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22 articles published in English since 15 January 2010
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A 12-year old child’s take on the responsibility of adults 12 March 2010A then 12-year-old Canadian girl, Severn Cullis-Suzuki, addressed a UN conference in Brazil and made a strong statement in 1992, 18 years ago. She does not pronounce the word "responsibility," but that is exactly what she is referring to: the responsibility of those who have the power to decide.
Some politicians today seem to be just barely discovering environmental threats and their own (...) |
Georgia and countries of Caucasus
Series of Workshops on Responsibility 8 March 2010 by Tsisso CHIPASHVILIThe Environmental Responsibility of the Young
January 19, 2009 - A workshop was organized in Marneuli, a region inhabited by a majority of Azerbaijanis (45 participants: pupils, parents, and teachers). A documentary on the environment triggered a discussion on everyone’s individual responsibility to Nature and all living beings. Then the Charter text, adapted into Azerbaijani, was distributed (...) |
Human Responsibility in the Framework of Sustainable Development 22 February 2010 by Tsisso CHIPASHVILIHuman Responsibility
in the Framework of Sustainable Development.
Putting Our Heads together to React and to Act
Ecological Problems and Human Responsibility; Agenda 21 for Schools and Institutions.
Seminar at the Saguramo Orphanage and School, Georgia, October 4, 2009, SaqarTvelo
Under the responsibility of: Marina Avaliani
Seminar organized by:
Group for the dissemination of the (...) |
Photo show (March 2009) 22 February 2010 by Tsisso CHIPASHVILIThe photo show presented at the Caucasus House in March 2009 was preceded by a scientific symposium with lectures by persons representing:
the Georgian group for the dissemination of the Charter,
the group of environmentalists from the Inorganic Chemistry and Electrochemistry Institute,
the Caucasus House,
the NGO Momavali,
academics, state representatives, and representatives of several (...) |
Publication of a diary and a book 21 February 2010 by Tsisso CHIPASHVILIWe have published a trilingual multi-annual diary (in Georgian, French, and Russian) made up of:
the Charter text (in Georgian and in Russian)
photos on the theme of the environment,
proverbs, sayings, etc. (Georgian, Kurdish, Armenian, Russian, Azerbaijani, Ossetian, and Abkhazian) on responsibility, the environment, education, etc.
The diaries have been distributed to different (...) |
Western Europe
Calling for collaboration: creating educational material 8 March 2010 by Yolanda ZIAKAIf you are interested in this project, welcome to our team!
The Charter team for southern Europe, in collaboration with the International Network for Environmental Education Polis, based in Greece, is currently working on a project to create educational material. The educational material is created with children participating at every stage of its development. The project includes the (...) |
Regional Integration
World Governance of Ressentiment 8 March 2010 by Arnaud BLINSeminar organized in Iquique, Chile, on December 5 and 6, 2008, including Chileans, Argentines, Peruvians, and Bolivians. |
Education and Cultural Diversity: Lessons from Innovative Practices in Latin America 8 March 2010The book, which is the second volume of the Collection “Innovemos,” is the result of the analysis of and reflection upon a series of innovative experiences in several Latin American countries that address the cultural context of students with educational relevancy and offer an education oriented toward knowledge, understanding, and dialog among different cultures.
The contribution of the (...) |
The Charter
Asian Forum on Solidarity Economy 8 March 2010 by Edith SIZOOConference in Tokyo, November 7 to 10, 2009.
Summary of the paper presented at the final plenary session by Edith Sizoo, international coordinator of the initiative to promote the Charter of Human Responsibilities.
Political, economic, religious, etc. institutions have so far responded insufficiently to the many world crises. Debates on societal issues (for instance on genetic research) (...) |
Innovative Projects, Experiences, and Ideas
The Law and Cross-cultural Dynamics in Europe 8 March 2010 by Christoph EBERHARDMeeting of the Cross-cultural Skills in the Social Services workgroup, Division of Research and Development in Social Cohesion, Council of Europe, February 17-18, 2009, Paris.
We met:
to launch a discussion on the legal frameworks that would:
allow our societies to change toward a democratic management of cultural diversity,
and help to integrate into the European institutions, (...) |
Cross-cultural Listening and Dialog 1 March 2010 by Christoph EBERHARDHere is a video excerpt of the interview (Montreal, August 10, 2009), “The myth of pluralism. A dialog with Robert Vachon" (former director of the Institut Interculturel de Montréal, founder and director of the magazine Interculture).
In his life devoted to cross-cultural dialog and through his explorations in the Institut Interculturel de Montréal of the cultures of the world and the dialog (...) |
The Law as a Mirror of Cultures. For Another Globalization. 1 March 2010 by Christoph EBERHARDThe second edition of the Christoph Eberhard’s book, Le droit au miroir des cultures. Pour une autre mondialisation (The Law as a Mirror of Cultures. For Another Globalization) has just been published with a preface by Etienne Le Roy.
