Mois : octobre 2006

Updated 2010-04-02: World Wide Web Virtual Library.

The WWW Virtual Library VL is the oldest catalogue of the Web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of HTML and of the Web itself, in 1991 at CERN in Geneva.

About: Unlike commercial catalogues, it is run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert; even though it isn’t the biggest index of the Web, the VL pages are widely recognised as being amongst the highest-quality guides to particular sections of the Web.

Where is it? Individual indexes live on hundreds of different servers around the world. A set of catalogue pages linking these pages is maintained at http://vlib.org/. A mirror of the Catalog is kept at East Anglia (UK). The catalogue pages started life on the original web server at CERN, and have been hosted at various locations around the World since then. They moved to a new server in Geneva in 2004, not many kilometres from their first location.

Who runs it: Each maintainer is responsible for the content of their own pages, as long as they follow certain guidelines. The central Catalog pages are maintained by the Council of the VL.

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alliance contre la faim / Allianz gegen den Hunger / alleanza contro la fame

journée mondiale de l’alimentation:

Chaque année, le 16 octobre, l’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture célèbre la Journée mondiale de l’alimentation, qui commémore la date de sa création, en 1945. Le thème retenu pour la Journée mondiale de l’alimentation et le TeleFood en 2006, est « Investir dans l’agriculture pour la sécurité alimentaire ».

Même si l’agriculture est aujourd’hui un secteur économique secondaire dans de nombreux pays industrialisés, elle doit jouer un rôle de premier plan sur la scène internationale si l’on veut que la faim ne soit plus qu’un mauvais souvenir.

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Linked with Arnold Tsunga – Zimbabwe, with human rights first, and with Appearance of ZCTU human rights defenders in Harare Court.

Mission of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions ZCTU: To promote, advance and safeguard the economic, social and constitutional freedoms of workers by securing legal, political, democratic and good governance framework in Zimbabwe through strengthening its capacity and independence and those of its affiliates.

• Brief History.
• Publications.
• Download the ZCTU-Constitution.
• Contact for ZCTU and e-mail.
• ZCTU on wikipedia
• see also kubatana.net, the NGO NETWORK ALLIANCE PROJECT – an online community for Zimbabwean activists
• Contemporary Africa Database: ZCTU

Taking position:

THE International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, the World Confederation of Labour and the European Trade Union Confederation express their firm support for the leaders and members of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions ZCTU. (Read all on allAfrica.com).

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Linked with Samir Makdisi – Lebanon.

The Global Development Network (GDN) is a worldwide network of research and policy institutes working to provide a fresh and relevant perspective to the development challenges of our time. At GDN, we strongly believe that policy-relevant research, if properly applied, can accelerate the pace of global development. What makes our initiative different is that we aim to generate this research at the local level in developing and transition countries. Thus, it is in the generation of local knowledge that, we believe, lies a much needed alternative perspective on facilitating change.
Five core activities: which work towards building research capacity in developing and transition economies. We believe that by investing in human capital and unearthing and mentoring new talent, we can advance innovative development policies in developing and transition countries.

These include:

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Linked with Arnold Tsunga – Zimbabwe, with Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions ZCTU, and with Appearance of ZCTU human rights defenders in Harare Court.

Mission: Human Rights First is the new name of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights. Since 1978, we have worked in the U.S. and abroad to create a secure and humane world by advancing justice, human dignity and respect for the rule of law. We support human rights activists who fight for basic freedoms and peaceful change at the local level; protect refugees in flight from persecution and repression; help build a strong international system of justice and accountability; and make sure human rights laws and principles are enforced in the U.S. and abroad. (see on this page).

Arnold Tsunga, a leading human rights defender in Zimbabwe, has received credible threats on his life. This is an escalation in the harassment and persecution to which he has long been subjected. At the same time, he has become the target of a politically motivated prosecution. Human Rights First has worked closely with Mr. Tsunga for many years and fears that now his life and liberty are in grave danger. We ask that you take action to support him.

