Mois : juillet 2007

(in russian)

Linked with Gulnara Derbisheva – Kyrgyzstan;

Reducing Poverty and Promoting Peace: Switzerland invests about CHF 1.5 billion a year in combating poverty and promoting economic development in countries of the Third World and Eastern Europe. Two federal offices coordinate international development cooperation on behalf of the Swiss Confederation: the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), and the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (seco).

All official development cooperation activities aim to improve living conditions for the world’s most disadvantaged people. The SDC focuses primarily on conflict transformation, social development, good governance, promoting economic structures and safeguarding natural resources. The SDC also strives to strengthen the abilities of its partner countries to take their own initiatives. (full text).

Sitemap;
Swiss Regional Strategy in Central Asia 2007-2010;
Activities in Kyrgyzstan;
Activities in Tajikistan;
Activities in Uzbekistan;
Links;
Download the Annual Report 2004, 24 pages.

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Upcomming Congress: Communication is Peace, in Cape Town, South Africa, October 6-10, 2008. Communicators, journalists, and media activists committed to using the media to prevent conflict, advance democracy, and promote a culture of peace are invited to participate in Congress 2008. The five-day event scheduled for Cape Town, South Africa in October 2008 will focus on:

• Communication rights;
• Media and gender justice;
• Power, conflict and peace: Telling the story;
• New communication and information technologies and peace.

Online Pre-registration for the Congress;
See also the infos on the actual Homepage;
Sitemap;
Regional Associations;
WACC Programmes;
WACC Publications;
Join;
Contact.

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Linked with Bahia Hariri – Lebanon.

The HARIRI FOUNDATION was founded in Lebanon upon a wise decision taken by H.E PM Rafic Hariri. Its mission is to make education a means for the development of the young in Lebanon.

The University Loan Program;
PUBLISH BOOKS AND SPECIAL STUDIES;
Contributions & Development;
CARE FOR THE LEBANESE HERITAGE AND CIVILIZATION;
Organizing & Supporting Education.

It is a non-profit institution which responded to a dire national need that resulted from the events caused by the war in the country.
Hariri Foundation started its mission in Sidon in 1979; it was then called « The Islamic Institute for Culture and Higher Education » but has carried its present name since 1984 and moved to its its central offices in Beirut. It opened offices in Tripoli and Bekaa, in addition to those in in Sidon, in an attempt to facilitate the granting of loans to those who — regardless of their religious or dominational affiliation — had applied to join institutions of higher learning in Lebanon . Likewise, it opened offices in Paris, London, and Washington, D.C, to keep in close contact with its student proteges who had joined around a hundred universities in Western Europ, North Africa, Canada and U.S.A. (Homepage).

Linked with Byubyusara Ryskulova -Kyrgyzstan, and with Kyrgyzstan, Domestic Violence, Tradition Or Crime?

The Crisis Psychological Center for Women and Families Sezim was founded in January 1998 in Bishkek. The aim of the organization is the assistance and psychological rehabilitation of abused women, protection (judicial, social, economic) rights of women and families, researching and analyzing problems of violence in the Kyrgyz society, and education of rights. The tasks are to prepare guidelines for additional crisis centers throughout Kyrgyzstan, and organize services and programs that will help to solve the problems of violence, prevention of violence and protection of human rights. Volunteers will be trained to operate hot lines in Russian and Kyrgyz languages.

Contact:
Bishkek: Sovetskay str. 105/3 #23, Tel 28 14 55, e-mail.
Sokuluk: St.Pionerskay 103, Tel.(0 31 34) 4 18 79.

Program:

Trust Hot Line: The hot line is available for callers seven days a week, 24 hours a day. All participants of Sezim’s activities called the hot line when they were in a crisis situation.

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(en français, en espanol)

Linked with the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre of 2008-01-18.

The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre has become the world’s leading independent resource on the subject. Our website is updated hourly with news and reports about companies’ human rights impacts worldwide – positive and negative. The site covers over 3600 companies, over 180 countries. It receives over 1.5 million hits per month. Topics include discrimination, environment, poverty & development, labour, access to medicines, health & safety, security, trade. “An essential guide to the world’s companies and their records on human rights.”
Guardian newspaper. “No debate can move forward, no positive change can be made, without facts. The Resource Centre is the only website to provide such a broad range of balanced information on business and human rights – company by company, country by country, issue by issue.” Mary Robinson (Director of the Ethical Globalization Initiative, former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and President of Ireland). (full text).

The english Homepage;
getting started;
sitemap;
links;
Contact.

About:
Purpose:

• To encourage companies to respect human rights, avoid harm to people, & maximise their positive contribution;
• To provide easy, one-stop access to information for companies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and others, whether they are experienced or new to the subject;
• To facilitate constructive, informed decision-making and public discussion.

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Your best source for antiwar news, viewpoints and activities.

