Welcome to this internet edition of
ALIEN '932
When ALIEN 93 was produced back in 1993, access to the
internet was restricted basically to academics, big business
and governments – none of us had e-mail and we contacted
each other using the post, fax and telephone. Nowadays,
access to internet is still not available to everybody and
we need to be doing more to combat this new form of exclusion.
Still, things are improving and the opportunities to use
the internet to share ideas and make publications more accessible
are – thinking back to 1992 – incredible. Contributing
to an evolving community of practice on human rights education
throughout the world certainly assists in creating links
and solidarity.
With the successful launch of Compass
on-line, it made sense to update the publications which
formed the core of the educational effort of the "all
different – all equal" campaign and to make them
more widely available within the context of the Human Rights
Education initiative. And it made sense to use the possibility
to make relevant links between Compass,
DOmino,
the Education Pack
"all different all equal" and this
one – as you click through them you will find much
which is complementary. Especially exciting is the chance
to make links between more reflective pieces and activities,
so that each enhances the other.
So what has changed here? The bulk of the text remains
unchanged. We have updated references and examples; and
deleted ones which are now irrelevant. We have been very
selective in the inclusion of links to other relevant web
sites. And a technical note here: as site designers often
change the internal structure of their sites, usually we
only give the basic domain name for a site; when more complicated
addresses are referenced then we also state the date of
access.
We hope you will find this edition easy to use and challenging
to put into practice!
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