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.