Raising Peace Camps There are 58 Raising Peace Camps this year worldwide. The aim of these camps is to raise awareness and empower on the rights that we all have, how to defend them, to identify when they are not respected and contribute to change these situations of injustice. Click the icons to view the detailed […]
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Peace Week Poland #IVSFreeGender #PeaceWeekPoland
Peace Week Poland #IVSFreeGender #PeaceWeekPoland From 27th November to 3rd December, the third Peace Action Week took place in Warsaw in Poland. Organized by CCIVS and hosted by FIYE Poland, it was the third and last peace week that took place in 2015 as part of the Raising Peace global campaign. This time the topic […]
Join Raising Peace 2016
We invite you to be an active part of the Raising Peace Campaign 2016. Organise a Raising Peace Camp: We want to have 20 Raising Peace Camps all over the world in 2016. Camps that choose to commit on human rights education and action, and/or in peace building activities, and want to spread the image […]
Euro-MEDA IVS organisations’ recommendations for future cooperation
International Voluntary Service (IVS) organisations which participated in the Campaign “Contact Making to Youth Participation; the Strengthening of a Culture of Peace Focusing on Active Participation and Social Inclusion among Young People in the EU and the Southern Mediterranean” launched by CCIVS in 2014-2015 and co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme, wrote recommendations for future cooperation. […]
UN Women action briefs (pre-training PAW part 3)
In this page prepared for the Itinerary towards the Peace Week on Gender, Sexuality and body, you can download the briefs by UN Women about their action: > UN Women_Economic empowerment_E-Thematic-Brief_US-web pdf > UN Women Governance BriefUSweb pdf > UN Women_women’s leadership_LGThemBriefUSwebrev2 pdf > UN Women_peace and security_ BRIEFThematicPSUSwebREV3 pdf > UN Women_ending violence on […]
Poem – Can Masdeu
Can Masdeu Can Masdeu above sky and sea Cling to cliff face in rain and wind, Embrace community caring for place, Tending the plants that create your earth; Baby’s cry and children’s laughter, Bronzed citizens hearts devoted, hands tool laden Nourish the land that lives and breathes. Can Masdeu above sea and sky Cling to […]
Refugee Centre Linin
There are 11 centres for asylum seekers in Poland. Most of the refugees in Poland are Chechens, Ukrainians and Georgians. Linin is a small town close to the capital of Poland, Warsaw. The refugee centre located there is the biggest refugee centre in the country. 400 asylum seekers can be accommodated there. This year 10 […]
To remember! (Chełmno, near Łódź)
The German Kulmhof Death Camp in Chełmno on Ner was the first instant mass extermination centre for Jewish in Warthegau. It was opened in December 1941 and operated over two periods until 1945. The most probable number of murdered people there is approximately 200,000. The mission of the Museum in Chełmno is to cultivate the […]
International Youth Day 2015 – What is peace?
August 12th 2015 marked UN International Youth Day. This important date fell in the middle of an international volunteer project hosted by ‘Wales for Peace’ and UNA Exchange in Cardiff. The two week ‘Peace Garden’ project brought 12 international volunteers to Cardiff to work on the Peace Garden at the Temple of Peace, our home base, […]
Peace Week Barcelona: Final Day
READ MORE about PEACE WEEK BARCELONA: Imagine you live in a place you don’t own and police may come anytime to evict you. You don’t even have the electricity so you can only see your room in the daylight. If you want your shower or toilet to work you have to fix it yourself but the water will probably […]