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21 June 2010
 THE CONFINT HAS ENDED TO BE BORN AGAIN by Ricardo JIMENEZ

International Youth Conference on Environment - From June 5 to 10, 2010, Luziania, Brasilia, was the epicenter of a meeting of diverse voices, colors, energy, and a lot of joy. Nearly 53 countries from the 5 continents participated in the Children and Youth International Conference “Let’s Take Care of the Planet,” final destination of a process that involved millions of people around the world, in which our boys and girls, with their ideas, proposals and dreams, were the main protagonists. (...)

 

7 December 2007
 International children conference for the environment - Brasil 2010

The Brazilian Government, through the Ministries of the Environment and Education, considers carry through the International Children’s Conference for the Environment “Let’s take care of the Planet”, in 2010, involving a wide process of international cooperation.

 

Promoting and supporting the CHR art exhibition - 6 February 2009

Participate in that project of Social and Cultural Responsibility through the promotion of the Charter of Human Responsibilities (CHR) and the support of the Fundo Brasil de Direitos Humanos (Brasil Fund of Human Rights). Carried out by the CHR Brazilian Committee and the World Network of Artists in Alliance. The CHR exhibition started in Greece, then it went to Paris, to Tiradentes-MG and it is now in São Paulo, in the Conjunto Nacional - Paulista Avenue, where 40 thousand people (...)

Art Exhibition “Environment: Common Good, Common Responsibility” - 29 August 2008, by Isis de PALMA, Yolanda ZIAKA

The Committee of the European Charter of Human Responsibilities organized in 2007 a travelling art exhibition on the theme “Environment: Common good, common responsibility” that presented works by Greek, Brazilian and North American artists, as well as drawings made by children of Georgia. The purpose of the exhibition was compiling and presenting works of art that reflect the vision of artists on the environment and the responsibilities of us all. The first three exhibitions were held in (...)

Reporters’ Alliance in Brazil for a dually responsible and solidary media - 12 April 2007, by Isis de PALMA, Marta MOLINA, Vera Salles

The International Alliance of Reporters (J-Aliança) in Brazil is a network that was formed in the context of the citizen alliances, which is supported by the FPH (Fundação Charles Leopold Mayer pelo Progresso da Humanidade—Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation for the Progress of Humankind). It is headquartered in Paris, France. The goal is to work and focus on the theme of reporters’ "Responsibility” to offer those professionals in the field as well as journalism students with a space for (...)

What’s New in the Brazilian Charter Lands - 19 October 2005, by Isis de PALMA

In Brasilia, from September 3 to 11, 2005, was organized the Second Meeting of the Youth for Environment, involving youth from all the states of Brazil, to prepare the Second National Conference of the Children and the Youth for Environment. The work includes a reflection on the Charter of Human Responsibilities involving millions of people (57 000 schools).

Objectives - 4 January 2005, by Isis de PALMA

In the Brazilian workplan we had written in 2003 there where three objectives for 2004. Diffusing the Charter of Human Responsibilities for the social sectors we consider key ones to make the process advance. Creating the Network in Brazil for the Charter of Human Responsibilities within the scope of the entrepreneurs’ movement, environmental movement, youth network, human rights and peace-driven movements, citizenship-driven entities, workers in the cultural and educational sectors. (...)

Committe of the Charter in Brazil: members and partners - 4 January 2005, by Isis de PALMA

Coordinator of the Charter Diffusion in Brazil: Isis de Palma isis Ajt educ-imagens.com.br Imagens Educação Tel 55-11-3167-2575 Instituto Ágora em Defesa do Eleitor e da Democracia agora Ajt agoranet.org.br Tel 55-11 - 3898-0123 Brazilian Committee of the diffusion of the Charter of Human Responsibilities The Charter team in Brazil (working team): Isis de Palma José Domingos Vasconcelos Livia Palma Rachel Trajber Lúcia Almeida Fatima Sabella Marta Molina Fernando Filippini Active Members of (...)

Challenges and Achievements - 4 January 2005, by Isis de PALMA

Challenges to face in 2004 The big difficulty was to adapt the working plan to the amount of our budget and to choose the priorities. It was necessary to work on the tools we needed to start the diffusion. A participative methodology diffusion program was necessary and we decided to produce the video project following this logic. It was not easy. The absence of the Brazilian Committee in part of the program – the long distances trips in Brazil ( it costs a lot) was a big difficulty. The (...)

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Children and Youth International Conference - "Let’s Take Care of the Planet" - Brazil 2010

THE CONFINT HAS ENDED TO BE BORN AGAIN by Ricardo JIMENEZ, 21 June 2010

International Youth Conference on Environment - From June 5 to 10, 2010, Luziania, Brasilia, was the epicenter of a meeting of diverse voices, colors, energy, and a lot of joy. Nearly 53 countries from the 5 continents participated in the Children and Youth International Conference “Let’s Take Care of the Planet,” final destination of a process that involved millions of people around the world, (...)

Commitment of the Philippine Youth for the Protection of the Planet Earth, 6 May 2010

We live in the Philippine islands. We take pride and are always in awe and marvel at the richness of our land, the abundance of our diverse natural resources – the thick and ages-old forests of both land and sea where thrive exceptional flora and fauna, the grasslands and the marine resources which provide for our (...)

The USA Charter: Youth Charter of Responsibilities, 1 May 2010

Charting the Future : Youth Take on Climate Change is the community-based project in the US associated with the upcoming Children and Youth International Conference on the Environment : Let’s Take Care of the Planet. On April 9-11, 2010, the Peer Learning Exchange was held on the campus of Regis University in Denver, (...)

