Scriptorium

WomenAid International is a humanitarian aid and development agency which promotes all rights for all people in all countries.

Humanitarian Aid and all other pages: you will reach them by a link in the left column;

Address: WOMENAID INTERNATIONAL, 3 WHITEHALL COURT, LONDON SW1A 2EL, TEL: +44 (0) 20 7839 1790, FAX: +44 (0) 20 7839 2929, e-mail, Reg. Charity No. 299224.

About: Founded over ten years ago as a humanitarian aid and development agency, WomenAid’s mission is to provide relief and assistance to women and children suffering distress caused by war, disasters or poverty, to
empower women through education, training, provision of credit and to campaign against violations of women’s human rights.

Millions of women throughout the world are marginalised, overlooked and locked in an unequal struggle for survival. Living in abject poverty, working long hours for little or no money, they are trapped in a life of suffering, hunger, malnutrition and disease.

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EPIC is a public interest research center in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values … (about 1/2 & annual reports).

Homepage and latest news;
Job Openings, Fellowships and IPIOP Clerkships;
Litigation Docket;
Policy Issues: free speach;
Press release;
Events;
Publications;
CFP 2007: Open panel on Net Freedom;
address: EPIC National Office, 1718 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20009;
contact: board and staff, and general inquiries.

About 2/2: EPIC publishes an award-winning e-mail and online newsletter on civil liberties in the information age – the EPIC Alert. We also publish reports and even books about privacy, open government, free speech, and other important topics related to civil liberties. We have no clients, no customers, and no shareholders. We need your support.

View EPIC’s most recent annual reports, all available as PDF documents … (about 2/2 & annual reports).

The American system of government is founded on two counterbalancing principles: that the majority of the people governs, through democratically elected representatives; and that the power even of a democratic majority must be limited, to ensure individual rights. (About 1/2).

Homepage and links;
Press Room;
Supreme Court;
Legislative Update;
Action Center;
Successes;
Download/Multimedia;
Join/donate;
Address: ACLU, 125 Broad Street, 18th Floor, New York, NY 10004;
contact.

About 2/2: Majority power is limited by the Constitution’s Bill of Rights, which consists of the original ten amendments ratified in 1791, plus the three post-Civil War amendments (the 13th, 14th and 15th) and the 19th Amendment (women’s suffrage), adopted in 1920.

The mission of the ACLU is to preserve all of these protections and guarantees:

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Added April 7, 2008: Linked with FINDINGS 188: World Prison Population List.

An Australian website. Here you will reach a big full Homepage with all links to the individual cases. No explanation needed, just actions.

Linked with Brian Moore – USA.

A strange website full with links to good items, like one exemple: A Guide to the Patriotic Act … (full text).

Not many usual texts as ‘about’ to copy out and fill my page, but take this:

Homepage;
newsletters;
Podcasts;
today’s papers;
today’s blogs;
other magazines.

… just go there and click on any link.

Linked with Paul Wellstone – USA (1944 – 2002), and with The real threat.

Wellstone Action is a national center for training and leadership development for the progressive movement. Founded in January 2003, Wellstone Action’s mission is to honor the legacy of Paul and Sheila Wellstone by continuing their work through training, educating, mobilizing and organizing a vast network of progressive individuals and organizations. (about 1/2).

Homepage and latest news;
news & events;
become a member;
advisory committee;
meet our trainers;
pictures from Campus Camp Wellstone;
contact.

About 2/2: In three years, Wellstone Action has experienced tremendous growth, adding over 108,000 members and training 14,322 (and counting!) citizen activists and professionals in 36 states in political organizing skills. In addition to training, Wellstone Action engages our members in non-partisan voter mobilization efforts; lobbies Congress on behalf of mental health parity, Social Security and the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act; trains domestic violence advocates to be organizers on their issue, and helps preserve the Wellstone archives for future generations. Our book, Politics the Wellstone Way: How to Elect Progressive Candidates and Win on Issues, was released in the fall of 2005.

Our Training Programs: … (full text).

Linked with Brian Moore – USA.

The Peace and Freedom Party PFP is committed to socialism, democracy, ecology, feminism and racial equality. We represent the working class, those without capital in a capitalist society. We organize toward a world where cooperation replaces competition, a world where all people are well fed, clothed and housed; where all women and men have equal status; where all individuals may freely endeavor to fulfill their own talents and desires; a world of freedom and peace where every community retains its cultural integrity and lives with all others in harmony (homepage).

