Mois : janvier 2008

Linked with Maria José Rosado Nune /Sister Zecas – Brazil.

“If there is one issue that resonates across all sections of society, it is that Americans want to reduce the need for abortion. Over the coming weeks, and continuing throughout the year, Catholics for Choice will be promoting our Prevention Not Prohibition campaign. The first series of ads will be in newspapers in states where early caucuses and primaries take place: Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Nevada and Colorado.

Sitemap;
Issues;
Conscience Magazine;
News & Media;
Campaigns;
Contact.

About: Catholics for Choice (CFC) was founded in 1973 to serve as a voice for Catholics who believe that the Catholic tradition supports a woman’s moral and legal right to follow her conscience in matters of sexuality and reproductive health.

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Linked with Maria José Rosado Nune /Sister Zecas – Brazil, and with Religious Ideology and Social Control: Abortion and the Catholic Church.

Homepage & latest news;
FAQ;
Press Releases;
Letter to Pres. G.W. Bush, March 14, 2003;
Audios & Visuals;
Data links;
contact.

About: PLANetWIRE.org is a newsroom for journalists who want the latest information about reproductive health rights and services, maternal and child health, equality in education, women’s empowerment, youth participation and a healthy environment. PLANetWIRE.org provides reporters with story ideas, facts and figures, expert spokespeople, information from organizations and government agencies to provide background on these issues.

PLANetWIRE is funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

PLANetWIRE was developed by the Communications Consortium Media Center, by DDB Issues & Advocacy and by Forum One Communications,
with funding from the Packard Foundation and other funders.

Mubashir Bhutta Human Rights (MBHR) was established in January, 2000 and registered in February 2003 under the Deed of Trust. Its focus is to promote HUMAN RIGHTS within public & in its quest to fulfill the rights for humanity. As we believe that justice is for everyone and rights for everyone.

Homepage and latest news;
honour killings;
women execution in Iran;
free legalaid desk;
human trafficking;
seminars;
human trafficking;
vision & team works;
address: Mubashir Bhutta Human Rights, 201,5-C,13-commercial lane phase. II extension D.H.A Karachi, Pakistan, Tell-92-21-5312754-5312755 5428879-8630626, Fax-92-21-5312754, Cell-0321-2513684, mail,
contact.

About /AIMS & OBJECTIVES:
Mubashir Bhutta Human Rights MBHR was established in January, 2000 and registered in February 2003 under the Deed of Trust. Its focus is to promote HUMAN RIGHTS within public & in its quest to fulfill the rights for humanity. As we believe that justice is for everyone and rights for everyone.

Our Goals of (MBHR) for Humanity:

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Tracking the positive and negaive impacts of over 4000 companies worldwide (also in spanish and in french).

Linked with Business and Human Rights Resource Centre of 2007-07-15.

This resource centre and online library covers over 2700 companies, over 160 countries, over 150 issues. It catalogues thousands of links to a wide range of materials published by companies, NGOs, governments, intergovernmental organisations, journalists, academics, etc. It includes reports of corporate misconduct, as well as positive examples of « best practice » by companies. The library is multilingual, containing items in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and German. We plan to expand the non-English content … (full text).

Sitemap;
homepage and latest news;
introduction to the subject;
Overview /General business & human rights;
for development specialists;
for environment specialists;
for human rights specialists;
for women rights specialists;
links;
contact & addresses (UK, USA, Hong-Kong, South Africa).

About: The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre has become the world’s leading independent resource on the subject.

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Serving Earth through Self-Awareness

Linked with John Perkins – USA, .

DREAM CHANGE (DC) is a world wide grass roots movement of people from diverse cultures and backgrounds dedicated to shifting consciousness and promoting sustainable lifestyles for the individual and global community. The objective of inspiring earth-honoring changes in consciousness is accomplished through programs that educate and foster environmental and social balance. DC was originated to encourage new ways of living.

Homepage and future events;
Presenter of events (John Perkins, Llyn Roberts, Joyce Kendall, Bill Pfeiffer, Robert Levy, Eola Ball, Bob Southard);
Dream Change Projects;
How to help;
Newsletter;
Address: Dream Change, P. O. Box 705, Whately, MA 01093, USA;
Contact by mail.

About: DREAM CHANGE grew out of meetings held in indigenous communities in the early 1990’s, initiated by author and environmentalist, John Perkins.

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South African Research & Documentation Centre

Linked with Pilirani Semu-Banda – Malawi, and with The Gender and Media Project.

Vision: SARDC is an independent regional information resource centre which seeks to enhance the effectiveness of key development processes in the SADC region through the collection, production and dissemination of information, and enabling the capacity to generate and use information.

