Mois : décembre 2007

Portail des ONG françaises de solidarité internationale – coordination Solidarité Urgence et Développement

Relié avec Quel avenir pour les ONG … , et avec Institut de relations internationales et stratégiques IRIS.

Accueil;
Position des ONGs;
Publications;
Centre de Resources;
Panorama des ONG;
Plate-formes;
Partenariats Internationaux;
Adhérer;
Thésaurus;
Contacts.

Présentation: Coordination nationale des ONG françaises de solidarité internationale, Coordination SUD assure une double mission d’appui et renforcement des ONG françaises (information, formation mais aussi travail avec les bailleurs de fonds pour une amélioration des dispositifs de subventions) ainsi que de représentation et promotion des valeurs et positions des ONG auprès des institutions publiques ou privées en France et à l’étranger (pouvoirs publics français, Union européenne, organisations internationales, etc.).

Linked with Chea Vannath – Cambodia.

CSD is engaged in social development research and policy. Choose one of the links on this page to find more information;
Publications;
Projects;
Saving for Education, Entrepreneurship and Downpayment SEED;
Civic Service;
George Warren Brown School of Social Work;
Global Assets Project GAP;
Address: Center for Social Development, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University, Campus Box 1196, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, Missouri 63130-4899, tel: (314) 935-7433, fax: (314) 935-8661, e-mail.
Contact.

About CSD: The Center for Social Development (CSD) is a research and policy center based at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis. Since 1994, CSD has focused on social development research that informs how individuals, families, and communities increase capacity, formulate and reach life goals, and contribute to the economy and society. Our principal focus is on families and communities at the bottom of society. Major areas of work have been Asset Building and Civic Engagement & Service.

CSD has a multipurpose agenda that encompasses social theory, research, policy innovation, projects in the community, and teaching. Projects connect academic and applied interests, and build bridges across public, nonprofit, and private sectors. Academic excellence and real-world involvement are emphasized. Research projects stress mutuality through capacity building, partnership development, and shared learning. The watchwords at CSD are inquiry, innovation, and impact.

CSD Research Capacity & Research Experience: … (full text).

… and World Information Service on Energy WISE

Linked with Harvey Franklin Wasserman – USA.

NIRS is the information and networking center for citizens and environmental organizations concerned about nuclear power, radioactive waste, radiation, and sustainable energy issues. Your comments and suggestions about this website are welcomed.

International Offices;
Columnists;
Links;
Newsletter;
Contact.

About NIRS: 2008 will mark the 30th anniversary of Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS). We were founded to be the national information and networking center for citizens and environmental activists concerned about nuclear power, radioactive waste, radiation and sustainable energy issues … (full text).

About WISE: In the 1970s, the need for better cross-frontier contact and communication became increasingly obvious to many in the anti-nuclear and safe energy movement. The idea of a newsletter of some kind came up regularly at all the meetings. In November 1977, some 70 people met in Brussels, Belgium, to discuss the project … (full text).

About NIRS/WISE Network … see in the right column of both.

People’s Watch, a national human rights organization, is a program of the Centre for Promotion of Social Concerns CPSC. People’s Watch has been actively engaged in the protection and promotion of human rights in Tamil Nadu since 1995. People’s Watch has sought to hold the State accountable to its citizens for the chronic abuses of their rights and has worked to advance a human rights culture disposed to safeguard both the welfare and the freedom of all people. Now, after 10 years of work, People’s Watch has expanded its concerns – especially in the areas of human rights monitoring, combating torture through torture monitoring & intervention, and establishing a national coalition against torture by forming statewide networks all over India. People’s Watch has also expanded its human rights education & training initiatives throughout India.

Programs;
Human Rights Education;
reports;
annual report 2005-2006, 24 pages;
photo gallery;
links;
address; People’s Watch, No. 6 Vallabai Road, Chokkikulam, Madurai – 625002, Tamil Nadu, Tel: + 91-452-2539520, and 91-452- 2531874, Fax: +91-452-2531874, info-mail, helpline-mail, mobile phone: +91-99943 68500
contact.

About: From 1995-98, People’s Watch concentrated its activities on monitoring of human rights violations. This was the mandate of its governing body and the Program Advisory Board.

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The International Service for Human Rights ISHR is an international NGO serving human rights defenders. Our vision is the development, strengthening, effective use and implementation of international and regional standards and mechanisms for the protection and promotion of human rights.

All links to the different pages are internal, available only from the homepage.

Contact Geneva Office: International Service for Human Rights ISHR, Rue Varembé 1, P.O. Box 16, CH-1211, Geneva 20, Switzerland, Tel. (+41) 22 919 71 00, Fax (+41) 22 919 71 25

Contact New York Office: International Service for Human Rights ISHR, New York Office, 777 UN Plaza, 8th floor, New York, NY 10017, USA, Tel. (+1 212) 490 21 99, Fax: (+1 212) 490 13 96, E-mail New York.

