-updates.
We kindly request that, as the contact person(s) in your country,
you share this information with as many people within your coalition
as possible.
Launch of the new GCAP website
On September 10th - just in time for the Month of Mobilisation -
GCAP is launching the new GCAP website. The main focus of this
website is going to be on publicising national coalitions actions
throughout the month and we
will be constantly updating the website and pages over the coming
weeks.
Please send any information that you may have on your country's
plans or pictures of events for the website to:
newmedia@whiteband.org
A GCAP email petition will also be launched after September 16th -
please try to send an email to all your supporters, networks and
friends asking them to sign-up to our online petition: please tell
them to visit
www.whiteband.org/takeaction after. We will be collecting the
numbers of people that have taken this action and adding them into
the global total.
Media Toolkit
We will be producing a Media Toolkit for GCAP coalitions to use
around the Global Day of Action on October 17. We hope to get this
to you by the launch of the month.
However if you would like to get a copy of a template press release
for the month of mobilization then please let us know now by sending
an email to the global support team on:
info@whiteband.org
Keeping us informed about your plans
For us to be able to publicise your country's plans in the media and
newsletters for, we need to know your plans - it also helps us to
publicise your work across the GCAP network. Below are instructions
on how to keep us
informed and post reports and photos on the website and in the
newsletter:
To post your updates on the website email:
newmedia@whiteband.org
Every GCAP coalition also has a country page - if you are unsure on
how to update your country page please email:
newmedia@whiteband.org
To include your reports in media work, the GCAP newsletter and for
sharing across the GCAP network please email:
info@whiteband.org
Good Luck with your plans!
For more information:
gcap@civicus.org
4.- CALL
FOR PAPERS: BROADCAST EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: ''GENDER ISSUES''
From: resource@awid.org
AWID Resource Net Announcements / Issue 329
Wednesday, September 6, 2006
Source: Broadcast Education Association
The Gender Issues Division of the Broadcast Education Association
(BEA) invites paper submissions for its annual paper competition.
Papers traditionally run a wide gamut of issues related to gender
and media. All are encouraged to send a paper forward for peer
review.
Categories:
Debut – Submitters qualify to enter the debut category if they have
not presented another paper at the BEA conference. The first and
second place winners in this category receive a $200 and $100 cash
award respectively for their paper.
Open – Submitters qualify to enter the open category if they have
previously presented another paper at the BEA conference.
Paper Checklist:
APA style 25 pages or less
Author name(s) on top sheet only
Designate category (Debut or Open) on top sheet
All authors of selected papers are expected to attend
Submission Deadline:
Papers must be received no later than December 4, 2006. Submit
electronic copies to:
Patricia Williamson
School of Broadcast and Cinematic Arts-Central Michigan University
willi1pa@cmich.edu
OR
Mail three hard copies of paper to same name as above:
312 Moore Hall, CMU, Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859
The Division reserves the right not to award prizes.
For further information please visit
http://www.beaweb.org/bea2007/calls/callgender.html
5.- 2006
16 DAYS THEME ANNOUNCEMENT
From: Everjoice Win
Everjoice.Win@actionaid.org
Celebrate 16 Years of 16 Days: Advance Human Rights, End Violence
Against Women
2006 marks the 16th anniversary of the 16 Days of Activism Against
Gender Violence campaign! Since 1991,
the 16 Days campaign has worked to increase the visibility of
violence against women as a human rights
violation. The campaign has been utilized by groups all over the
world to demand support services for
survivors, enhance prevention efforts, press for legal and judicial
reform, and use international human
rights instruments to address violence against women as a human
rights violation, a public health crisis
and a threat to human security and peace worldwide.
This year, the 16 Days campaign celebrates activists who have made
the campaign a success and honors women
human rights defenders who have suffered intimidation and violence
for their activism and/or have given their
lives fighting for gender equality. (See information on the website
about November 29th which was declared in
2005 as the day to recognize women’s human rights defenders.) This
year commemorates progress on addressing
violence against women in our communities, nations, regions and
around the world and calls for reflection on
how to continue to advance this work.
While there has been progress in the struggle to end violence
against women, many challenges persist.
This year’s campaign seeks to revisit and strengthen the human
rights focus of work on gender based violence
against women. It also hopes to look at the many obstacles women
face in our communities and nations that
intersect with violence against women, such as armed conflict, war,
poverty, HIV/AIDS, globalization and other
challenges to human rights. As the United Nations undergoes internal
reform, we seek to ensure that women’s
human rights concerns, including violence, are fully integrated into
all of the UN’s agendas. In October of 2006,
the UN Secretary General will release an in-depth study on all forms
of violence against women. The 16 Days campaign provides an
opportunity to capitalize on the report and pressure governments and
the UN to make greater concrete commitments to eradicating violence
against women.