Frontpage and latest News;
Economic Development;
Governance /sustainable democracy;
India Musokotwane Environment Resource Centre for Southern Africa IMERCSA; http://www.sardc.net/imercsa/environment.asp?action=env
BOARD Members;
News Features;
Contact (scroll down).

About: Mission: SARDC’s objective is to improve the base of knowledge about economic, political, cultural and social developments, and their implications, by making information accessible to governments and policy makers, non-governmental organizations, the private sector, regional and international organizations, development agencies, parliaments, and media.

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the women’s international perspective

Linked with Pilirani Semu-Banda – Malawi.
The Women’s International Perspective, The WIP, is a comprehensive news website of women contributors that reports world news, opinion, and commentary. Our mission is to provide quality news from the unique perspectives of women that is accessible worldwide and free to our readers.

Homepage and News;
Sitemap;
Education;
Economy;
Politics;
Science;
Technology;
The World;
Authors;
Archives: Past WIP Contributor Articles;
Address: The WIP, 563 Figueroa Street, Monterey, CA 93940, USA,
+1 831 274 8884, e-mail;
Contact.

About: … The WIP is a balanced media source that promotes diversity and is not associated with any particular religion, political party, or cultural affiliation. As a worldwide collective of women writers, The WIP is an opportunity to eliminate the tremendous under-representation of women journalists and offers a greater diversity of background and opinion than typically found in one online news publication.

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Strengthening the media’s ability to report on gender and development issues in the SADC region

Linked with Pilirani Semu-Banda – Malawi, and with Daughters for loan under fire.

Small Grants on Gender Reporting in Southern Africa:

In 2003 SARDC-WIDSAA offered small grants to enable Journalists to research and write articles that reflect the range of perspectives related to gender policies and their effect among communities, the rural poor, and governments in the region. The grant is part of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency’s (Sida) support to WIDSAA phase III’s work in the SADC region.

gender beat checklist;
key gender instruments;
gender & media project of SARDC/journalists;
recent publications;
mail-contact.

Why Gender and Media: Gender is a common thread that runs through every issue, whether one is addressing issues of poverty reduction, HIV and AIDS, health, education, human rights, democracy and elections, good governance, or development. In southern Africa the multiplicity of debates on gender and development within the SADC region, as well as the rapid change in issues and approaches to the work being done in this field, pose a huge challenge for regional integration, governance and economic emancipation … (full text).

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Linked with Harry B. Coonce – USA, and with Family Tree for Mathematic Scholars.
The goal of the Mathematics Genealogy Project is to compile information about all of the mathematicians in the world and make the information available online. Nearly 97,000 mathematicians’ names are currently included in a searchable database … Also included for each entry are the mathematician’s dissertation title and advisor (« parent »), doctorate-granting institution, and the names of the mathematician’s own graduate students (« descendants »). (full text).

Extrema (top 50 advisors);
Links (math websites);
FAQs;
Posters;
Address: Mathematics Genealogy Project, North Dakota State University, P. O. Box 5075, Fargo, North Dakota 58105-5075;
Data Submission by our website;
To send data to the Mathematics Genealogy Project in paper form, please use the following address: Harry B. Coonce, The Mathematics Genealogy Project, P. O. Box 457, Vernon Center, MN 56090;
Contact.

About/Mission: The intent of this project is to compile information about ALL the mathematicians of the world. We earnestly solicit information from all schools who participate in the development of research level mathematics and from all individuals who may know desired information.

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Dialogue with the Islamic World (also in german, turc, arabic)

The Arabic word « qantara » means « bridge ». The Internet portal Qantara.de represents the concerted effort of the (german) Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Federal Center for Political Education), Deutsche Welle, the Goethe Institut and the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations) to promote dialogue with the Islamic world. The project is funded by the German Foreign Office.

Homepage in english (with Newsletter on right column down);
Politics;
Society;
Culture;
Dialogues;
Slide Shows;
Links;
Contact-Address: Redaktion Qantara.de, c/o Deutsche Welle Online, Kurt-Schumacher-Straße 3, D-53113 Bonn, Germany, E-Mail.

About – The Associates:
1) The Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Federal Center for Political Education);
2) Deutsche Welle DW (your lik to Germany);
3) The Goethe-Institut;
4) The Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa – Institute for Foreign Relations):

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Asian Human Rights Commission (in many languages)

Linked with Human Rights in Sri Lanka.

Communication and Information: AHRC publishes a monthly magazine, Human Rights SOLIDARITY, which reaches over 3,000 individuals and organizations mainly in Asia but also in other parts of the world. Carrying informative as well as reflective and analytical articles on various forms of human rights violations, the magazine strives to create solidarity and strengthen resolve among human rights advocates. AHRC also utilises technological advances and maintains several web-sites to enhance its information and education aims. These are: … (full text).

