Human Development Report 2009

Migration, both within and beyond borders, has become an increasingly prominent theme in domestic and international debates, and is the topic of the 2009 Human Development Report (HDR09). The starting point is that the global distribution of capabilities is extraordinarily unequal, and that this is a major driver for movement of people. Migration can expand their choices —in terms of incomes, accessing services and participation, for example— but the opportunities open to people vary from those who are best endowed to those with limited skills and assets. These underlying inequalities, which can be compounded by policy distortions, is a theme of the report. The report investigates migration in the context of demographic changes and trends in both growth and inequality. It also presents more detailed and nuanced individual, family and village experiences, and explores less visible movements typically pursued by disadvantaged groups such as short term and seasonal migration.

"D Day" November 20: Building intercultural bridges

In the collection “D Days”, the didactic proposal of Entreculturas for this November 20 is focused on intercultural issues, understood as a positive diversity so that children may understand that in life there are different opinions, different religions and different nationalities without being one better over the other one and being worthy of the same respect. This is the  first of the three themes of the CITY PLANET Campaign promoted by Entreculturas.

For this purpose the didactic proposal uses the rainbow to represent this diversity, many colours and only one figure as the symbol of the bridge that is built by the respect of two different realities.