Mois : décembre 2006

Linked with Geoff Mulgan – England, with Background-Report on Cities in Transition, and with Geoff Mulgan’s Spring Conference 2006.

Demos is the think tank for everyday democracy. We believe everyone should be able to make personal choices in their daily lives that contribute to the common good. Our aim is to put this democratic idea into practice by working with organisations in ways that make them more effective and legitimate.

Focused on the following areas:

public services, the adaptive state;
science and technology;
cities and public space, self build cities;
arts and culture, valuing culture;
global security.

Our partners include policy-makers, companies, public service providers and social entrepreneurs. Demos is not linked to any party but we work with politicians across political divides. Our international network – which extends across eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Australia, Brazil, India and China – provides a global perspective and enables us to work across borders.

Blog.
Latest Publications.
Contact.

WOMENS’S ORGANISATION FOR MANAGING AND EDUCATIONAL NEEDS, W.O.M.E.N. is a registered society manned by a group of women, committed to extend all voluntary services for the development of her counterparts. It is a non-profit oriented, secular, organization heading to make women / girls self-reliant, dignified and respectable. Added to these, it also caters to the needs and desires of the elderly and children as well.

Women’s Organisation for Managing Economic and Educational Needs (short name W.O.M.E.N.) was founded by Dr. (Mrs) Azmat Nayeem in Sep 1986. It is a Govt of A.P. registered society having seven competent women in the Governing Body. Though all belong to different academics, they have a basic instinct of social development with a practical approach.

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Linked with Shanta Devi – India.

Ankur was started in 1983 in Delhi to help build empathy and an appreciation of diversities. For the last two decades Ankur has been working with the urban marginalised to create alternative models of education that respond to vital societal concerns and strive for building a society that affirms dignity of life, sharing of resources, participation, dialogue and non-violence. Ankur works with children between ages 6 and 13 and 14 to 15.

• Book: by lanes.
• Annual Report 1998-1999.
• Contact us by Internet.
• Postal adresse: Ankur Society For Alternatives In Education, 7/10 Sarvapriya Vihar, New Delhi-110016.
• phone: 091-011-26523395, 26523417, fax: 091-011-26521411, E-mail.
• Blog in hindi.
• Blog in english.
• Homepage in hindi/english mixed.

Ankur’s activities are aimed towards:

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Linked with Rethinking resettlement in Mumbai, and with Mumbai pavement dwellers finally get their homes.

SHACK, Post Office Box, 14038 Mowbray, 7705 Cape Town, South Africa.

T: +27 21 689 9408, F: +27 21 689 3912, e-mail.

Reports:

Report-links for all Countries, from Angola to Zimbabwe;
A small step towards confederation in India;

New: THE CHALLENGE OF ENGAGEMENT, August 2006:

It is almost 16 years now since the SDI process began to take root. It started with community-to-community exchange programmes between pavement dwellers in Mumbai, India and shack dwellers from the informal settlements of South Africa.

Since then it has grown into an international network of urban poor Federations in 24 countries on 3 different continents. Many of the strategies and tactics for securing land tenure and housing that were developed in the early days remain in place today, although they have been refined and adapted by an ever deepening process of action and reflection.

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Linked with Hilda Liria Domicó Bailarín – Colombia.

Published in Cultural Survival Quarterly, Issue 8.4, December 31, 1984, By Zornosa, Yesid Campos:

A long process of extermination and reduction of rich and advanced Indian cultures began almost 500 years ago. The Aztec, Maya, Tayrona, Inca and Muisca, among others, had large cities and a wide variety of crops; they Were accomplished artisans, musicians and singers, philosophers and mathematicians, recognized astronomers and scientists. But, the conquest violently altered the dynamics of indigenous America; with it came land seizures, tribute payments and various forms of labor control such as the repartimiento, the encomienda and the mita. Onto Indian society, the colono imposed not only himself but his language, beliefs, customs and personal interests.

Nowadays in Colombia’s multi-ethnic society more than 75 separate Indian cultures (about 2% of the total population) resist the continual besiegement and aggression of the national majority.

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Linked with Mohau Pheko – South Africa, with The World Development Movement WDM, with The WDM Death Counter, and with New social justice movements in a changing reality.

The International Gender and Trade Network is a network of feminist gender specialists who provide technical information on gender and trade issues to women’s groups, NGOs, social movements and governments. IGTN acts as a political catalyst to enlarge the space for a critical feminist perspective and global action on trade and globalization issues. It is a Southern-led network that builds South/North cooperation in the work of developing more just and democratic policy from a critical feminist perspective. IGTN is organized in eight regions: Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Central Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East and Gulf, North America and the Pacific.

