Mois : mai 2007

Linked with Bettina Renz – England.

The RES is a global initiative by leading academic institutes, thinks tanks, NGOs and media organizations. It provides the framework for studies on security-related developments in Russia and Eurasia:

• News & Analyses;
• Digital Library;
• RES Partner Network;
• Contact.

About: As the fourth specialized network of the International Relations and Security Network (ISN), it integrates the eastern hemisphere to an electronic platform that collects, manages and shares high-quality digital resources. RES particularly promotes research within three fields:

• Russian Regions: Crime, Corruption and Terrorism;
• Central Eurasian Security;
• Decision Making Processes in Russian Foreign and Security Policy.

Through dialogue, cooperation, information sharing and knowledge dissemination the RES Partner Network not only enhances cooperation among partner institutions but also contributes to a broader understanding of Russian and Eurasian security developments. We encourage you to take advantage of our services and to participate actively in the further development of the network.

as a part of the European Research Institute ERI, (which is part of the University of Birmingham).

Linked with Bettina Renz – England.

At the University of Birmingham, CREES has been at the forefront of research and teaching on Russia and Eastern Europe for over 40 years. As ever, our staff and students continue to relish the exciting challenge of expanding the knowledge base on this fast changing region (Prof. Julian Cooper/Director & Dr Kataryna Wolczuk/Deputy Director).

CREES Homepage;
Forty Third Annual Report, 2005-2006;
Research;
Studying at CREES;
Seminars;
Contact.

Staff: While CREES does not have its own Research Fellowship scheme, scholars wishing to undertake research visits are always welcome, for any period from a day to a year or more. Academic visitors who join us for more than a month are offered Honorary Research Fellow status, but we are obliged to make a modest charge for the use of a desk and other University facilities. If you are interested in a possible research visit, please contact the Director.

Linked with Parmaben Sava – India.

The KMVS has not its own website, but is mentionned on some others, like:

The Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan is an organisation of rural women from the arid border villages of Kutch district, Gujarat. KMVS has 4000 members out of which 1200 are traditional craftswomen, organised and operating as producer groups. Together they design, innovate, produce and market – as entrepreneur-artisans, not lowly paid piece rate workers. They function as self managed production units, accessing cred, raw materials and direct buyers. Together they strive to attain some control over their lives. Their aims are:
1. To form rural women’s organisations in Kutch, with emphasis on social, political, exploitation and inequality issues, so that they can become self-reliant;
2. To take up much activities that help develop skills through which they develop society.
Working Languages: Gujarati, English.
Craft: Embroidered garments, table sets. (full text).

KMVS thereby evolved into an organization with myriad activities designed for empowerment such as looking at handicrafts, credit and savings, health, education, natural resources management and capacity building of mahila sarpanches. In the process it has gone through several restructuring exercises with the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust (SDTT) playing a major role in the process of decentralization – helping the mahila mandals at the village levels to grow into taluka-level sangathans (federation of mahila mandals) that are now registered as independent bodies. SDTT bears the administrative costs and funds the staff of the sangathans that have established their own specific identity and capacity to work on issues of gender transformation. (full text).

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Linked with Hernando de Soto – Peru, and with Hernando de Soto’s texts and videos.

ILD states: Four billion people in developing and post-Soviet nations —two thirds of the world’s population— have been locked out of the global economy: forced to operate outside the rule of law, they have no legal identity, no credit, no capital, and thus no way to prosper. The Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD), based in Lima, Peru, has created a key that can open the system to everyone — a time-tested strategy for legal reform that offers the majority of the world’s people a stake in the market economy.

Sitemap;
Projects;
Publications;
Links;
Contact.

About: The Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD) was created in Peru by Hernando de Soto and his associates to facilitate the transition of developing and former Soviet nations to an inclusive market economy and the rule of law.

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Linked with Elisabet Sahtouris – USA & Greece.

