... by Soka Gakkai International (SGI), a lay Buddhist association based in Tokyo, to raise awareness about the need for a nuclear free world and for fostering global citizenship.
Statutes of the German ...
... United States have been granted a path to citizenship.
In fact, it was the product of decades of effort by the Liberian community and its allies.
“This has been a 20-plus-year fight where people ...
... kept the promise that Mahatma Gandhi had made to persecuted people living deplorable lives in India’s neighbourhood through the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
However, many articulations which are ...
By Santo D. Banerjee
UNITED NATIONS (IDN) – Educating younger generations on global citizenship through intercultural literacy is a serious civic educational and moral issue, said Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, ...
By Jamshed Baruah
GENEVA (IDN) – The Geneva Centre for Human Rights Advancement and Global Dialogue, Dr. Hanif Hassan Ali Al Qassim, has called upon societies worldwide to embrace models of equal citizenship ...
... not just its quality.
Why Global Citizenship and how its discourse has been advanced
Against this backdrop, there has been increased attention placed on Global Citizenship Education as a fundamental ...
... have been preserved.
During the early stages of negotiations, EU leaders even appeared open to a form of “associate EU citizenship” for any British citizen who chose to “opt in”. Johnson’s government ...
... empowering curricula that cultivate the culture of peace in each and every student. Indeed, this should be more appropriately called “education for global citizenship”.
If our minds could be likened ...
... – 02 December 2020]
* Tonny Raymond Kirabira is a PhD Candidate in Law and Leila Choukroune is Professor of International Law and Director of University Research and Innovation Theme in Democratic Citizenship, ...
... was the nephew of C.V. Raman, who was India’s first Nobel laureate in physics. Chandrasekhar received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1983. He moved to the United States in 1936 and assumed American citizenship ...
... is a fair shot for thousands of our citizens in the US who are either legally studying, working or visiting, and dignity for those trying to find a legal pathway to citizenship.
The current situation ...
... India’s capital city.
The protests were ostensibly about the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019 (CAA). That legislation was designed to fast track the citizenship of those religious minorities from Pakistan, ...
... people involved in democratic processes tend to undermine the very process.
Democracy faces challenges both from without and within, and the hypocrisy percolates deep down. People who opposed the Citizenship ...
... Delhi, against the discriminatory Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). The nonviolent sit-in lasted 101 days, until police cleared the site on March 24.
Muslims in India have not only faced sustained political ...
...
UN experts on June 26 called on India to immediately release human rights defenders who have been arrested for protesting against changes to the nation’s citizenship laws, says Press Release in CounterCurrents ...
... union, and to which Germany could have been allocated a 50 per cent part ownership. The former German citizenship of most of the population should have been returned.
Then Chamberlain did a somersault. ...
... our bodies and their inter-relationships, this tremendously important area was confined to consumerism rather than citizenship. The issues were excluded from what passes for democracy which, by making ...
... or minority status by politicised and discriminatory citizenship laws, leaving them deprived of essential rights and services. This means that they are even more exposed to the worst impacts of the pandemic. ...
... Citizenship holds value over life and death as authorities move to protect their own at home and abroad. But the question remains: what happens to everyone else?
As authorities closed borders around ...
... the COVID-19 curfew required him to be, but he died because he was not born with the advantages of citizenship and wealth that would have meant his home was on the other side of town. The kind of place ...
... riots rocked northeast New Delhi with protests against the Indian Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), widely perceived to be discriminatory to Muslims escalated.
The US president's visit to India, came exactly ...
... and the U.S., but that Jesus Christ would stop them.
The Naturalization Act of 1870, extended citizenship rights to African Americans but barred Chinese from naturalization on the grounds that they and ...
... Well, the best example is Benjamin Netanyahu who has passed a law which makes being a Jew the requisite for Israeli citizenship. This is how Narendra Modi in India is trying to deprive Muslims (170 million) ...
... professedly for that purpose has enacted the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
At the same time, the world’s largest democracy is silent on the genocide of Myanmar’s Rohingya, the region’s worst persecuted ...
... Citizenship Amendment Bill, while passed in both houses of Parliament has elicited diverse and negative responses all over India. On one hand we see massive protests in North East leading to death of four ...
... documents. The government could immediately restore the duplicate documents for 113 children who were born in Kazakhstan and returned from Syria.
