Americas

The Call to Uphold Human Rights

As 2018 marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of UDHR, it is rather timely to reflect – as a community and as an individual – upon the gains and lapses of the implementation of the Declaration amidst the criticisms

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Youth unemployment on the rise

Benjamin Disraeli once mentioned that the “youth of a nation are the trustees of posterity”. Given an international landscape whereby the international youth unemployment rate is reported to be high and has been fluctuating in a relatively similar range for

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Salon Shabka | Privatsphäre quo vadis?

“Unser digitales Ich” bildete das Thema unseres Salons am 13. Dezember 2017 in Wien. Auf Grundlage der Dokumentation “We live in public” haben wir den Umgang mit Privatsphäre kritisch hinterfragt und diskutiert, was wichtig wäre, um Menschen im 21. Jahrhundert fit für

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Grüner Kolonialismus in Honduras

„Honduras is open for business!“ (S. 9), skandiert die offizielle Politik jenes mittelamerikanischen Landes, das weltweit am stärksten von den Auswirkungen des Klimawandels betroffen ist (ebd.). Ihre Programmatik des totalen Ausverkaufs verspricht nachhaltigen Umwelt- und Klimaschutz sowie gesellschaftlichen Wohlstand für

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Women up in arms: Zapatistas and Rojava Kurds

Resistance and strength manifest like weeds through cracks in Chiapas, Mexico, and transnational Kurdistan where the respective Zapatista and Kurdish resistance movements are creating new gender relations as a primary part of their struggle and process for building a better

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