BGI‘s pioneering MBA and Certificate programs prepare diverse leaders to build enterprises that are economically successful, socially responsible and environmentally sustainable. Our innovative curriculum preserves the rigor of a traditional MBA program, while infusing sustainability—environmental and social responsibility—throughout every course. The MBA program combines distance learning with monthly, intensive, face-to-face classroom sessions. Students build a strong, cooperative learning community with each other, the faculty and staff. Our faculty comprises distinguished business-school professors and business innovators from around U.S. and Canada with a passion for sustainability. Find out if our MBA in Sustainable Business or one of our Certificate programs, in Sustainable Business or in Entrepreneurship & Intrapreneurship, is right for you.
(See to the other pages from links inside of this website.

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Sitemap; Contacts.

Respect-Inside is a corporate conduct label. (It) is the first international site to provide information about the traceability of manufacture of consumer goods and industrial products. Respect-inside is neither an activist approach nor a site which denounces abuse and ranks companies. On the contrary, it is an Internet platform open to all kinds of stakeholders in the economy:

• the transparency, traceability and visibility of the supply chain;
• the measures taken to improve the living conditions of the persons involved in the manufacturing process, from the outset to the finished product.

About:

• On this site, companies present in a neutral and controlled manner:
• general information;
• social actions;
• environmental actions.

This information is supplemented by reports by audit companies and by independent reports by NGOs (non-governmental organisations) …

… This site is intended for:

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Linked with Jerry Mander – USA.

Events: Save the Date! Sept. 14-16, 2007, Washington, DC, IFG Teach-in: Confronting the Triple Crisis – Climate Change, Peak Oil, and Global Resource Depletion;

Homepage;
Flyer;
List of confirmed speakers.
Bookstore;
IFG programs;
Analysis;
Contact.

about: THE INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON GLOBALIZATION (IFG) is a North-South research and educational institution composed of leading activists, economists, scholars, and researchers providing analyses and critiques on the cultural, social, political, and environmental impacts of economic globalization. Formed in 1994, the IFG came together out of shared concern that the world’s corporate and political leadership was rapidly restructuring global politics and economics on a level that was as historically significant as any period since the Industrial Revolution. Yet there was almost no discussion or even recognition of this new « free market, » or « neoliberal » model, or of the institutions and agreements enforcing this system—the World Trade Organization (WTO), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and other such bureaucracies. In response, the IFG began to stimulate new thinking, joint activity and public education about this rapidly rising economic paradigm. (full text).

Linked with Jerry Mander – USA.

The Foundation for deep ecology, the Conservation Land Trust, and Conservacion Patagonica have offices at Fort Cronkhite in the Marin Headlands in Sausalito, California. Together, these organizations are dedicated to the preservation of wild nature. In recent years, the Foundation for Deep Ecology has been active in publishing large-format books on diverse environmental topics. These include Wildfire: A Century of Failed Forest Policy, Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture, Welfare Ranching: The Subsidized Destruction of the American West, and Clearcut: The Tragedy of Industrial Forestry. (full text).

Mission statement;
Deep ecology movement;
Publishings;
Staff;
Contact.

The Institute is an outgrowth of the Global Women’s History Project at Westfield State college. It is organized around an educational model that links academic and activist work of women. This work has the potential to transform the way we think and behave. We believe that documenting and archiving the contributions of women in history and current events is often marginalized. We hope that the Global Women’s History Institute will begin to address these lapses and build links between and among women around the world. We anticipate that the Global Women’s History Institute will become a valuable resource, and we encourage your feedback. Links to the Global Women’s History Project, as well as Month Celebrating Women, and the Women’s Studies Program at Westfield State College are highlighted for your convenience. (full text).

• The Global Women’s History Project;
• Women’s Studies Program;
• Archives;
• Auteur Heidi Barathieu-BrunPublié le 26/05/200726/02/2025Catégories à vérifier, Civil Society

(Korean Version)

Linked with Heisoo Shin – South Korea.

KWHL Korea Women’s Hot Line, as a women’s rights activist group, is protecting women’s rights from all kinds of violence and advancing women’s social position as well as establishing gender equality in the spheres of family, work, and society. In politics, economics, society, and culture, our purpose is to make women participate actively, thus contributing to this land’s peace and democracy.

