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In the spring of 2006, the founders of Social Workers Beyond Borders were inspired by a speech given by Stephen Lewis, former U.N. Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, during which he challenged the social work audience to create an organization to use social work skills and therapeutic interventions to find ways to alleviate the suffering of people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa … (about 1/2).

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About 2/2: … The name Social Workers Beyond Borders was chosen for the agency symbolizing the importance for social workers to reach beyond borders to provide a psychosocial response to address human catastrophe around the world. Continuer la lecture de « Social Workers Beyond Borders SWBB »

also in de, es, fr – Linked on our blogs with Give someone you never met, a gift they will never forget, and with Clinic to fight taboo of female mutilation.

• … FGM is affecting an estimated 500,000 immigrant girls and women here in Europe, and putting another 180,000 girls at risk each year. The majority of them come from Egypt, Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea.
• I created this website with the intention to recognize the work of many artists committed in the fight against FGM, and at the same time, to encourage many more to deal with the issue as well. With their artistic interpretations they can help the world to better understand and to see this problem for what it really is: the cruelest act of violence against women happening under the sun! (Isabel Henriques … full text Welcome Page).

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FGM – A wound for life: Worldwide there are 138 million women victims of female genital mutilation, from practices that hurt or destroy the external genitalia for non-therapeutic reasons.  Continuer la lecture de « With (he)art against FGM »

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• Monday, January 17, 2011 … Here’s an intelligent intro from YouTube’s LatumWay (6.43 min), to another excellent freedom0speech (6.17 min), take-down of the Doctors (0.29 min) and American television stupidity on the topic of carving on infant genitals. It may seem odd to introduce a take-down of a TV show. Why not just watch the take-down? It’s sort of derivative of a derivative take on the show. However, on the shoulders of giants … and anyway who said the echo chamber was all bad?!
• 2 Videos: discussion one, 4.51 min; discussion two, 14.40 min … (Frontpage 1/2).

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Frontpage 2/2: Help Us Promote This Site! This site needs exposure. We need people to come here and debate this issue. It isn’t going away any time soon and neither are we.  Continuer la lecture de « Male Circumcision and HIV »

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skhole.fr se veut un lieu de réflexion et d’échanges autour de l’école et de l’éducation en général. Initié par Guillaume Vergne et Julien Gautier, professeurs de philosophie, skhole.fr a vocation à accueillir les contributions de tous ceux qui veulent réfléchir au sens de l’école et aux pratiques d’enseignement … (texte entier le manifeste).

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Reflexions générales /L’enseignement est-il un métier de care? Le care est à la mode en ce moment. Il fait en France l’objet d’un intérêt croissant, y compris médiatique, depuis quelque temps – quoiqu’avec un décalage certain par rapport au reste du monde.  Continuer la lecture de « skhole.fr – penser et repenser l'école »