About;
Trade Agreements
Economic Literacy
Bulletins;
Issues.

Specially: Gender and Trade in Africa (GENTA):

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Linked with Mohau Pheko – South Africa, with The WDM Death Counter, with The International Gender and Trade Network IGTN, and with New social justice movements in a changing reality.

Also linked with Peter Hardstaff – England.

The World Development Movement WDM (Homepage): Founded in 1970, WDM campaigns to tackle the root causes of poverty. WDM believes that charity is not enough and aims to change the policies that keep the developing world poor. It is a democratic and politically independent organisation with 15,000 supporters and a strong role for its 100 local groups across the UK.

The World Development Movement WDM tackles the underlying causes of poverty. We lobby decision makers to change the policies that keep people poor. We research and promote positive alternatives. We work alongside people in the developing world who are standing up to injustice. The world has the wealth and means to end poverty. Yet nearly half of the world’s population live on less than £1.40 a day. And over 11 million children will die from poverty-related illness this year alone.

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Linked with Eric Donald Hirsch – USA.
In 1986, Eric Donald Hirsch founded the Core Knowledge Foundation CK. According to the foundation website, « the ‘Core Knowledge’ movement is an educational reform based on the premise that a grade-by-grade core of common learning is necessary to ensure a sound and fair elementary education. » The intention of this is to create an even amount of information across all children of the same age. An argument against this method is that it does not take individual learning styles into account. Read what the Foundation says about itself:

Dedicated to excellence and fairness in early education, the Core Knowledge Foundation is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan organization founded in 1986 by E. D. Hirsch, Jr., professor emeritus at the University of Virginia and author of many acclaimed books including The Knowledge Deficit, Cultural Literacy, and The Schools We Need and Why We Don’t Have Them. The Foundation conducts research on curricula, develops books and other materials for parents and teachers, offers workshops for teachers, and serves as the hub of a growing network of Core Knowledge schools. As you explore this site, you will find lesson plans, articles, and many other resources to help you use the Core Knowledge Preschool Sequence and Core Knowledge Sequence K–8 in your classroom and school. We invite you to learn more about the model curriculum guidelines developed by the Core Knowledge Foundation, as more schools « share the knowledge, ». (Read much more on their website).

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« Everyone has the right to education … Education shall be directed to the full development of human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace », art.26 – Universal Declaration of Human Rights. (Read the whole text on this UNESCO site).

Look at: The (Australian) Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission HREOC has developed a structured online human rights education program for teachers of upper primary and secondary school students.

Human Rights Education Associates (HREA) is an international non-governmental organisation that supports human rights learning; the training of activists and professionals; the development of educational materials and programming; and community-building through on-line technologies. HREA is dedicated to quality education and training to promote understanding, attitudes and actions to protect human rights, and to foster the development of peaceable, free and just communities. HREA works with individuals, non-governmental organisations, inter-governmental organisations and governments interested in implementing human rights education programmes. (See more on HREA Homepage and ff).

Read: Human Rights in Education, from right-to-education.org.

The Center for Citizenship and Human Rights Education, UK. CCHRE was established to promote and develop research, consultancy and postgraduate studies in citizenship education and human rights education. It is a leading international centre in this field and welcomes students and researchers from around the world. The Centre’s work is inter-disciplinary and we actively promote the involvement of institutions, agencies and professionals. CCHRE is involved in a range of activities at local, regional, national and international levels. Our members are drawn from a number of academic departments at the University of Leeds and beyond. The Centre Director is Professor Audrey Osler. (See: CCHRE UK).

All Governments have a duty to teach regularly about human rights and to provide a learning environment where human rights are respected and acknowledged.(Read more on Amnesty International).

Book: Human Rights Education, by Aruna Goel and S.L. Goel, Sept. 2002, amazon.

Go to: Human Rights from BBC World Service.

Journalists for Human Rights JHR is a growing charitable organization that harnesses the power of the media to combat human rights abuses. By building the capacity of the media to report effectively on human rights issues, JHR’s work pressures abusers to stop and empowers victims to fight back. Since its founding in May 2002, JHR has run projects in nine African countries and throughout North America. Within Africa, JHR works with local media organizations to reach 20 million people with human rights related stories on a weekly basis. In Canada, JHR has established 22 Chapters (or clubs) at post-secondary institutions across the country, actively engaging over 20% of Canada’s journalism students in human rights reporting. JHR is currently working to expand this program throughout the United States. JHR has offices in Accra, Ghana and Toronto, Canada. (Read all about on their Homepage and more).

More links:

(US) National Center for Human Rights Education.

