Mois : février 2007

Received by mail by Human Rights Education Associates HREA.

Strasbourg, 01.03.2007 – Council of Europe Secretary General Terry Davis is in Vienna today to inaugurate the European Union’s Fundamental Rights Agency.

Inauguration: The mandate of the agency, which is clearly limited to the EU’s distinct legal order, respects the preeminent role of the Council of Europe and its European Court of Human Rights in defending human rights in Europe. The regulations of the Agency recognise the work done by the Council of Europe, and there are detailed provisions which are intended to promote synergy and ensure complementarity.

The Council of Europe has been invited to participate in the administration of the new agency. Negotiations on a cooperation agreement between the two organisations have already begun and should be completed before the summer.

Ursula Plassnik, Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs of Austria, José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, Hans-Gert Pöttering, President of the European Parliament, and Brigitte Zypries, Federal Minister of Justice of Germany, will be among those taking part in the ceremony at the Palais Niederösterreich. (A Council of Europe Press release).

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Linked with Chhing Lamu Sherpa – Nepal.

Mountain Spirit MS is a non-government and non-profit making organization formed by the youths and development professionals of mountain community in 1996. MS has received wider government recognition through its formal affiliation with the Social Welfare Council in Nepal. (full text).

Reports;
News;
Vision, Mission;
Programm Aereas;
Photo Gallery;
Partner: Deutschland;
Contact. Mountain Spirit, P.O.Box 10185, Katmandu, Nepal, Tel 977-1-4422390.

Mountain Spirit is a non-governmental and non-profit organization legally registered in Nepal in 1996 and affiliated to the Social Welfare Council (SWC) of Nepal . The main objective of Mountain Spirit is to preserve the environment, culture and identity of mountain regions through the participation of local people in needs-based development activities. It aims to help make the mountains a better place to live, work and visit by improving the quality of life and empowering the local people so that they can make their own decisions and determine their own destiny.

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in english, deutsch, español, français, norsk, português.

Linked with Boualaphet Chounthavong – Laos.

Worldwide people working on Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network, CBNRM.Net, as practitioners, managers and researchers, are increasingly requesting better communication capabilities. Such communication and networking capabilities would make it possible for people to exchange experiences, manage relevant knowledge, and support learning across countries, sectors, cultures, and languages, and in this way achieve better results. The global context for these changes includes increased emphasis on culture, local institutions, traditional knowledge, participation and participatory approaches, and NGOs and civil society, within an overall nation-state framework characterized by increasing weight on decentralization, governance and transparency. CBNRM.Net is a response to this call. It provides a powerful set of broad, robust and useful networking tools aimed at linking stakeholders. As a complete, integrated, and adaptable knowledge management tool, CBNRM Net is presented as a service to the global CBNRM.Net community of practice. Explore CBNRM.Net for:

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Linked with Boualaphet Chounthavong – Laos.

Village Focus International envisions a world in which every community has the capacity, opportunity, and legal right to improve its quality of life. VFI’s mission is to invest in local staff and leaders working to design and implement
projects that create positive change in their own communities by bridging international support to local action. (full text).

Non-profit U.S.-based organization empowering communities and leaders in Laos, Cambodia, and Southern India. Incorporated in 2000 by a group of Lao people and two Americans who have worked together for over ten years. Grassroots model that differs from large development organizations, known to be ineffective and wasteful, by keeping overhead costs low and emphasizing local leadership. (full text).

Homepage;
Child Protection & Empowerment; Village Life & Leadership; Natural Resource Management; Fair Trade; Newsletter;
Contact us.

Cambodia: The Khmer Rouge regime, responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people, brought Cambodia’s flourishing society to a halt in 1975. The resulting years of war, isolation, and uncertainty lasted until 1998. (full text). Continuer la lecture de « Village Focus International VFI »

OSI-New York and OSI-Budapest are separate organizations that operate independently, yet cooperate informally with each other. This website, a joint presentation, is intended to promote both organizations’ interests, while maintaining their respective transparency. (Information-Programme).

OSI Offices: OSI is based in New York City and cooperates with the Hungary-based OSI-Budapest. OSI-New York is exempt from United States income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code. Together with OSI-Budapest, OSI-New York provides administrative, financial, and technical support to the Soros foundations. OSI-New York operates initiatives, which address specific issues on a regional or network-wide basis internationally, and other independent programs. OSI-New York is also the home of a series of programs that focus principally on the United States. In the United States, OSI has offices in Baltimore, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. In addition to Budapest, other offi ces outside the United States are located in Brussels, London, and Paris.

The Soros Foundations Network;
Grants, Scholarships, Fellowships;
Resource Center;
Initiatives;
Site-map;
Contact us inside of our website.

