Mois : juillet 2007

(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).

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Publications;
Search;
Contact.

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

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