Friends of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
Safeguarding the "Heart of the World", Colombia
Raising awareness, solidarity and support for an indigenous program to protect traditional territory and sacred sites in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. [Please visit: www.corazondelmundo.org] This unique region, the world’s highest coastal mountain, is the sacred territory of the Kogi, Arhuaco, Wiwa and Kankuamo. Recovery of the natural and ...learn more
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Women's Human Rights Education Institute: CEDAW For Change
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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S HUMAN RIGHTS INSTITUTE
CEDAW FOR CHANGE
(U.N. Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women)
May 25 –May 29, 2009
Centre for Women’s Studies in Education
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
University of Toronto
252 Bloor St. West, Room 2-225
Toronto, ON M5S 1V6
Canada
In cooperation with International Women’s Rights Action Watch- Asia Pacific
The Institute brings feminist perspectives and an activist orientation to the inextricably related issues of peace, human rights and life-sustaining development. Participants from Canada and around the world will gain an understanding of the global economic, ecological, legal, cultural and political contexts of this work, as well as of the groundbreaking work that is currently being done and has been done over decades by women and men around the world. There are two distinct, yet complementary Institutes on Women’s Human Rights offered.
In today’s environment of rising fundamentalism, disregard for human rights, ecological and economic devastation, and the aggressive use of force we are faced with major challenges in practice. There is an urgent need for broad transformative approaches, supported by increasing clarity of analysis and vision and effective practical skills. Participants will learn how to deliver Human Rights education and to work for women's human rights in their own country, with an increased awareness of varied international strategies and exposure to diverse local and national contexts.
The Institute’s goal is to raise awareness of the human rights standards set by the U.N. with the objective that foreign as well as Canadian participants will be able to engage in human rights education themselves.
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<li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0.25em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 14px; background-image: url(http://awid.org/extension/ezwebin/design/ezwebin/images/bullet_list.png); background-repeat: no-repeat; line-height: 1.25em; list-style-type: none; background-position: 0px 0.4em;">Women’s Human Rights: Building a Peaceful World in an Era of Globalization (Offered in Partnership with Fundacion Justicia y Genero, Costa Rica) <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0.25em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 14px; background-image: url(http://awid.org/extension/ezwebin/design/ezwebin/images/bullet_list.png); background-repeat: no-repeat; line-height: 1.25em; list-style-type: none; background-position: 0px 0.4em;">CEDAW For Change (Offered in Partnership with International Women’s Human Rights Action Watch-Asia Pacific)For further information (including description of both institutes) please download the following pdf file
or visit the Centre for Women's Studies in Education