Human rights defenders like Mr. Tsunga have become lonely voices of dissent in Zimbabwe as independent media outlets have been closed down and opposition political parties are being stifled. As a result, they face severe persecution. In Zimbabwe, where the judiciary lacks independence, the best way we can help protect Mr. Tsunga is to show the Zimbabwean government that the world is aware and watching. Please join Human Rights First in asking that the threats on his life cease and that the charges against him are dropped. (Read all on human rights first).

Will you Stand Up against poverty?

Join people in more than 100 countries to Stand Up Against Poverty. Between 10 hrs (GMT) on Sunday, 15 October and 10 hrs (GMT) on Monday, 16 October, people all over the world will Stand Up to ask government leaders to keep their promises to help end poverty by 2015. The global public action will culminate in the International Day of Poverty Eradication on 17 October.

Show your commitment to fight poverty on 15-16 October: Take part in local, group Stand Up events to symbolize the fight against poverty and encourage others to join you too. The purpose of the action is to publicly demonstrate to policy makers the growing global support for the eradication of poverty.

Find out how you can join an existing event in your area or organize your own Stand Up events

Action:

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Linked with Prize for Women’s Creativity in Rural Life.

WWSF, a humanitarian, non-governmental and international, non-confessional and non-profit organization with United Nations consultative status (ECOSOC, UNFPA and DPI), works for a new development paradigm with and for women and children.

Created in Geneva on 8 March 1991 (International Women’s Day), its principle objective is to empower women, children and NGOs. WWSF programs serve to help implement women’s and children’s rights, to generate increased commitment and support for the realization of agreed development goals, and to hold world leaders accountable to their promises made at numerous UN summits and international conferences.

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See the webs of this worker’s Union: ICFTU in english, ICFTU en français, and ICFTU in spain. And see the sitemap. See the ICFTU also on wikipedia.

Read first: Annual Report 2006, about survey of violations of Trade Union Rights. (en Français, en Espanol, auf Deutsch).

The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), was set up in 1949 and has 241 affiliated organisations in 156 countries and territories on all five continents, with a membership of 155 million, 40% of who are women.

It has three major regional organisations, APRO for Asia and the Pacific, AFRO for Africa, and ORIT for the Americas. It also maintains close links with the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) (which includes all ICFTU European affiliates) and Global Union Federations, which link together national unions from a particular trade or industry at international level.

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Linked with Mireia Uranga Arakistain – Spain.

… the reality of Gernika Gogoratuz Peace Research Centre. Gernika Gogoratuz is a dynamic and independent centre which bearing social changes in mind, applies new mechanisms in maintaining its work on building the Culture of Peace.

Our history, the present, and the image of a future in positive peace guide us and encourage us to continue our work for sustainable and lasting peace. We also would like you to know that Gernika Gogoratuz is aware of the commitment toward society and responsibility required for its task of making its framework for a culture of peace publicly known. Please note that we are always open to your suggestions and will always be willing to offer you a hand whenever possible.

Gernika Gogoratuz is a Peace Research Centre. It was founded in 1987 in a unanimous decision by the Basque Parliament in remembrance of the 50th Anniversary of the Bombing of Gernika.

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Linked with Akbar Ganji – Iran, and with Martin Ennals – England (1927-1991).

Understanding conflict. Building peace. International Alert is an independent peacebuilding organisation working in over 20 countries and territories around the world. Our dual approach involves working directly with people affected by violent conflict as well as at government, EU and UN levels to shape both policy and practice in building sustainable peace. International Alert was established in 1986 by a group of human rights advocates led by the former Secretary General of Amnesty International, Martin Ennals, in response to growing concerns expressed by those working in international development agencies, human rights organisations and those involved in the issues of ethnic conflict and genocide. This group recognised that the denial of human rights often led to internal armed conflicts which, in turn, further undermined efforts to protect individual and collective human rights and to promote sustainable development.

Contact.

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Linked with Joy DeGruy-Leary – USA, with European banks and Africa’s wealth, with The Restoration of Human Abilities Association ROHA, and with The Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome PTSS.

