Educating for Human Rights and Global Citizenship

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Ali A. Abdi, Lynette Shultz
State University of New York Press, 1. jan. 2009 - 264 sider
Nearly sixty years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in spite of progress on some fronts, we are in many cases as far away as ever from achieving an inclusive citizenship and human rights for all. While human rights violations continue to affect millions across the world, there are also ongoing contestations regarding citizenship. In response to these and related issues, the contributors to this book critique both historical and current practices and suggest several pragmatic options, highlighting the role of education in attaining these noble yet unachieved objectives. This book represents a welcome addition to the human rights and global citizenship literature and provides ideas for new platforms that are human rights friendly and expansively attuned toward global citizenship.

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An Introduction
1
Human Rights as a Tool of Dignity and Transformation
11
Four Generations of Practice and Development
25
4 Are We All Global Citizens orAre Only Some of Us Global Citizens? The Relevance of This Question to Education
39
Global Citizenship Education and the Persistence of the Nation
55
Historicoactual Problems and Educational Possibilities
65
7 The Short History of WomenHuman Rights and Global Citizenship
81
8 Representation of Race and Racism in the Multicultural Discourse of Canada
97
The Role of a Voluntary Organization in Vancouver Canada
143
12 Traditional Peoples and Citizenship in the New Imperial Order
159
Third Way Education as the New Cultural Imperialism
177
The Impact of Legal Definitions on Metis Peoples of Canada
193
15 An Introduction to Librarianship for Human Rights
205
16 Reconstructing the Legend Educating for Global Citizenship
223
Threads of My Life
242
Contributors
243

Prospects for Antihegemonic Adivasi Original DwellerMovements and Counterhegemonic Struggle in India
113
Creating ChildFriendly Villages When StatesCommunities and Families Fail to Protect
129
Index
249
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Side 27 - Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work. 3 Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection. 4 Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.
Side 87 - violence against women" means any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life.
Side 209 - Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression ; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
Side 27 - Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
Side 106 - I wish to make it quite clear that Canada is perfectly within her rights in selecting the persons whom we regard as desirable future citizens. It is not a "fundamental human right" of any alien to enter Canada.
Side 29 - The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and • The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR...
Side 62 - As a society becomes more enlightened, it realizes that it is responsible not to transmit and conserve the whole of its existing achievements, but only such as make for a better future society.
Side 188 - We are witnessing the beginnings of a new doctrine of international community. By this I mean the explicit recognition that today more than ever before, we are mutually dependent, that national interest is to a significant extent governed by international collaboration and that we need a clear and coherent debate as to the direction this doctrine takes us in each field of international endeavour. Just as within domestic politics, the notion of community - the belief that partnership and co-operation...
Side 117 - In addition, measures shall be taken in appropriate cases to safeguard the right of the peoples concerned to use lands not exclusively occupied by them, but to which they have traditionally had access for their subsistence and traditional activities.
Side 116 - Article 7 reflects the cherished ideals of autonomy by stating that peoples concerned shall have the right to decide their own priorities for the process of development as it affects their lives, beliefs, institutions and spiritual well-being and the lands they occupy or otherwise use.

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At the University of Alberta, Ali A. Abdi is Professor of Education and International Development and Lynette Shultz is Assistant Professor of Educational Policy Studies. Abdi is the author of Culture, Education, and Development in South Africa: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives and the coeditor (with Korbla P. Puplampu, and George J. Sefa Dei) of African Education and Globalization: Critical Perspectives.

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