News From Around The world
Monday, 8 March 2010 - A friend asked me a couple of weeks ago if there was going to be a special AG issue celebrating International Women’s Day (IWD). Given the fact that AG is a publication dedicated to women, her inquisition was well placed. I told her “yes;” for what kind of online-publication for “women” kind of editor would I be if I told her that March 8th had totally slipped my mind as one of the important days to be celebrated this year? The next...
March 1, 2010 - The United Nations Office of the High Commission for Human Rights(OHCHR) defines human rights as rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, colour, language, or any other status.
Amnesty International has called on the authorities of Lithuania to remove all restrictions on the distribution of public information relating to the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people decreed in a new law. The controversial "Law on the Protection of Minors against the Detrimental Effect of Public Information” enters into force next Monday, 1 March. "This law will violate the freedom of expression and will directly discriminate against people on account of...
March 1, 2010 (Washington, DC) - Political parties and candidates in Iraq's parliamentary elections on March 7, 2010, should promise to uphold human rights, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The election will be a key indicator of whether the country is moving toward greater political stability and respect for human rights and away from the sectarian violence that devastated Iraq after the 2005 election, Human Rights Watch said.
Poor governance and management are jeopardising efforts to provide quality basic education in seven African countries according to a new report published today by Transparency International (TI). The report, Africa Education Watch: Good governance lessons for primary education, shows that despite ten years of efforts to increase school enrolment through the Education for...
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congratulations Dr. Minh for getting this job!!!
Hello everyone,
I would like to anounce that from today Thirdway is present on facebook; http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/group.php?gid=164793759154&ref=nf
Feel free to join the group and promote it to your friends!
Best,
Ted
One old Buddhist proverb says: Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
"We have two Interns now on their way to Ghana for three months they are Solene and Floriane information on the current site."
- From Christoph's letter
The current site:
http://www.third-way.org
At the Thirdway new website, the Forum is ready for work. All of the departments has an own forum which helps at the communication. We have one informal Forum too: "Who Is Who" which (I hope) will help get to know each others. Let's discover the new website. Everyone can put comments to the pages (it helps to correct the bugs) and if someone like to upload new contents, just let's send it to Attila.
