Community Land Scotland says land reform will affect urban areas
LAND reform could bring as big a change to Scotland’s towns and cities as it has brought to parts of the Highlands and islands, according to a new study.
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IADC’s Practice Insight: Call for Articles
The IACD are looking for contributions for the Special Issue on Africa. The special issue will be generic, hence; quality practice based papers now invited focusing on all aspects of African development with community development flavour. Articles from the different sub-regions are welcome with varying contexts and practices.
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The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, or UNCRC, is the basis of all of Unicef’s work. It is the most complete statement of children’s rights ever produced and is the most widely-ratified international human rights treaty in history.
Read MoreHuman Rights – Should we love them or leave them?!
Prepared by: Azita Jabbari-Arabzadeh_Scottish Communities Development Network April 2017
We hear often about human rights recently, but what are they? Human rights are the basic rights that every human possesses just by the virtue of being born! Human rights were first born in 539 BC when Cyrus the great, the first ancient Persian king, after conquering Babylon, committed a revolutionary act by freeing all the slaves and announcing everyone to be free to choose their religion and enjoy other radical equalities. These decrees were recorded on a clay now called the Cyrus Cylinder, which is kept in British museum currently. After that for about 2500 years, with civil wars, various nations: British, French and Americans created different declarations of human rights.
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SCDC – Empowerment Act: Participation Request regulations laid before parliament, to be implemented 1st April 2017
SCDC have published an article on – The regulations for the Participation Request part of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act have been laid before parliament, giving the legislation the green light for implementation on 1st April 2017.
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SCDN Regional Networks
We have now established SCDN Regional Networks in Fife, Aberdeen and Dundee.
These networks will work locally to promote the aims of SCDN while linking in with our national committee. Further meetings of these networks will take place in September and
if you would like any more information on this or to find out how to get involved, just get in
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Have we lost our way?
Fiona Ballantyne and Mark Langdon of the Scottish Community Development Network have published an article which directly asks the question of Community Development in Scotland ‘Have we lost our way’?
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