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The Charter of Human Responsibilities:
- A new initiative.
- A pretext to heighten our awareness, to think, to act.
- A pre-text put up for discussion.

European Facilitation Committee for the Charter of Human Responsibilities

Western Europe
8 March 2010
Calling for collaboration: creating educational material by Yolanda ZIAKA

Georgia and countries of Caucasus
8 March 2010
Series of Workshops on Responsibility by Tsisso CHIPASHVILI


The Charter is: - 14 December 2007, by Yolanda ZIAKA

The Charter of Human Responsibilities is an international process for discussion and awareness raising on the concept of human responsibility. The project expresses the concept of responsibility, in all of its complexity, through multiple actions on the field. It is a network of individuals and organizations (environmental organizations, groups of journalists, non-violence activists, educators, etc.), from 16 countries and every continent. Through the network, the Charter is disseminated (...)

International-cooperation Workshop on the Theme: “Water: Common Good – Common Responsibility” - 12 December 2007, by Yolanda ZIAKA

This is the report on the workshop for five Nature Management and Conservation students specializing in nature facilitation. Our course includes several workshops on different themes. For the workshop on international cooperation, we set up the organization Ellada Nature and we went to a Cyclades island, Syros (Greece), to meet up with Yolanda Ziaka, coordinator of the Polis Environmental Education Network. During the workshop we focused on the issue of water management in connection with (...)

Clean up the Med 2007: The European Team Has Joined the Movement - 11 June 2007, by Yolanda ZIAKA

The Clean up the Med initiative is the largest existing volunteer Mediterranean clean-up operation and has been conducted by the Italian organization Legambiente since 1995. The European Charter team is now involved in it, along with more than 500 authorities, parks, schools, and organizations from 22 countries. On May 25, 26 and 27, 2007, waste was removed from more than 1,200 beaches and coast sections, and many public-awareness-raising actions were organized. On May 27, the European (...)

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Western Europe

Calling for collaboration: creating educational material by Yolanda ZIAKA, 8 March 2010

If you are interested in this project, welcome to our team! The Charter team for southern Europe, in collaboration with the International Network for Environmental Education Polis, based in Greece, is currently working on a project to create educational material. The educational material is created with children participating at every stage of its development. The project includes the (...)

International Conference of Children and Adolescents in Brazil – progress in Greece by Yolanda ZIAKA, 11 January 2010

The International Conference of Children and Adolescents, to be held in Brazil from 1 to 10 June 2010, is a major event to mobilize youth for the environment worldwide. The coordinating team for the preparation of the Greek participation in the Conference has established a blog (in Greek) to coordinate the participation of schools. There is the announcement of the Conference, feature (...)

Assembly of the Citizens of the Mediterranean by Yolanda ZIAKA, 20 March 2009

The South European Team of the Charter supports the initiative for the organization of an "Assembly of the Citizens of the Mediterranean", whose objectives are based – among others – on the value of responsibility, as a core value. Here follows a short presentation of the initiative: The process of putting together the Assembly of the Citizens of the Mediterranean is a regional dynamic which (...)

Public presentation of the children book “the treasures of the earth” by Yolanda ZIAKA, 20 March 2009

The book « the treasures of the earth » is a fairy tale on our common responsibility for environment, written by Yolanda Ziaka. The children of a Greek school and those participating in a Municipal Artistic Center have worked on the tale and created paintings to illustrate it. The tale has been edited in Greece – in Greek and in French – by the South European Team of the Charter. Between March (...)

Art travelling exhibition on environment continues travelling by Yolanda ZIAKA, 6 March 2008

Art exhibition on the theme: "Environment: common good - common responsibility" from Monday, 10 March till Friday, 14 March 2008 Place: Charles-Léopold Mayer Foundation 38, rue Saint Sabin, 75011 Paris (Métro : Bréguet-Sabin [ligne 5] ou Chemin Vert [ligne 8]) opening hours: 9h00 à 13h00 & 14h00 à 18h00 The European coordination Committee for the Charter of Human Responsibilities is (...)

