The German Development Media Awards champion independent media across the world and put the spotlight on journalists telling important stories affecting their communities, countries and regions. These awards - which recognize excellence in human rights and development journalism - are a new initiative by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and Germany's international broadcaster, Deutsche Welle.
The BMZ has a proud tradition of honoring German journalists who focus on international development issues. Now, in partnership with Deutsche Welle, the new German Media Development Awards are also open to journalists from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. Emphasizing the role of human rights and development in strengthening democracy, good govern
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By: Elke Weesjes, Ph.D and Lori Peek, Ph.D
In 1987, Irwin Redlener, MD, and singer/songwriter, Paul Simon, founded Children's Health Fund (CHF) with the goal of providing comprehensive health care to homeless and medically underserved children. Today, under the leadership of Dr. Redlener, Mr. Simon, and Executive Director, Karen Redlener, CHF sustains a national network of 25 programs serving some of Americas most impoverished communities.
This post, the first of a two-part series on the CHF, features Alan Shapiro, MD. He is Senior Medical Director of the New York Childrens Health Project and of the South Bronx Health Center and Center for Child Health and Resiliency, both affiliated with CHF and Montefiore Medical Center. Recently, Dr. Shapiro talked to us about the history of Children's Health Fund
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Call for Papers
In October 2012 the United Academics Journal of Social Sciences (UAJSS) published the first part of a 'World Religions' series, themed 'Islam & The Western World' (http://www.united-academics.org/journal/septemberoctober-2012-2/). In preparation of part two of this series, we are currently inviting research papers from the various disciplines of the social sciences and humanities that reflect on aspects of 'Christianity & The Western World'. Papers in (intellectual) history, sociology and theology are welcomed, but also papers exploring the connection between political structures and Christianity will be positively considered. Contributions will be published in our journal's Ipad issue (the UAJSS app will be launched in the first week of July 2013), as a pdf on our website and will be includ
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"The Voice of the Silence of the Sacrificed" - Käthe Kollwitz (1867 1945)
The work of Käthe Kollwitz which reflects the ordeal and the pain of the humble and simple is the grandest German poem of the age. This woman of virile heart has looked on them, has taken them in her motherly arms, with a solemn and tender compassion. She is the voice of the silence of the sacrificed. (Romain Rolland, winner of the 1915 Nobel Prize in Literature)
A selection of thirteen rarely displayed prints by the German sculptor and printmaker, Käthe Kollwitz, is currently on display at the Elizabeth A. Ackler Center for Feminist Art in the Brooklyn Museum. It features the artist's most famous print cycles, Krieg (War) and Tod (Death).
Throughout her career, death was one of the most persistent themes in Kollwitz's wor
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By Patrick Meyer
New Orleans Jazz Funerals Celebrate the End of the Struggle
Unlike most port cities in the American South, New Orleans is very Catholic. And with Catholicism come the longstanding and elaborate Old World rituals. And unlike anywhere else in the world, New Orleans has its very own jazz funeral, a communal celebration where grief is danced out of the body and cast off into the air with soaring jazz cadenzas, carnival-worthy costumes, and respect for a time-honored ritual that allows the deceased to be shepherded to their final resting place with great fanfare and joy. A loud and triumphant alternative to Western expectations when it comes to rituals of grief and loss, the jazz funerals genealogical roots are wholly African, using joy and music instead of sadness and silence, to recogn
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