For children who have rights for citizenship by blood ...
... – the LTTE – in 2009 and end a 30 year civil war. Thus, he is adored by most Sinhalese. He renounced his U.S. citizenship earlier this year, to qualify to contest the presidency. His campaign theme song ...
... United Nations, charging Myanmar with genocide.
Cast out of Myanmar, where they claim citizenship, the Rohingya Muslims found temporary shelter in Bangladesh but that country is now unwilling to support ...
... widespread.
Migrants and refugees from Africa are among today’s most vulnerable people. They face intersecting discrimination based on racial or ethnic origin, social and economic status, and citizenship. ...
... to make a Faustian bargain with the Turkish Kurds, offering them full and complete citizenship in exchange for demanding they give up their language, traditions and identity.
But many Kurds never sat ...
... Ikeda to us all “to sow the seeds of peace throughout the world”. His own contributions to the promotion of the culture of peace and global citizenship have earned our deep admiration and gratitude. He ...
... as well as global citizenship in educational context. All eight areas of action in the culture of peace programme are reflected in various SDGs.
“I can however say with pride that the Culture of Peace ...
... out of the country. Later she was given a Peruvian citizenship. However, she decided to represent Kyrgyzstan at the world level.
Another good example could be freestyle wrestler Aisuluu Tynybekova, who ...
... with the sustainable development agenda.
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in its Goal 4.7 includes, among others, promotion of Culture of Peace and non-violence as well as global citizenship ...
... their role in human history.
- The denial of their rights and citizenship through all types of policies, laws, and strategies of discrimination.
It is to fight this legacy of racial prejudices, still ...
... empowering curricula that cultivate the culture of peace in each and every young mind. Indeed, this should be more appropriately called “education for global citizenship”. Such learning cannot be achieved ...
... would give Israelis and Palestinians full equality and citizenship. There would be a single democratic state.
But the sword of Netanyahu may fall on the Palestinians before enough Israelis push him to ...
... question to the 2020 census concerning citizenship and immigration status, now being challenged in the Supreme Court. In the past, Bremberg was also a policy adviser to Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority ...
... class citizenship, what with the lynchings in the name of cow and attacks on Christians’ prayer meetings and Carol singings.
The public institutions like the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) have ...
... to create a Global Studies Class and a Global Citizenship Class where students can learn cross cultural understandings, peace, and disarmament. One of conference observers expressed that he is more energized, ...
... everyone because this land is damaged and spoiled," said Leo Mulenga.
In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court ruled that companies are liable for the commitments, including good corporate citizenship, ...
... as being equal partners in the enterprise of nation building, equal before law and equal in all matters of citizenship. The competing narrative is that of Modi-BJP, where Hindu elite are the pivot of politics, ...
... including the question of citizenship and restoring freedom of movement, she said, and called for bilateral efforts by Myanmar and Bangladesh, supported by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). ...
By Dimitris Avramopoulos
The following are extensive excerpts from keynote speech by the European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship, Dimitris Avramopoulos, on Europe’s response ...
... Citizenship, proudly stated on January 23 at the London School of Economics:
“Today, the results of our joint efforts over these past few years are very tangible. The numbers are back to, and even below, ...
... saying they lacked documentation to prove Ghanaian citizenship. Plus, they said, “there has not been any confirmation by the U.S. authorities of a final court order for their removal in accordance with ...
... with Nkrumah’s spirit. “He wanted to be able to utilize the services and skills of African-Americans as Ghana made the transition from colonialism to independence.”
Ghana’s parliament passed a Citizenship ...
... Eugenio Borgna that “words are living structures”. These keywords included new citizenship of the Earth's inhabitants, the common good, biodiversity, community, human rights, monetisation and utopia.
The ...
... at least 6,000 Hungarian Jews so they could escape the Nazi occupiers and travel to Sweden. He also helped forestall a planned massacre. He became the second person to be given honorary U.S. citizenship. ...
... of social justice and global citizenship.
Our news reports, analyses, feature stories and viewpoints aim at achieving the UN’s sustainable development goals. These need a nuclear-weapons-free world. ...
... – that their Ghanaian citizenship be proven before deportation – has been dropped.
The dispute was settled at the United Nations General Assembly meeting in September 2018.
Speaking with the press, ...