Linked with Chalmers Johnson – USA, with JPRI The Japan Policy Research Institute, with about Chalmers Johnson’s “Nemesis »-book, and with Iraqi Wars – (or how to end it?). And also with Antiwar.com of November 21, 2007.

Antiwar.com is one project of our parent foundation the « Randolph Bourne Institute. » It is a program that provides a sounding board of interest to all who are concerned about US foreign policy and its implications.

Antiwar Radio: audios of interviews with around 60 activists;
Letters;
Blog;
Regional News;
Newsletter;
Contact.

About: This site is devoted to the cause of non-interventionism and is read by libertarians, pacifists, leftists, « greens, » and independents alike, as well as many on the Right who agree with our opposition to imperialism. Our initial project was to fight for the case of non-intervention in the Balkans under the Clinton presidency and continued with the case against the campaigns in Haiti, Kosovo and the bombings of Sudan and Afghanistan. Our politics are libertarian: our opposition to war is rooted in Randolph Bourne’s concept that « War is the health of the State. » With every war, America has made a « great leap » into statism, and as Bourne emphasizes:  » . . . it is during war that one best understands the nature of that institution [the State]. » At its core, that « nature » includes the ever-increasing threat to individual liberty and the centralization of political power. (full text).

en français: Fédération Internationale des ligues des Droits de l’Homme; in english: International Federation for Human Rights; en espanol: Federacion Internacional de los Derechos Humanos; in arabic: fidh-arab.

Human Rights are not a Utopia, but a reality. A reality embodied by the universal demand expressed by all these men and women activists, by the 155 FIDH member organisations, by defenders all over the world. A reality that is also at the heart of the action of FIDH, to which my commitment, by your side, is entire and unrelenting. FIDH President Souhayr Belhassen. (full text).

News (Press Releases, Reports, Urgent Appeals, Regions, Global Issues, Intergovernmental Organizations);
Make a donation;
Contact sur le web.

About – All Human Rights … for All:

Facts for taking action: The aim of the FIDH is to obtain effective improvements in the protection of victims, the prevention of Human Rights abuse and the prosecution of those responsible.

A broad mandate: FIDH’ s mandate is to contribute to the respect of all the rights defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. FIDH aims at obtaining effective improvements in the protection of victims, the prevention of Human Rights violations and the sanction of their perpetrators. Its priorities are set by the triennial World Congress and the International Board (22 members), with the support of the International Secretariat (30 staff members).

4 STATUTORY PRIORITIES:

• Protecting Human Rights, assisting victims;
• Mobilising the community of States;
• Supporting local NGO’s capacity for action;
• Raising awareness.

(full text).

Linked with Chalmers Johnson – USA, with AntiWar.com, with about Chalmers Johnson’s “Nemesis »-book, and with Iraqi Wars – (or how to end it?).

The Japan Policy Research Institute JPRI is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to the promotion of understanding of Japan’s political and economic behavior and growing significance in world affairs.

Publications;
Members, friends in the medias;
Recommended reading;
Links;
Contact: JPRI, P.O. Box 235882 | Encinitas, CA 92023-5882, e-mail.

About: JPRI was founded in 1994 by Chalmers Johnson and Steven C. Clemons to promote public education about Japan, its then growing significance in world affairs, and trans-Pacific international relations. Despite our name, it was never our intent to focus exclusively on Japan, and over the years JPRI has published many articles about China, Korea, southeast Asia, and inner Asia. JPRI is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization and all donations to it are fully tax deductible in the U.S. Our board and officers all serve without pay, and our web site is maintained with the generous assistance of the University of San Francisco’s Center for the Pacific Rim …

… Starting in late 2003, JPRI ceased to mail monthly articles to its members and switched exclusively to internet publication. Since its web site is open to all, JPRI no longer requires memberships; however, donations are gratefully accepted and are fully tax deductible … (full text).

Building an Economy for the Earth

Linked with Lester Brown – USA, with Plan B 2.0, and with Search for an Eco-Economy.

Welcome to the Earth Policy Institute, … a Washington, D.C.-based independent environmental research organization … dedicated to planning a sustainable future as well as providing a roadmap of how to get from here to there. — Lester Brown, President.

Notice on the homepage: Look on EPI IN THE NEWS – HIGHLIGHTS, with many audio-, video- and text-links.

The Earth Policy Institute is a Partner in the Green Power Partnership, an EPA voluntary program working to reduce the emissions associated with conventional electricity generation by encouraging organizations to switch a specific percentage of their electricity to green power. Additional information is available at The Green Power Partnership.

PEOPLE ARE TALKING … ;
Who is using Plan B 2.0 … and how;
Upcoming lectures;
newsletter;
Contact: Earth Policy Institute, 1350 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington DC 20036, Ph: 202.496.9290, Fax: 202.496.9325, Email.

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Linked with Business as Usual or is WTO in Denial?

The deglobalisation paradigm forms the basis of Focus’s work which spans five thematic areas:Defending and Reclaiming the Commons; Trade; Peace and Peoples Security; Alternatives and China .

