Citizen science : empowerment door gedeelde kennisproductie / Bral, 2019

Citizen science : empowerment door gedeelde kennisproductie / Bral, 2019.

The Promise of Adolescence: Realizing Opportunity for All Youth

The Promise of Adolescence: Realizing Opportunity for All Youth: Download a PDF of 'The Promise of Adolescence' by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine for free.

Unesco Courier 2019/3 - special issue: Climate change: the ethical challenges

The UNESCO Courier | July - September 2019
"With this special report, the Courier aims to open up new avenues for reflection on these lesser-known aspects of the greatest global challenge of our times. Because, in parallel to the scientific issues that hit the media headlines, the issues of justice and equity, respect for human rights, solidarity and scientific and political integrity, and individual and collective responsibility, must be the principal cornerstones of our actions on a global scale"


WIDE ANGLE: Climate change: The ethical challenges

-The philosophical and ethical issues of climate change / Bernard Feltz

-Climate crimes must be brought to justice / Catriona McKinnon

-Climate change: A new subject for the law / Anne-Sophie Novel

-Climate and social justice / Thiagarajan Jayaraman, interviewed by Shiraz Sidhva

-Pakistan: Green again / Zofeen T. Ebrahim

-Solar energy: Changing rural lives in Kenya / Victor Bwire

-Zero carbon, starting with cities! / Manuel Guzmán Hennessey

-African cities in action / Niels Boel and Finn Rasmussen, with Hadra Ahmed

-A question of international solidarity / Johan Hattingh

-Climate change and education / Laura Ortiz-Hernández

-Colonel: We must act quickly! / Thierry Geoffrey, interviewed by Niels Boel, Danish journalist

-Arshak Makichyan: The lone picketer / Interview by Jasmina Šopova


ZOOM: Arab youth, architects of their future / Katerina Markelova

IDEAS

-A tale of two futures / Sandrine Cathelat and Mathilde Hervieu

-AI innovations to counter social challenges / Interviews by Shiraz Sidhva


OUR GUEST: Baku: Multicultural city / Fuad Akhundov, interviewed by Mila Ibrahimova


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-Dmitry Mendeleev: The teachings of a prophet / Natalia Tarasova and Dmitry Mustafin

-Mandela’s South Africa: Reality or distant dream? / Jody Kollapen, interviewed by Edwin Naidu, South African journalist

-Youth Forum in China / Interview by Chen Xiaorong

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Activiteitenverslag adoptie

Het jaarverslag 2018 geeft een beeld van de werking en van de activiteiten van het Vlaams Centrum voor Adoptie en bevat cijfergegevens over de binnenlandse en interlandelijke adopties.

The Social Question in the Twenty-First Century: a global view

The Social Question in the Twenty-First Century: a global view / Jan Breman, Kevan Harris, Ching Kwan Lee & Marcel van der Linden. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019.

"Want, disease, ignorance, squalor, and idleness: first recognized together in mid-nineteenth-century Europe, these are the focus of the Social Question. In 1942 William Beveridge called them the “giant evils” while diagnosing the crises produced by the emergence of industrial society. More recently, during the final quarter of the twentieth century, the global spread of neoliberal policies enlarged these crises so much that the Social Question has made a comeback.
This carefully curated volume maps the linked crises across regions and countries and identifies the renewed and intensified Social Question as a labor issue. It includes discussions of American exceptionalism, Chinese repression, Indian exclusion, South African colonialism, democratic transitions in Eastern Europe, and other phenomena. Evaluated here are the effects of capitalism, the impact of the scarcity of waged work, and the degree to which the dispossessed poor bear the brunt of the crisis. Both thorough and thoughtful, the book serves as collective effort to revive and reposition the Social Question, reconstructing its meaning and its politics in the world today."