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Let us create Youth Observatories: Indaba Network Can Help
Between 2000 and 2011, the employment rate of young people decreased globally from 52.9 to 48.7 per cent. This means that, as of 2011, less than one out of two young people are actively participating in the labor market while many are relegated to precarious, underpaid and informal jobs. Poverty Everywhere, underemployment most affects the poorest. Because of societal and cultural structures, young women have the greatest difficulty in accessing the labor market. Generally, the more young people suffer from poverty, the more they run the...
read moreResource Wars: The Bloody Coltan Conflict in Africa’s Great Lakes Region
In 2006, tens of thousands of young people, encouraged and supported by the Scout and Guide associations, were mobilized to develop a major peace education program in the Great Lakes region of Africa (Rwanda, Burundi, and Kivu Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo). Their aim was to fight against the ethnic prejudices that have divided Hutus and Tutsis and caused the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and Burundi. The program produced positive results and undoubtedly contributed to stabilize the situation in Rwanda and Burundi, but North Kivu is...
read moreFab Labs: The birth of a new society?
China has become the world’s workshop. If I buy a parasol, a screwdriver, or a stove, I can see all the objects marked “Made in PRC – People’s Republic of China.” Wood that is purchased in Europe is exported to China and then comes back in the form of furniture. International transport of both raw materials and manufactured goods increases and contributes to global warming through greenhouse gas emissions. Manufactured products are so inexpensive – through the exploitation of the vast Chinese labor force...
read moreLondon 2012
I love the Olympic Games Like many of my peers, I confess I like to watch, every day, the show in constant motion of the Olympic Games. Thus, I am a sentimentalist. Seeing a parade of delegations of countries, which are never mentioned alongside those about which we talk too much, gives me a rare lesson in human geography. Seeing all those looks, all similarly bright faced, of all colors, in many different kinds of clothes, reminds me of the human race’s identity. Observing the flags and hearing the anthems also reminds us that we need to...
read moreGlencore or how a multinational plunders a poor country
The Albert Londres Prize, in the audiovisual category, was awarded to “Zambia: who benefits from copper?,” broadcast on “France 5″ on May 31, 2011. In the film, two journalists, Odiot Alice and Audrey Gallet, provide an investigative report on Zambia where the Swiss multinational, Glencore, has operated copper mines for many years. The film makers explain how, through an elaborate system of tax evasion, the world’s most powerful raw materials trading company runs the Zambian copper industry for its exclusive benefit,...
read moreEurope: from dream to nightmare?
For people of my generation, European integration represents a promise of peace and prosperity. After the second world war, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg decided to create the European Coal and Steel Community, originating the idea of the European Union. It was initially a political decision of great significance: the countries at the heart of Europe decided to manage together steel and coal, the two main resources that fueled the European wars. A threatened dream Since then, despite many doubts and...
read moreNew look for Indaba-Network!
Welcome to Indaba-Network’s new website! We have improved the site in order to make it more dynamic and attractive and to better fulfill our mission: Supporting and linking youth groups engaged in projects for social change. Our new website immediately highlights eight action paths that correspond to the challenges of today’s world. We call on the world’s youth to get involved with them: Horizons: travelling and meeting a broad range of people Planet: protecting the environment and supporting sustainable development Cultures:...
read moreSupport for Rose Wakata in Kenya
Do you know Rose Wataka? Probably not. Her message came to us via indabaXchange, our social network project, like a message in a bottle thrown into the sea. It barely had any real chance to be read and taken into account. Yet this message is not one that comes from another world. Rose Wataka lives in Webuye, a town of 19,000 inhabitants in the Bungoma District of northwestern Kenya. The neighborhood in which she lives is known as the Muslim Estate and has about 200 families. With some friends, Rose has created an organization: Muslim Estate...
read moreCivilization and Its Discontents
Revisited: The French Interior Minister Condemns People of Civilizations other than His Own. By Dominique Bénard. The Interior Minister of the French Government, in an outlandish and peremptory statement, has directly attacked people of foreign origin living in France by saying: ?”There are patterns of behavior that have no place in our country, not because they are foreign, but because they do not conform to our worldview, particularly regarding the dignity of women and men. Contrary to the relativistic ideology of the left, for...
read moreWhat is gender?
By Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen, professor at Centre for Gender research, University of Oslo. Some weeks ago, Indaba-Network published an article on gender and gender prejudices. A large discussion started. Today, Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen, professor at the Centre for Gender research, University of Oslo, tells us more on Gender. Let us hope that this will sharpen our debate and encourage youth groups to challenge gender prejudices and engage on issues related gender equity. What is gender? Girls and boys, women and men, of course! Certainly, but...
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Fab Labs: The birth of a new society?
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