Mois : décembre 2007

shining the light on government and the season

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Homepage/search/subscribe: POGO is an independent nonprofit that investigates and exposes corruption and other misconduct in order to achieve a more accountable federal government;

POGO’s investigations: The Project On Government Oversight is committed to exposing waste, fraud and corruption in the following areas: defense, homeland security, energy & natural resources, contract oversight, open government and scientific integrity investigations;

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About: The Project On Government Oversight follows a rich tradition of assuring that the government continues to work for the people it represents. Our nation was founded on the very principle that representation and accountability are fundamental to maintaining a strong and functioning democracy. Today, these principles espoused by our founding fathers are under attack as our federal government is more vulnerable than ever to the influence of money in politics and powerful special interests.

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named on this web page of NGOs India; address: Saroj Nalini Dutt Memorial Association, 23/1 Ballygunge Station Road, Kolkata – 700 019, West Bengal, Tel: 91 33 24406852 , 33 24408656. No E-mail and Website indicated. Contact: Mrs Aroti Dutt.

Purpose: Aged, Child welfare, Disability, Disadvantaged communities, Education, Employment, Environment, Food and Nutrition, Grants/Aids, Health, Human Rights, Information and Communications Technology, Law, Population, Poverty, Rural Development, Sanitation, Science and Technology, Sustainable Development, Training, Water, Women’s issues.

Aim/Objective/Mission: In India early last century the position of women was low both in social and economic life. They had neither education nor economic ability, having no share in their husband and father’s property. Their life was a long history of ignominy and suffering depending on charity. The basic idea of pioneering organisation was to give dignity to women and to empower them with education and economic freedom through Training of Crafts and vocational education. Our mission is to reach that goal and give a place of honour to women which they will gain on their own right and be considered by her family and society as a person of worth recognition and respect. We have to move with the time, in the present day information Technology has got priority in many aspects and we have added in our project Planning Computer Training for girls.

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Address no 2 named on this web page of Sulekha:

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Linked with the Centre for Social Research CSR of 2008-01-30.

The Centre for Social Research is one of the leading Women’s institution working in the field of Social action since 1983 aiming to empower women by implementing projects at the grass root, gender imparting training to law enforcing agencies, corporate houses, academia, urban and local governing bodies, domestic and international non governmental organizations. The key focus areas of CSR include development and capacity building, combat against violence against women, action research, gender training, and networking & advocacy.

CSR aims to empower women and provide them with the resources to be self-reliant individuals. We work at the grassroots, regional and international levels to raise women’s awareness of their rights, build inroads into decision-making institutions from Panchayats to Parliament and to eliminate violence against women.

CSR has played important and significant roles at the National, regional as well as international level through its network. At the national level, CSR coordinates the activities of Joint Action front for women, a front comprising of over 100 organizations and individuals across the country … (full text).

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About: The Centre for Social Research is one of the leading Women’s Institutions working in the field of social action since 1983.

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Bengal Presidency Council of Women & the All Bengal Women’s Conference formed an independent organization for Suppression of Immoral Traffic. This society came into being as ALL BENGAL WOMEN’S UNION.

This welfare organization (ABWU) is giving free legal aid to the deserving and needy as per provisions of the Legal Services Authorities Act. The Legal Services Clinic, which is run every Saturday between 3 to 5 P.M., is approved by State Legal Services Authority West Bengal.

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About: IT all started in the year 1932, when a group of courageous women in Bengal took up to helping the helpless, exploited and victimized fellow sisters, women and child trafficking had increased to an unprecedented extent. In between the two World Wars, the number of sailors and soldiers had considerably increased and flesh trade found a ready and expanding market in Kolkata.

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(also in chinese and in arabic)

We’re looking for any content – stories, poems, pictures, videos, music, graphics that let’s the world know that it’s time for child hunger to end.

Fight Hunger – Walk the World! is part of the UN World Food Programme working to end child hunger by 2015 which is part of the first Millennium Development Goal. All year round we build communities and partnerships both online and offline around the issue of child hunger. Every year we hold our annual global walk « Walk the World » to raise awareness and funds to end child hunger. Find out more about Walk the World and our other Campaigns to help feed hungry children all over the world.

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About: We aim to do this by holding an annual worldwide demonstration across the globe called Walk the World. Once a year hundreds of thousands of people in every time zone will take to the streets to call for an end to the needless suffering of hungry children.

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The Social and Development Canvas of India

Linked with the search page of 1000PeaceWomen, (click there on India and find the 91 Indian PeaceWomen, some of them already on this Blog – see there our country page and go down to India).

