Mois : octobre 2006

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

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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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