former title: NGOs – we and the others, running then under world-citizenship.org – still under construction
An anonymous hotline for white-collar « whistleblowers » is being set up by Transparency International Switzerland, an anti-corruption organisation. The move comes a week after the Swiss Senate demanded better protection for whistleblowers against unfair dismissal and other forms of discrimination. The hotline had taken its first calls on Wednesday (March 03, 2006) and will advise whistleblowers on what action to take.
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Linked with our presentation of Faith Bandler – Australia.
The Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship, and the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI), were both formed in 1957.
As general secretary of FCAATSI,Faith Bandler led the campaign for a constitutional referendum to remove discriminatory provisions from the Constitution of Australia. The campaign, which included several massive petitions and hundreds of public meetings arranged by Bandler, resulted in the 1967 referendum being put to the people by the Holt government.
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Full of practical information, tools and guidance, this toolkit covers a range of subject areas about supporting NGOs and CBOs working in HIV/AIDS. More than 500 resources have been collated and updated from different organisations, with detailed guidance and suggestions based on the experiences of the Alliance. This CD-ROM brings together resources for people who are establishing, managing or studying support programmes or systems for supporting NGOs and CBOs. While the toolkit is primarily designed for programmes that aim to deliver both funding and technical support to local NGOs and CBOs, many of its resources will also be of interest to organisations that provide only funding or only training. (Read the rest on this site).
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‘Who we are‘;
They say about themselves: Rights Action (tax-charitable, non-profit organization in USA and Canada) funds community-controlled development, environmental, human rights and emergency projects in the global south, particularly Guatemala, Chiapas (Mexico), Honduras and Haiti. We do education and activism work with North Americans and help form north-south alliances to address and remedy global exploitation, repression, enviro-destruction and racism.
International Events: exchange of good practice in youth work between Europe and Africa, the Caribbean, Pacific (ACP), Asia, Latin America – This Call aims at supporting projects which promote an exchange of experience and good practice in the field of youth between the European Union, candidate countries and EFTA/EEA on the one hand, and countries of Africa, the Caribbean, Pacific (ACP), Asia and Latin America on the other hand.