Galardonada Agueda Marin por la OIM


RIF/FIRE
.San José, 23 de mayo, 2006

COMUNICADO

La Organización Internacional de las Migraciones, OIM, otorgó
galardones a su personal como reconocimiento por su desempeño
sobresaliente durante el 2005, los cuales  reflejan la  variada labor
mundial de la organización, así como la fuerza, valentía y compromiso
de su personal.  Se otorgaron nueve galardones individuales,  dos
galardones conjuntos y  un reconocimiento especial para las Misiones
en  Colombia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka y Zimbabwe.

Águeda Marín, de la Oficina de la OIM en San José. reconocida amiga
del movimiento feminista, recibió el galardón por su dedicación y
programación innovadora en la lucha contra la trata de personas en
América Central.

Para ampliación de esta noticia puede visitar :

http://www.iom.int/en/news/pr2006-005_sp.shtml

Radio Internacional Feminista - RIF
Email:  oficina@radiofeminista.net

United Nations
Two LGBT associations rejected. UN NGO Committee on discriminatory 
trend.


LSVD, the German LGBT federation and ILGA-Europe's applications to 
obtain observer status at the United Nations were rejected last week
at the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)'s Committee on 
Non-governmental organizations.

"It is sad that an august body such as the NGO Committee would be the 
source of discrimination against LGBT people. The rejection of LSVD and 
ILGA-Europe this May, following the rejection in January of Danish
Association LBL and the International Lesbian and Gay Association, 
clearly demonstrates the homophobia of many States sitting at the
NGO Committee" says Rosanna Flamer Caldera, Co-Secretary General of ILGA.
"This sadly coincides with the second commemoration of the International
Day Against Homophobia, May 17"...

read on
http://www.ilga.org/news_results.asp?LanguageID=1&FileID=799&FileCategory=1

The ILGA office

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Dear Members,
 
We are pleased to announce a special event and unique opportunity for 
Development Gateway members! At 3:00pm on May 24th the World Bank's 
InfoShop, in collaboration with B-SPAN, will webcast a discussion by Nobel 
Laureate Amartya Sen about his recent publication, "Identity and 
Violence: The Illusion of Destiny". Challenging the reductionist view that 
people of the world can be partitioned into civilizational categories 
that reinforce our differences, Sen draws on history, economics, science, 
literature and offers a vision of a world that can be made to move 
toward peace as firmly as it has spiraled in recent years toward violence 
and war. Dr. Sen's other books include "On Ethics and Economics", 
"Development as Freedom", and "The Argumentative Indian". 
 
LIVE WEBCAST
 
The webcast will take place Wednesday May 24th from 3:00pm-4:30pm EST 
(Eastern Standard Time). 
At that time, you will be able to access the live webcast at 
http://webcast-ext.worldbank.org/streaming/live.ram. You will need 
RealPlayer installed on your computer to view this video. For complete 
information on how to download and install a free version of RealPlayer, 
please go to http://www.real.com/.  
 
EMAIL YOUR QUESTIONS FOR AMARTYA SEN
 
As members of the Development Gateway, you are invited to email your 
questions for Amartya Sen to 
dgContent@dgfoundation.org during his live presentation. The event 
moderator will select a sample of these 
questions to present to Amartya Sen during the live broadcast Q&A 
session. Please include your name, 
organization and country affiliation in your correspondence (these may 
be mentioned by the moderator if your 
question is selected). 
 
MEMBER FORUM
 
Culture helps form identity and worldview. We are shaped by our 
cultures, and perceived differences can be perceived as threatening. What can 
be done to transcend these tensions and bring about a greater sense of 
shared identity and a common, life affirming destiny?  Please log in 
and share your replies on the Culture and Development dgCommunity at 
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/culture/discussion/showDiscussion.do~id=1522?intcmp=504 
 
PRAISE FOR "IDENTITY & VIOLENCE"
 
"I am deeply impressed by power of Identity And Violence. Amartya Sen, 
one of the world's great thinkers, tells us how to go about building a 
more peaceful world.  I hope the book will be read by all." - Ted 
Turner
 
"The world's poor and dispossessed could have no more articulate or 
insightful a champion among economists than Amartya Sen. The United 
Nations, in its own development work, has benefited immensely from the wisdom 
and good sense of Professor Sen's views." - Kofi A. Annan, 
Secretary-General of the United Nations
 
EVENT LOCATION
 
For those of you in or near Washington DC, the event will take place in 
the World Bank H Building - Eugene R. 
Black Auditorium, G Street Entrance (1914 G Street NW). All non-bank 
attendees must send an RSVP email to 
infoshopevents@worldbank.org in order to attend in person.
 