What is ISHR? An international organisation serving human rights defenders

The International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) is an international non-governmental organisation (NGO) serving human rights defenders. It was established in 1984 by members of a number of NGOs in Geneva to help defenders access the international human rights system. This remains its distinctive role more than 20 years later.

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The Regional Institute for Population Studies RIPS is a former UNFPA-funded centre also at Legon specialises in the demography of West Africa. Together, these institutes provide a strong core of trained researchers with experience of work with a wide range of governmental and international institutions including the Word Bank, UNECA and UNDP. RIPS is partner of DRC Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty.

Contact details: United Nations, Regional Institute for Population Studies, P.O. Box 96, Legon, Ghana, Tel: +233 21 774070, Fax: +233 21, Website: coming soon.

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The Institute for Social, Statistical and Economic Research ISSER …

… is based at the University of Ghana in Legon and has a long track record of research on regional economic and social issues in West Africa. ISSR is partner of DRC Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty.

Frontpage;
Land Project Papers;
News;
Institutional Research Projects;
Publication;
Academic Training;
Link:
Economy of Ghana Network;
Contact. ISSER, University of Ghana, Legon, PO Box 74, Legon, Accra, Ghana, Tel: +233 21 501182, Fax: +233 21 512504, Website.

About: ISSER was established by the University of Ghana in 1962 as the Institute of Statistics, to provide a programme of teaching and research in statistics, with particular reference to the methodology, collection and analysis of official statistics. It was also to advise interested bodies on statistical design, analysis and computer programming. A UN Statistical Training Centre, also established in 1962 to run middle-level Statistical Training Programmes for Public Servants in Africa, was brought under the auspices of the Institute in 1966. It was later realised that expanding the scope of the Institute to include fundamental and applied research in the social sciences, to establish the basic data needed for effective development and modernisation, would be beneficial to the nation as a whole. It is in line with this vision that the Institute was converted, in 1969, into the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER). The United Nations continued its support of statistical training until 1972 when ISSER fully took over … (full text).

The Development Research Centre DRC on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty was established in June 2003, in recognition of the complex relationship between migration and poverty. The DRC examines migration flows in which poor people themselves are most represented and how migration impacts variously on their livelihoods, rights and levels of social protection.

Sitemap;
research; partners; publications; news, events; links; newsletter;
contact.

About the DRC: Introduction: Attitudes to migration are shifting. Seen in the past as a failure of development, there is increasing recognition that in certain circumstances, migration can contribute to development and the alleviation of poverty. However, it also involves risks and costs which may be borne disproportionately by poor people, and it may widen inequality > Conceptual Background to the DRC.

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(read, write, revolt)

South End Press is a nonprofit, collectively run book publisher with more than 250 titles in print. Since our founding in 1977, we have tried to meet the needs of readers who are exploring, or are already committed to, the politics of radical social change.

Events;
News;
News Releases;
Forthcoming;
Address: South End Press, 7 Brookline Street #1, Cambridge, MA 02139-4146, e-mail.
Links (scroll down to find them);
Institute for Social and Cultural Change;
Contact.

About: South End Press is a nonprofit, collectively run book publisher with more than 250 titles in print. Since our founding in 1977, we have tried to meet the needs of readers who are exploring, or are already committed to, the politics of radical social change. Our goal is to publish books that encourage critical thinking and constructive action on the key political, cultural, social, economic, and ecological issues shaping life in the United States and in the world. We hope to provide a forum for a wide variety of democratic social movements, and provide an alternative to the products of corporate publishing.

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Linked with David R. Smock – USA, and with When Religion Brings Peace, Not War.

The United States Institute of Peace is an independent, nonpartisan, national institution established and funded by Congress. Its goals are to help prevent and resolve violent conflicts, promote post-conflict stability and development, and increase peacebuilding capacity, tools, and intellectual capital worldwide. The Institute does this by empowering others with knowledge, skills, and resources, as well as by directly engaging in peacebuilding efforts around the globe. (updated December 1, 2007).

Learn more about USIP in this video;

Sitemap;
Conflict Analysis and Prevention;
Mediation and Conflict Resolution;
Post-Conflict Peace and Stability Operations;
News;
Subscribe our Newsletter;
Events;
Publications;
Address: United States Institute of Peace, 1200 17th Street NW, Washington, DC 20036, phone +1.202.457.1700, Fax +1.202.429.6063,
Contact.

About/FAQs: What is the U.S. Institute of Peace? The United States Institute of Peace is an independent nonpartisan national institution established and funded by Congress. Our mission is to help prevent, manage, and resolve violent international conflicts by empowering others with knowledge, skills, and resources, as well as by directly engaging in peacebuilding efforts around the world.

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(speakers, artists, exhibits, films)

Speak Out – Institute for Democratic Education and Culture – Is the country’s only national non-profit organization that promotes progressive voices on campuses and in communities. Committed to social, political, cultural and economic justice, Speak Out encourages critical and imaginative thinking about domestic and international issues through artistic and educational forums nationwide.
Speak Out works with 200 speakers and artists who represent the breadth of social movements as well as critically-acclaimed exhibits and films which inform and empower young people to take action for positive social change.

