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E-NEWS from Italy, Council of Europe, European Commission
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E-NEWS from UNITED
07/03/2002
part 1
ITALIAN ORGANISATIONS ASK FOR YOUR SUPPORT
Thousands of people have protested over the last months against the
politics of the Berlusconi government in Italy. They protested against
the deterioration of principles of democratic citizenship, such as
respect of diversity, equality, and the free press. Now they ask for
your support. The European Convention has just started to work on a
'new future for the European Union'. One of its members is Gianfranco
Fini, the leader of the 'post-fascist' National Alliance. Do we want
him to determine the future of Europe?
Read more in the attached text file (1page A4) and contact ARCI for
more info.
More on the European Convention:
http://europa.eu.int/futurum/index_en.htm
TRAINING COURSES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
The Council of Europe's Directorat for Youth and Sports organises each
year several interesting training courses. For example:
-Training course for youth workers/youth leaders on European
citizenship education in youth work
- Training course on Working in International Youth Structures The
Directorate of Youth and Sport training programme aims to enable those
involved in youth questions to play more active, efficient and
informed role in international youth work and in the setting up of
international youth activities. The courses offered are complementary
to previous the training and experience of participants and are part
of the overall aim of promoting youth participation at a European
level and improving the quality of youth acitivities with an
intercultural dimension. For most training courses you will have to
apply via your international youth organisation, for example through
UNITED.
More information: http://www.training-youth.net
and http://www.coe.fr/youth/home2.htm
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR DIRECTOR EUMC
The European Commission launches a call for application for the
position of Director in the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and
Xenophobia (EUMC).
More information on
http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/oj/2002/ca03320020206en.html
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E-NEWS European-wide Action Week in 30 countries
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E-NEWS from UNITED
07/03/2002
part 2
EUROPEAN-WIDE ACTION WEEK AGAINST RACISM, 16-24 MARCH 2002
TH!NK - FREE YOUR MIND FROM PREJUDICE
At this moment we are working on the update of the list of activities
that will take place during the European-wide Action Week Against
Racism 16-24 March 2002.
Many different and creative activities take place in more than 30
countries all over Europe already. And the list is still growing!
For more information take a look on http://www.unitedagainstracism.org
PLEASE SEND INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR ACTIVITIES (date, title, kind of
activity, themes, contact address) AS SOON AS POSSIBLE TO
[email protected] or call 20-6834778!
If you want to receive messages of solidarity from different
organisations or you have other ideas to increase our common
solidarity in this week: let us know!
And don't forget: Contact your local community radio station. Chances
are that they will organise special broadcasts in the Action Week.
AMARC-Europe is working on a special Europe-wide and even global
action. More info:
[email protected]
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E-NEWS Follow-up of the World Conference Against Racism
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E-NEWS from UNITED
07/03/2002
part 3
FOLLOW UP OF THE WORLD CONFERENCE AGAINST RACISM
Many organisations have wondered if the UN World Conference Against
Racism (WCAR) was a complete failure. Did nothing come out of it?
Actually, something did. Governments of all countries in the world
have been asked to present national action plans to combat racism and
related intolerance. The Council of Europe has convened a meeting
where governments and NGOs presented their proposals for guidelines
for those national action plans. I CARE, the Internet Centre
Anti-Racism Europe, is happy to offer you a new service. We just
opened a new page for National Action Plans in Europe. On this page
you will find an overview of National Action Plans (NAPs), a guideline
for NAPs, proposals for NAPs in different countries and information on
any progress made.
The page is
http://www.icare.to/naps/
I CARE has also created a new mailinglist with the purpose of
discussing National Action Plans, called [email protected]. You can
subscribe to it by sending an email to
[email protected] with "subscribe naps" in the subject line.
Furthermore, several people who were involved in the preparations of
the WCAR have presented their analysis of what went wrong or right.
UNITEDs representative in the structures of the NGO Forum has
presented his analysis at several occasions. You can now find this
text on the UNITED website
http://www.unitedagainstracism.org, click on conferences and scroll
down to the World Conference, or click on 'new on this site'.
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