Presentation
In this age of globalization, Law theoreticians and researchers in social sciences are increasingly questioning the adequacy of their tools for (...) |
Reports
Report 2009 11 February 2010 by Betsan MARTINBetsan Martin
Watersheds and Responsible Governance
Aotearoa-New Zealand November 2009
Governance and Maori interests
Integrated systems in the Pacific region
Different interests, different scales, braided systems
Mountains to Sea – challenges for governance
Stand out notes and ongoing questions
Science Technology and Society conference
Brisbane, Australia, Dec 2009
A Science (...) |
Children and Youth International Conference - "Let’s Take Care of the Planet" - Brazil 2010
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The Charter of Responsibilities of the Children of Chile
Information tools on global and climate change
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Sustainable development and climate change education 
Other Worlds are Possible: Human progress in an age of climate change
Environment, Responsibility and Governance
Science Technology and Society conference 30 January 2010 by Betsan MARTINScience Technology and Society conference
Brisbane, Australia, Dec 2009
A Science Technology and Society conference brought an opportunity to activate new contacts for the Across Oceania network by preparing a presentation for the conference and visiting an ‘ecotechnology’ scientist, Callum Coats with whom we have been associated for many years. Callum is experimenting with using energy (...) |
Watersheds and Responsible Governance 30 January 2010 by Betsan MARTINWatersheds and Responsible Governance:
Aotearoa-New Zealand November 2009
A hillside gathering above Te Hakare Wetland
The powhiri, or welcome by Maori elders from the tribes of the land and rivers of the area where our symposium was held, began the process of weaving together hosts and guests, those from the area and those from afar, and of drawing together the threads of different (...) |
Human Rights, Responsibility and Governance
A visit to Vanuatu 30 January 2010 by Betsan MARTINVanuatu 29 Nov – 6 Dec 2009
A visit to Vanuatu was hosted by a Ni Vanuatu women known to us though her studies at a university in new Zealand. We found that women are bearing large burdens of extended family responsibilities – and that in urban areas there are added pressures of financial responsibility upon women who have jobs.
Highlights of the visit included a village ‘Mountains to reef” (...) |
Initiatives
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A Surfers’ Charter of Responsibilities 23 January 2010Abstract
The idea is to draw up a Charter of Responsibilities of Surfers for Sustainable Societies based on the actions, proposals, and reflections of the several networked surfers’ communities spread along the Brazilian coast. The network, the Alliance of Surfers, proposes to organize partnerships to follow up and articulate the surfer community’s thinking and actions (through the media, the (...) |
Youth Charter of Responsibilities on Environment, IIIrd National Conference, Brasilia
India
Voices from the Waters 2009: 4th International Water Film Festival 15 January 2010Bangalore Film Society in association with Alliance Francaise de Bangalore, Svaraj, Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, Ithaca College, USA (FLEFF), Charter of Human Responsibilities, Karnataka Chalanachitra Academy, Suchitra Film Society, Federation of film societies of India (Southern Region) and YWCA presented the fourth edition of Bangalore’s biggest environmental Film Festival and (...) |
What’s New in the Indian Charter Lands?
In 2007, “WIZ kids” competition involving 133,300 8 to 16 year-olds resulted in children’s own writing of the Indian Children’s Charter of Social and Environmental Responsibilities. Winners made a cultural-exchange trip to Philippines, then wrote to the President of India about the CHR. An awareness campaign was organized by 433 students and teachers. The Activ8 Foundation will use the CHR as guidelines for its Eradicate Poverty campaign. In association with the Activ8 Foundation, the CHR was introduced in the convention of the Indian Catholic Youth Movement. At a political science faculty seminar at Gulbarga University, the CHR was a reference in discussions on ethical and social responsibilities of business entrepreneurs and civil society.
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Four meetings were held with Indian Lawyers Association, Hyderabad Karnataka Chapter in Gulbarga with regard to CHR. Two seminars at Gulbarga were held on fundamental rights and Right to Information.
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People’s charters including the CHR will be distributed to the 700 participants from 30 Civil Society Organizations that gathered for a Civil Society Summit in August 2006. The CHR has been distributed to the staff of Actionaid, India. The CHR is being used as a strategic approach in democratic leadership training for grassroots-community women by 10 NGOs in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh states.
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A one-day training session was held on “Environmental education in the schools” for 85 teachers from 35 schools in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh in collaboration with the NGO Sahajeevan. The teachers formulated the Charter of Professional Responsibilities. The Environment & Responsibility program in the schools is feasible in India: preliminary discussions on introducing Environmental Education in the State schools based on the Brazilian model took place with the Deputy Chairman of Karnataka State planning Commission.
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The CHR India facilitation team has networked successfully in Sri Lanka, Pakistan, with the South Asia Peace Alliance, in Japan, and with the India-China Youth Cultural Exchange program in Bangalore. The CHR team also participated in a conference on An Economy in the Service of Society, the Asia Forum for Solidarity Economy, film screening on the environment in the schools in Manila, and in the South Asian Dialogues on Ecological Democracy.
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Participation in the Regional Media Workshop on Nonviolent Transformation where the CHR was distributed among about 40 journalists from South Asian countries. A large number of personalities have decided to include the CHR in their work and dissemination processes.
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22 articles in English modified this past month
United States
Intergenerational workshop on the economy and social justice by Nina GREGG (Updated on 15 March 2010)
Southern Pacific
Biennial Meeting of the International Charter Committee Members
Regional Integration
Education and Cultural Diversity: Lessons from Innovative Practices in Latin America (Updated on 8 March 2010)
Links
Georgia and countries of Caucasus
Human Responsibility in the Framework of Sustainable Development by Tsisso CHIPASHVILI (Updated on 22 February 2010)
Western Europe
The Charter
Innovative Projects, Experiences, and Ideas
The Law as a Mirror of Cultures. For Another Globalization. by Christoph EBERHARD (Updated on 4 March 2010)