Evaluating the MDGs with people in extreme poverty: a method that brings results
The final seminar for the MDGs evaluation project with people living in extreme poverty will take place in New York in June 2013. Proposals for the post-2015 development agenda, written by people in extreme poverty, academics and practioners, (…)
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Swiss Federal Council asks for forgiveness from victims of coercion meant to be forms of assistance
Bern, April 11, 2013
In the ceremony that was held on Thursday in Bern, hundreds of former children who were forcedly taken away from their parents and other victims of coercion meant to be assistance, commemorated, in the presence of government members, Churches, the Swiss Union of Farmers and social institutions, a dark moment in the history of Switzerland. Simonetta Sommaruga, the federal councilor minister of justice, asked for forgiveness, in the name of the Federal Council Swiss Government, for the immense suffering inflected upon victims of coercion measures. Mrs. Sommaruga declared that the commemoration ceremony would be the departure point for vast historical work on this trying time in Switzerland’s history.
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They are a set of human rights norms recently adopted by the UN Human Rights Council. They provide, for the first time, global policy guidelines validating specific obligations (…)
Interview with Magdalena Sepúlveda, Special UN Rapporteur for Human Rights and Extreme Poverty
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What are the Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights?They are a set of human rights norms recently adopted by the UN Human Rights Council. They provide, for the first time, global policy guidelines validating specific obligations (…)
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The ATD Fourth World International Movement organized a seminar in Ouagadougou from February 25 to March 3, 2013 on the theme: “The poorest people are partners in education truly for everyone.” This was a part of regional seminars (…)
The Poorest People Are Partners In Education Truly For Everyone.
