WELCOME TO THE APRIL 06 ISSUE

Tena koutou e te whanau. Welcome to the first issue of GEC:NEWS for 2006.

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  • GEC endorsed as Aotearoa NZ focal point for Pacific Youth Festival

  • Parihaka Peace Festival a big success

  • World Children's Prize for the Rights of The Child (WCPRC)

  • New Teachers Resources

  • New Library Resources

  • Just Change Issue Five

  • DRC Has Relocated

  • DRC Director Moves to Warmer Shores

  • Global Bits Gets a New Look

  • New Staff

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  • The Global Demand for Oil
  • The World's Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child
  • The WPCRC Magazines, Global Friends and Adult Friends
  • An Active Society is a Developed Society

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  • Water as a Human Right?
  • A Different Perspective on Maps
  • Bird Flu

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  • Pacific Youth Festival
  • Threats to Peace and Disarmamant-The Way Forward
  • Save the Children Small Grants Fund
  • Walk the World
  • Oxfam Trailwalker
  • Connecting with young people in crisis

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  • Beyond the Postcard
  • Global Issues Teaching Resource
  • Conflict, Resolution and Peacekeeping
  • The better world handbook : from good intentions to everyday actions
  • Youth Topics - the ultimate collection
  • In My Country
  • Born into Brothels
  • The Future of Food

• The views of young Guatemalans on how to end gang violence

  A brutal civil war may have formally ended in 1996, but insecurity and violence characterise daily life in ‘post-conflict' Guatemala. Repressive attempts to control the violence caused by youth gangs have failed. It is time the views of young people were heard in debates on gang violence. read more

• Union Members Sacked

  EIGHT long-term employees — all union members and several receiving WorkCover payments — were sacked yesterday from a multinational cable company in Port Melbourne using the Federal Government's new workplace laws. Read more.

• Seven journalists assaulted by police and students in Papua

  Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has called for a meeting of police officials in Papua province following an assault by policemen and students on seven journalists on 16 March.  read more.

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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Johann von Goethe