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Welcome |
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 Dear Reader,
The Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations (FRFG) is a think-tank on the interface of science, politics and the business world. To FRFG, intergenerational justice means that today's youth and future generations must have at least the same opportunities to meet their own needs as the generation governing today. The foundation publishes the journal "Intergenerational Justice Review" (IGJR),
which is an English-speaking quarterly magazine on intergenerational justice, seeking to publish articles of the most important research and current thinking from political science, ethics, and law. More about the IGJR... |
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Journal 2/2009 |
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 IGJR 2/2009 approaches the young generation from two perspectives by exploring their lack of time and lack of money. This is an issue of intergenerational justice if the conditions for today’s younger generation, say the cohorts born between 1970 and 1990, are worse than for the cohorts that were born, say, 1950-1969.
Even though life expectancy is continuously on the rise, many people are complaining that they have less time at hand. This is especially true for the ‘rush hour of life’, meaning the period of life between the mid-twenties and the late thirties in which persons of both genders usually start a job/career and a family at the same time. Concerning the financial situation there are several signs indicating that the young adult cohorts are relatively worse off in an indirect comparison with their predecessor generation. 1975, people in their thirties earned about 15 percent less than people in their fifties; today, they earn about 40 percent less. This in turn influences young adults’ decisions on reproduction.
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Intergenerational Justice on the labour market |
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 Intergenerational Justice on the labour market
Following the 4th Intergenerational Justice Award on the topic ‘The unequal treatment of the old and the young in the workplace’ and the 2008 FRFG Symposium titled ‘Easing the rush hour of life’, the FRFG currently conducts an empirical study with the 612 members of the Bundestag. The questionnaire ‘Intergenerational justice in the labour market’ measures the MPs awareness of the problems of the young generation and asks them which legal measures for an amelioration of the situation they would be ready to support. More information can be found here .
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5th Intergenerational Justice Award 2009/2010 |
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 Announcement of the 5th Intergenerational Justice Award 2009/2010:
„Possibilities and limits of party cooperation in democracies“
The Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations is awarding an Intergenerational Justice Award every two years with a total sum of 10.000 €. The FRFG is thus furthering scientific papers on an interdisciplinary scope on selected topics within the main theme of intergenerational justice.
The main question of the fifth Intergenerational Justice Award is how a topic oriented cooperation of parties can be furthered and how the reflexes to oppose can be contained. Especially in the exceptionally complicated German system of decision making with its federal elements and its proportional representation political processes often reach agreements representing the least common denominator or even bad compromises. This was recently illustrated in the abandonment of environmental protection aims.
For more information please refer to the draft of the topic
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Call for Papers - Climate Change and Intergenerational Justice |
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 CALL FOR PAPERS
the Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations is inviting interested authors to hand in articles for the
Intergenerational Justice Review 3/2009:
“Climate change
and intergenerational justice”
The editors are seeking articles in English for the upcoming issue 3/2009 of the IGJR with the topic “Climate change and intergenerational justice”.
General theories of intergenerational justice must answer two main questions: What to sustain for future generations? And how much to sustain? The field of global warming is a manifest example for the competition between the interests of present and future generations, making it an ideal case for the application of general theories of intergenerational justice.
Deadlines for the submission of articles are:
15 th of February 2009 for the proposal
1 st of April 2009 for the full article
Read more in the Call 3/2009
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Call for Papers - Children's rights |
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the Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations is
inviting interested authors to hand in articles for the
Intergenerational Justice Review 4/2009:
“Children’s and young people’s rights - with a
focus on the right to vote”
The editors are seeking articles in English for the upcoming issue 4/2009 of the IGJR with the topic “Children’s and young people’s rights- with a focus on the right to vote”.The convention on the Rights of the Child spells out the basic human rights that children and young people everywhere have. The four core principles of the Convention as detailed by UNICEF are: nondiscrimination; devotion to the best interests of the child; the right to life, survival and development; as well as respect for the views of the child. This convention is legally binding and fundamental to the lives of children today. As these basic human rights are held as a standard across the world, is there a need for further development of children’s and young people’s rights? Are children and young people today really treated as individuals who have opinions of their own?
Deadlines for the submission of articles are:
1st of July 2009 for the full article
Read more in the Call 4/2009
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Forthcoming Anthology |
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 FORTHCOMING ANTHOLOGY
The Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations presents a new anthology:
A Young Generation Under Pressure?
The Financial Situation and the “Rush Hour” of the Cohorts 1970-1985 in a Generational Comparison
The forthcoming anthology is aimed at politicians, scholars, experts, and any interested members of the general public. We are happy to inform you that we have received a publishing contract from Springer (www.springer.com), one of the biggest science publishers in Europe. They will publish the book with about 200-300 pages. Springer Publishing will be in charge of copy-editing and formatting the manuscript. A spell-check will be done by a native speaker. Moreover, Springer Publishing will invest substantially in marketing measures for this book. More...
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Public hearing |
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 Public hearing concerning the constitutional amendment
The campaign for the institutionalisation of intergenerational justice, one of the main projects of the FRFG, keeps on moving. After the first reading in the “Bundestag” in October 2007 the draft was transmitted to the parliamentary committees. While the judicial panel, which was originally in charge of the discussion about the amendment, criticized the bill, the committee for sustainable development has now taken over and is organising a public hearing on 15 October 2008, 5 p.m. The hearing primarily deals with the question if the protection of future generations is already implemented in the constitution and if intergenerational justice can effectively be accomplished by the constitutional draft. Read more...
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