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	GLOBAL Call for Proposals: Grant for Innovation in Conflict Transformation 2013 Empowering youth as agents for a culture of peace Click here to read other articles on a global scale.	AFRICA Intercultural Forum on Democratic Citizenship and Culture of Peace Focused on Youth as Promoters of Intercultural Understanding (Cape Verde) with the participation of leaders of major global youth movements from 40 countries Click here to read other articles from Africa.	ARAB STATES AND MIDDLE EAST Ethiopian journalist Reeyot Alemu wins 2013 UNESCO-Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize She wrote critically about . . . the root causes of poverty, and gender equality. She . . . founded her own publishing house and a monthly magazine . . . subsequently closed. . . arrested. She is currently serving a five year sentence in Kality prison. Click here to read other articles from Arab States and the Middle East.	EUROPE International Symposium 2013 "Science, Technology and Culture of Peace" (France) If science and technology is to contribute to human social progress, the civil society needs to ensure that its choices are guided by democracy and peace Click here to read other articles from Europe.
	EAST ASIA AND AUSTRALIA/PACIFIC UN-Habitat and ICLEI unveil the EcoMobility World Festival EcoMobility is travel through integrated, socially inclusive, and environmentally-friendly transport options, including and integrating walking, cycling, wheeling. Click here to read other articles from East Asia and Australia/Pacific.	SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIA JCYCN Campaign against Human Rights Violations in Nepal Civil society organizations including JCYCN launched a nationwide campaign against caste-based discrimination and untouchability Click here to read other articles from South and Central Asia.	LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN The Three Heroines of Guatemala: The Judge, the Attorney General and the Nobel Peace Laureate a historic moment, the first time in history that a former leader of a country was tried for genocide in a national court . . . Guatemala has set an example for the world, away from violence and impunity Click here to read other articles from Latin America and Caribbean.	NORTH AMERICA Book Review of Moon Shadow of War; How a Young American became an Anti-War Activist Lennie was continually threatened by the demand that he enter the military and go to Vietnam to fight in a war that he did not believe in, and from which is friends came back wounded or dead Click here to read other articles from North America.