Welcome to this internet edition of
ALIEN '93
When ALIEN 93 was produced back in 1993, access to the
internet was restricted basically to academics, big business
and governments – none of us had e-mail and we contacted
each other using the post, fax and telephone. Nowadays,
access to internet is still not available to everybody
and we need to be doing more to combat this new form of
exclusion. Still, things are improving and the opportunities
to use the internet to share ideas and make publications
more accessible are – thinking back to 1992 –
incredible. Contributing to an evolving community of practice
on human rights education throughout the world certainly
assists in creating links and solidarity.
With the successful launch of Compass
on-line, it made sense to update the publications which
formed the core of the educational effort of the "all
different – all equal" campaign and to make
them more widely available within the context of the Human
Rights Education initiative. And it made sense to use
the possibility to make relevant links between Compass,
DOmino,
the Education
Pack "all different all equal"
and this one – as you click through them you will
find much which is complementary. Especially exciting
is the chance to make links between more reflective pieces
and activities, so that each enhances the other.
So what has changed here? The bulk of the text remains
unchanged. We have updated references and examples; and
deleted ones which are now irrelevant. We have been very
selective in the inclusion of links to other relevant
web sites. And a technical note here: as site designers
often change the internal structure of their sites, usually
we only give the basic domain name for a site; when more
complicated addresses are referenced then we also state
the date of access.
We hope you will find this edition easy to use and challenging
to put into practice!