Mois : mars 2007

Linked with Jane Goodall – USA.

In 1977, Jane founded the Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research, Education and Conservation to provide ongoing support for field research on wild chimpanzees.

JGI for wildlife research, education and conservation, is a global nonprofit that empowers people to make a difference for all living things. We are creating healthy ecosystems, promoting sustainable livelihoods and nurturing new generations of committed, active citizens around the world.

Research;
African Programs;
Chimpanzee Central;
News;
Action alerts;
Contact on their website.

About: The Jane Goodall Institute advances the power of individuals to take informed and compassionate action to improve the environment of all living things. The objectives of the Institute are to:

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Linked with Suraya Parlika – Afghanistan, and with All Afghan Women Union AAWU.

The AWO is a non-profit organization committed to assisting vulnerable Afghans in Canada, in refugees camps abroad and in Afghanistan. The AWO promotes the successful settlement of Afghan refugees in Canada through advocacy, and a wide range of settlement services, which it delivers primarily in the Greater Toronto Area, but throughout the country as well. The AWO also provides assistance and protection to refugees and to internally displaced and vulnerable people in Afghanistan, through advocacy, relief, education and income-generation projects, and through sponsorship to Canada. In all of its work, the AWO is committed to non-discrimination, equality and providing services that are culturally sensitive and designed to meet the particular needs of the Afghan community … The AWO is a multi-service settlement agency whose mandate is to assist Afghan women and their families, in all aspects of adaptation and integration into Canadian society. The AWO is also mandated to facilitate the resettlement of Afghan and other refugees from overseas through a refugee sponsorship program.Moreover, the AWO provides assistance to Afghan refugees overseas and to vulnerable groups in Afghanistan through lobbying, advocacy, direct assistance, relief, education and income generation programs. (full text).

Services; Projects; Youth Program; Links; Contact.

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Linked with Rudo de Ruijter – Netherlands, with Cost, abuse and danger of the dollar, with US-Iran: Raid on nuclear fuel market, with Pipeline projects through Afghanistan,
MATHABA.NET

At Mathaba we provide an example that people can be united in their goals while maintaining healthy differences of culture, nationality and opinion. We encourage the search for alternative solutions to realize human rights and freedom, and evolve those ideas into concrete living works that benefit our world.

• Flash-Media-Introduction: the philosophy of liberty;
• Index;
• Partnerships; For more information about Mathaba News Agency statistics and partnership possibilities;
• Authors;
• Newsletter, SUBSCRIBE;
• CONTRIBUTE;
• Contact.

Mathaba can be contacted by Telefon at:

• Hong Kong, China: +852 8199 000;
• London, England: 0871 2000 246
• Washington DC, USA: +1 202 470 3321

Wiki-Introduction – Mathaba.Net contains the Mathaba News Agency (mathaba), and also includes some special interest sections, Africa2020, Skype-News and other specialised news sites making up the Mathaba News Network.

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Linked with Suraya Parlika – Afghanistan, and with the Afghan Women’s Organisation AWO.

This Group has not an own website, but is mentionned on the following sites:

Sonoma County Women’s Council: The Core Council of Women for a Better World, the SCWC has been active since the Spring of 2002 as a concerned group of women in the County addressing the cessation of war and establishment of women’s power and place in creating a peaceful world. To that end, they have connected with two organizations: the All Afghan Women’s Union, in particular the Kabul Peace Circle, a part of AAWU, and Afghans4Tomorrow, an American-Afghan group based in the East Bay, working to promote the re-building of Afghanistan. The Women’s Council linked up with the Kabul Peace Circle through PeaceXpeace, an international women’s online organization begun by Patricia Melton Smith. The WCSC was the first circle of women to link with another international one through PeaceXpeace (http://www.peacexpeace.org) Communication is difficult because of the language barrier as well as a lack of computer/email connection in Kabul, but the Council continues its work through personal visits. (full text).

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The National Endowment for the Humanities EDSITE: EDSITEment, the best of the humanities on the web from the National Endowment for the Humanities in partnership with the National Trust for the Humanities, and the Verizon Foundation. This educational partnership brings online humanities resources from some of the world’s great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities directly to your classroom.

March 2007, this months feature: Exploring Women’s History;
calendar of the month (here March 2007);
SiteMap;
all subject categories;
Search;
Contact.

