Mois : août 2006

To find Consulting Firms active in development cooperation, go to the coresponding directory on weitzenegger.de:

List of Companies in Industrialized Countries not Members of the EU;

List of Companies with Headquarters in the European Union;

African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states signatories of the Cotonou Agreement;

etc., see the rest on this weitzenegger index.

One exemple of a consulting firm: The Centre for Socio-Eco-Nomic Development (CSEND) is an independent, project-financed, non-profit foundation, registered with the Geneva Chamber of Commerce (Switzerland). Specialising in organisational reform and institutional development worldwide, CSEND works to strengthen public administrations and public-sector enterprises through the use of an inter-disciplinary and socio-economic approach. Mandated primarily by governments and international organisations, CSEND designs and implements comprehensive institution development and capacity-building projects leading to the adoption of best managerial practices in the public sector. (See all on CSEND ff).

Linked with Vera Vohlidalova – Czech Republic.

Das Portal des Deutsch-Tschechischen Forums der Frauen versteht sich als Anlaufstelle für alle, die sich für Tschechien und das deutsch-tschechische Verhältnis interessieren. Zwei zentrale Ideen prägen diesen Ort:

Informationsbündelung – Dieses Internetportal will ein Ort sein, wo man die wichtigsten Informationen zum jeweiligen Nachbarland und zur deutsch-tschechischen Zusammenarbeit gebündelt findet. Es will helfen, sich im Dschungel der unzähligen Initiativen und Informationen zurecht zu finden.

Mitwirkung – Damit dies ein wirklich spannender und informativer Ort wird, sind Sie herzlich zur Mitarbeit eingeladen: Wir verstehen uns als offene und neutrale Plattform für alle, die sich im deutsch-tschechischen Bereich engagieren. Auf Ihrer Mitwirkung, Ihr Engagement und Ihre Informationen kommt es an. Sie sind herzlich zur Mitarbeit eingeladen!

Frauen im Versöhnungsprozess;

Linked with Vera Vohlidalova – Czech, and with Deutsch-Tschechisches Forum der Frauen.

Bibliothek-Library in Liberec, Building of Peace and Reconciliation, under the patronage of the presidents of Czech Republic and Germany.

This project links the library and the synagogue of Liberec in perfect harmony and will give each its own building for the first time in more than 50 years. It is both the first public library with a collection of this size and breadth to be built in the country in 70 years and the first new synagogue to be built in the Czech Republic (former Czechoslovakia) since World War Two. This new building project will present a library as an institution which not only takes care of various documents but also provides information of all kinds including among other things access to both historical and current information on many cultures, lands and peoples.

This new House of Prayer is to be not only a place of meeting for the Jews of the region but also both a symbol of human understanding and an act of symbolic compensation. The Library and House of Prayer will serve as a reminder that people of various beliefs, colour and cultures have lived, do and will always live in and among us. Thanks to moral and financial support from many sides it is a symbol of joining and of shaking hands over mutually lived history to a shared future.

Universal services – available to everyone. The library serves especially:

Continuer la lecture de « Knihovna – Liberec in Czech Republic »

Linked with Arvind Kejriwal – India, and with PARIVARTAN, Fighting Corruption – India.

The Right to Information movement has grown and matured at a phenomenal pace with 9 states granting their citizens the right to access information from their respective state governments. With the passage of the Central Right to Information Act which is a very progressive Act India is working towards a more transparent, accountable and participatory system of governance. The Right to Information in India has been popularised by several significant initiatives of various citizen groups, individuals, grassroots movements and non-government organisation working in their own areas towards strengthening the Right to Information to change the face of Indian governance. These experiences are critical to influence and bring about a change in the relationship between the governed and those who govern, however, in order to influence change it is important that every citizen must participate in the process that facilitates and brings about the change. Kabir is a non-government organisation committed to the promotion and advancement of the Right to Information movement in India. Kabir intends to advocate the use of Right to Information by drawing on experiences from all over the country. By acting as a catalyst Kabir intends to promote the Right to Information through the medium of print, audio-visual media and personal communication.

Continuer la lecture de « KABIR.org – India »

Linked with Annie Lacroix-Riz – France, and with Giulietto Chiesa – Italy, and with … Radio France Culture de Février 2004, and with Le Sciocchezze di Sofri e Rampoldi, and with Vichy, Argent et zyklon B en 1940-44. Also with Axis for Peace of February 1, 2006.

Dans une contribution magistrale, présentée à la conférence Axis for Peace 2005, le professeur James Petras analyse les contradictions du système impérialiste états-unien. Il souligne la manipulation de l’ONU et du droit international par les grandes puissances. Il décrit la fuite en avant des militaristes civils, néoconservateurs et sionistes. Loin de sombrer dans le pessimisme, le célèbre intellectuel états-unien trace les perspectives d’une résistance populaire internationale.

For World-Peace, by Voltairenet.org / Colloque pour la paix dans le monde par Réseau Voltaire -Listen to different Google-Videos, in their original language, no traduction, by the links hereafter / Ecoutez les différents intervenants de la session par Google-Vidéo dans leur langue originale (pas de traductions):

November 17, 2005, opening of the conference; and roundtables.

November 18, 2005, Plenary Session; and closure of the conference.

link: see all Debaters (also Annie Lacroix-Riz, France, and Giulietto Chiesa, Italy).