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Student"s Library |
Human Rights 1. Civil and political rights
The theory for their existence appeared in 17-18 century. These are 'liberty-orientated' and include the
rights to: life, liberty and security of the individual; freedom from torture and slavery; political particip...
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UN and human rights The history of the main human rights instruments of the UNITED NATIONS organization (UN) dates back only about half a
century ago. UN was established after the World War II to unify the efforts of its member states for peace, mutual
understanding and huma...
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Council of Europe and human rights The Council of Europe is an international organization founded in 1949 which has now 47 member states. It works on
solutions to major problems facing European society, like racism, intolerance, discrimination against minorities,
inequality, social exclusi...
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The life of women in the oldest times In the extracts below from "History of Bulgarian Literature", Chapter I "The life of Bulgarian people in the oldest
time", written by Dimitar Marinov in 1885, the author speaks about the life of women and the relationships between
women and men in the fam...
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Information on Calls |
Fellowship Promoting Human Rights Journalism 03-02-2006 The International Women's Media Foundation is calling for applications for the Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship, named for
1998 IWMF Courage in Journalism Award winner and Boston Globe correspondent who was killed in Iraq in May 2003. This
program, created wi...
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5th Annual Female Eye Film Festival 03-02-2006 This competitive festival presents films by debut, emerging and established filmmakers in drama, comedy, sci-fi,
action, documentary, experimental and animation genres, all directed by women from around the world. The festival aims
to:
*offer a perspe...
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Call for papers 12-01-2006 Call for Papers: Capitalism and/or Patriarchy? Conference On Gender in Post-Soviet Space, 22-24 June 2006, Vilnius,
Lithuania.
Proposals for individual papers or complete panels can be sent to gender@ehu-international.org
Please include your contact ...
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Prize for women"s creativity in rural life 13-01-2006 For the next prize awards in 2006/2007 of the Women's World Summit Foundation nomination materials should arrive no
later than 1 March 2006.
Awarded since 1994 by WWSF Women's World Summit Foundation – an international, non-profit NGO serving the
impl...
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Open Call for Proposals 03-02-2006 In 2006, the priority theme will be THE PROMOTION OF GENDER EQUALITY, PARTICULARLY IN LOCAL DEVELOPMENT.
This theme will allow two different but complementary issues to be dealt with: on the one hand, how to encourage
balanced participation of men and w...
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2006 Small Grants Programof the World Bank Sofia Office 07-02-2006 The World Bank Sofia Office launched 2006 Small Grants Program. This year the purpose of the program is to strengthen
delivery capacity of selected domestic civil society organizations to support youth development in
The size of individual grants will ...
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Call for Contributions – Women"s Studies International Forum 25-05-2006 Women's Studies International Forum (WSIF) is calling for contributions for its newly formatted journal. As well as
research articles, you can submit conference reports and announcements, calls for papers, notices of new publications
and requests for book...
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Online courses of Network University, the Netherlands 02-06-2006 The Network University, a centre for collaborative learning, has offered the online course ‘Gender and Conflict
Transformation’ in the past years, to a broad audience of participants largely from developing countries. This course
will again be offered fro...
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Call for Papers of the International Journal of Drug Policy 28-07-2006 Outline abstracts or other short descriptions (not exceeding 400 words) are invited for contributions to a forthcoming
special issue of The International Journal of Drug Policy on “Women and Harm Reduction: Spanning the Globe.”
WOMEN AND HARM REDUCTION:...
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Google Europe Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship 2007 13-10-2006 As part of Google's ongoing commitment to encourage women to excel in computing and technology, Google Europe
announces its Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship 2007. This is a €5,000 (or equivalent) scholarship for the 2007/2008
academic year. The deadline fo...
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