Europe

• Nationalism and Serbian Intellectuals’ Stereotypes about “Us” and “Them”
  15 October 2007, by Olivera Milosavljevic
  The Producers and the Consumers
  This topic could also be called “From Joke to Foe.” I will try to cover this seemingly long path very quickly and easily explain what nationalism is. Why “From Joke to Foe?” Because in all social circumstances and  (...)
• The Construction of the Past – The Case of History Textbooks
  15 October 2007, by Dubravka Stojanovic
  Today, I am going to speak about the misapplication of history in schools. You will see how threatening school can be – this threat is present as early as the third grade – how threatening it was in the nineties, and the threat it poses at  (...)
• Fundamentalism as Internal Occupation and the Prevention of Political Alternatives
  15 October 2007, by Vesna Pesic
  I am not going to talk only about religious fundamentalism, but also about all other fundamentalist ideologies as teachings everyone has to believe in, the only right ones that cannot be circumvented.
  In this sense, fundamentalism can be a  (...)
• Council of Europe: Keep Creationism Out of Science Classes
  13 October 2007
  Evolution, not creationism, should be taught in European science classes, the resolution says Europe’s biggest parliamentary body has urged its 47 member states to “firmly oppose” the teaching of creationism as a scientific discipline in  (...)
• Qu‚est-ce qu’un islamiste modéré ?
  10 octobre 2007
  Il faut se poser cette question car nous entendons souvent ces termes employés par la presse pour définir les partis qui se présentent aux élections sous la bannière d‚un Islam assagi et tolérant comme en Turquie par exemple, ou au Maroc ou en Algérie,  (...)
• Laïcité : Affaire du gite des Vosges : il faut raison garder
  10 octobre 2007
  Communiqué de presse
  Lundi 8 octobre 2007
  Lien permanent vers ce communiqué
  De quoi s’agit-il ?
  Fanny Truchelut tient un gîte. Deux femmes réservent une chambre. Quand elles arrivent, elles sont voilées… La propriétaire leur demande de ne pas porter le  (...)
• An Attack in Belgrade on Women Defenders of Human Rights
  10 October 2007

  On October 6, 2007, Women in Black’s booth at The Women’s NGO Fair in Belgrade, was vandalized and threats were hurled at Women in Black activists

• Faith schools should not be tax-funded, and here’s why
  20 September 2007
  If the Catholic church is prepared to ban Amnesty because of its stance on abortion, what other rights might it censure?
  The Catholic church in Northern Ireland has started a new policy of advising schools to disband their Amnesty International  (...)
• There’s no denying it. . . faith schools divide
  12 September 2007
  I’m not sure I’m in a position to preach about faith schools, having sent two of my children to one at and even, to my perpetual shame, attended church services to rack up the Frequent Flyer points needed to guarantee admission to an admired  (...)
• Ghettoes of superstition
  12 September 2007
  Far from aiding social cohesion, faith schools only cause further divisions. Religious worship must be relegated to the private sphere and kept there.
  So the schools secretary, Ed Balls, and faith group leaders have formed a partnership  (...)

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