The 2006 theme reinforces an understanding that advancing human
rights and ending violence against women are mutually reinforcing:
We encourage you to use this year to share 16 Days successes and
struggles with one another, and to strategize collectively about
ways to increase the effectiveness of the campaign, especially its
human rights focus.
Please see the 2006 Take Action kit for more details, including
actions tailored especially for 16 Years of 16 Days!
The kit will be available online and in print form in September –
contact the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at
the address below to request a kit.
Thank you!
E-mail: cwgl@igc.org
http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu
6.-
CONGRATULATIONS TO BURKINA FASO FOR RATIFYING THE PROTOCOL
FROM: Fatou Sow"
<fatousow@hotmail.com
WOMEN IN LAW AND DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA (WiLDAF)
FEMMES, DROIT ET DÉVELOPPEMENT EN AFRIQUE (FeDDAF)
WEST AFRICA SUB-REGIONAL OFFICE / BUREAU SOUS-RÉGIONAL – AFRIQUE DE
L’OUEST
B.P. 7755, Lomé, Togo – Téléphone (228) 222 26 79 - Fax (228) 222 73
90
Email : info@wildaf-ao.org
- Site : www.wildaf-ao.org
Press Release ---
Lome Togo, August 23, 2006.on August 9, 2006, Burkina Faso deposited
its instruments of ratification with
African union.
We can now count, 20 ratifications and 42 signatures of the protocol
to the African Charter of Human and
People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (ACHPR)
Our congratulations to Burkina Faso’s authorities and to our
colleagues who worked tirelessly since May 19,
2005 when the law authorizing ratification was adopted by Burkina
Faso’s parliament.
As previously announced, by the decree 2006/126/PRES/ the president
of the republic of Burkina Faso has
promulgated the law N°021/2005 which was issued the 19th of May by
the national assembly that authorizes
the government of Burkina Faso to ratify the protocol to the African
Charter on Human and People’s Rights
(ACHPR) on the Rights of Women in Africa
By another decree 2006/179//PM/MAEC/MPF/MFB of April 24, 2006 the
president has ratified the protocol.
This instrument of ratification, which has just been received by the
African union was sent to its secretary
for this purpose.
We reiterate to all follow - up committees and women’s rights
organisations involved in this case, our support
and encouragement to continue lobbying for the universal
ratification of the protocol and its implementation
by all African states
Best regards
Women in Law and Development in Africa/ Femmes, Droit et
Développement en Afrique (WiLDAF/FeDDAF) West Africa
sub-regional office
info@wildaf-ao.org
www.wildaf-ao.org/eng
To keep up to date on signatures and ratification, go to
www.africa-union.org and check Treaties, conventions
and Protocols etc. under Official Documents section.
7.-
CONSULTATION TOWARDS NAIROBI IS CLOSED; NEW STEP FOR WSF 2007
PREPARATION IS STARTING NOW
WSF Bulletin
From: "BOLETIM FSM"
<gerente@forumsocialmundial.org.br
The consultation on actions, campaigns and struggles – first step on
the preparation of the WSF 2007
(Nairobi, Kenya) program – was closed on August 30th, 2006. Its
results will now be evaluated by the
local Organizing Committee, the African Social Forum Council and the
members of the International
Council Methodology and Content commissions in a meeting to be held
from September 3 to 8.
The thematic terrains for the WSF 2007 event will now be defined,
based on the analysis of
the answers to the consultation. Please, see detailed information
about the consultation on the
newsletters sent in June 27th, 2006 and August 1st, 2006.
The consultation site (http://consultation.wsf2007.org/) will
continue available online in order to
allow the visibilization and the dialogue and interlink among the
various actions, campaigns and struggles.
It will be possible to register as organizations and fill in the
consultation form. However, the new answers
will not have influence on the 2007 event architecture. The website
is available in Castellano, English and French.
Click here
http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/dinamic.php?pagina=faqs_consulta2007_in
and read the steps to fill
up the form.
Activities registration for the WSF 2007
Registration of self-organized activities for the WSF 2007 will
start on the end of September/beginning October.
Attention: those organizations registered on the consultation site
from September 1st on will have to register
again on the WSF 2007 event activities registration website. This
will not be required for those organizations
who have registered for the Polycentric WSF 2007 (www.wsf2006.org)
or on the consultation website (http://consultation.wsf2007.org)
up to the end of August.
See the frequently asked questions about WSF 2007 here:
http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/main.php?id_menu=15&cd_language=2
Follow up the news on the WSF 2007 event organization on the WSF
website in Nairobi:
http://www.socialforum.or.ke
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