Mois : septembre 2008

Linked with Nigar Ahmad – Pakistan.

Established in 1986, Aurat Publication and Information Service Foundation is a civil society organisation committed to work for women’s empowerment and citizens’ participation in governance for creating a socially just, democratic and humane society in Pakistan. Over the last 21 years, Aurat Foundation has come to be recognised nationally and internationally as one of the leading institutions for enhancing women’s economic and political status in the country. The Foundation has also emerged as a major support organisation for civil society organisations working for social change at the community level … (full text on the Homepage).

Programmes:
Strategy;
Projects;
Citizens’ Campaign for Women’s Representation, CCWR;
Citizen’s Reports;
Partners;
Publications;
Photo Gallery;
Head Office: 8-B, LDA Garden ViewApts, Lawrence Road, Lahore 54000, Pakistan;
Contact: Head-Office and 5 Regional Offices.

About AF: Aurat Foundation has its Head Office in Lahore, and five regional offices in the federal and the provincial capitals (Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar and Quetta). Further, AF has a countrywide network of voluntary citizens’ groups and individual activists.

Continuer la lecture de « The AURAT FOUNDATION »

Building together the World Assembly of Inhabitants (in many languages)

World Zero Evictions Day 2008: We are launching an appeal to organise a World Zero Evictions Days 2008 throughout the month of October 2008 as a concrete follow-up of the Global Campaign;

Homepage;
Sitemap;
News;
Act together, housing for all;
The Urban Way;
Zero Eviction Campaign;
Volunteers;
Education;
Urban Popular University;
Universidad Popular Urbana (by moodle);
Newsletter;
Resources;
no contact link exists, but a login.

Who we are: … is a global network of associations and social movements of inhabitants, cooperatives, communities, tenants, house owners, homeless, slum dwellers, indigenous populations and people from working class neighbourhoods. The objective is the construction of another possible world starting from the achievement of the housing and city rights …

Continuer la lecture de « International Alliance of Inhabitants IAI »

In the last decade, there has been an almost unstoppable trend towards the recognition of the right to information as a fundamental human right by  intergovernmental organisations and countries around the world … (full text Right to Information).

Homepage;
Events;
News;
Projects;
Issues;
Publications;
Blogs;
Address: No.15, KIADB Industrial Area, Bommasandra – Jigani Link Road, Bangalore – 562 106, India;
Contact: Change in telephone number: (+9180) 27839918/ 19/ 20 / (+918110) 415054, e-mail.

About: Public Affairs Centre PAC is a non-profit organisation dedicated to the cause of improving the quality of governance in India. PAC’s focus in this regard is primarily on areas in which the public can play a proactive role in improving governance. PAC undertakes and supports research on public policy and services, disseminates research findings, facilitates citizen action support for collective action and provides advisory services to state and non-state agencies

The Educator’s Best Friend

In the spring of 1996, the founders of Education World recognized the need for a Web site that would make the Internet easier for educators to use. They wanted to create a home for educators on the Internet, a place where teachers could gather and share ideas. They wanted to create a complete online resource where educators could start each day to find the lesson plans and research materials they were looking for … (about 1/2).

Homepage;
Site Guide;
Lesson Planing;
Professional Development;
Technology Integration;
School Issues;
Education World at Home;
Early Childhood Community;
Schoolnotes.com;
Management;
Administrator’s Desk;
world citizenship toolbox, sites for the young citizen (scroll full down to catch the texts);
a big page for FAQs;
Contact.

About 2/2: The result is Education World, the Educator’s Best Friend, a resource that includes:

• a search engine for educational Web sites only, a place where educators can find information without searching the entire Internet;
• original content, including lesson plans, practical information for educators, information on how to integrate technology in the classroom, and articles written by education experts;
• site reviews;
• daily features and columns;
• teacher and principal profiles;
• Wire Side Chats with the important names in education;
• employment listings.

Continuer la lecture de « Education World »

Canadian NGO dedicated to United Nations’ Goal of Peace Education, Environmental Protection, Human Rights and Disarmament

IAEWP was founded in Alabama in 1967 by Dr. Charles Mercieca, a Maltese philosopher and educator. The international organisation is now represented in over 100 countries, with consultative status at many United Nations agencies and since 1987 is a designated Peace Messenger of the United Nations. IAEWP is headquartered in Huntsville Alabama and publishes the UN News via IAEWP Korea. IAEWP Canada, headquartered in Toronto, also directly operates the Homeplanet Alliance as an international business and commerce infrastructure building organisation … (full text on the homeplanet.org’s homepage).

Homepage IAEWP;
Coming Events IAEWP; Publications IAEWP; Articles IAEWP; Membership IAEWP; Officers IAEWP;
United Nations UN; UN bodies: links in the left column of all pages; homeplanet.org; Summary Report 2006 FNIT; FNIT Indian Treaties; FNIT The First Nations Indigenous Trust; FNIT Films; UNESCO/peace is in our hands;
Addresses IAEWP, Main Office Canada: IAEWP General Secretariat, Homeplanet Alliance, 2 Bloor Street West, Suite 100-209, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M4W 3E2, Phone (1) 416-924-4449, Fax: (1) 416-924-4094 / 921-4365
worldwide: go to Chapters, select your continent and your country;
Contact IAEWP: for general info, for Mitchell L. Gold, Executive Director.

Mission IAEWP: Deeply concerned over the non-violent approach through education in its broadest sense, the International Association of Educators for World Peace (IAEWP) urges the creation of a new breed of scientists, philosophers, parents, students, all educators, and especially leaders who are inspired with the vision of restoring world peace.  Continuer la lecture de « International Association of Educators for World Peace IAEWP »