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By Perfecto Caparas The Philippine Department of Education recently issued a policy adopting “rights-based education” as its basic framework for kindergarten to high school students. Titled “Child Rights Policy: Adopting The Rights-Based Education Framework In Philippine Basic Education,” the DepEd…

Chile’s new Constitutional Draft waiting for approval by plebiscite on September 4th 2022 represents the culmination of a long process initiated by the social outburst of October 19, 2019. The draft is the result of a unique, unprecedented and profoundly…

With this title, Editorial Catalonia has just published a book on the subject. The idea has been to delineate as accurately as possible the dimensions of the phenomenon and to search for its deepest historical roots in order to understand…

By Horacio Mesón When we receive the news of the almost sudden death of a loved one who also has other attributes – such as having been for the undersigned one of the models of life – this type of…

The dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy says that to discriminate is “to select by excluding”. So, talking about discrimination is equivalent to talking about exclusion. By Roberto Kohanoff and Isabel Lazzaroni Another definition given by the Royal Academy of…

After the declaration of the new Tunisian constitution on June 30th, a public constitutional referendum is expected to take place for the first time in Tunisia on July 25th. The unique character of this Referendum has encouraged the attention of…

After a decade of political unrest and distress, Tunisia’s next step towards democracy started by hosting its first Constitutional Referendum in history. The Constitution was suggested by the current president Kais Saeid who froze and dismantled the parliament, changed the…

Cycling advocacy groups have this month been praising impending developments in inter-institutional European frameworks centred on the creation of a homogenous European cycling plan. Speaking recently at the 2022 Cycling Summit in Copenhagen, Frans Timmermans, Executive Vice-President of the European…

The new book by Howard Richards with the assistance of Gavin Andersson.  Foreword by Evelin Lindner.  Lake Oswego OR: Dignity Press, 2022.  Available on Amazon and other sites as a print book and as a Kindle ebook. Review by Michael…

The Z factor! I was pleasantly surprised by the last Spiderman movie, “No way Home”. In general, Marvel movies are filled with scenes of violence where evil and good struggle endlessly. The narrative is always almost the same, the heroes…