In a message dated 11/9/05 4:35:36 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > > > > Visit our 2005 International Human Rights Day Dinner Page > > Visit the Global Rights Web Site > > > Global Rights Launches New Program: Amplifying Youth Voices on Rights, > Poverty, and Discrimination > > At a time when the governments of the world have commited themselves to > reducing poverty by 2015, Global Rights has developed a new program to ensure > that the voices of youth and members of marginalized racial and ethnic > communities are included in this dialogue. The goal of the program is to > support a > global movement of youth from communities that face discrimination who are > empowered to grapple with issues of poverty and discrimination from a human > rights perspective. > > Global Rights has selected young adults from more than 400 applicants > worldwide to participate in the new program. The participants represent a > variety > of racial and ethnic communities including the Berbers in Algeria, Roma in > Bulgaria, Batwa in Burundi, indigenous peoples from Canada, Indonesia, Nepal, > and Cameroon, Dalits in India, Afro-descendents in Brazil and Nicaragua, and > African-Americans and Latinos in the United States. They will meet at a > workshop on human rights and poverty in New York from November 14-16, 2005. > > The New York workshop will be held at the International Center for > Tolerance Education, and is supported by the Third Millennium Fund. > Participants > will focus on the key principles of equality and non-discrimination and will > explore how members of marginalized communities have unequal opportunities to > realize rights that are fundamental for alleviating poverty, such as the > right > to education. Based on their own experiences, they will develop a comparative > survey on educational opportunities in marginalized communities and > privileged communities within their country. When the participants return to > their > communities, they will mobilize others to assist them in implementing the > survey and to become active in the movement. > > At a later point during the first program year, participants will take > part in a “Global Dialogue” with international human rights and development > experts at which they will discuss their survey results and their research on > how ethnic and racial disparities impact the development process. > This new program is designed to ensure that the voices of youth from > disadvantaged ethnic and racial groups are amplified in the current global > discourse on poverty reduction and development. > > To read more about the program, click here. > To read more about the participants, click here. > To read more about Global Rights' International Advocacy efforts, click > here. > > Bonnie Bracey Sutton Outreach GLEF.org http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/bbracey My communities http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/summitforchildren http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/gendergap CyberEd Resources : ICT's and Education (owner) Games and Education (owner) Science without Frontiers STEM Initiatives K-12 (owner) http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/bbracey Portal Work http://edreform.net/ Technology Applications for learning in the portal applications.edreform.net Technology Applications for Learning The Technology Applications for Learning Network is a catalog of technology applications for learning. http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/STEM _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
