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e-bulletin november 2007
| | Electronic bulletin: E- Entreculturas November 2007 | Electronic news bulletin Fundación Entreculturas | | | News | | | |  | November 20, Universal Children’s Day With the occasion of the Universal Children's Day, we would like to reflect on our work for children's rights, the rights violated in millions of human beings threatened by danger and exploitation conditions, the sale of children, the scarce medical attention and the unhealthy conditions where diseases such as malaria or AIDS threaten their future. Read+ | | We are interested in your opinion on the e-entreculturas and its contents. Send us information you may think of interest for our readers. Write to us! | |  | Child soldiers: a childhood without rights The reality of child soldiers is frontally opposed to children's rights as shown in all the principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989. We want to denounce the violation of International Law and of the dignity of these children on November 20, Universal Children's Day and show the work that the Jesuit Refugee service carries out and which we support. Read+ | |  | Our work in favour of children’s rights At Entreculturas we defend the right to a quality education that will enable other rights. But we also know that education is not possible if the total context of the child as a whole is not addressed in his or her education. Education is not possible if children are under nourished, if they don't have the necessary sanitary conditions or if they are surrounded by violence. Read+
|  | Children: actors of their own rights This article shows two initiatives promoted by Entreculturas seeking to impact on the idea that children's rights should consider children not as passive recipients of these rights but as active members and with a voice to be heard. Read+
| | | | CENTENARY OF THE BIRTH OF PEDRO ARRUPE (1907-2007) This week, we celebrate the first centenary of the birth of Pedro Arrupe, founder of the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS), who is an example for Entreculturas of service, accompaniment and defence of the most vulnerable populations of the earth. | | | And also... | | | | » The necessary fight against vulnerability | | » 37th International Fe y Alegría Congress | | » Debt Swap at the Ibero - American Heads of State Summit | | » Global Call to Action Against Poverty. Thousands of people demand “More action, fewer words” | | » The Real Valladolid plays for Peru on Hispanic Day | | » “M – igual? Igualdade não é indiferença, é oportunidade!” | | | If you think our work is worthwhile, help us | | | | | | | If you have received this bulletin through an acquaintance and would like us to include you in our distribution list, send us an e-mail to noticias@entreculturas.org | | | e-entreculturas is the electronic bulletin of Entreculturas, a Foundation promoted by the Society of Jesus, which believes in education as a means for social change, justice and intercultural dialogue. | |
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