The People’s Movement for Human Rights Learning, and their Report 2006 of 382 pages in pdf.

Linked with Sabine Lichtenfels – Portugal, and with IGF Institut für Globale Friedensarbeit.

The Tamera Peace Village is a peace project in Alentejo, southern Portugal, with a project site that comprises 331 acres, 30 km inland from the Atlantic coast. The project was founded by Sabine Lichtenfels and Dieter Duhm and sees itself as a support and training base for the establishment of a global power for peace. The project’s research work deals with new ways of healing both humans and nature. The aim is to develop a cultural model for a non-violent lifestyle: a « Healing Biotope ». With the term ‘healing biotope’, we mean an intentional community of people, animals and plants mutually enhancing each others life-energy – a place where they are no longer restricted by fear or violence. A place for:

• a lively trust between humans and all creatures
• research into the most fundamental of life’s events
• a non-violent technology
• a loving reunion of the genders
• a sensual joy free of fear and humiliation
• re-locating human life within the laws of creation
• global networking.
• A Healing Biotope is also as self-sufficient as possible in the areas of nutrition, ecology, water, energy and medicine.

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Linked with Sabine Lichtenfels – Portugal, and with the Tamera Peace Village.

Das IGF entwickelt und vermittelt Gedanken, Erfahrungen und Konzepte für den Aufbau einer globalen Friedenskraft. Das IGF spannt ein internationales Netz der Kooperation zu Friedensinitiativen und engagierten Einzelpersonen, die am Aufbau einer globalen Friedenskraft beteiligt sind oder sein möchten, zu Vertretern indigener Völker, zu Wissenschaftlern, zu Friedensarbeitern und Friedensarbeiterinnen in vielen verschiedenen Ländern. Eine spezielle Kooperation entwickelte sich u.a. mit FriedensarbeiterInnen aus Israel/Palästina, Kolumbien, Indien, Kroatien und Brasilien. Der Sitz des IGF ist in Tamera in Portugal.

Das IGF arbeitet auf zwei Ebenen:

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Linked with a new post on 2009-12-13: Better World Links.

This site offers you a huge amount of links around the theme ‘better world’. Better World Links, for Peace, Human Rights, Environment, Social Justice, etc.exist also in german language!

Subdivisions:

Conflict Regions, Culture, Economy, Education, Environment, General Info, Health, Human Rights, Military, Men, News, One World, Peace, Politics, Religions, Social Justice, Urgent Actions, Women;
and specific divisions, like: real news & critical comments; important days and events,
and many local specific events. With some clicks you may land  on uruknet, or  Pentagon carrying Al Jazeera English, or on the US SOCIAL SECURITY DEBATE 2005 with 300 links.

Linked with Karl-Henrik Robèrt – Sweden, and with … a way of talking about « systems thinking ».

The Natural Step is a nonprofit organization founded in Sweden in 1989 by Swedish scientist, Karl-Henrik Robèrt. The Natural Step has pioneered a « Backcasting from Principles » approach to effectively advance society towards sustainability, and developed through a consensus process a systematic principle definition of sustainability. Following publication of the Brundtland Report in 1987, Robèrt developed The Natural Step Framework, setting out the system conditions for the sustainability of planet Earth. Robèrt’s four system conditions are derived from the laws of thermodynamics.

As an international non-profit organisation it has been working to accelerate global sustainability, using the internationally endorsed and tested Natural Step framework, which is based on sound science, systems thinking and practical business decision-making, to help companies, non-profit organisations, individuals and communities to lead the transition to an ecologically, socially and economically sustainable future. (Read more on the Homepage).

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CIDA is Canada’s lead development agency. It has a mandate to reduce poverty and to contribute to a more secure, equitable, and prosperous world. CIDA works in partnership around the world to support sustainable development in developing countries and to offer humanitarian assistance in areas of need. Since the founding of the United Nations in October 1945 and of specialized agencies following World War II, Canada has been supporting the development efforts of partner countries and organizations around the world. It has a mandate to support sustainable development in developing countries in order to reduce poverty and to contribute to a more secure, equitable, and prosperous world.

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Linked with Khushi Kabir – Bangladesh.

Nijera Kori is a movement for awareness, from the individual to the collective, relating to life in deep perspective, encompassing all its social, economic and political aspects. It is an awareness of an individuals existence that remains dormant untill awakened by external pressures and forces. The pressures are those of poverty, exploitation and deprivation, of marginalisation and exclusion, of class and gender discrimination and the forces are those of protest, for assertion of rights and privileges, for equality and justice, to which they have a natural claim by law and social norm.

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