Mois : juin 2007

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The 33rd G8 summit is to take place at Kempinski Grand Hotel in Heiligendamm in the old Duchy of Mecklenburg in the Northern German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern on the Baltic Coast, from June 6 to June 8, 2007.

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The G8-Platform is a pool of now about 40 organisations, mainly of environmental and development backgrounds. Their joint goal is to prepare mutual activities and events around the G8-summit in June 2007 in Heiligendamm, Germany.

The platform aims to serve as coordination and information base for all summit activities. Work started in January 2006. Since then the platform, which is meeting on a regular basis, has been expanding. Interested organisations are welcome to join.

Several teams and groups have evolved from the meetings organising cultural events, the rally, the alternative summit, action days and camps. As the platform’s contribution we offer
a series of conferences dealing with important issues around the G8. (full text).

Linked with Karla Schefter – Germany, and with Pictures from Afghanistan.

Afghan Links, The website to complement the Afghanlinks-Newsletter.

The Afghan Links News Letter is a spin-off from the British and Irish Agencies Afghanistan Group (BAAG) Bulletin that I created after September 11th in response to a need for up to the minute information. For the first few months it was issued daily then became a weekly e-bulletin which is still being published for BAAG Members.

During a secondment from BAAG to ACBAR – the Kabul based Agency Coordinating Body for Afghan Relief – I trained staff there to produce their own local version of a bulletin which is still going strong. Please refer to Agency Coordinating Body For Afghan Relief.

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The NGOs and Civil Societies of The watching groups of IFI watchnet.

IFIwatchnet is a groundbreaking initiative in international NGO networking, currently in its second year of operation. It connects organisations worldwide which are monitoring international financial institutions (IFIs) such as the World Bank, the IMF, and regional development banks. Formed in response to a call by civil society groups to maximise the effectiveness of their communications and networking efforts, it is rapidly developing into a key tool for ever increasing degrees of collaboration between IFIwatching groups at national, regional and international levels. With nearly 60 organisations from 27 different countries in every region of the world, it has huge potential to increase the ability of civil society to make global governance institutions accountable to the people they serve.

IFIwatchnet is not an NGO and it does not undertake monitoring or campaiging work itself, rather it supports the work undertaken by its participants. It aims to:

• Pool independent information about IFIs from a broad range of civil society sources and make it easier for people to find what they need;
• Improve communication between IFI-watchers, increasing mutual awareness of outputs and collaboration on activities;
• Increase the efficiency and effectiveness of IFI watching organisations through new information sharing approaches.

IFIwatchnet participant organisations monitor one or more of these global and regional IFIs: (full text).

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Linked with Jeanne Devos – Belgium.

MISEREOR was founded in 1958 as an agency « against hunger and disease in the world ». In its capacity as the overseas development agency of the Catholic Church in Germany, it offers to cooperate in a spirit of partnership with all people of goodwill to promote development, fight worldwide poverty, liberate people from injustice, exercise solidarity with the poor and the persecuted, and help create « One World ».

MISEREOR is mandated by the Catholic Church in Germany:

• to fight the causes of hardship and misery as manifested chiefly in countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America in the forms of hunger, disease, poverty and other forms of human suffering;
• thus enabling the people affected to lead a life of human dignity;
• and to promote justice, freedom, reconciliation and peace in the world.

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This Christian motivation should lead us not only to help and share with the poor, but also to undergo a process of spiritual renewal, becoming « richer » people through solidarity and community with the poor. It should also lead us to make a commitment to creating a more just and peaceful One World through responsible development of our own society. As such, MISEREOR is also a campaign, a « movement » in Germany, everywhere on the lookout for partners, friends and « fellow activists » in the fight against poverty.

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Linked with Jeanne Devos – Belgium.

Anti-Slavery International is the world’s oldest international human rights organisation. Its roots stretch back to 1787 when the first abolitionist society was formed. This broad-based society was at the forefront of the movements to abolish the slave trade (achieved in Britain in 1807) as well as slavery throughout the British colonies (achieved in 1833). (full text).

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About: http://www.antislavery.org.uk/homepage/antislavery/about.htm
Anti-Slavery International, founded in 1839, is the world’s oldest international human rights organisation and the only charity in the United Kingdom to work exclusively against slavery and related abuses. We work at local, national and international levels to eliminate the system of slavery around the world by:

• Urging governments of countries with slavery to develop and implement measures to end it;
• Lobbying governments and intergovernmental agencies to make slavery a priority issue;
• Supporting research to assess the scale of slavery in order to identify measures to end it;
• Working with local organisations to raise public awareness of slavery;
• Educating the public about the realities of slavery and campaigning for its end.