• Homepage;
• Focus on Trade is a regular electronic bulletin providing updates and analysis of trends in regional and world trade and finance, the political economy of globalisation and peoples resistance, and alternatives to global capitalism. Focus on Trade is translated into Spanish (Enfoque sobre comercio) and Bahasa Indonesian. Some articles are translated into French;
• More ‘Focus on’-sites;
• Alternatives (Crossroads do not always close roads);
• Trends and Analysis;
• Downloads;
• links;
• Contact.

About: Focus on the Global South (Focus) is a non-governmental organisation with twenty staff working in Thailand, the Philippines and India. Focus was established in Bangkok in 1995 and is affiliated with the Chulalongkorn University Social Research Institute.

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(in chinese, in english)

Linked with Xiaoxia Zhu – China.

Full name: The National Working Committee on Children and Women Under the State Council.

Documents;
Laws and Regulations;
Newsletter;
Contact: no indications on their website.

The National Working Committee on Children and Women (NWCCW) under the State Council was founded on February 22, 1990. It is a State Council organization in charge of women and children’s work. It is responsible for coordinating and promoting relevant government departments to implement laws and regulations and policy-related measures concerning women and children and to develop women and children’s cause.

Fundamental Functions:

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Linked with Thomas Stocker – Switzerland.

about;
science activities;
services/products;
calendar;
people;
Contact: Physikalisches Institut – Klima- und Umweltphysik, Universität Bern, Sidlerstr. 5, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland, Phone: +41 (0) 31 631 44 64, Fax: +41 (0) 31 631 87 42, E-mail, URL.

The laboratory for Climate and Environmental Physics: Research Focus of the Institute: Our overall focus is to understand the environment, its present and past and its evolution on time scales from decades to a few 100,000 years.

To reach this goal we use a broad palette of physically based methods which range from model simulation, the analysis of numerous paleoclimatic archives to the application and development of new ultra-sensitive measurement methods of constituent and isotope concentrations.

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Linked with Nimalka Fernando – Sri Lanka.

First: Go to APWLD, The Regional Feminist Legal Theory and Practice Training in collaboration with Women’s Studies Centre, Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University, Thailand, on 29 September – 6 October 2007. Download the information.pdf. (Attention: The last date for receiving applications will be July 20, 2007).

APWLD’s Homepage;
structure;
programmes;
publications;
networks and links;
contact.

About / APWLD’s Believes:

• The concept of law includes the legal system as well as the customary practices;
• Law plays a critical role as it can promote or inhibit women’s access to resources as well as their participation in development processes;
• Legally sanctioned hierarchical gender structures, production modes and socio-cultural relations need to be seriously addressed by all stakeholders. New social structures require new legal instruments;
• Knowledge of the law, legal processes and one’s rights is a process of empowerment.

Linked with Nimalka Fernando – Sri Lanka

IMADR (OLD Homepage) is an international human rights organization working to protect and promote the rights of minorities and indigenous peoples, as well as other vulnerable groups in societies around the world. IMADR is an organization in consultative status (Roster) with the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

NEW Homepage;
IMADR.org in Japanese;
Contact.

About/News/Publications/Areas of Action/Activities/get involved: The International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism (IMADR) is an international non-profit, non-governmental human rights organization devoted to eliminating discrimination and racism, forging international solidarity among discriminated minorities and advancing the international human rights system. Founded in 1988 by one of Japan’s largest minorities, the Buraku people, IMADR has grown to be a global network of concerned individuals and minority groups with regional committees and partners in Asia, Europe, North America and Latin America. IMADR’s International Secretariat is based in Japan and maintains a UN liaison office in Geneva. IMADR is in consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

empowerment: To promote the capacity of discriminated groups to raise their voices and represent themselves in activities to combat discrimination.

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Linked with Asha-Rose Migiro – Tanzania, and with HONOR YOUR PROMISE CRY THE ONDOA UMASKINI CAMPAIGN.

MDG-Campaign: By 2005 there were 950,000 children under the age of 18 years who had been orphaned by HIV/AIDS and another 1,500,000 who were destitute. AIDS is responsible for leaving vast numbers of children across Tanzania without one or both parents. The larger proportion of orphans have lost their parents to AIDS than to any other cause of death – meaning that, were it not for the AIDS epidemic, these children would not have been orphaned. The age of orphans is fairly consistent across all regions in Tanzania. Surveys undertaken by the Ondoa Umaskini campaign suggest that about 15% of orphans are 0-4 years old, 35% are 5-9 years old, and 50% are 10-14 years old. This has made the family structures fail to cope, thus the efforts by the Ondoa Umaskini campaign coming in to support the orphans. This is due to the fact that traditional safety nets are unraveling as more young adults die of AIDS related illnesses. (full text).

Homepage;
Publications;
Search;
Contact.

About: The Tanzania Association of Non Governmental Organizations (TANGO) has been in existence since 1988.

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