About EDSITEment: Partners: National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent federal agency established to promote knowledge of human history, thought, and culture. For more than thirty years, educators and students throughout the nation have benefited from NEH grants that create and preserve knowledge, identify and disseminate reliable learning resources, and empower teachers through professional development programs. EDSITEment brings the NEH commitment to excellence in humanities education to the Internet.

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Linked with We the People Foundation, for Constitutional Education.

The Give Me Liberty 2007 Conference, Washington DC, March 29-31, 2007 (Thursday-Saturday); Volunteer; Contact us.

One of three organizations that are working together to get government in New York State back under the control of the people and the New York Constitution. These three organizations provide a triple-threat offense on constitutional issues designed to address educational, litigational and activist dimensions, respectively:

– We The People Foundation for Constitutional Education, Inc.;
– All-County Taxpayers Association (ACTA);
– We The People Congress.

The We The People Congress has been established for the purpose of developing in the public forum, from the ordinary, non-aligned citizenry, a constituency committed to what Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. referred to as a « militant, non-violent, mass-movement » with the goal of achieving substantial reforms in the structure and process of government in the State of New York, through constitutional means.

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Linked with We The People Congress.

In July 2004, almost 1800 Citizens initiated a landmark federal lawsuit to have the Judiciary declare – for the first time in US history – the full constitutional meaning of the First Amendment Petition clause: The Right to Petition … (full text Homepage).

Events and Projects;
Latest Foundation News;
Archives;
Newsletter;
Contact.

Mission Statement: The We the People Foundation is a non-profit research and educational foundation. Our purpose is to promote a deeper understanding of the history and nature of America?s unique constitutional system of government and the power it affords our citizens to hold government leaders at all levels accountable for their actions. The Foundation?s programs facilitate effective civic action intended to compel government officials to obey our federal and state constitutions.

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Linked with Radhika Coomaraswamy – Sri Lanka.

ICES is one of the leading think tanks in the world researching and publishing on violent group conflict and related issues of governance and development. Established in 1982, the original mandate of the Centre being the study of ethnic conflict and gender issues, it is probably the first of its kind to focus attention on violent group conflict and has done pioneering work on the subject related to South Asia and many other parts of the world.

Current Projects;
Ethnic Studies Report ESR;
International conferences;
Sri Lanka database;
Contact.

About: The International Centre for Ethnic Studies (ICES) is a world leader in the study of violent group conflict. Established in September 1982, the Centre was a pioneer in the field of conflict studies and research when the subject of conflict was not the fashionable subject for academic research and teaching that it is today. The work it has done covers South Asia and many other parts of the world which is also unusual for a think tank located in a small developing country. However, ICES also soon concluded that the study of violent group conflict needs to be studied and understood in its broader socio-economic, political context and global context. Thus the focus of the ICES soon widened to encompass a much broader research and publication agenda that extended to, among other things, sustainable development, governance and gender. The ICES vision is animated by six themes:

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Linked with Michel Bauwens – Belgium & Thailand, with The cult of Ken Wilber, with FIVE FUNDAMENTAL ERRORS, and with The Political Economy of Peer Production.

Homepage with many good links to blogs, interviews, members, friends, news, resources etc. etc.; more on wiki; Contact.

About: The Foundation for P2P Alternatives proposes to be a meeting place for those who can broadly agree with the following propositions, which are also argued in the essay or book in progress, P2P and Human Evolution:

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SEECRAN is a network of non-governmental organisations, agencies, institutions and individuals promoting the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in the South-East European region … From Budapest to Tirana, from Ljubljana to Sofia, you will find member organisations of SEECRAN spread all over South Eastern Europe.

Consult the SEECRAN member database here.
Country Reports;
News & Events;
Contact.

With the armed and other conflicts in the region, along with the transition of economies, the lives of millions of people in the region have changed, for most to worse. In war-affected areas, the usual consequence of destruction is economic devastation. In other countries, such as Romania, Bulgaria, Albania and Croatia, economic situation is not satisfactory and there are bad consequences of transition for children. Slovenia is the only country in the broader region that has managed to enable economic development. Greece and Turkey have for a long time been market-oriented countries and are in a different position, particularly with Greece being an EU member. Economic underdevelopment in most of the countries of the region has tragic consequences for children since it disables functioning of social services, health care, education and delivery of all kinds of services and goods. (full text).