BIOS OF THE PRESENTERS
 
Amartya Sen, Professor, Harvard University. Amartya Sen has written 
several books including On Ethics and Economics, Development as Freedom, 
and The Argumentative Indian. Mr. Sen won the 1998 Nobel Prize in 
economics.  A professor at Harvard, Mr. Sen lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts 
and Cambridge, England.
 
Professor Sen will be Introduced by Ian Goldin, Vice President, 
External and UN Affairs, World Bank.
Ian Goldin has been Vice President at the World Bank since May 2003. 
Previously, he was the Director of 
Development Policy. Prior to joining the Bank in February 2001, Dr. 
Goldin was the Chief Executive of the 
Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA), Principal Economist at the 
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London, and 
Head of the Trade Program at the OECD Development Center in Paris.
 
ABOUT THE INFOSHOP
 
The InfoShop is the public information center and development bookstore 
of the World Bank.  It functions as the only publicly accessible space 
at headquarters, providing internal and external audiences access to 
over 6000 titles published by the World Bank, other international 
organizations, and other publishers on development 
issues.  It is a space where information and documents on World Bank 
development operations, economic data, and strategies, can be read easily 
and comfortably at workstations designed for public use.  In addition, 
the InfoShop hosts book launches, exhibits, seminars, receptions, and 
other community outreach events, and also carries videos, posters, 
CD-ROMs, and gift items. For more information, visit: 
http://www.worldbank.org/infoshop
 
ABOUT B-SPAN
 
B-SPAN (http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/index.asp) is an 
Internet-based broadcasting service that 
presents World Bank seminars, workshops, and conferences on a variety 
of sustainable development and poverty reduction issues.  B-SPAN streams 
events on the Internet, archives them on the  B-SPAN web site, offers 
them in their original unedited format, and provides indexing for quick 
access to specific speakers. B-SPAN's webcasts are free and available 
to anyone with access to the Internet. Users need only to download a 
free version of RealPlayer, a software that allows the playing of archived 
videos on a personal computer. For complete information on how to 
download and install RealPlayer, please go to http://www.real.com/.  
 
We look forward to your participation!
 
Best wishes,
 
Mike Pereira
Director, Global Online Communities
Development Gateway Foundation
1889 F Street NW
Washington DC 20006

V Encuesta Anual sobre Educación

Estudio 310 GOP U. Lima

El optimismo en el futuro contrasta con una visión muy crítica de la realidad actual, pues solo el 11% considera que la educación en los colegios estatales es muy buena o buena, mientras el 66% da esa valoración a la educación en los colegios particulares, percepción que también muestra los profundos desajustes existentes en la sociedad peruana y que indica claramente la urgente necesidad de alcanzar metas de calidad de la educación pública.

El bajo nivel de los maestros (26%), las deficiencias de la política educativa (16%), la corrupción en los colegios (12%), la baja remuneración de los maestros (11%) y la falta de educación en valores (10%), son considerados los principales problemas de la educación escolar en el Perú.

Esta percepción corresponde a las propuestas que harían los consultados para mejorar la educación escolar: Capacitar a los maestros ((45%), Cambiar los contenidos (20%), mejorar el sueldo de los maestros (14%) y combatir la corrupción en los colegios (11%).

Otro aspecto importante es que el 85% de los entrevistados considera que en el Perú las mujeres tienen iguales oportunidades de educación que los hombres, demostrándose una vez más que la educación es un tema en el que la participación de la mujer ha tomado un impulso importante y que las diferencias de género, a la vez que subsisten y son profundas en la sociedad peruana, tienden a reducirse, especialmente en algunos campos, como la educación.

Es significativo que en dos últimos años haya subido de 52% a 65% la desaprobación del Decreto Legislativo 882, que permite que las instituciones educativas privadas sean empresas con fines de lucro. Esto es una muestra más de la crisis liberal, la misma que se ha manifestado dramáticamente durante el actual proceso electoral.

Entre algunos contenidos evaluados en el estudio, destacan la educación en valores (64%), la educación sexual (49%) y la educación para la democracia (38%), como los temas más importantes de la educación escolar. En contraste, la instrucción premilitar (12%) y la educación artística (16%), son percibidas como los menos importantes.

Luis Benavente Gianella

Director