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After 25 years of dicussions and work the NMRI will be founded in May 2023. This also implies a turning point for humanrights.ch. Besides its own new orientation, humanrights.ch seeks to hand over its database with basic documentation of human rights and their implementation in Switzerland.

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The CAS “Arts and International Cooperation” brings artists and members of international cooperation organizations from the Global South and North together. They have an interest in the potential of art to support processes of social transformation and peacebuilding, as well as the commitment to a fair and sensitive common international cooperation in common.

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March 27, 2023 | 7-9pm | Gartenhofstrasse 7, Zurich

The next Café de la Paix will consist of reports from three countries in the Horn of Africa. Abel Atsbeha will speak about Ethiopia and the war in Tigray. Pheben Asgehedom will give insights to Eritrea and the current situation and Bashir Gobdon will report on Somalia and the famine there.

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The new magazine from terre des hommes focuses on the topic of decolonization and asks how development work can be done at eye level. Moreover, it includes an article on projects for youth in El Salvador.

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KOFF gender experts Yasmine Janah & Dr Anna Antonakis wrote an article on the open debate meeting on Resolution 1325 under Mozambique's Presidency of the UNSC for the SGA-ASPE. The article highlights the importance of the UN Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda as a domestic and foreign policy agenda and concludes that civil society is a necessary condition to support gender-sensitive peace policies, not least in the context of Switzerland’s current seat on the UN Security Council and the forthcoming draft of the Swiss 5th NAP.

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March 24, 2023 | 05:30-6:45pm | Missionshaus Basel

Based on documents from the archive of the Basel mission women's voices from Europe, Asia and Africa in the 19th and early 20th century are revived: They speak about their tasks, their motivation and their work for gender equality. With Andrea Rhyn, archivist at Mission 21. Cost: 20 CHF.

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The Ecumenical Campaign is once again dedicated to climate justice, this year focusing on our food system. How we produce and consume food today is responsible for one-third of the world’s greenhouse gases. The climate crisis is exacerbating hunger around the world. Fastenaktion and HEKS see agroecology as a solution.

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With the Education Agenda, Mission 21 provides a compact overview of its numerous educational events and courses. Mission 21 is using the digital sphere and thus enables international participation of interested parties and experts – through the organization of its inter-religious forum on transcultural peacebuilding, or its webinars “Mission-Colonialism Revisited” for a critical reappraisal of historical entanglements of mission and colonialism.

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A year has passed since Russia invaded Ukraine and the outcome of this war remains uncertain. It is the first conflict of its kind and magnitude in Europe since the Second World War and highlights the divergence of views on peace, even within the peacebuilding practice. When a country is attacked, is military retaliation the way to peace? KOFF members share their views and commitment to peacebuilding in Ukraine in this first 2023 issue of à propos.

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cfd is looking for a project manager for the campaign "16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence". The objective of the campaign is to prevent violence and to raise awareness. More than 200 organizations are involved. The campaign is currently being conducted in 16 cantons in German-speaking Switzerland and occasionally in French-speaking Switzerland. The overall objective of the position is to promote the "16 days" campaign in the French-speaking part of Switzerland and in Ticino. Application Deadline: 26.02.2022

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