Archive for December, 2007
Thinking Beyond
The Sunday Times has an article about the recent Peace Camp facilitated by Beyond Borders; it talks about participatory learning, change and the viability of this sort of interventions. Here’s from Thinking Beyond :
The 3 day camp had a combination of sessions on issues related with peace – identity, stereotypes, conflict transformation, critical thinking, social [...]
Filed under: Events-Activities-Announcements, Identity, Kids, Media, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka | Leave a Comment
Tags: Beyond Borders, Participatory Learning, Peace, Peace Camp, Social Change, Sri Lanka, Youth Activism
Feminism and the Law
Does the legal system cater to women? Many feminist don’t believe it does. Which could be agreed upon as the law provides inadequate protection for women’s injuries, which are among the most under reported crimes in the world.Why it is that Sexual harassment was not considered an offense for a long time? And pornography is [...]
Filed under: Opinions, Sex - Sexuality - Gender, Sri Lanka | 12 Comments
Tags: Abortion, Activism, Colombo, Feminism, GBV, Law, Sri Lanka, Women, Youth
When we first thought of Kola Kenda, we were thinking of ways in which to build a common Sri Lankan identity, we thought a feel-good book about Sri Lanka would be one way of going about it. We felt we don’t need back into thousands of years in our history to find a bit of [...]
Filed under: Events-Activities-Announcements, Opinions, Sri Lanka | 3 Comments
Tags: Books, ebook, Kola Kenda, Sri Lanka
Swechha-We for Change Foundation is a Non-profit organisation based in New Delhi, Working on issues related to environment education, life skills, youth activism and active citizenship. Swechha started with the “We for Yamuna” campaign in 2000 which aimed at attracting the attention of the government and other stakeholders towards the pitiable state of the River [...]
Filed under: Events-Activities-Announcements, Fun, Identity, India, Sri Lanka, Youth-Culture-Society | 1 Comment
Tags: Beyond Borders, India, Journey, New Delhi, Sri Lanka, Swechha, Yamuna, Yamuna Yatra, Yatra
“Danaganin Minnissunge Baley!”
“This is the power of the people, GOT IT??!”
A war cry worth taking up! This is what one fearless colleague of mine at SLRC shouted at the modern day Government’s idea of the palace joker. Since the Dubious Doctor decides to take his goons, including a man who is suspected of a double murder & [...]
Filed under: Media, Opinions, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, Youth-Culture-Society | 1 Comment
Tags: Active Citizenship, Politics, Protest
When will the teachers learn?
There is a strong nexus between HIV/AIDS and poverty, especially in the most poverty-stricken areas in Africa. The World Bank Blog, Ending Poverty in South Asia exploring whether HIV could have similar negative effects in the development of South Asia relates an interesting story from Sri Lanka,
Young people, one of the more vulnerable groups in [...]
Filed under: HIV/AIDS, Kids, Opinions, Sex - Sexuality - Gender, Sri Lanka | Leave a Comment
Tags: , Education, Sex, Sex Ed., Sexual Health Education, Sri Lanka, World Bank
SAARC Youth Camp
All eight members of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) participated in the group’s first youth camp being held in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Bangladeshi Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed inaugurated the four-day camp on the 10th of December exhorting the participants to exchange ideas and experiences that would help push the region towards greater and [...]
Filed under: Bangladesh, Events-Activities-Announcements, Festival, India, Media, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Youth-Culture-Society | Leave a Comment
Tags: , Bangladesh, Beyond Borders, Camp, India, NationPulse, SAARC Youth Camp
After fighting out a copyright battle, Beyond Borders in Bangladesh have finally decide to rename themselves as “NationPulse” They have a website up an running on the work that they do, and what they did earlier.
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Tags: Bangladesh, Nation Pulse, Dhaka, Youth Organisations, Youth Activism
A Peace Camp
Nine BBites are just back from spending time with about 100 teenagers from 8 districts in Sri Lanka as part of the “Kids in Touch” Peace Camp held in Wariyapola from 8 to 10th of December 2007. The project is a joint initiative of Sarvodaya and the British Council and aims to facilitate communication [...]
Filed under: Events-Activities-Announcements, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka | 1 Comment
Tags: Beyond Borders, British Council, Kids in Touch, KIT, Peace, Peace Camp, Sarvodaya, Sri Lanka, Wariyapola, Youth
Wrong Turn
‘When every decision you make is the wrong one’
(Sheetal @ wrong turn)
Beyond Borders performed a piece of forum theatre for “Off the Page”, an event organized by CEPA (Centre for Poverty Analysis). The play focused on the plight of a young woman with an ailing mother and a younger brother who’s still in school. [...]
Filed under: Events-Activities-Announcements, Sri Lanka, Theatre | 1 Comment
Tags: Beyond Borders, Borella, CEPA, Colombo, Forum Theatre, Poverty, Punchi Theatre, Sri Lanka, Theatre, Theatre4Development
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