Feb22
In the framework of the Cycle on Youth Human Rights Activism: beyond social media, a first session will be addressing the challenges and the opportunities young activists found by using social media and new communication tools. This session will allow us to introduce the following sessions of the cycle.
The round table will take place on 25 February 2016 from 15h00 to 16h30 London time.
Special speakers will join us in:
- Dialogue Cafe Lisbon (Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian):Â
- RocĂo Cervera, Programme Manager Youth Co-operation, North-South Centre of the Council of Europe
- Carla Santos, Trainer at Academia Ubuntu, IPAV
- Daniel Oliveira, Activism and Training Coordinator, Amnesty International Portugal
- Dialogue Cafe Rio de Janeiro (University Candido Mendes):
- Ani Hao, Independent Researcher at FRIDA, The Young Feminist Fund
- Talitha Vaz, Advocate, Researcher on sociocultural studies, Master at UFRJ
If you wish to join us in other city where a Dialogue Café is based, let us know!
For more information, contact us at daliasendra (at) casadoregalo.pt
Feb22
Nowadays because of the development of ICT and the global interconnectivity, youth have more access to information about global issues. Indeed, technology and the use of digital media have changed the way youth participate in activism globally, and youth are more active in media than older generations.
Youth activism and civic participation in social change focuses more on issue-oriented activism. People under the age of 18 comprise 46% of the global population, and these youth played a crucial role around the world in promoting human rights, equality and equity. They serve to strengthen already existing networks of political and social relationships among activists offline. Media activism among youth can be linked to the way youth protest and create communities online over specific issues and social connections. Social Media has become a primary organising tool for political and social movements globally. These movements through social media have been attributed to the interest and involvement of younger generations. However, beyond social media, new ICT technology is offering new opportunities and challenges to young social changers and activists.
This programme is aimed at strengthening Youth Human Rights Activism for social change. This cycle has as objective to analyse and to promote opportunities for developing skills of youth activists on Human Rights activism, social media, civic participation, cooperation and networking.
For this purpose Dialogue Cafe Network (DC Évora, DC Lisbon, DC Novi Pazar and DC Rio de Janeiro) is organising a cycle of three sessions as follows:
- Session 1 – Round-table: Youth Activism and Human Rights: Challenges and Added Value (25 February 2016 – from 15h00 to 16h30 London time)
- Session 2 – Workshop: Social media tools for activism (micro-blogging, online platforms, blogging). (03 March 2016 – from 15h00 to 16h30 London time)
- Session 3 – Workshop: Why are social networks powerful tools for causes and campaigns? Working together, Launching a Campaign. (10 March 2016 – from 15h00 to 16h30 London time)
For more information, contact us at info(at)dialoguecafe.org
Jan25
The world in which we live is faced with so many challenges. Their scope is very wide and solutions are hard to be find. In every region of the world people are facing different obstacles and they because of that need different mechanism by which they can overcome those obstacles.
A good overview of those challenges is presented in a set of Sustainable Development Goals. Those are the main objectives that world leaders agreed upon. They should be resolved during the 2015-2030 time period. UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Mon clustered them into six main elements: dignity, prosperity, justice, partnership, planet and people. We can see from this that SDG-s really cover a wide range of issues that humanity as whole need to deal with. That’s the main reason why the role of UN is so important in fulfilling those objectives. Only the UN has the capacity of doing that effectively. And we can see prove of that in example of Millennium Development Goals whose impact was very successful at the end.
But, implementing those goals won`t be an easy task. This set of new goals is more wider and covers more than the previous one which expired in 2015. The main problem will be to focus on a local action that will be necessary when it comes to every among those seventeen goals. For example, we will not see an improvement in implementing clean energy strategy on a local level if there is no willingness of local and national authorities to do that. That`s why the partnership is so important in this story. We need to show a good example to all of those who are still skeptical about this issue. And they need to turn them into their benefits by learning from others. On the other side, UN will need to remain its strong leadership position when it comes to those questions. It is a global problem and only if world stand united in every aspect of it, we can see an improvement by the end of 2030.
For this purpose, Dialogue Cafe Novi Pazar organises the session ‘UN Sustainable Development Goals – from global goals to local action‘ on 28 January 2016 – From 15h00 to 16h30 (London time) with the participation of DC Lisbon and DC Rio de Janeiro.
PROGRAMME
Moderator: Mr Aleksandar Bojic, United Nations Association of Serbia, Project Team
DC Novi Pazar (Una Serbia / Centar Duga):
- Ms Irena Vojackova Sollorano, the UN Resident Coordinator in Serbia (read message)
- Mr Enis Ujkanovic, Professor, Project Euro PROGRES, International University Novi Pazar
- Mr Samir Kacapor, Director of the Regional Development Agency of SandĹľak “SEDA”.
