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		<title>CEDAW +30:  Slow Progress Nets New Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:56:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[18th December 2009 is the 30th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women or CEDAW. But for the last three decades, progress on getting CEDAW ratified by the European Union is slow.
WIDE Network (or Women in Development Europe) created a CEDAW blog to push things along.
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		<title>Staff Benda Bilili</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Disabled by polio, a group of homeless Congolese buskers called Staff Benda Bilili are attracting Western film-makers, musicians and internet fans with their sweet and funky music.
The band who are weaving spells about our ears with their dulcet rolling rumba and keening vocals are the unrecognised geniuses of Article 15 of the Congolese constitution, which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itbeginswithme.wordpress.com&blog=7065197&post=1209&subd=itbeginswithme&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reporters Uncensored Features UNHCR/CDGECS Profile of FilmAid International</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week Reporters Uncensored features UNHCR/Community Development, Gender Equality and Children Section (CDGECS) recent profile of FilmAid International (and Media Focus on Africa&#8217;s) Participatory Video Projects in Nairobi and Kakuma Refugee Camp.  Click here to find the profile on the RUTV site.  And click here  and here to find our original links on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itbeginswithme.wordpress.com&blog=7065197&post=1189&subd=itbeginswithme&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Update on Participatory Video in Kakuma Refugee Camp</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently we profiled FilmAid International and their Participatory Video Program in Kakuma Refugee Camp in this blog post.   This week, the Huffington Post features their own piece on the group &#8211; and videos produced by young refugee students involved in the program.   Take a look at these featured videos produced by the students:

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		<title>Too Young to Fight</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today &#8211; a Child Soldier Relief special report on the laws that protect child soldiers and children in armed conflict.  The UN estimates there are 300,000 active child soldiers in the world.
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		<title>The Colonizing Discourse of the &#8220;Other&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[



Colleague, friend and restorative justice pioneer Howard Zehr says reducing social distance and &#8220;othering&#8221; increases opportunity for empathy, accountability and dialogue. Great concepts to keep in mind as we think about participatory assessment.
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		<title>U.S. May Be Open to Asylum for Spouse Abuse</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This from today&#8217;s NYTimes:
In an unusually protracted and closely watched case, the Obama administration has recommended political asylum for a Guatemalan woman fleeing horrific abuse by her husband, the strongest signal yet that the administration is open to a variety of asylum claims from foreign women facing domestic abuse.
Click here for the full story.
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		<title>Jay Smooth &#8211; Hip Hop Vlogger/Clear Thinker</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wish we could all be so clear and clever about dealing with those who oppress and generally act badly.  What a great approach.

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		<title>Key to Participatory Culture&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;is an understanding that gender norms must constantly be examined and rethought.   This exchanged happened last month in the U.S. Senate over the health care debate.

Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) has been pushing an amendment to &#8220;prohibit the government from defining which benefits should be included in a standard benefit package.&#8221; Sen. Debbie [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itbeginswithme.wordpress.com&blog=7065197&post=1135&subd=itbeginswithme&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Nightmare Neverland&#8221; Afghan Refugee Children in France</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This from change.org&#8217;s Una Vera:
Last month, French authorities razed an Afghan refugee camp known as “the jungle” in the town of Calais. Yes, you read that correctly: an Afghan refugee camp in France. Hundreds of mostly adolescent boys and young men living in the Calais woods were driven from their shanties during an early-morning police raid. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itbeginswithme.wordpress.com&blog=7065197&post=1130&subd=itbeginswithme&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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