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25/06/2008 - Learning to Live Together -- Ethics Education Program Launched in Hiroshima

The GNRC Third Forum in Hiroshima, Japan was the venue for the worldwide launch of Learning to Live Together: An Intercultural and Interfaith Programme for Ethics Education developed with the endorsement of UNESCO and UNICEF. Read more...

10/06/2008 - GNRC's Ethics Education Called Outstanding Interfaith Effort

A recent article published on the Oomoto Foundation website sums up the GNRC Third Forum and praises Learning to Live Together as an outstanding interfaith initiative. Read more here...

GNRC Regional News

03/05/2008 - Ethics - The Best Weapon Against Domestic Violence

BOGOTÁ - Domestic violence, which is widespread in Latin America as in the rest of the world, makes it imperative to recover ethics as the core value for practices and efforts aimed at creating more equitable and just societies. Read more at IPS...

29/04/2008 - LATIN AMERICA: Children of Hope in a Violent World

BOGOTÁ, Apr 29 (IPS) - When she was 12 years old in her native Colombia, Ornella Barros decided that she did not want to be "the future, but the present; not a hope, but a certainty." Six years later, as a political science student, Barros says she made the right decision when she joined the Global Network of Religions for Children (GNRC). Read more...

Ethics Education for Children

13/12/2007 - Training Sessions on Ethics Education Toolkit Held in Colombia, El Salvador

GNRC members from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Colombia gathered with partner organizations in November for two training workshops on the Toolkit for Ethics Education for Interfaith Learning. Read more about the El Salvador workshop here. Read more about the Colombia workshop here. Photos also available.

12/12/2006 - Ethics Education Toolkit Tested Worldwide

Since the GNRC established the Interfaith Council on Ethics Education for Children in May 2002, the Toolkit Working Group and Council Secretariat have been making steady progress on the development of a practical "toolkit" for use in a variety of religious, cultural and educational settings around the world.