After seven years in the making and two postponements, the 42 organisations from 14 Southern African Development Community (SADC) member states have come to a conclusion for the women of Southern Africa. At a summit held over the weekend of August 16th, a long-delayed gender protocol was signed that calls for 50% representation by women […]
Although the Olympic games in Beijing ended almost a month ago, the Paralympics drew to a close just last week with great success. With almost 4000 athletics from 150 different countries, the Paralympics were a show of astounding athletic abilities and attracted millions of viewers.
More than 2,000 entries were received in response to an invitation from the EU to visually portray the meaning of the 2008 European Year of Intercultural Dialogue. The competition, launched last March, invited anyone with a camera and a sense of curiosity to submit their own vision of cultures meeting and mixing in their neighbourhood. […]
Seit 2008 sind so genannte Stadtlotsen dreisprachig in Frankfurt an der Oder im Einsatz: Sie helfen Touristen und Einheimischen, den richtigen Weg zu finden. Die Ausbildung zum Stadtlotsen bein-haltet kompakte Sprachkurse in Englisch, Deutsch und Polnisch. Polnische Grußformeln und Richtungsanweisungen werden von einer Muttersprachlerin beigebracht.
Eine Studie des Marktforschungsinstituts TNS Infratest stellt Personen mit Migrationshin-tergrund einen äußerst geschickten Umgang mit dem Internet aus. Sie nutzen die Chancen, die das Internet zur beruflichen Qualifizierung, Sprachförderung und Bildung bietet, stärker als Per-sonen ohne Migrationshintergrund: 64,3 Prozent von ihnen nutzen die Möglichkeiten des World Wide Webs. Dagegen stehen 66,8 Prozent überzeugter User auf […]
Das Leben besteht aus einer Flut von Eindrücken. Ein Mega-Tsunami von Informationen und Er-fahrungen, um genau zu sein. Wir Menschen nutzen eine genialeinfache Technik, um dieser Komplexität Herr (oder Frau) zu werden: Wir achten auf Wiederholungen, sogenannte Muster, und vergleichen Neues mit Vergangenem. Die so entstehenden Kategorien und Referenzen erleichtern uns den Umgang im Alltag […]
On 23rd and 24th of October, the conference “Diversity Inclusive Performance Drivers Jacob Fleming” took place in London. As the “Business Case for Diversity” is becoming an increasingly relevant issue within the companies’ agenda, Diversity-Experts, CEOs and Managers came together to learn how to tailor best practice within the European legislative framework and to succeed […]
In his quite thorough book, Scott Page opens up the term ‘diversity’ into concepts and perspectives and interprets them through the eyes of modern society, human philosophy and history. This book began as an effort to explain to members of academia, major corporations, and whomever else was reading, that
On the grounds that a multicultural vision is still uncommon in movies and on television the French government has decided to promote diversity through a subsidy fund. Called Images de la Diversité, or Images of Diversity, the fund went into effect last year and distributed about €5 million (US$6.8 million) in aid in 2007.
At an international summit held in Astana, Kazakhstan, foreign ministers of more than 50 international countries joined together with Kazakhstan’s president Nursultan Nazarbayev to discuss intolerance and religious and ethnic misunderstanding throughout the world.
