Mois : juillet 2008

to prevent war and armed conflict

Linked with Rebecca Johnson – England.

The Past century was the most lethal in human history: Over 200 million people were killed in 250 wars and genocidal onslaughts, more people than were killed in warfare in the past two thousand years.* More than six million people have died in war since the end of the Cold War, when things should have changed for the better … (Preventing Violence: The Global Action Project 1/2).

Homepage;
Who we are;
Meetings: A UNEPS ‘White Paper’ Launched in Washington, DC;
Take Action;
UNEPS;
Newsletter;
Address; 675 Third Avenue, Suite 315. New York, NY 10017;
Contact.

Preventing Violence: The Global Action Project 2/2: … The world’s societies and governments already know how to stop the killing. What has been missing is a program for the sustained, integrated, worldwide application of their resources and knowledge. Global Action to Prevent War provides such a program.

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Linked with Rebecca Johnson – England, and with Britain’s new nuclear abolitionists.

The Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy has been working since 1995 to promote effective approaches to international security, disarmament and arms control. Engaging with governments and civil society, Acronym provides reporting, analysis and strategic thinking on a range of issues relevant to peace and security, with special emphasis on treaties and multilateral initiatives … The Acronym Institute is grateful to the Ford Foundation, the Ploughshares Fund, and the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust for their enabling support of our work and publications, including this website. (full text Homepage).

The Journal Disarmament Diplomacy;
The United Nations and the Conference on Disarmament;
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the International Atomic Energy Agency;
WMD Possessors and Aspirants;
Disarmament Calendar 2008: Main Conferences & Events;
Glossary of Acronyms;
Links (for Organisations);
Address: The Acronym Institute, 24 Colvestone Crescent, London E8 2LH;
Contact: Tel: +44 (0) 20 7503 8857, Fax: +44 (0) 20 7503 8857, e-mail of Founding Director & Editor: Dr Rebecca Johnson.

About: The Acronym Institute was set up in November 1995 under the name ‘Disarmament Intelligence Review’. In April 1997 it became sole publisher of Disarmament Diplomacy, a journal of news, documentation and opinion pieces on disarmament and arms control negotiations. In September 1997 the Institute was legally established in London, UK, under the name The Acronym Institute.

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(APA = American Psychological Association)

Be it resolved that psychologists may not work in settings where persons are held outside of, or in violation of, either International Law (e.g., the UN Convention Against Torture and the Geneva Conventions) or the US Constitution (where appropriate), unless they are working directly for the persons being detained or for an independent third party working to protect human rights. (Homepage);
The 2008 Protest for an Ethical APA, Boston, August 16, 12pm – 2pm;
Governance Resolution, adopted by APA on February 22, 2008;
Resolution;
Sign the resolution;
Frequently Asked Questions about the Resolution;

Archived Links (with texts, videos, audios);
Links to more information about colleges and universities that have protested the APAs stance on psychologists’ involvement in illegal detention sites: Inside higher ED; and Psyche, Science and Society, Archive for May 24th, 2008.

About: We commend the American Psychological Association for having recently amended its 2007 Resolution Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and its Application to Individuals Defined in the United States Code as « Enemy Combatants » (Amendment)  so as to unequivocally condemn all techniques considered to be torture,  thereby closing loopholes that existed in the original Resolution (see below). However, the International Committee of the Red Cross determined in 2003 that the conditions in such Centers are themselves tantamount to torture. Yet psychologists maintain a presence in such sites and in 2007 the elected and appointed leaders of the APA voted once again against an amendment that would have prevented psychologists from working in facilities in which detainees are deprived of their human rights except as health personnel.

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Helping society move towards a socially just and environmentally restorative existence

Linked with Wiser Earth.org.

The Natural Capital Institute serves the people who are transforming the world. We are a team of researchers, teachers, students, activists, scholars, writers, social entrepreneurs, artists, and volunteers committed to the restoration of the earth and the healing of human culture. We do two things: we describe pathways of change in books and research reports, and we create tools for connecting the individuals, information, and organizations that create change … (Homepage).

Who we are: Current Interns, Board Members and Staff;
Our History;
WISER;
WiserEarth;
WiserBusiness;
WiserEarth Partners;
WISER Platform;
Newsletter: Please drop a note to NCI’s outreach coordinator Melinda Kramer;
Address: Natural Capital Institute, 3 Gate Five Road, Suite A, Sausalito, California 94965;
Contact. Tel: 415.331.6241, Fax: 415.331.6242, e-mail.

(About)/WISER Guidelines:

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The Hindu caste system has been called a « hidden apartheid » and the single greatest existing social evil. But outside of the subcontinent few people know much about it, even among leftists … (Homepage 1/2).

News; Maharashtra burning; Mumia Abu-Jamal case; social function of caste; Caste among Muslim; Letters to workers vanguard; discrimination against untouchable survivors of the South Asian tsunami; More readings; Links;
Contact by e-mail.

Placed as External Links:
Human Rights Watch-report on casts;
Read my guestbook;
Sign my guestbook;
Country Study: Cast and Classes;
Dalits & Human Rights: The Battles Ahead, By P. Sainath.

About (Homepage 2/2):
Some 250 million people around the world were born untouchable. They live throughout South Asia, as well as in Japan and parts of West Africa. Over 160 million of them are in India, where they make up more than one-sixth of the population, and where over 580 million more people belong to other oppressed castes and tribes.

The purpose of this site is to share our ideas and research. Our perspective is Marxist. It will take a socialist revolution to create the material basis for abolishing the caste system. And only a party that openly fights against caste oppression can lead the workers of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka to power.

We are not that party, or any kind of organization.

This site is run by Sujatha and Alan. Sujatha grew up in an untouchable family in Andhra Pradesh.
See also: Sujatha’s multi-generational family narrative;