In controtendenza rispetto alla realtà economica di un’Europa in crisi, il mercato degli armamenti si conferma florido e in crescita.

The fifty-fifth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) will take place from 22 February to 4 March. The priority theme for this year’s session is "Access and participation of women and girls to education, training, science and technology, including for the promotion of women’s equal access to full employment and decent work". In advance of CSW, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon released his report (E/CN.6/2011/3) that assesses the content of science and technology from a gender perspective.(...)

The article:
http://www.un-ngls.org/spip.php?article3201

The documents:
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/csw55/documentation.htm

About the Commission:
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/index.html

UN Women - Vision and 100 Day Action Plan

http://www.un-ngls.org/spip.php?article3209

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Women's Rights in the world:

http://www.hrw.org/en/category/topic/women

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Stop violence against women:

http://amnesty.org/en/campaigns/stop-violence-against-women

Ci sono voluti 42 anni perchè il Belgio riconoscesse che dietro l'assassinio di Patrice Lumumba c'erano «alcuni membri del governo di allora». Il 17 gennaio sono 50 anni esatti dalla sua morte. Sarà ricordato in molte città (una porta oggi il suo nome: Lumumbashi) del Congo come in altre parti dell'Africa. La sua storia ha molto da dirci anche oggi perchè il colonialismo e il saccheggio del Terzo Mondo non sono mai cessati, hanno solo mutato volto e metodi.(...)

L'articolo:
http://liberazione.it/news-file/Lumumba--l-africano-che-guardava-a-Rousseau---LIBERAZIONE-IT.htm

Sull'argomento:

http://materialismostorico.blogspot.it/2016/01/lumumba-foucaultizzato.html

Informazioni di base:
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrice_Lumumba

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrice_Lumumba

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repubblica_Democratica_del_Congo#L.27indipendenza_.281960.29_e_la_crisi_del_Congo_.281961-65.29

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9publique_d%C3%A9mocratique_du_Congo

Una manifestazione:

http://www.gangemi.com/evento.asp?id=751

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Human Rights in Democratic Republic of Congo:

http://www.hrw.org/en/world-report-2011/democratic-republic-congo

http://www.hrw.org/en/africa/democratic-republic-congo

http://www.amnesty.it/Rapporto-Annuale-2010/Repubblica-Democratica-del-Congo

At the end of January and within sight of the World Economic Forum (WEF), the Berne Declaration and Greenpeace Switzerland will once again present the Public Eye Awards for the worst corporate offenses against human rights and the environment. The nominees for this year’s defamation awards are six major corporations including Foxconn, Axpo, BP and Philip Morris [also AngloGold Ashanti, Neste Oil]...Online voting for the worst corporate offender...ends on January 27. (...)

The article:
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/1004020

Public Eye Awards website:
http://publiceye.ch/en/vote/

Sull'argomento:

http://www.greenreport.it/_new/index.php?page=default&id=8723

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Business & Human Rights:

http://www.hrw.org/en/category/topic/business

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OHCHR: Consultations – Input requested:

http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/indigenous/ExpertMechanism/index.htm

We are in an epoch different to any other epoch in human history. The problems we are facing are global in nature. They include climate change, ever decreasing biodiversity, full use of the fresh water on the planet and underpinning all these – overpopulation.  Without peace we will be unable to achieve the levels of cooperation, inclusiveness and social equity required to begin solving these challenges, let alone empower the international institutions needed to regulate them.
It is impossible to accurately portray the devastating effects that global challenges will have on us all unless unified global action is taken.  Our shared challenges call for global solutions, and these solutions will require cooperation on a global scale unparalleled in human history.
Vision of Humanity is a strong proponent of the need to further study, advocate and act on peace. It groups together a number of interrelated initiatives focused on global peace which enjoy the support of a wide range of philanthropists, business people, politicians, religious leaders and intellectuals. It brings a strategic approach to raising the world’s attention and awareness around the importance of peace to humanity’s survival in the 21st century.
This website will focus on the major issues facing us in the 21st century and it is going to try and bring a balanced approach with factual information that is positive and solution based. We hope that this will help you make better choices to create the kind of future in which you wish to live.

The website:
http://www.visionofhumanity.org/

Headquartered in Costa Rica, the United Nations-mandated University for Peace was established in December 1980 as a Treaty Organization by the UN General Assembly. As determined in the Charter of the University, the mission of the University for Peace is: “to provide humanity with an international institution of higher education for peace with the aim of promoting among all human beings the spirit of understanding, tolerance and peaceful coexistence, to stimulate cooperation among peoples and to help lessen obstacles and threats to world peace and progress, in keeping with the noble aspirations proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations.” (...)
The wider mission of the University should be seen in the context of the worldwide peace and security objectives of the United Nations. The central importance of education, training and research in all their aspects to build the foundations of peace and progress and to reduce the prejudice and hatred on which violence, conflict and terrorism are based is increasingly recognized. The Charter of the University calls for UPEACE “to contribute to the great universal task of educating for peace by engaging in teaching, research, post-graduate training and dissemination of knowledge fundamental to the full development of the human person and societies through the interdisciplinary study of all matters related to peace”. (...)

The University for Peace website:
http://www.upeace.org/

Sull'argomento:

http://scienzaepace.unipi.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=44%3Aoperatori-per-la-pace&catid=18%3Amediazione-e-nonviolenza&Itemid=19

UNESCO Culture of Peace:

http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=37083&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

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Informazione di base:

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pace

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace

http://win.cosv.org/dizionario/pubblicazione/ita/Frame_Dizionario_Cat.htm

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The Global Peace Index:

http://www.visionofhumanity.org/gpi-data/#/2010/scor

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Peace and Justice in the world:

http://www.hrw.org/en/topic/international-justice/peace-and-justice