Use our web site to review our roster of speakers and artists, then contact our office for more information on costs and availability or to schedule an event on your campus or in your community.

Speakers & Artists/search;
Topics;
Who’s in the News;
Calendar of Key Commemorative Months and Dates;
Links and Resources for Campus Organizing;
Address: P.O. Box 99096, Emeryville, CA 94662, USA, Tel. 510.601.0182, e-mail;
contact & Information request form.

About/Mission and Programs: Speak Out – The Institute for Democratic Education and Culture is a national non-profit organization that educates, inspires and empowers young people to become activists for social justice.

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“Web game provides rice for hungry …  » FreeRice went online in early October and has now raised 1 billion grains of rice. Go to the FREE RICE Homepage, click on the answer that best defines the (appearing) word. If you get it right, you get a harder word, If wrong, you get an easier word. For each word you get right, we donate 10 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program.

Introduction;
F.A.Q.;
press;
privacy;
options;
where the rice goes;
e-mail for advertising;
No direct and transparent contact-address or e-mail is given.

About FreeRice: FreeRice is a sister site of the world poverty site, poverty.com**.

FreeRice has two goals:

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Linked with Roger Burbach – USA.

Global Alternatives is dedicated to discussing the realities and challenges we face in the age of globalization. Due to the dominance of international corporate interests and the collusion of political elites, much of the world’s populace lives in misery, alienation and conflict while the planet earth is ravaged by imperial wars and an ecological crisis.

This difficult age makes it imperative to discuss alternative approaches, strategies, and visions. In the Americas there is a popular upsurge taking place against the established order. It is erupting on many fronts, assuming diverse political and social forms, providing hope and inspiration for the world at large.

By posting special studies and reports, and by promoting dialogue and research, Global Alternatives intends to contribute to an understanding of the new politics shaking the Americas and to participate in the shaping of an egalitarian and democratic world rooted in the globe’s diverse cultures, societies and alternative economic experiences.

News, articles;
strategic studies;
books;
videos;
events: Censa Events Calendar/Upcoming Events: There are no upcoming events at this time ( … Nov. 9, 2007);

Address: CENSA: Center for the Study of the Americas, 2288 Fulton St., Suite 103, Berkeley, CA;

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The Centre for Social Justice is an independent think tank established, by Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP in 2004, to seek effective solutions to the poverty that blight parts of Britain.

News;
Media;
Policy work;
The Inner city challenge;
Our work in pictures;
UNICEF report;
Newsletter;
Contact and Online Enquiry.

Address UK: The Centre for Social Justice CSJ, 9 Westminster Palace Gardens, Artillery Row, London SW1P 1RL, tel. 020 7340 9650, Email

Address India: Centre for Social Justice, c-105, Royal chinmey Apartment off judges’, bunglows road near simundhar towers Bodakdev, Vastrapur Ahmedabad, India, Phone: 079-26854248, 097-25054329

Alliance: Putting social justice at the heart of British politics – The CSJ Poverty Fighter’s Alliance ensures the insights of small organisations working on the ground with Britain’s most vulnerable are taken on board by policy makers in central and local government. Tens of thousands of people working and volunteering in charities, or as carers, across the UK, know first hand the challenges the faced by people struggling on low income, to overcome debt, addictions, to come to terms with family breakdown, and the complexity of issues that keep people trapped in poverty. (full text).

About: What we do – The CSJ highlights the work of profoundly differing and unique small voluntary organisations and charities. These groups provide welfare in the most broken parts of British society.

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Homepage: We are veterans of the United States armed forces. We stand with the majority of humanity, including millions in our own country, in opposition to the United States’ all out war on Iraq. We span many wars and eras, have many political views and we all agree that this war is wrong. Many of us believed serving in the military was our duty, and our job was to defend this country. Our experiences in the military caused us to question much of what we were taught. Now we see our REAL duty is to encourage you as members of the U.S. armed forces to find out what you are being sent to fight and die for and what the consequences of your actions will be for humanity. We call upon you, the active duty and reservists, to follow your conscience and do the right thing.
In the last Gulf War, as troops, we were ordered to murder from a safe distance. We destroyed much of Iraq from the air, killing hundreds of thousands, including civilians. We remember the road to Basra — the Highway of Death — where we were ordered to kill fleeing Iraqis. We bulldozed trenches, burying people alive. The use of depleted uranium weapons left the battlefields radioactive. Massive use of pesticides, experimental drugs, burning chemical weapons depots and oil fires combined to create a toxic cocktail affecting both the Iraqi people and Gulf War veterans today. One in four Gulf War veterans is disabled … (full text).

All internal links work from inside the homepage, from the left column:

• Sign this statement;
• Veteran Signers as of September 11, 2005;
• Veterans Call to Conscience, these Soldiers won’t Participate;
• CO & GI Resources;
• Speakers Bureau, Available for National & International Press;
• The Call in Other Languages.

Contact Info: Veterans Call to Conscience, c/o VVAWAI PO Box 21604, Seattle WA 98111, e-mail.