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Linked with Manfred Max-Neef – Chile, with The Max-Neef Model of Human-Scale Development, with Statements at the World Future Council.

CEPAUR is largely dedicated to the reorientation of development in terms of stimulating local self-reliance and satisfying fundamental human needs. More generally, it advocates a return to the human scale. CEPAUR acts as a clearing-house for information on the revitalisation and development of small and medium-sized urban and rural communities; it researches new tools, strategies and evalutive techniquest for such development, assists with projects aiming at greater local self-reliance and disseminates the reulsts of its research and experience. In Human Scale Development, published in 1987 in Spanish and later in English, Max-Neef and his colleagues at CEPAUR outline a new development paradigm based on a revaluation of human needs. Needs are described as existential (having, doing, being) and as axiological (values) and the things needed to satisfy them are not necessarily dependent upon, or commensurate with, the kinds or quantities of economic goods available in any given society. The book seeks to counter the logic of economics with the ethics of well-being. (full text on the website of The Right Livelihood Awards).

The Center is described also on the following websites:
Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation;
Foundation for deep ecology;
Peace Proposal.com;
Globalization and Megatechnology.

NCCR Central Asia is part of The National Centre of Competence in Research NCCR North-South (site is hosted at the University of Berne/Switzerland (in german), and their Center for development and environment: (in english). Works together with the Swiss Development Cooperation.

Swiss cooperation in Central Asia started with Kyrgyzstan in 1993 and Uzbekistan in 1994. Tajikistan received humanitarian aid during the civil war (1993-97), which had later been replaced by technical and financial assistance. Through the Swiss Cooperation Offices in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, Switzerland implements projects which aim to achieve a sustainable change in the region. Some of the regional projects include limited activities in Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan. Motivation for support: Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan are members of the Swiss-led voting group at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and at the Bretton Woods Institutions (International Monetary Fund, World Bank). Swiss active involvement in the region is supported by the Swiss government’s understanding that global security and prosperity will not be achieved as long as a huge gap separates the developed and the underdeveloped world. (full text).

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(Homepage in english) – (Homepage in russian)

Read: The Central Asian Human Development Report HDR 2005.

about: Mission and objectives: Central Asian Gateway Internet website was created with aim to provide access to information on socio-economic development of Central Asian states. This information, its comprehension and practical use allow to promote sustainable development, productive exchange of best practices, encourage of network activity carried out by various institutions, citizens, and other counterparts engaged in constructive activity.

CAG Mission Statement: CAG portal will facilitate knowledge sharing and information exchange for sustainable socio-economic development and integration of Central Asian countries.

CAG goals and objectives:

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UCA is an International Initiative for Education and Development in Central Asia. The University of Central Asia was created to offer an internationally recognized standard of higher education in Central Asia and create knowledgeable, skilled and creative graduates who will contribute leadership, ideas and innovations to the transitioning economies and communities of the region.

UCA was founded in 2000 by the governments of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan, and His Highness the Aga Khan. It is the world’s first internationally chartered institution of higher education. The International Treaty and Charter establishing this secular and private University was signed by His Highness the Aga Khan and the Presidents of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan, ratified by the respective parliaments and registered with the United Nations. The Presidents are the Patrons and His Highness the Aga Khan is the Founding Patron and Chancellor of UCA. UCA is a private, independent, self-governing institution which will be governed by an independent Board of Trustees and led by a Rector. It will have three campuses of equal size and stature in each of the founding countries.

Adresses:
University of Central Asia Tekeli, 20 Kazakhstanskaya Street, Tekeli, Republic of Kazakhstan.
University of Central Asia Naryn, 19 Pervogo Maya Street, Naryn, Kyrgyz Republic.
University of Central Asia Khorog, c/o AKDN Khorog office, Chorbogh, Khorog, GBAO, Republic of Tajikistan.
Central Administration, 80 Tynystanova Street, 720053 Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic.

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Linked with Gavkhar Juraeva – Tajikistan.

This is a quarterly journal on migration law and policy with specific emphasis on the European Union, the Council of Europe and migration activities within the Organisation for Secutiry and Cooperation in Europe. This journal differs from other migration journals by focusing on both the law and policy within the field of migration, as opposed to examining immigration and migration policies from a wholly sociological perspective. The Journal is the initiative of the Centre for Migration Law of the University of Nijmegen, in co-operation with the Brussels-based Migration Policy Group.

The European Journal of Migration and Law provides an invaluable source of information and a platform for discussion for government and public officials, academics, lawyers and NGOs interested in migration issues in the European context. Devoted exclusively to migration law and policy, the original research and analysis the Journal presents will emphasize the development of migration policies across Europe. Each issue will have a cross-disciplinary approach to migration and social issues such as access of migrants to social security and assistance benefits, including socio-legal and meta-juridical perspectives. (full text of its online-version).

