Cultural Diversity News
Blogger wants to create global cultural diversity blognet
Thursday, 02 September 2010 09:05
My name is Pedro Oliveira and I am a Portuguese psychologist with a PhD in anthropology completed at Brunel University: http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/acad/sss/research/centres/cfar/students. I am currently trying to start a network of Bloggers around personal experiences and narratives of cultural diversity. The project is called Chains of Difference and you will find all the information you need in here: http://neuroanthropology.net/2010/06/25/chains-of-difference/. In my blog, you will find a description of my current post-doctoral in anthropology and the project of international bloggers network I am trying to create, called 'chain-blogging'. A summary of it can be found in her.
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Multicultural Health an election sleeper - now becoming critical
Wednesday, 01 September 2010 23:15
A new multicultural health alliance has emerged to take up critical questions ignored by major parties in the election. In the election health policy was one area that the ALP claimed as its own, only to be trumped on mental health by the Coalition commitment to a major upgrade in Federal investment. Neither of the major parties seems to be aware that the multicultural health sector is in crisis, or that their health priorities encompass but do not recognise pressing cultural diversity issues.
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Message in a bottle from Darwin asylum seeker : 'Protection not detection'
Wednesday, 01 September 2010 17:39
A group of asylum seekers began demonstrating outside a Darwin detention centre this morning after being held for nine months without knowing the verdict of their protection visa application. The asylum seekers pushed across two electric fences (charged with 11,000Volts) to get their voices heard. Senator Evans has condemned the demonstration stating that the asylum seekers could also face criminal charges for trying to escape the centre.
The Department of Immigration and Citizenship has confirmed today that Australia has detained about 4,100 asylum seekers this year.
One of the demonstrators threw a bottle at a journalist with a note pleading for 'protection not detention'.
The demonstration began at 6:30am today and has finally ended, whilst the Labor government has remained silent about the issue with no comments.
Unity in Diversity-Marketplace of Ideas
Tuesday, 31 August 2010 14:59
An exciting opportunity exists for 'grassroots' projects that aim to promote mutual understanding among peoples and cultures in the Asia-Pacific region to participate at the Melbourne Forum, October 10-12, 2010, organized by the Global Dialogue Foundation under the auspices of the UN Alliance of Civilizations.
The theme of the Forum is “Bridging Cultures, Building Peace”. Therefore, some suggested themes are as follows:
Promoting cultural diversity in society; Encouraging mutual understanding between people of religions, faiths and traditional faiths; Fostering integration of migrants in urban and rural areas; Advancing cultural understanding through education; Championing youth in furthering dialogue and cooperation among cultures; Using technology to facilitate intercultural understanding.
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