le 1er Mai est la journee internationale du trtavail pour certains pays tels que Haiti ,la France.Mais quel travail pour les citoyens haitiens qui gagne pour la majorite d'entre eux moins de 1$ us par jour devrait on feter ou PLEURER? franchement nous ne pouvons repondre.

la journee nationale du travail
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cela fait longtemps que notre organisation milite pour les droits des jeunes filles qui veulent entrer à l'université. Maintenant nous devons admettre qu'il y a une certaine amelioration dans ce secteur quoiqu'il faut avouer que le chemin est long à parcourir mais plus de jeunes filles actuellement sont dans les universites haitiennes. c'est un pas en plus quand meme.ce qu'il nous faut maintenant c'est plus d'universites qui repondent au standard international....et des professeurs qualifiés... d'autres options dans le cursus universitaire.et mieux encore...

Haiti,fille,Université
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Haiti,fille,Université
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cela fait longtemps que notre organisation milite pour les droits des jeunes filles qui veulent entrer à l'université. Maintenant nous devons admettre qu'il y a une certaine amelioration dans ce secteur quoiqu'il faut avouer que le chemin est long à parcourir mais plus de jeunes filles actuellement sont dans les universites haitiennes. c'est un pas en plus quand meme.ce qu'il nous faut maintenant c'est plus d'universites qui repondent au standard international....et des professeurs qualifiés... d'autres options dans le cursus universitaire.et mieux encore...

It is our beliefs that cause our ceaseless conflict with each other and which have created the desperate global situation we now find ourselves in -and therefore it must follow that they are totally incapable of providing solutions to these problems.
Consider the situation surrounding global warming. We believe it is our right to take from this planet whatever, whenever and however we choose, without any thought or responsibility for managing what we are doing – and still continues today in spite of accelerating climate change.
We are seeing increasing droughts and drying up of riverbeds, as well as flooding from whatever causes and rising temperatures. All of these changes in environmental balance directly affect our water supplies and seriously hinder food production, leading to our increasing inability to feed ourselves. We are now further increasing this dangerous situation as we begin to our use our food stocks for ethanol production to propel our transport.
If we now place in this equation our belief in financial management and the law of supply and demand to regulate what we use, then a growing shortage of food means ever increasing prices. This in turn will see an increasing number of people unable to feed themselves as basic life sustaining nourishment is taken beyond their financial capabilities.
We are already beginning to see the price of basic foodstuffs rise to feed the growing demand for ethanol. Rising grain prices directly affect the prices of our other food sources such as meat and eggs, where up to a 20% increase in prices has occurred over just the last 12 months in China alone –and theirs is quite a large population!
As this problem escalates our traditional political institutions will need to be seen to be doing something, and so we lapse into blame as one race accuses another of hoarding. The application of “labels” begins as hatred is stirred up between supposedly differing groups, be they racial, religious or any other ethnic grouping.
And so we deteriorate into conflict, further expanding the threat to our existence as a civilisation through the powerful weapons we have now developed, and our inability to manage them effectively because of the ancient beliefs we still hold about each other and our surroundings.
The most powerful nation may come out on top by annihilating everyone else - but as global war escalates, who can say with any degree of certainty that they too will not blow themselves off the face of this beautiful planet, given the nature of modern terrorist warfare and the inability to determine who is the ”enemy”?
I honestly do not believe I am exaggerating anything within this scenario, but simply applying the effects of our traditional and limiting beliefs to the growing problem we are creating, and which they can only fuel rather than resolve.
By challenging what we believe, and in so doing changing our relationship with each other and our surroundings, I believe it is possible to create the opportunity for a huge evolutionary leap forward as a species. We are at a unique moment in time in our history and embedded within this era are the ingredients for either our destruction or survival – the choice is ours.
(Extract from a book I am just completing - anyone interested?!)