The GAC was created at the historic Afrikans and Afrikan Descendants World Conference Against Racism (AAD WCAR) held in Bridgetown, Barbados (2002). The Global Afrikan Congress is dedicated to the ongoing Reparations struggle. The immediate priorities, strategies and recommendations on how to address the specific social, economic and political problems were addressed and are contained in our premier document, the Bridgetown Protocol.

This organization presently works with other partnering Black communities for the benefit of the global Afrikan community. The goal of this organization and its partners if the compensation for the enslavement and inhuman treatment of Afrikans and their descendants, and other less obvious effects of colonial domination and its attendant racism. Chattel slavery, the enslavement and torture of Afrikans and their children is, always was, and always will be a Crime Against Humanity. This event is indeed the worst crime in all of human history.

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Linked with Elmi Asha Hagi Amin – Somalia, with Women Peacemakers Program WWP, and with Gender as a Tool in Building Peace, with Women defending Peace Conference, and with Somalia – profiles, facts and reports.
SSWC was founded in 1992 by a group of Somali women from all sections of the community, as an urgent imperative to address the needs of Somalia’s women and children, regardless of ethnic and geopolitical divisions. Based in Kenya, they work as a non-governmental humanitarian and development organisation with a focus on improving women’s rights and promoting their participation in building peace. They run training workshops on Conflict Management as well as organising an annual literacy programme. In addition, they provide practical support to some of the country’s most vulnerable and marginalised women through rights awareness workshops and campaigns to end Female Genital Mutilation and early and forced marriage. Working with disadvantaged and displaced women, SSWC’s programme of community rehabilitation and income generating projects helps women move out poverty and begin to play a full and active part in their own lives and that of their communities and country. (See this and others on womenkind.org.uk).

Linked with Elmi Asha Hagi Amin – Somalia, with Gender as a Tool in Building Peace, with Women defending Peace Conference, with Somalia – profiles, facts and reports, and with Save Somali Women and Children SSWC.

The International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR) believes that without peace, development is impossible, and without women, neither peace nor development can take place.

IFOR’s Women Peacemakers Program (WPP) began in 1997 and works to support and strengthen women’s peacemaking initiatives.

The WPP believes that programs that specifically empower women peacemakers, and encourage women and girls to become involved in peacebuilding and civil society building, are essential for development.

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Linked with Bradford Dillman – USA, with Illicit International Transactions, and with Lessons for US Policy in the Arab World.

The International Political Economy Program: The University of Puget Sound is a leading center for undergraduate study of International Political Economy. We invite you to explore these web links and learn more about our courses and programs and the activities of our students, alumni and faculty. You can always return to this main page by clicking on the IPE beaver logo.

The International Political Economy Program offers a multidisciplinary approach to the study of modern society.

International Political Economy encourages the integrated analysis of social problems and issues, using tools and methods of political science, economics, and sociology as informed by an understanding of history and tempered by appreciation of culture and cultural differences.

IPE at the University of Puget Sound stresses the appreciation of competing theoretical perspectives, the consideration of multiple and over-lapping economic, political, and social linkages between and among global actors and events, and the application of this powerful framework to the analysis of a wide range of issues. IPE students necessarily learn to consider issues broadly, to see how issues and problems are interconnected, and to engage in critical and creative thinking.

International Political Economy Faculty (Read all the rest on ups.edu).

Linked with Isabelle Werenfels – Germany.

The Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Research Institute for International Affairs, with its more than 130 employees, is the largest research institute on international politics and security in Western Europe. Its primary function is to act in an advisory capacity to the federal government and the German Parliament (Bundestag) on foreign and security policy issues. Though funded by federal budget appropriations, the institute’s research is conducted independently, without direct government supervision or control.

The SWP was established in 1962. Under its founding director Klaus Ritter it acquired a reputation for its publications and conferences on arms control and security issues, subjects of special interest during the Cold War. Topics such as the transition in Russia and Eastern Europe, the new role of Western institutions and que Continuer la lecture de « Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik SWP »