Posted on December 12, 2007 by Sameer Padania
Debatepedia (developed by the International Debate Education Association) is looking to become the Wikipedia for debate… There’s an overarching human rights category, as well as sections on business, conflict and security, economics, the environment, and law.
[via Andrew Nachison at iFocos]
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Posted on December 12, 2007 by Sameer Padania
Received this morning via H-Net listserv:
Title: International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, 1500-Present
Description: Call for Essay Contributions — [...] This eight-volume, 5,000-page, peer-reviewed work, to be published by Blackwell next year is intended to become the definitive reference work on the role of popular agency in transforming the world …
Contact: jcohn@pnc.edu
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=159819
I wonder if they’re including [...]
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Posted on December 10, 2007 by Sameer Padania
If you haven’t come across The Elders already, you will soon - not least because we are partnering with them on their Every Human Has Rights campaign.
On Sunday morning I sat in on a conference call with three of The Elders - Graça Machel, Mary Robinson and Archbishop Desmond Tutu - and 5 bloggers from [...]
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Posted on December 10, 2007 by Sameer Padania
Welcome, Facebookers!
The Hub Group on Facebook is live… Join now!
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Posted on December 7, 2007 by Sameer Padania
Next Monday, December 10, is International Human Rights Day, and it seems a good moment do our bit to make sure we don’t forget Burma.
COHRE (the Center on Housing Rights and Evictions) has posted two reports - one on Displacement and Dispossession: Forced Displacement and Land Rights in Burma (pdf) and the other naming Burma [...]
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