IHP on International Refugee Day: Bridges not walls.
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Refugees and displaced persons are neither pariahs nor illegals
Today is the day that the UN has set since 2001, to make the situation of refugees and displaced persons in the world especially visible. The date was set in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees. UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) is the agency created to care for, protect and promote solutions for people in this situation of survival and extreme oppression.
Refugees are among the most brutally oppressed people in the world. The Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol are the international instruments, which formally provide for their protection.
IHP on International Refugee Day: Bridges not walls
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Consistency and efficiency: Aspirations and challenges of humanist parties
Today, Wednesday January 6th, marks the 83rd anniversary of the birth of the ideologue of the New Universalist Humanism, the Argentine philosopher Mario Rodríguez Cobos, better known by his pseudonym, Silo.
At the beginning of the 1990s, in the midst of the rise of anti-humanist neoliberalism, Silo deepened inhis book “Letters to my Friends” the philosophy of New Humanism, its political and social practice, which he preferred to define mainly as an attitude and perspective towards life. As expressed in the Document of the Humanist Movement, from which we transcribe his introduction: