Posted in Uncategorized on July 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.osce.org/odihr/item_1_38611.html
VILNIUS, 2 July 2009 – The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and Lithuania’s Ministry of Education and Science today launched a Lithuanian-language version of teaching materials on combating anti-Semitism designed for use in secondary schools.
Lithuania is the third country to adopt the ODIHR teaching materials, after Germany and Poland.
“It is worrying [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.pm.gc.ca/eng/media.asp?category=2&id=2602
31 May 2009
Toronto, Ontario
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen.
Thank you Philip for that kind introduction.
I’d like to acknowledge the presence of some important dignitaries with us tonight.
Please welcome the Vice Prime Minister of Israel, Silvan Shalom , and the former Prime Minister of Australia, the Honourable John Howard.
Greetings also to Chairman Schwartz, Rabbi Hier, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
New FRA report examines discrimination against Muslims: Under-reporting of incidents and lack of trust in public authorities (28/05/2009)
http://fra.europa.eu/fraWebsite/eu-midis/eumidis_details_en.htm
The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) released on Thursday 28 May a report on discrimination against Muslims in the EU. The results for Muslim respondents indicate similarly high levels of discrimination and victimisation as for other minority groups [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The United Nations Department of Public Information’s Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme will organize a seminar titled “Cyber Hate: Danger in Cyber Space” from 9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on 16 June 2009 in conference room 2 at New York Headquarters. This seminar, to be opened by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, will explore [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Pope Benedict XVI’s trip to Israel is a historic positive step forward for Vatican-Israel relations and the Catholic-Jewish dialogue.
This important trip reaffirms Pope Benedict’s commitment to continue to strengthen relations between the Vatican and the State of Israel, begun under his predecessor Pope John Paul II. In recent months, Pope Benedict XVI has reconfirmed the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You can read it on the following webpage:
http://www.theajc.ns.ca/shalom/Shalom_2009.pdf
Posted in Uncategorized on May 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.hdke.hu/index.php?menu=020201&mgroup=1&app=info&page=main&artid=6b279380a98488f1b39d87c79385a896Rabbi
Andrew Baker, leading advocate for tolerance visiting Budapest
For thirty years Rabbi Andrew Baker, a leading advocate for tolerance, has been travelling all over the world implementing programs promoting tolerance and protection of all minority groups. Some of his destinations include such newly emerged democracies like the Czech Republic, Slovakia or Lithuania. He helped the Romanian [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
We would like to inform you about a seminar organized in Zagreb, Croatia by the Ministry of Education: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa9r1xoddh8
More information from Croatia: you can here about the Classroom holocaust museum project in Croatia: http://www.slideshare.net/Hajdarovic/razredni-muzej-holokausta
Posted in Uncategorized on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc7vFEcnBHI
Posted in Uncategorized on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
16 people were recognized as Righteous among the Nations in the ceremony that took place on April 21 at 4.30 pm in Vilnius University This year the awards for Righteous among the Nations were organized by the International Historical Commission together with the Embassy of Israel, the Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum and the Jewish [...]