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Linked with Viloyat Mirzoyeva – Tajikistan, and with Bihodjal Rahimova – Tajikistan.

Homepage:

UNIFEM is the women’s fund at the United Nations. It provides financial and technical assistance to innovative programmes and strategies to foster women’s empowerment and gender equality. Placing the advancement of women’s human rights at the centre of all of its efforts, UNIFEM focuses its activities on four strategic areas:

• (1) reducing feminized poverty,
• (2) ending violence against women,
• (3) reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS among women and girls, and
• (4) achieving gender equality in democratic governance in times of peace as well as war. (read more; lea más; et aussi).

UNIFEM Project Office in Tajikistan, 35, Khusein-zade Street, Dushanbe 734025, TAJIKISTAN. National Project Coordinator: Viloyat Mirzoeva, Tel: +992 372 211831, Fax: +992 372 210645 (Go to this UNIFEM site and scoll down).

NGO Committee on UNIFEM – The NGO Committee on UNIFEM was established to promote the work of UNIFEM. It consists of representatives of 32 NGOs in consultative status with ECOSOC. Inquiries about the committee may be directed to Jackie Shapiro, Convener of the Committee, at +1 212-249-4065. (full text).

Linked with Peter Waterman – England, with Reflections on an Emancipatory Labour Internationalism … , with Surpassing the binary opposition between reform and revolution.

Turtle People;
Book Reviews;
Archive/Graveyard;
Turtle’s links;
Contact;
And last but not least: the very deep, very red Homepage.

About: The Voice of the Turtle is an online journal of left-wing politics and culture. Its Editors are scattered across the face of the globe, in San Francisco, California and Ithaca, New York; Oxford, England and Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, England, and – from time to time – Harare, Zimbabwe. The Turtle edits and publishes material as it comes in to our shifting Headquarters. In most of the months of the year, a Monthly Missive informs those who subscribe to the Turtle’s email list of the latest developments on the site.

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(site in russian)

CACEE has been established at the Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU), Tomsk, Russia, as a satellite centre of the UNESCO International Centre for Engineering Education UICEE, which is based at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. This has been accomplished within the framework of a Memorandum of Understanding signed between the TPU and the UICEE, which came into effect on January 01, 2001.

Information;
Contact. Address: Central Asia Centre for Engineering Education, 634034, 30 Lenin Ave., Tomsk, Russia.

Partners:
Monash University (Melbourne, Australia);
Aalborg University, Faculty of Engineering & Science (Aalborg, Denmark);
Anna University (Chennai, Madras, India);
Glasgow Caledonian University (Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom);
Ryerson Polytechnic University (Toronto, Canada);
Technical University of Denmark (Lyngby, Denmark);
University of Technology, Business & Design (Hochschule Wismar, Wismar, Germany).

Goals: The CACEE seeks to accomplish several goals in the realm of engineering education, namely:

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Linked with all links on CANGO.net on this blog.

An internet resoure page hosted by the East European, Russian, and Eurasian National Resource Center at Columbia University. As part of a longstanding effort to provide resources on Central Asia and the Caucasus, the Center is pleased to present the resources below. Center staff would be grateful for suggested additional links.

A site with a great amount of links:

Excemple: all country links;
links for educators;
Contact on their website:

NGOs:
CANGO.net;
Central Asia Insitutute;
Eurasia Foundation;
Open Society Institute;
International Research & Exchanges Board;
Silkroad Foundation;
CIMERA;

See many other topics, like more NGOs, on their Homepage.

Linked with Dilorom Mukhsinova – Uzbekistan, with Mubarak Gurbanova – Turkmenistan, with Viloyat Mirzoyeva – Tajikistan, with Gavkhar Juraeva – Tajikistan, and with Bihodjal Rahimova – Tajikistan.

Linked also with former personalities of Central Asia on this web blog: with Adiba Kamiljonovna Akhmedjanova – Uzbekistan, with Sakhibakhon Irgasheva – Uzbekistan, with Mutabar Tadjibayeva – Uzbekistan, with Natalia Shabunz – Turkmenistan, with Fatimakhon Ahmedova – Tajikistan, with Aziza Abdirasulova – Kyrgyzstan, with Raisa Kadyrova – Kyrgyzstan, with Tolekan Ismailova – Kyrgyzstan, with Natalia Shabunz – Turkmenistan, and with Rozlana Taukina – Kazakhstan.

News;
Archive;
Counterpart Consortium Offices in Central Asia (full text/addresses);
Database.

The site exists also in russian, see link on english homepage.

CANGO.net is a Civil Society Support Initiative. A new program of the United States Agency on International Development USAID for Central Asian NGOs, exactly in Kasakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

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