DC Lisbon (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation):
With the participation of other organisations DC Rio de Janeiro (UCAM University).
Discover the UN Sustainable Development Goals!
- Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere
- Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
- Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
- Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
- Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
- Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
- Goal 7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
- Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
- Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
- Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries
- Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
- Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
- Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*
- Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
- Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
- Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
- Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.
For more detailed information:
United Nations Association of Serbia – Dialogue CafĂ© Novi Pazar (E-mail: unaserbia@gmail.com)
Dialogue Café Association
Helena Barroco (helenabarroco@casadoregalo.pt)
Dalia Sendra (daliasendra@casadoregalo.pt)
Dec4
Source: Amnesty.ca
In today’s complex and unpredicted world, humanity is faced with a lot of problems that affect ordinary human lives on their daily level. Those threats are visible and very real, but still, in some cases we are missing a real action for solving those issues. Refugee crisis that is still ongoing on European soil is one of those complex and unpredicted events. Nobody could have predicted that such instability in the Middle East would happen. And even more, nobody could have predict that it will cause a massive migration of people, looking for another safe heaven. During this crisis, a different actors with a different roles, acted in accordance with primarily their interests.
Those interests mainly were not in accordance with an interest of those people – refugees, that are mostly affected by all those happenings. Europe, that become a main point for immigration, couldn’t stand united in solving this crisis. National governments responded, but those responses were first of all in their own interest. For some countries, defending that interest included building a fence on their borders so that influx of refugees would be less. In all of this, that can be in few words called, conflict of interests, we need to think about those refugees first and foremost!
Their rights were violated at their own home countries, and now they are facing new violations in the countries that should have welcomed them. On the other side, there is a possibility for individuals from MENA region to infiltrate within ordinary people and in that way spread some kind of extremist ideology that is present in this region within Europe.
Constructive answers are needed and they need to include both the security of Europeans and the security and well being of refugees coming from the countries that are affected by war.
More info:
– International Organization for Migration (IOM);
– United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
– The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
– European Commission: Priorities
– European Commission: Agenda
Join us on 10 December from 15h00 to 16h30 (London time)!
- DC Novi Pazar (Una Serbia / Centar Duga)
- Mr Aleksandar Bojic, United Nations Association of Serbia
- Mr Vahidin Melajac, Representative of the City of Novi Pazar
- Mr Emir Fetahović, Lawyer – representative of NGO Sandzak’s Committee for Human Rights
- Mr Sabahudin Abelagić, Youth Office Sjenica (Asylum Center Sjenica)
With the participation of DC Rio de Janeiro (UCAM University) and DC Lisbon (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation).
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For more detailed information:
United Nations Association of Serbia – Dialogue CafĂ© Novi Pazar (E-mail: unaserbia (at) gmail.com)
Dialogue Café Association
Helena Barroco (helenabarroco (at) casadoregalo.pt)
Dalia Sendra (daliasendra (at) casadoregalo.pt)
Nov19
World Heritage and Culture of Peace represent universal values on which UNESCO has a special focus.
Importance of the preservation of common heritage of human kind is expressed in armed conflicts and in areas threatened by extremists. For more information on world heritage in danger visit the link.
Spreading the Culture of Peace is an important factor in preservation of cultural sites which are a symbol of the identity of one nation and also a part of the common heritage of whole human kind. Special area of activity of UNESCO’s Culture of Peace programme is Heritage and contemporary creativity as tools for building peace through dialogue.
Importance of learning about World Heritage Sites for better understanding and affirmation of different aspects of peace is outlined in a chapter of the manual World Heritage in Young Hands.
Conversation on this topic is a good opportunity for exchange of experiences of the countries from which we have participants in the Dialogue Café network. You can see UNESCO World Heritage List in Portugal, Serbia, and Brazil.
In this framework a Global Conversation will be organised by Dialogue Café Novi Pazar on Tuesday 24 November from 14h00 to 15h30 (London time).
PROGRAMME
- Dialogue Cafe Novi Pazar (Una Serbia / Centar Duga)
- Jasmina Fortić, Director of the Museum “Ras” in Novi Pazar
- Nevena Djakovic, Representative of the UNA-Serbia UNESCO Club Centre
- Dialogue Cafe Lisbon (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation):Â
- LuĂs Raposo, Archaeologist, Head of the National Museum of Archaeology Research Sector (1996 – 2012), Vice-President of the Portuguese Association of Archaeologists, Vice-President of ICOM Europe and President of ICOM Portugal (2008 – 2013).
With the participation of and Dialogue Cafe Rio de Janeiro (UCAM University).
For more information, contact us at:
United Nations Association of Serbia – Dialogue CafĂ© Novi Pazar: unaserbia (at) gmail (dot) com)
Dalia Sendra: daliasendra (at) casadoregalo (dot) pt
