Mois : janvier 2007

Linked with Jason Rezaian – Iran & USA, and with A World Between.

Offering a range of services for news crews, reporters and other Western media representatives working in Iran and the Middle East.

Committed to creating a uniquely rewarding experience for media professionals and artists in an awe-inspiring and often misunderstood region of the world.
Providing articles on Iran that shed more light on current events there than do many found in most US newspapers.

About: The Iran Media Service was founded in 2000 when Jason Rezaian began writing about Iran for US publications. What began as several articles aimed at showing Iran to Americans in a more representative light, has grown to an operation that now provides resources to other Western journalists and production crews assigned to Iran.

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Linked with María del Carmen Sarthes – Argentina.

This link seems to be their website, but it is actually not available.

The group is also mentionned under the following links:

Who Are ‘Catholics for a Free Choice‘? (The) Pro-abortion Group Has Benefited from Pornography, Copyright © 1993 by Diane S. Dew, Published in ALL About Issues, Sept/Oct 1993 – Founded in 1972, Catholics For a Free Choice, a nominally Catholic, pro-abortion organization, has an annual budget of $900,000, and claims 8,000 members. According to the Encyclopedia of Associations, Catholics For a Free Choice (CFFC) is an association of « Catholics within the Roman Catholic Church who support the right to legal reproductive health care, especially to family planning and abortion.

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Linked with Rahela Khatun – Bangladesh, and with the Noai Landless Women Organization.

BELA is mentionned on these links:
On The Japan Environmental Education Forum / Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association BELA; on Green Cities; on friends of the earth bangladesh-groups; on e-law partners in Asia; on and Child Rights Information Network. And later on their own new website, now under construction.

The Worldwide movement for the conservation of environment quite justifiably hit Bangladesh, a country of extreme poverty, where natural environment was facing continuous degradation for a number of reasons. Attraction of sophisticated and high yielding technologies has over powered rationality in many instances, as consciousness for environment was yet to develop amongst governmental organizations and citizens group. When realities primarily forced by demand of increasing population, and natural disasters started taking tolls on human lives and livelihood, the consciousness began to change from status quo.

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Linked with Rina Amiri – Afghanistan & USA, with The Women Waging Peace Network, with Women Likely to Suffer Most in Central Asia’s Turmoil, and with Muslim Women As Symbols and Pawns.

RAWA is the oldest political/social organization of Afghan women struggling for peace, freedom, democracy and women’s rights in fundamentalism-blighted Afghanistan since 1977.

Website edited in the main UNO languages, plus português and german, as most of the following texts:

Listen to a short biography in audio of Martyred Meena (1956-1987), founding leader of RAWA.

Links to more publictions / audios / movies:

• Afghanistan the Bloodiest Field for Slaughtering Human Rights, RAWA communiqué on Universal Human Rights Day, Dec.10, 2006 (see picture above);
• Five Years Later, Afghanistan Still in Flames, Speech by Zoya at a benefit for RAWA in Los Angeles on October 7, 2006;
• Afghan orphans reshape their lives at RAWA orphanages; August 22, 2006;
• 28th April 1992, Mourning for People – Joy for Fundamentalists!
• RAWA denounces the gloomy day of April 28, 1992;
• April 28, 2006 ,
• Defense of Abdul Rahman Misses the Mark!, March 26, 2006;
• … Find many more links on RAWA.

If you are freedom-loving and anti-fundamentalist, you are with RAWA. Support and help us. Contact and Contributions.

Linked with Rina Amiri – Afghanistan & USA, with Muslim Women As Symbols and Pawns, with Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan RAWA, and with Women Likely to Suffer Most in Central Asia’s Turmoil.

About: The Initiative for Inclusive Security includes The Women Waging Peace Network, a network of women peacemakers from conflict areas around the world, ranging from Sudan to Sri Lanka, Colombia to Bosnia, the Middle East to Sierra Leone. The Network was launched in 1999 to connect these women with each other and with policy shapers.

Members of the Waging network: all (are) demonstrated leaders among women peace builders, are elected and appointed government officials, directors of non-governmental organizations and movements in civil society, scholars and educators, businesspeople, representatives of multilateral organizations, and journalists. With varied backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, they bring a vast array of expertise to the peacemaking process.

Publications.

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