Linked with Carolyn Nordstrom – USA, and with Shadow Sovereigns.

Homepage;
Mission;
Policy Studies;
Publications;
Research Projects;
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Contact.

About: Founded in 1986 through a generous gift from Mrs. Joan B. Kroc, the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame conducts research, education, and outreach programs on the causes of violence and the conditions for sustainable peace.

The institute’s research agenda focuses on the religious and ethnic dimensions of conflict and peacebuilding; the ethics of the use of force; and the peacemaking role of international norms, policies and institutions, including a focus on economic sanctions and enforcement of human rights. In addition to individual research by faculty in a wide range of disciplines, the institute organizes collaborative research projects on these themes.

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Linked with Francisco “Chico” Whitaker Ferreira – Brazil, with Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher – Ethiopia, and with World Social Forum: Origin and Aims.

Long-term thinking for today’s world. The World Future Council is a new voice in the global political arena – one that draws on our shared human values to champion the rights of future generations, and works to ensure that humanity acts now for a sustainable future. Facing global challenges Despite having the means to tackle many of the problems we currently face, the existing global system of governance has so far seemed incapable of addressing them, often failing to adopt available solutions. The World Future Council will identify and promote successful policies, using existing networks to connect with over 25,000 parliamentarians, and more than 8,000 civil society organizations worldwide, arguing not for an ideology or a nation or a religion or a political party but for one thing only: our common future.

World Future Council’s Members;
Key Challenges: Environment, Social Issues, Economics and Politics;
Contact.

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Linked with Ruth Sando Perry – Liberia, and with The Perry Center.

The Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS) is a regional organization of 15 west African nations formed in 1975. There were 16 nations in the group until recently when Mauritania withdrew membership from ECOWAS. The main objective of forming ECOWAS was to achieve economic integration and shared development so as to form a unified economic zone in West Africa. Later on, the scope was increased to include socio- political interactions and mutual development in related spheres. When ECOWAS was registered in Nigeria in May 1975, there were 15 members in the organization to start with. In 1976, Cape Verde joined ECOWAS as 16th member. In 2002, Mauritania left the organization. Currently, there are 15 member countries in the organization. The membership list include the following countries. Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo.

Visitor’s Info;
Pivacy Policy;
Useful Links;
Contact.

Linked with Ruth Sando Perry – Liberia, and with ECOWAS – The Economic Community of West African States.

Whether you are here to find help or to give help, we hope you will come to know through our website that the Perry Center is a God-centered home reaching out to strengthen and provide for young unwed mothers spiritually, physically, mentally, and emotionally.

Program;
Newsletter;
Donate;
Contact.

About: The purpose of the Perry Center is to minister the love of Jesus Christ to single women experiencing an unplanned pregnancy by providing for their physical, emotional and spiritual needs in a residential setting. This is a faith ministry. God is our provision and our strength. No matter how severe the problem or difficult the background may be, Jesus can heal the wounds and create a new and whole person in His name. The commitment of the people who work for the ministry must be one of total giving. They must believe that God can supply all their needs. They must also believe that God can supply the total needs of the ministry. Jesus is a life-changer. Sometimes we will see the fruits of your labors and sometimes we are seed planters and never see the harvest.

Homepages: français, arabic, russian, english.

Linked with Sharla Musabih – United Arab Emirates, and with the City of Hope.

News and Views;
Calls for actions;
Publications;
Publications webshop;
Contact (scroll down);
Links.

Women Living Under Muslim Laws is an international solidarity network that provides information, support and a collective space for women whose lives are shaped, conditioned or governed by laws and customs said to derive from Islam. For more than two decades WLUML has linked individual women and organisations. It now extends to more than 70 countries ranging from South Africa to Uzbekistan, Senegal to Indonesia and Brazil to France. It links:

• women living in countries or states where Islam is the state religion, secular states with Muslim majorities as well as those from Muslim communities governed by minority religious laws;
• women in secular states where political groups are demanding religious laws;
• women in migrant Muslim communities in Europe, the Americas, and around the world;
• non-Muslim women who may have Muslim laws applied to them directly or through their children;
• women born into Muslim communities/families who are automatically categorized as Muslim but may not define themselves as such, either because they are not believers or because they choose not to identify themselves in religious terms, preferring to prioritise other aspects of their identity such as political ideology, profession, sexual orientation or others.

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