Membership;
Platform;
Resolutions and Statements;
Literature and Pamplets;
The Partisan;
The Partisan’s Archive-Homepage on P&F;
Contact Membership;
General contact.

About: The Peace and Freedom Party PFP is committed to socialism, democracy, ecology, feminism and racial equality. We represent the working class, those without capital in a capitalist society. We organize toward a world where cooperation replaces competition, a world where all people are well fed, clothed and housed; where all women and men have equal status; where all individuals may freely endeavor to fulfill their own talents and desires; a world of freedom and peace where every community retains its cultural integrity and lives with all others in harmony.

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(also auf deutsch, en français, en espanol)

The Women and Life on Earth internet project began in 1999 to help connect women internationally, share information and work for ecological health and peace with justice in the new millennium.

Sitemap;
homepage and latest news in english;
coming events;
information;
action;
resources;
support;
archive 2007;
e-newsletter;
contact.

About: The Women and Life on Earth internet project began in 1999 to help connect women internationally, share information and work for ecological health and peace with justice in the new millennium. Our roots go back to an earlier Women and Life on Earth movement (see below). Since 2002 we have worked from an office in Berlin, Germany. Our non-profit association Women and Life on Earth: women in international cooperation for peace, ecology and social justice has been staffed by volunteer members and funded by contributions and project work. In 2006 we shifted our first website to a new open content format and decentralized our project work. In March 2008 we are launching our first fundraising drive to support and expand our work. How you can help …

… We want:

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Sharing Information to pursue progress in human rights

Linked with Anthony Ravlich – New Zealand.

The HR Network (excerpt):

• The Human Rights Network is a meeting place for New Zealanders with an interest and commitment to human rights;
• Available social research suggests New Zealanders have a commitment to human rights, yet the human rights movement in New Zealand has been fragmented, making it difficult to share information and ideas and to mobilise to meet human rights challenges;
• A determination to establish a network infrastructure, the Human Rights Network, came about as a result of the experience of some individuals and organisations during the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1998, and during the debate about the future of New Zealand’s domestic human rights protections;
• Through the Human Rights Network knowledge can be exchanged more often, news can be disseminated more widely and consultation can take place more easily. Where there is a need for collective action, mobilisation can take place with greater haste.

Homepage/Welcome;
sitemap;
news;
big issues;
communities;
projects;
discussion forums;
address: Human Rights Network, PO Box 24 423, Wellington, NEW ZEALAND, e-mail;
contact.

About Human Rights: Human Rights are those rights that everyone everywhere has by virtue of being human.

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Linked with Anthony Ravlich – New Zealand, and with Complaints Procedure At The UN.

Introduction: Campaign for international justice for victims of violations of economic, social & cultural rights: … We are campaigning to provide victims of economic, social and cultural rights violations with access to international justice. Currently, if you have been tortured or if your right to freedom of expression is violated, you can complain to the United Nations. But if you have been forcibly evicted, or if you are unable to access healthcare services, you don’t have the same opportunity. It should not be that way! The way forward is the development of what is called an Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (OP-ICESCR). This Optional Protocol (OP) will establish a complaints mechanism allowing you to present your case to the United Nations … (click on Read more ).

The internal links for the different pages on this website are working inside the Homepage and are found in its left column.

Two external links: ESCR-Net; and the European Roma Rights Centre.

Our Demands: The core elements which are promoted and defended by the International Coalition for an OP-ICESCR in the ESCR Protocol Now! Campaign include:

• An Optional Protocol to the ICESCR will provide victims of violations of economic, social and cultural rights access to international justice;
• It would establish a communications procedure that would enable individuals and groups to file complaints before the CESCR Committee for specific violations of the rights contained in the Covenant. Similar procedures are already available for violations of other international and regional human rights treaties;
• The primary purpose of the NGO Coalition for the OP to the ICESCR is to advocate for the adoption and use of an effective OP to the ICESCR;
• Members of the Coalition have identified five key elements for an effective OP. Each is a minimum requirement for the Optional Protocol that should be promoted by all NGOs wishing to contribute to the process of making the OP to the ICESCR a meaningful human rights instrument.

… (full text/Our Demands).

(also en Español, en Français, in Italiano)

The WORLD FOR WORLD ORGANIZATION WFWO is a Non-Governmental Organization NGO, an Italian-based non-profit organization, operating in Italy and internationally. WFWO was launched on 16 October 2001, on the occasion of World Food Day, and established in 2002, and is in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council ECOSOC at the United Nations, New York.