Five Vice Chancellors and other high level representatives of Universities in five countries (Afghanistan, China, India, Nepal, Pakistan) and from five major regional and European organisations interested in university development (Asian Institute of Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, ITC-Netherlands, International Development Research Centre, Canada, and ICIMOD) announced the launching of the Himalayan University Consortium on Sunday 25 March 2007 at a meeting held at the Headquarters of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development in Khumaltar, Kathmandu, and organised by ICIMOD, with support from International Development Research Centre, Canada and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), India.

Discussion at the meeting focused on the forging of a strong alliance for teaching, research, training, and policy advocacy, as well as specifically on ways of supporting the development of Kabul University. All universities in the region are interested in having a greater focus on mountain specific aspects and topics in university curricula.

New curricula and academic and non-academic degree and diploma courses will help universities to increase their effectiveness, reach, and relevance to mountain society at large. By working together on a curriculum and setting up a robust system for exchange of students and faculty universities and other institutions will be able to maximise the use of their own resources and profit from their combined experience and knowledge. By building mountain specific approaches into university curricula, the organisations hope to develop a cadre of trained professionals able to promote the mountain agenda and support sustainable development of the greater Himalayan mountain region, which extends from Pakistan and Afghanistan in the west; through Nepal, China, and Bhutan; to India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar in the east.

The broad-based Himalayan University Consortium launched at the meeting will be open to universities and other institutions in the greater Himalayan region, as well as those located elsewhere but engaged in sustainable mountain development initiatives in the region. The institutions represented at the meeting will form the Founding Members of the new consortium. The consortium will have multiple roles, including development of a postgraduate fellowship programme among member universities and institutions, mountain-focused curriculum development, exchange of faculty, knowledge networking, policy advocacy, and promoting the concept and practice of sustainable, mountain development in the region and elsewhere.

The first activities of the Consortium are focused on ways of accessing resources to build the capacity of Kabul University and thus help to rebuild and develop its Faculties of Agriculture, Science and others in order to support the long-term development of Afghanistan. After years of disturbance, Afghanistan’s major university is now faced with the challenge of building the capacity of its faculty as well as its students in order to become a dynamic, creative and responsible partner in the growth and development process of the country.

It is hoped that the Himalayan University Consortium will lead to the creation of a strong regional platform that will not only help to meet short-term needs, but also to build a long-term knowledge and learning resource and multiple joint learning opportunities

Migration has long been a hot-button issue for human rights activists, ultra-nationalists, and others in Europe and around the world. But the issue launched onto center stage in the United States as well in 2006 as lawmakers pushed immigration "reform" to the front of the political agenda.

With signs and slogans saying "No human being is illegal" and "Today we march, tomorrow we vote," millions of immigrants and their supporters responded with nationwide demonstrations to ensure that all people's rights are fully protected.

In San Francisco, attorney, long-time social justice activist, and leader of La Raza's Day Laborers Project Renee Saucedo was an outspoken advocate of those rights throughout 2006. In March, Saucedo organized a hunger strike to protest a law that would criminalize many immigrants and those who assist them.

Over the next few months, she played a central role in developing San Francisco's fledging movement into a sensation as tens of thousands turned out for an immigrants' rights march on May 1, joining millions around the United States.

"It took someone with organizing skills, a broad vision, and determination to make it happen: Renee Saucedo was that person," wrote San Francisco journalist Randy Shaw.


One of the most amazing aspects of the immigrants' rights movement in the United States was the speed at which it emerged and blossomed among a community long-marginalized and considered politically insignificant by many of the country's elites.

Though the growing movement was spurred on by organizers like Saucedo, social activist and journalist Elizabeth Gonzales notes the power of non-traditional leadership in the movement as well.

"Everyone was a leader, showing the traditional activists that the people carry all the capacity to defend themselves," Gonzales wrote after a demonstration in March. "This gathering wasn't passed along on a mass e-mail, or coordinated by progressive organizations--it was communicated through the radio stations that people connect through. From there it was word of mouth among families and friends....We didn't need to ask the permission of anyone to express our outrage."