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).

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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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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).

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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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