Sitemap;
operations and policy;
where do we operate;
events and meetings;
publications;
how to help;
links;
contact.

About – Our Mission: WFWO’s mission is to overcome poverty by enabling the world’s poorest people to gain the hope for better future and improve their quality of life through the access to food security, drinking water, health, education, poverty, HIV-AIDS programs, micro credit, using local skills and practical, sustainable technologies to support development humanitarian projects on relief and rehabilitations programs, to secure the empowerment of indigenous peoples, local communities, women, groups and individuals in developing countries.

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Linked with Steven M. Greer – USA.

The Controversial News Network is just as the name implies: a news network that covers « the other half of the story. » In some cases it is the other three-quarters of the story. And in tragically far too many it is a totally untold story … (about 1/2).

Homepage/Main and links to latest news;
Steven Greer, designated Guest Speaker;
schedule (will work soon again);
legal notice;
guests index;
archives;
studio photos;
contact.

About 2/2: In America, we are « 16th » in « freedom of the press, » according to an international survey, even though this is the only country for which the founders actually built into the Constitution the guarantee of total freedom of the press. Right now there are courageous reporters in prison for not revealing their sources, notwithstanding that guarantee in the fabric document of our nation, « The Federal US Constitution. » CWNN’s mission is to expose the « sacred cows » that no so-called « no spin zone » talk show host will touch with a ten-foot pole. This website serves as a mainframe of information collected by the Network. Its primary task for now is to archive the shows aired on the San Diego radio station CASH 1700AM, broadcasting live Sundays at 7pm-8pm, hosted by Eugene Ellis with co-host Scott Wood.

Linked with Maude Barlow – Canada.

The Blue Planet Project is an international civil society movement, it begun by The Council of Canadians to protect the world’s fresh water from the growing threats of trade and privatization. (About 1/2).

Homepage;
sitemap;
resources;
take action;
links;
contact.

About 2/2: We work with organizations and activists in both South and North, and are affiliated with international networks including Friends of the Earth International, Red Vida (the Americas Network on the Right to Water) and the People’s Health Movement.

We are currently working with partners world-wide on using a human rights framework to protect water for people and nature for generations to come. This includes working with local organizations and activists on grassroots struggles to protect democratic, community control of water, and building a movement to secure an international treaty on the Right to Water.

In 2005, Blue Planet Project founder Maude Barlow was awarded the Right Livelihood Award, often referred to as the alternative Nobel Prize, which honours those « offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today ».

en français: Le Conseil des Canadiens

Linked with Maude Barlow – Canada, and with UN rejects water as basic human right.

Founded in 1985, the Council of Canadians is Canada’s largest citizens’ organization, with members and chapters across the country. We work to protect Canadian independence by promoting progressive policies on fair trade, clean water, energy security, public health care, and other issues of social and economic concern to Canadians … (about 1/2).

Homepage and latest news;
sitemap;
world water day (22.3.08);
campaigns;
media;
publications;
newsletter-link (down at right of each page);
join us;
contact.

About 2/2: We develop creative campaigns to put some of the country’s most important issues into the spotlight. We work with a network of over 70 volunteer chapters to organize speaking tours, days of action, conferences and demonstrations.

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Find babysitters, nannies, pet sitters and more …

How does care.com work:

• 1): Join Now – Sign up as a family or individual for full access to our community of high-quality, trustworthy caregivers and service providers;
• 2): Find Great Providers – Post a job listing detailing your specific needs, or use our refined search results to find care providers who match your criteria. Request FREE background checks, view photos, videos, references, and more;
• 3): Get Connected – As a member, view contact details for caregivers or send them messages directly through Care.com.

Homepage/complete access to provider;
child care;
find tutors near you;
senior care;
pet care;
housekeeping;
Care.com in my Neighborhood/my state;
my account;
address main-office: Care.com, Inc., 1400 Main St., Waltham, MA 02451, USA;
contact by e-mail, a member of our staff will return your request within 24 hours/or one business day.

About us: We’re mothers, fathers, pet owners, sons, daughters, grandchildren, friends, and members of this online community along with you. We understand the difficulties and struggles you face when trying to find the right care and services for your families, yourself, and your home. So why did we create and join Care.com? Here are a few of our stories. Check back soon to meet more of the team.

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