Team Members by Yolanda ZIAKA, 17 May 2005

The European facilitation team of the Charter of Human Responsibilities is composed of persons working in four European countries. Its members are the following: Betty Nguyen, Sociologist (France) Francesco Tabacco, Architect (Italy) Franz Isemann, Retired teacher/executive of the Goethe Institut (Germany) Jean-Paul Braux, Biologist - Teacher (France) Konstantinos Xenos, Architect - (...)

Contacts, 7 January 2005

Yolanda Ziaka, Greece. Coordinator of the Charter of Human Responsibilities Committee for Europe _ E-mail: charte.europe BnZ otenet.gr c/o Polis – International Network in Environmental Education P.O. Box 4 84100 Ermoupolis Greece fax : 30-22810-87840

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Georgia and countries of Caucasus

Series of Workshops on Responsibility by Tsisso CHIPASHVILI, 8 March 2010

The Environmental Responsibility of the Young January 19, 2009 - A workshop was organized in Marneuli, a region inhabited by a majority of Azerbaijanis (45 participants: pupils, parents, and teachers). A documentary on the environment triggered a discussion on everyone’s individual responsibility to Nature and all living beings. Then the Charter text, adapted into Azerbaijani, was distributed (...)

Human Responsibility in the Framework of Sustainable Development by Tsisso CHIPASHVILI, 22 February 2010

Human Responsibility in the Framework of Sustainable Development. Putting Our Heads together to React and to Act Ecological Problems and Human Responsibility; Agenda 21 for Schools and Institutions. Seminar at the Saguramo Orphanage and School, Georgia, October 4, 2009, SaqarTvelo Under the responsibility of: Marina Avaliani Seminar organized by: Group for the dissemination of the (...)

Photo show (March 2009) by Tsisso CHIPASHVILI, 22 February 2010

The photo show presented at the Caucasus House in March 2009 was preceded by a scientific symposium with lectures by persons representing: the Georgian group for the dissemination of the Charter, the group of environmentalists from the Inorganic Chemistry and Electrochemistry Institute, the Caucasus House, the NGO Momavali, academics, state representatives, and representatives of several (...)

Publication of a diary and a book by Tsisso CHIPASHVILI, 21 February 2010

We have published a trilingual multi-annual diary (in Georgian, French, and Russian) made up of: the Charter text (in Georgian and in Russian) photos on the theme of the environment, proverbs, sayings, etc. (Georgian, Kurdish, Armenian, Russian, Azerbaijani, Ossetian, and Abkhazian) on responsibility, the environment, education, etc. The diaries have been distributed to different (...)

In 2008/09, many presentations of the Charter in schools, 30 October 2009

In 2008/09, our group organized many presentations of the Charter. Foremost in schools, about 25 institutions in all, located in 5 different regions of Georgia, one of which (Akhaltsikhe) is inhabited by a majority of Armenians and another (Marneuli) by a majority of Azeris. During our discussions on the Charter, both the pupils’ and the teachers’ interest was always quickly focused on the (...)

The New Dimension of Responsibility by Anastasia ZAKARIADZE, 21 August 2008

On the 13th of June 2008 was held an international conference “Responsibility, Traditional Values, Sustainable Development” at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University .The Conference was organized by the University in collaboration with the Institute of Philosophy. It was financed by the Foundation Charles Leopold Mayer for Human Progress. _ The organizing committee of the conference were (...)

The regional team , 4 September 2006

A formal group was created in May 2006. It is composed of 7 members: Tsisso Tchipachvili: Coordinator of the regional Committee. French teacher. Maka Stameteli: professor of physics and operations manager in a small company on environmental research Julia Kharashvili: professor of physics, currently responsible of a UNV project (United Nation Volonteers) and chairwoman of the IDP women (...)

The Project by Tsisso CHIPASHVILI, 4 September 2006

A shared project - A questionnaire on the Charter and the notion of responsibility

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