Branches;
KWHLnews;
Links;
Contact: Korea Women’s Hotline 4F, 2-9 Daeheungdong Mapogu Seoul Korea, 121-808.
Tel + 82-2-2269-2962, Fax + 82-2-2269-1823.

We believe that:

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ESCRnet.org links Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR) advocates around the world so they can strengthen their own work through the use of human rights tools and approaches; strengthen each other’s work through joint actions, campaigns, and information-sharing; and build the field of ESCR globally though the development of new tools, strategies, knowledge and advocacy.

Working Groups;
Activities & Actions;
News & Events;
Caselaw & Database;
Contact.

ESCR-Net seeks to strengthen economic, social and cultural rights by working with organizations and activists worldwide to facilitate mutual learning and strategy sharing, develop new tools and resources, engage in advocacy, and provide information-sharing and networking. (full text).

The main objective of the Confederation is to enhance the impact of European development NGOs vis-à-vis the European Institutions by combining expertise and accountability.

Report 2007 on Development aid: Europe fails to live up to its promises;
Rising trends in the Development co-operation;
Publications;
Press;
Interesting links;
Contact.

NGOs want European governments to:

• Provide genuine increases in European aid;
• Agree clear and binding year-on-year timetables to reach, at a minimum, the 2010 and 2015 targets; with genuine aid resources;
• Stop including refugee, student costs and debt relief in official aid reporting;
• Improve transparency in aid reporting;
• End all tied aid;
• Ensure aid is focused on helping the world’s poor;
• Take further steps to make aid more effective.

About: CONCORD is the European NGO Confederation for Relief and Development. Its 19 international networks and 22 national associations from the European Member States and the candidate countries represent more than 1600 European NGOs vis-à-vis the European Institutions.

Linked with Bibek Debroy – India, with Body mass politic, and with ‘We are 30 years behind China in terms of development‘.

The Manthan Award is an Indian initiative by Digital Empowerment Foundation, India as the national initiative of World Summit Award, to select and promote the best practices in e-Content and Creativity in India. It involves representatives from each state and union territory of India and visualizes the bridging of digital divide and narrowing of the content gap as its overall goal.

A message of empowerment, by Bibek Debroy;
News, press coverage;
Contact.

Digital Empowerment foundation works in the area of Development in relations to Information Communication Technology with especial focus in research and assessment and recognizing the un-recognised. Ironically, most of the movements in the ICT for Development sector are more about technology and less about final deliverables or content in general. DEF observed that most of the innovative initiatives at the grassroots level using ICT do not get attention and recognition which could easily enable them to move forward.

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Linked with Jo Wilding – England, http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/1287

Circus2Iraq C2I is a Circus going to different countries with traumatised children. there is no explaining homepage, but pages showing all the famous projects, like the following:

• Circus2Mongolia;
• in Bethany and Jerusalem Suburbs;
• Palestinian Shiraa Circus;
• Masrah Al Arab-Beirut;
• Wishlist;
• Want to run away with the circus?;

… and many other pages.

Linked with Yanar Mohammed – Irak, and with Honor Killings in the New Iraq, The Murder of Du’a Aswad.

In 2003, Yanar Mohammed founded the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), which shelters Iraqi women targeted in honor killings and sectarian violence (both on the rise since the war and occupation). It also monitors women in jail and assists formerly detained women, such as prostitutes. And, most visibly, OWFI speaks out loudly and insistently for women’s legal rights and secular law in opposition to Iraq’s growing Islamism. Her demands shed light on the precarious position of women under radical Islamism but, perhaps more to the question at hand, they confirm the disastrous consequences of the Iraq war and the political repercussions of occupation, which, according to Mohammed, has unleashed militant fundamentalism that is proving impossible to subdue. (full text).

Yanar Mohammed tells about OWFI: « We mainly work out of our main office in Baghdad and also in the southern city of Nasiriyah. In Kirkuk we have representatives but we couldn?t maintain the office. We still have our representatives working from their homes. They open their homes when a woman needs sheltering ». (full text May 11, 2007).

See the organisation on wikipedia. See also a better article on the french wikipedia.

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