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).