Full Coverage: Culture

28.09.2006 L'utilisation rituelle ou médicinale de la Feuille de Coca a une longue histoire en Argentine et, de même que pour la langue Quechua, elle a été le fil conducteur de la Mémoire de nos Peuples. La Feuille de Coca est l'objet rituel qui véhicule la permanence et la continuation de cette Mémoire des Origines.

20.09.2006 Que mundo é esse em que a juventude, eterna e inseparável cúmplice da vida, resolve escolher a morte em tenra idade? Que planeta construímos para as novas gerações se os jovens não querem mais viver e escolhem a morte quando têm toda uma vida pela frente?

18.09.2006 OneWorld Radio in collaboration with UNICEF are hosting a contest for radio features and public service announcements to raise HIV/AIDS awareness and highlight young people’s participation in the media. The contest highlights OneWorld/UNICEF’s ongoing commitment to youth participation and development. The contest will also offer an additional opportunity to promote OneWorld/UNICEF’s HIV/AIDS campaign “Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS,” in which UNICEF played a critical coordinating role.

08.09.2006 For the first time, this year, “EUROPEAN HERITAGE DAYS 2006" (EHD), a joint action of CoE and EC, will be held in Kosovo under the patronage of Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports, with CHwB as its main implementing partner.

08.09.2006 Santraj Maurya is a young waste-picker, who works in New Delhi's elite residential areas undertaking door-to-door garbage collection. Last month he was invited to a conference to Belo Horizonte in Brazil but was denied boarding by Alitalia officials. The reasons - he did not have the profile of an international traveller, did not speak confidently and did not know English. Read this press release from New Delhi NGO Chintan.

07.09.2006 The India Social Forum, to be held from 9-13 November in New Delhi, is inviting people to begin the Programme Registration. Individuals and organisations can visit the ISF website to do the online registration. Read the latest brief from the ISF team regarding registration.

06.09.2006 The Slobodna kultura (Free Culture) organizations, i.e. Wikimedia Serbia received at the end of August the Letter of Intentions from Creative Commons International, thus becoming official partner of Creative Commons.

05.09.2006 Kako doznajemo, organizacija Slobodna kultura, odnosno Vikimedija Srbije je krajem prošlog meseca dobila pismo o namerama od Creative Commons International čime je postala zvanični partner ove organizacije. To znači da je Vikimediji Srbije, kao glavnom nosiocu projekta, potvrđeno ekskluzivno pravo na lokalizaciju Creative Commons licenci u Srbiji.

30.08.2006 The jury of the 12th Sarajevo Film Festival awarded the Human Rights Award for promotion of human rights to “Vukovar – Final Cut”, a film by Croatian journalist Drago Hedl and Belgrade director Janko Baljak.

18.08.2006

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The economics literature on gender bias and son preference was linked directly with the discussion of religion and fertility. This study argued that bringing together the notion of ‘son preference’ and the complementary concept of ‘daughter aversion’ provides insights: just as sons bring ‘benefits’ to their parents, daughters impose ‘costs’ and complementing a desire to have sons is a desire not to have daughters

04.08.2006 "Chicks on speed" performed for the first time in Albania in the fourth edition of MJAFT FEST which took part in the resort of Livadh, five kilometers away from Himara.

25.07.2006 Before you set off you should make plans in advance: where, how and why you want to go there. If you choose Albania as the country of your summer holidays, there is good news for you. Besides the spectacular resorts on the coast of the Ionic and Adriatic Seas, this summer you will have the opportunity to participate in a cultural activity which of course will add to your holiday.

25.07.2006 The MTV EXIT concert tour, organized by MTV and SIDA, working to raise awareness with young men and women about the problem of trafficking in human beings, will start from Sarajevo, July 29, 20:00 hours, with a big humanitarian concert on “Metalac” open-air stage.

11.07.2006 Pearl Jam will donate to non-profit organizations to offset the carbon dioxide emissions caused by their current world tour--from the trucks, buses, airplane travel, hotel rooms, concerts venues and fans driving to and from their concerts.

10.07.2006 More than 70 non-governmental organizations from Southeastern Europe participate in the Place to Move programme, organized under the auspices of the EXIT06 festival, in Novi Sad.

05.07.2006 The Right to a City initiative, which gathers actors on the independent youth and cultural scene, started an action three days ago to cover the posters and billboards advertising the Zagreb Youth Salon, depicting a portrait of Zagreb Mayor Bandic.

04.07.2006 Linking local media with ordinary people can invigorate and change communities—for the better.

04.07.2006 Superman Returns! And not a moment too soon for those of us who grew up with his movies and comics and bedsheets. But be warned, this is not your mamma's flag-waving Superman.

27.06.2006 The informal coalition of several Bitola-based youth NGOs reacted on the decision of the Ministry of Culture to rent the space at the Bitola Cultural Centre and the “Army Club” for non-cultural purposes.

26.06.2006 On 28-29 July Mjaft!Fest will be held in Livadhi Beach, Himara, South Albania. MJAFT Fest is one of the first and biggest open air festivals of contemporary live music in the Balkans and will be held in the most beautiful beach of South Albania.