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Doing Time, Doing Vipassana is a poignant documentary showing how Vipassana, an ancestral hindu meditation technic rediscovered by Gotama Budhha 2,500 years ago, has been used in Indian jails as a way to improve the prison atmosphere, prepare inmates for their reintegration to the outter social environment and help to reduce recidivism rate. Beyond the rehabilitation aspect, it has completly changed the life of many criminals and deliquents and it demonstrates that a soft guided introspective is much more effecient than harsh inhuman methods.

Doing Time, Doing Vipassana is a poignant documentary showing how Vipassana, an ancestral hindu meditation technic rediscovered by Gotama Budhha 2,500 years ago, has been used in Read more »

Music against Poverty is a competition aimed at involving young people in the fight against worldwide poverty through concrete actions. Europeans between15-25 years old, willing to make a difference, are asked to submit their own songs on subjects related to development and, notably, on the eight Millennium Development Goals. Deadline is September 30.

Music against Poverty Contest is an initiative launched in July by the EC Directorate-General EuropeAid to raise awareness among young Europeans about the issue of development cooperation and the important role played by Read more »

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The 10-minute-documentary "Mine: Story of a sacred mountain" aims to increase public awareness about a real Avatar issue in our planet earth.The Dongria Kondh, one of India’s most remote tribes, live in Orissa state’s Niyamgiri hills and worship a mountain as a God. The documentary shows their Read more »

It is allegedly admitted that Human Rights are the work of three main countries: England, France and the United States of America.

And yet, my dear Westerners, the truth comes from another place!

We can indeed go back to the Code of Hammourabi (Babylon, 1700 BC) to find the first written sign testifying of the will to set superior norms which would protect the individual against an arbitrary power. In the following century, in Iran – a country which has been condemned Read more »

The principle of community-based interventions stems from anthropological theory and became refined through sociologic field research during the last three decades. About a century ago, even renowned Oxford professors of anthropology would commonly denigrate the lives of ‘savages’ in their books without offering much insight into the culture or customs of aboriginals. To give a vivid example, one of the most influential social studies that paved the way for modern anthropology and psychoanalysis in the 1930s, Frazer’s “The Golden Bough”—which Freud used as reference for his essay “Totem and Taboo”—was compiled in the library. However, with the field-based work of Bronisaw Malinovski, anthropological methodologies metamorphosed the ‘savage’ community into diverse groups differentiated through their culture, ethnicity, and other traits examined from an empathetic, comprehensive, and thoroughly holistic perspective. Read more »