IndianNGOs.com‘s repositioning excercise is now complete. The new IndianNGOs.com, which will go online from Jan 2008, will have NGOs whose credibility is assured. What happens to the thousands of NGOs in our database? IndianNGOs.com will launch a new portal for all NGOs then, where each NGO can share their information free and most importantly it will be seen free. Click to check the list of NGOs that will go on the new portal. Register free … (full text).

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Making of a Vision Statement;
How to write a Mission Statement;
Governance;
Training;

At the place of a contact-link:

• NGO Registration Form;
• Project Registration Form.

And at the place of a final ‘about’, find the list of NGOs that will go on the new portal.

Linked with Anjali Gopalan – India.

HIV/AIDS are complex issues that affect all our lives whatever the gender, class, caste, religion, sexuality and sexual orientation. We at Naz India are committed to raising awareness to prevent the spread of HIV and providing support to those living with the virus and those affected by it, with sensitivity and utmost confidentiality (homepage).
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address: Naz Foundation (India) Trust, A – 86 East of Kailash, New Delhi 110 065, Telephone: +91 11 2691 0499, e-mail one, e-mail two;
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About / Who we Are: The Naz Foundation (India) Trust (NI) is a New Delhi based NGO working on HIV/AIDS and Sexual Health since 1994. Through the years, Naz India has evolved and implemented a holistic approach to combat HIV, focusing on prevention as well as treatment. Our focus is on reaching out to marginalized populations infected and affected by HIV. We also aim to sensitize the community to the prevalence of HIV, as well as highlight issues related to Sexuality and Sexual Health:

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Linked with Fact-Based Intelligence Prevails on Nukes and Iran.

Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity VIPS (for VIPs, Very Important Persons) is a group of current and former officials of the United States Intelligence Community, including some from the Central Intelligence Agency CIA, the U.S. State Department’s Intelligence Bureau, and the Defense Intelligence Agency DIA.

This group issued a letter before the 2003 invasion of Iraq warning that there would potentially be numerous U.S. casualties if Iraq used chemical weapons during any « offensive aimed at getting rid of Saddam Hussein. »

This letter (on counterpunch, February 8, 2003) noted the various Gulf War-related illnesses which many returning soldiers contracted due to the presence of chemical and biological agents in Desert Storm.

The group was formed in January 2003 as a « coast-to-coast enterprise » to protest the use of faulty intelligence « upon which the US/UK invasion of Iraq was based » … (full text).

Link: Raymond (Ray) McGovern (born 1939) is a retired CIA officer turned political activist. McGovern was a Federal employee under seven U.S. presidents over 27 years, presenting the morning intelligence briefings at the White House for many of them.

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The WGBH Forum Network is an audio and video streaming Website dedicated to curating and serving live and on-demand lectures given by some of the world’s foremost scholars, authors, artists, scientists, policy makers and community leaders. These events are hosted by world-class cultural and educational organizations in Boston and beyond. Through this online service hundreds of thousands of people worldwide listen to these talks wherever and whenever they choose. We are proud of the role we serve in our community, of protecting and projecting the public voice; and of informing and inspiring that public voice toward greater civic engagement in the important issues of our time.

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About the WGBH Forum Network: There are various options for streaming these lectures on the site. People can listen to an « audio only » lecture with enhanced sound quality.

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… of the Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies CSDMS

i4d is intended to provide a much-needed platform for exchange of information, ideas, opinions and experiences, both inside and outside the Information and Communication Technology for Development ICT4D sector. While several electronic publications do currently exist, i4d is perhaps the first that addresses the need by utilizing the strength and potential of the print media.

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address: Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies CSDMS, G-4, Sector 39, NOIDA, Uttar Pradesh 201 301, India, Tel: +91 120 2502180 – 87, Fax: +91 120 2500060, E-mail.
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Links:

• The Information and Communication Technologies for Development, the collective’s homepage;
• United Nations Development Programme UNDP;
• dg Communities, Information and Communication Technologies for Development;
• Information and Communication Technologies for Development on wikipedia.

About: EDITORIAL PROFILE: i4d encompasses the role and relevance of ICT in various development sectors such as Rural Development, Gender, Governance, Micro-finance, Education, Health, Wireless Communication, ICT For Poor, Local Content, Culture and Heritage, and more.

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Speaking of the Unspoken

Linked with Indrani Sinha – India.

First: all pages of Sanlaap are to be reached by internal links from the Homepage; second: these pages cannot be copied.

• Girls allways have two homes,
• one that of their father’s,
• and the other of their in-laws,
• but none that they can call their own,
• here at SANLAAP I have found my own.