Homepage AHCR;
Campaigns;
sign petition;
AHRC annual reports;
Rule of Law Sri Lanka;
Sri Lanka Human Rights;
Asian Legal Resource Centre;
Address: Asian Human Rights Commission AHRC, 19/F, Go-Up Commercial Building, 998 Canton Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China, Tel: +(852) – 2698-6339 Fax: +(852) – 2698-6367,
Contact AHRC: via website, via email.

About:
Principles Guiding AHRC Programmes:

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The Travelling Exhibit: « Americans Who Tell the Truth » is a non-partisan series of portraits by Brooksville (Maine) artist Rob Shetterly. His portraits of past and current Americans form a travelling exhibit(s) that is hosted by schools, universities, churches, and various community groups around the country.

With this remarkable collection of portraits, Rob intends to remind people of the dignity, courage and importance of some of America’s truth tellers and, whether or not you agree with a particular subject’s point of view, to create dialogue that will help each of us figure out which truths we value most as citizens in a democracy. Rob is available to give talks separately or in conjunction with exhibits … // … « Americans Who Tell the Truth » currently includes more than 68 portraits. Images of most of these can be found on the Portraits section of the website … (full text).

Homepage;
The portaits;
reviews and articles;
subscribe to our Newsletter;
contact.

The Travelling Exhibit: « Americans Who Tell the Truth » is a non-partisan series of portraits by Brooksville (Maine) artist Rob Shetterly. His portraits of past and current Americans form a travelling exhibit(s) that is hosted by schools, universities, churches, and various community groups around the country. With this remarkable collection of portraits, Rob intends to remind people of the dignity, courage and importance of some of America’s truth tellers and, whether or not you agree with a particular subject’s point of view, to create dialogue that will help each of us figure out which truths we value most as citizens in a democracy. Rob is available to give talks separately or in conjunction with exhibits … (full text).

SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION, WSIS CIVIL SOCIETY WORKING GROUP (available in the six UN-languages)

Linked with Francis F. Muguet – France.

All pages are reached by the same URL, click on the internal links on the left column.

Introduction: This is the WWW site of the thematic Working Group (WG) dealing with Scientific Information, within the framework of the Civil Society contribution to the World Summit On the Information Society (WSIS) organized by the United Nations. Some practical explanations are given. The WSIS process is not easy to grasp unless you have been at the PrepComs of Phase I, or you are a seasoned UN diplomat. The various Civil Society WGs are presented as well as this specific SI WG … // … It is not always easy to find information in the WSIS sites. Therefore some links are provided for documentation purpose. A list of links to a few advocacy groups is also provided. This does not imply that those advocacy groups are represented at WSIS, and that we endorse their views. Some related news are also listed;

About Groups … ;
Phase I, Phase II, Implementation, Action Lines;
follow-up: (with) ECOSOC, IGF, ITU, UNESCO, UNCTAD, Global Alliance, OECD, EUROPE, National Levels;
links: WSIS-UN, … ;
Open Access: the facts, … ;

About the WSIS: The World Summit On the Information Society WSIS is a summit of the United Nations.

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Linked with PhD in Human Rights and Peace Studies, with Francis S.L. Wang – USA & China.

The WCSC‘s mission broadly divides into four areas:

• Archival, encompassing the collection and preservation of case records of war crimes trials;
• Training and Monitoring through judicial training and observing and reporting on trials;
• Education, focusing on internships, conferences, publications, promoting doctoral and post-doctoral research, and collaborative and exchange programs;
• Collaboration with and support of tribunals.

Homepage/New Updates;
Sierra Leone;
East Timor;
Indonesia;
Rwanda;
Cambodia;
World War two;
links/partners;
address: War Crimes Studies Center, University of California, Berkeley, 7331 Dwinelle Hall #2670, Berkeley, CA 94720-2670, Tel: 510. 643. 1345, e-mail,
contact.

About: Founded in December 2000 at the University of California at Berkeley through a generous grant from the Wang Family Foundation, the Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center (WCSC) houses an archive of World War II war crimes trials and other materials relating to subsequent international and national war crimes tribunals.

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Linked with PhD in Human Rights and Peace Studies.

The East-West Center contributes to a peaceful, prosperous, and just Asia Pacific community by serving as a vigorous HUB for cooperative research, education and dialogue on critical issues of common concern to the Asia Pacific region and the United States.

Events;
news;
research;
annual reports;
Asian International Justice Initiative;
Address: East-West Center, 1601 East-West Road, Honolulu, Hawaii 96848, USA;
contact.
About: The East-West Center is an education and research organization established by the U.S. Congress in 1960 to strengthen relations and understanding among the peoples and nations of Asia, the Pacific, and the United States.

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