Ce numéro se situe dans la continuité de ces analyses avec une double intention :
Rassembler des travaux empiriques consacrés à des pratiques concrètes de « transition » énergétique et climatique (en incluant le champ de la mobilité), institutionnelles ou non, de manière à mieux saisir la dynamique des politiques et expérimentations en cours dans une variété de contextes ;
Through work provided by members of the CNHH, the catalogue of the archives of the Match International Fund is now available online via the Carleton University archives.
From the Carleton Archives website:
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Of all centuries, the twentieth is perhaps the one which most deserves to qualify as the ‘children’s century’ for the way in which the focus of social and political concern increasingly alighted on the figure of the child.
The period from the end of the 19th century witnessed a series of international developments affecting the discourses articulated around children’s rights to physical protection, health and well-being: from the multiplication of laws to protect them in the public and private spheres, to the rise of non-governmental organisations and associations to bring them relief from trauma, insecurity and maltreatment. At the same time, the twentieth century has gone hand-in-hand with increasing opportunities for children to experience such tragedies; and in both domestic settings (abuse or neglect) as well as wider geopolitical manifestations of violence (war and genocide) such anxieties have influenced the form and nature of the above responses.
The Archives of the International Committee of the Red Cross, through Crosswise this includes access to the organization’s online and audiovideo archival material, now makes research guides available to researchers. These guides include links and online resources that may be of relevant interest.
Of potential interest to members of the CNHH, Vanderhoeck & Ruprecht recently published a new volume on the European concepts of humanity, morality, and philanthropy, edited by Fabian Klose and Mirjam Thulin, both of the Leibniz Institut fuer Europaeische Geschichte (IEG). Continue reading
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Photographers and aid agencies each frame photographs according to their own politics, experiences and goals. These, in turn, shape spectators’ interpretations of people’s lived realities around the globe, and contribute to formulating responses to humanitarian issues. How have photographers and agencies represented refugees? How have refugees been pictured? In what way does the photographic version change when it has been published?
See how “Refugees on the road between Gisenyi and Ruhengeri,” a photograph of a Rwandan child made by Canadian photographer Roger LeMoyne’s in 1996 for the CIDA International Development Photo Library and published in 2000, can help answer these questions.
The current issue of Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees has now been published. This special issue on Power and Influence in the Global Refugee Regime is one of the results of the workshop hosted at Carleton University in September 2015 with the generous support of Migration and Diaspora Studies. It is an OpenAccess journal, so you can access and share the special issue through the journal’s Table of Contents or through the provided link.
On Thursday February 16, CNHH member John Foster was at York for the launch of the LAWG collection. He wrote: “The event was quite wonderful. I attach the ribbon cutting moment, with Prof. Liisa North of York and Caese Levo, former LAWG librarian, both of whom have been instrumental in organizing the collection. We are so lucky that CERLAC negotiated space and is hosting.”
Photo: John Foster
John presented the archives at Carleton University today at the Workshop on Canada’s Past and Future in the Americas in the session on “Historical Perspectives on Canada’s Relations with Latin America”, in a paper entitled” “Life Beyond Death: The Story of the Latin American Working Group (LAWG)”
Photo: Julia VanDrie
Here is the official announcement of the archives opening:
Latin American Working Group (LAWG) library opens at CERLAC’s Resource Centre:
We are pleased to announce the opening of the LAWG (Latin American Working Group) Library, part of CERLAC’s Resource Centre, thanks to the efforts of Liisa North and Caese Levo. As Liisa explains, LAWG “played a leading role in sustaining Canadian solidarity with human rights and women’s organizations, peasant and worker unions, ecumenical groups, refugee agencies, and others in the southern hemisphere during some of its darkest hours of war, military dictatorship, and US intervention, as well as the bright moments of popular and revolutionary breakthroughs.”
The LAWG library is a unique collection of ephemeral publications, pamphlets, posters, letters to the public, reports, and other publications dating from 1965 to 1990. It consists of thousands of documents organized and labeled in 120 “banker’s boxes.” The collection is particularly strong on (from north to south) the Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Brazil, Argentina, and Chile. Simon Granovsky-Larsen, Assistant Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Regina, who examined the Guatemala collection, found that it contained “rare and important material on the relatively obscure Guatemalan organization that I happen to be interested in” and that the collection as a whole “would attract visiting researchers from across Canada and beyond, as well as graduate students from a number of disciplines” if it were publicized more.
More information on the LAWG Library, as well as other collections at the CERLAC Resource Centre is available on our website (under “Resources”). The collection can be consulted by contacting CERLAC Coordinator Camila Bonifaz (bonifaz@yorku.ca).
To read John’s blog on the recognition of the LAWG by the Chilean government in the fall of 2016, click HERE.
The Humanitarian Response Network of Canada (HRN) is a vibrant community of practice made of 32 Canadian humanitarian organizations. The HRN seeks to share lessons learned with the view to strengthen the quality and efficiency of humanitarian action by creating a conversation around key humanitarian policy issues and practices.
To support these efforts, the HRN is running a pilot program to provide six grants of $2,500 each to support graduate student research on issues relating to humanitarian policy and practice, including, but not limited to, research on:
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