But you have more informations on wikipedia:

Sanlaap is an Indian feminist NGO, established in 1987. Its focus is to make the world a safe place for girl children and women by protecting their rights … Mission Statement: Sanlaap is a developmental organization that works towards correction of social imbalances which present themselves as gender injustice and violence against women and children. The primary work is focused against trafficking of women and children for commercial sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and forced prostitution … Sanlaap and AIDS: More than nineteen percent of the girls rescued from brothel prostitution, living in Sneha Shelters are HIV positive, discarded by their families and the Government Homes. Some have given birth to children at the age of fourteen and fifteen … SUNDAR: Sundar was initiated in 2000 as a support group for Women in Prostitution to address the problems of WIP in the red-light areas. The women are supported to get their identity in the form of voters’ identity card and ration card and are also supported to live a life with dignity without being abused and exploited by local hoodlums, pimps, customers, police and their live in boyfriends or husbands … (full long text).

Guilty Without Trial;

Download the Sanlaap Annual Report 2005-2006, 45 pages;

All Bengal Women’s Union.

GiveWorld is a trusted gateway that connects people with causes they care about in India. 100% projects are carefully selected and certified 100% of your donation is used for the project you specify 100% guarantee of feedback on how your donation was used + you can set up regular contributions … Give World is owned and operated by Give Foundation, Inc. which is a US based non-religious and non-political, 501(c)(3) registered non-profit organization. All donations to GIVE Foundation, Inc are tax-exempt in the US … (full text).

Causes to support: Donate online for the following causes (You have to first select a cause and under each non-profit profile you have donation options listed):

• Child Welfare
• Education
• Environment
• Health and Sanitation
• Human Rights and Empowerment
• Livelihoods and Poverty
• Services for the Disabled
• Services for the Elderly
• Women and Family Services
• Youth Welfare

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About: … We follow a unique partnership model where different partners bring a lot of passion and zeal to the effort, and the cause they work on is typically their organizational mission as well.

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AID was founded in 1991 with the vision: « Problems are interconnected, so must be the solution »

The village student of Nandurbar District, Maharshtra, India, who is pedalling to generate electricity for lighting his school is a volunteer. The people who helped design and manufacture AID’s Bijli bike (pedal power generator) are AID-India volunteers and their friends. Those that got excited by the project idea and raised funds to support it so that the village student is empowered to generate his own electricity are AID volunteers in USA. The person who took the photo and the person who uploaded it on the website are AID volunteers. And finally the jeevanshala (school of life) in a tribal village without electricity that inspired AID’s alternate energy initiatives is managed by volunteers of Narmada movement. (full text).

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About: Association for India’s Development (AID) is a volunteer movement committed to promoting sustainable, equitable and just development.

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Linked with Alkaben Jani, with Lataben Sachde, and with Hakkuben Theba, all of India.

The Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan KMVS is a collective group of rural women based in the western state of Gujarat. Forming self sustaining producer groups these women have come together to improve their socio and economic status.

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About: The Bombay Bedspread Company is a trading name of Clayduck Interactive Ltd. (Reg no: 03920020 , Registered in England & Wales). The Bombay Bedspread Company is a registered importer & member of the British Association for Fair Trade Shops – BAFTS. So, who are we and why are we selling Indian bedspreads? The Bombay Bedspread Company commenced trading in August 2005 by a husband and wife team from Staines, Middlesex. Raj, originally from Bombay, and Janet from Lancashire, decided to start the business when their presents of Indian bedspreads to family and friends were met with so much enthusiasm and requests for more … (full text).

Presentation of the professional activity: … KMVS was founded in 1989 with the overall aim of empowering women to increase their sustainable income. They support a variety of programmes which encourage village and tribal unity with particular emphasis on women becoming more involved in the social and political arenas.

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creating a world of difference

If you are interested in helping women improve their lives – whether in developing countries or in the UK – I am sure that there is much here that will engage and inspire you.

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About: WOMANKIND Worldwide believes women in developing countries are a powerful force for change.

Women have an abundance of practical ideas for improving their own lives and lifting their families and communities out of poverty. But this can only happen if they have the confidence and opportunities to articulate their needs and ideas – and be listened to.

WOMANKIND Worldwide is the only UK charity devoted to enabling women to achieve this.

We work closely with 32 partner community groups in 14 developing countries. This means that the projects we fund and support tackle the specific issues in a particular area, rather than trying to import a ‘one size fits all’ solution from the UK.

All our projects are connected to enabling women to understand their legal rights. And to use these rights to benefit their daily lives. Where new legislation is needed to protect women or improve their status, we help our partners secure this too.

WOMANKIND also runs a programme of work in the UK.