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A simple but very useful ‘3-step approach’ to doing development education and global citizenship education. “At best, a lecturer (teacher) speaks with and for her audience, not to or at it. She takes leads, images and stirrings from her audience, and reflects back to them tentative accounts and explanations for

“the shock of finding, in a village with a text book community water project, a young woman with her baby on her back, digging in a river bed metres away from the safe supply we had provided. She was doing this because she had to choose between buying food or

We now have less than 6 years to go to meet the challenges of the Millennium Development Goals. The water and sanitation crisis, if inappropriately managed, can prevent and undermine the progress made thus far in reducing poverty, in achieving universal primary education and in improving people’s primary health. Even

Introduction While advances have been made in the past couple of years, there is still along way to go before the unique needs of Indigenous people are recognised and true reconciliation is achieved in Australia. The fact remains that on nearly all social indicators, Aboriginals in Australia fall drastically below

The ‘American Holocaust’ The genocide against the indigenous population of the United States of America spanned over four Centuries, beginning with the discovery of the ‘new world’ by the Spanish in 1492 and continuing with the early settlers to that ‘NewWorld’. In 1830 the Indian Removal Act was introduced as

Stimulating thinking and ideas about human rights Aim To build upon the understanding gained from Step 1. To discuss individual rights and ‘groupings’ of rights. To discuss why rights exist and what they seek to protect and promote. To explore the idea of rights in conflict. Activity 4: Groups of

By Stephanie NolenWednesday, January 12, 2005, page A2 https://www.theglobeandmail.com JOHANNESBURG — Mercy Otim has watched the international fundraising for tsunami relief with a sense of awe teetering on disbelief. Ms. Otim, 37, is a Kenyan activist in the Pan-African Treatment Access Movement. She devotes her considerable energy to raising funds

Gender and natural disasters: Why we should be focusing on a gender perspective of the Tsunami disaster By Rochelle Jones December 26, 2004 will be etched forever in the minds of millions of people around the world. Hundreds of thousands of people have been directly affected by the Tsunamis that

20 Jan 2005Source: AlertNet Ben Wisner, a hazards specialist at the London School of Economics, spoke to AlertNet on the third day of the World Conference on Disaster Reduction in Kobe, Japan. AN: Nearly a month after the Indian Ocean tsunami, plans are afoot for the creation of a global

Peter H. GleickWednesday, January 5, 2005 The tragedy that has unfolded over the past week in Asia reminds us of the power of water to both give life and take it away. As the death toll rises from the earthquake and devastating tsunami, efforts to provide all manner of aid

WASHINGTON The deadly tsunami in Asia struck with little warning, and so did the eruption of criticism over aid levels that followed. The critical press coverage was a surprise because disaster relief has popular support and has rarely been a controversial part of the aid budget. It is far harder

Below are a number of expert commentaries about the vulnerabilities of women: Edith Ng’oma works with the Forum for African Women Educationalists of Zambia, an NGO advocating for change in the Zambian education system and more broadly on the needs of girls and women. Dr. Carolyn Bolton works with CIDRZ

The feminisation of HIV and AIDS 14.3% of the Zambian adult population is estimated to be infected with the HIV virus It is estimated that 1.6% (82,681 people) of the Zambian adult population are newly infected with HIV each year For every two people who start antiretroviral therapy, an estimated