The Charter of Responsibilities of the Children of Chile, 10 February 2010

The Charter of Responsibilities of the Children of Chile to the Environment and Climate Change has been finalized, drafted from the logs of the National Conference of Children of Chile "Let’s Take Care of Chile" carried out in Santiago de Chile this past December 16 (International Confint Brasilia 2010). "We, children of Chile, (...)

Workshop on Values and Responsibilities , 10 December 2009

Brief presentation This methodological tool for debates can be very useful to help groups identifying local issues and define the values that are behind political interests that can impact on specific social groups and communities, with social and environmental consequences. It can help a group to find out who are responsible for creating such problems and who are the responsible for (...)

Young citizens involve themselves for the future of Europe, 9 November 2009

An international process on climate change impacts and youth commitments The Brazilian Ministry of Education, in partnership with UNESCO and the UNEP – United Nations Environment Programme, invites all the UN countries to participate in an International Conference of children and youth for the environment to involve the youth from all continents in a process of awareness raising, reflection (...)

The Philippine process to the CONFINT , 1 August 2009

Last July 14, 2009, the Philippines launched the local campaign for the “Let’s Take Care of the Planet” International Conference to be held in Brazil on 2010. The Philippine National Organizing Committee of the said international conference [...] had chosen the annual Student Leaders’ Congress of NASSPHIL to be the venue of the said launch. (...)

Detailed Presentation of the process, 4 December 2008

20-pages presentation: Introduction - Historical Context - What is the Children and Youth International Conference for the Environment? - Objectives of the International Conference – Principles - Organizational Structure – Steps - Calendar of Events - Expected Results

Step-by-Step to the School Conference - Methodological Document, 25 November 2008

Let’s Take Care of Brazil _ IIIrd NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH FOR ENVIRONMENT. 34 pages Document in pdf format: Introduction — Pausing to think — Step-by-step to the School Conference — Edu-communication.

Youth Conference on Environment - General Presentation , 7 November 2008

[9 pages presentation, to download below in pdf format ,as well as a 2-page summary] The Government of Brazil, through the Ministries of Environment and Education, invite the nations of the world to participate in a large scale process of international cooperation: the Children and Youth International Conference for the Environment – Let’s Take Care of the Planet, in Brasilia, 2010. (...)

What is the Children’s Conference on the Environment? - The Brazilian Experience, 29 November 2007

What is the Children’s Conference on the Environment? It is an educational campaign that brings about the political dimension of the environment to schools and other instances children and youth organizations. It mobilizes and engages children in science research and their communities in the debate about contemporary challenges on social and environmental issues. The Conference is a process (...)

Objectives - Some Principles, 3 December 2007

Objectives To contribute for confrontation of serious planetary social and environmental problems through educational means and the promotion of community participation. To enable that the largest possible amounts of young people, teachers and school communities concern themselves at the local level with planetary commitments, by assuming responsibilities for building sustainable societies, (...)

Cronograma - Expected results, 3 December 2007

Cronograma 2007 - Establishment of Agreements for International Cooperation between Brazil, the participating countries and the partners Formation, in each country, of a Coordination Group composed by three instances, or a tripod : Government (Ministries of Education, the Environment and others, as Culture, Science and Technology…), University and Civil Society (NGOs and Youth Movements). (...)

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Youth Charter of Responsibilities on Environment, IIIrd National Conference, Brasilia , 25 January 2010

We are young students from different regions of Brazil, and part of the III National Children and Youth Conference for the Environment. Little warriors of peace with the same intention and desire: taking care of Brazil and mobilizing the Brazilian population around global environmental change. We recognize the national environmental outlook and we commit to fight for and defend the (...)

A Surfers’ Charter of Responsibilities, 23 January 2010

Abstract 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 (...)

For a Charter of Responsibilities of the Surfers by Isis de PALMA, 22 May 2009

ECOSURFI, a Brazilian surfers NGO for the protection of environment A network of youths from the coast of São Paulo - Brazil, facilitates Ecosurfi, an NGO that works on Environmental Education, inspired by the sports activity of surfing and all its relationship with environment. They have created a blog to build the Charter of Responsibilities of the Surfers. (...)

Street Dialogues : History, Methodology, Practice by Hamilton FARIA, 16 November 2005

This document presents the "Street dialogues", their history and methodology to put them in practice, on the basis of the experience of 23 dialogues that were organized during the WSF in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in January 2005, within the 11 Thematic terrains: 22 Street Dialogues (2 in each thematic terrain) and 1 online virtual Dialogue between Porto Alegre and Paris, France (coordinated by (...)

An experience with street conversation in Porto Alegre by Rachel Trajber, 2 June 2005

Felipe and I arrived to a weird little street island located in the middle of a crowded avenue. The weather was hot and windy, and we had trouble trying to attach the banner with a wire to a pole, so it soon flew away. A few sleepy young people from different countries were laying down on the grass, too tired and lazy to even listen to us. The microphone had a stand that could not move, so (...)

The National Education Program for Public Schools, 6 April 2005

A methodology based on meetings and publications

A Video about the Charter in two editions by Isis de PALMA, 6 April 2005

The first edition made in April was first made for the Seminar on Governance and it was necessary to start listening people about the video language, about the principles and how to transform the video into a better instrument to work with the Charter. This video is in Portuguese. You can download below the script of the video translated into English (the video with English subtitles will (...)

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