Egypt: A better start for child's rights

The National Council for Childhood and Motherhood seeks to promote children’s rights in the new constitution – Published on Al-Ahram weekly online, by Reem Leila, Nov 13, 2013.

The National Council for Childhood and Motherhood (NCCM) is playing a leading role in suggesting amendments to child-related articles in the new constitution and protecting children’s rights.

In coordination with several NGOs the NCCM is calling for the amended constitution to define anyone below 18 years of age as a child and for all children’s rights to be protected regardless of family situation.  Continuer la lecture de « Egypt: A better start for child's rights »

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Public banking in Costa Rica: A remarkable little known model

Published on Intrepid Report, by Ellen Brown, J.D., Nov 15, 2013;

In Costa Rica, publicly-owned banks have been available for so long and work so well that people take for granted that any country that knows how to run an economy has a public banking option. Costa Ricans are amazed to hear there is only one public depository bank in the United States (the Bank of North Dakota), and few people have private access to it … //

… The dire effects of the IMF’s austerity measures were confirmed in a 1993 book excerpt by Karen Hansen-Kuhn, titled “Structural Adjustment in Costa Rica: Sapping the Economy.” She noted that Costa Rica stood out in Central America because of its near half-century history of stable democracy and well-functioning government, featuring the region’s largest middle class and the absence of both an army and a guerrilla movement.  Continuer la lecture de « Public banking in Costa Rica: A remarkable little known model »

Eco-localism: A Constructive Critique

Published on ZNet, by Robin Hahnel, November 13, 2013.

In the aftermath of the collapse of communism, debate about alternatives to capitalism has divided into three camps: advocates of market socialism, proponents of democratic planning, and supporters of community-based economics.[1] Few anti-capitalists—whether they favor market socialism, democratic planning, or community-based economics—deceive themselves that there is more than a tiny minority in any advanced economy who are ready to replace capitalism at this time. Continuer la lecture de « Eco-localism: A Constructive Critique »