Mois : septembre 2008

a global resource for journalists who cover violence

The Dart Center is a global network of journalists, journalism educators and health professionals dedicated to improving media coverage of trauma, conflict and tragedy. The Center also addresses the consequences of such coverage for those working in journalism. (About).

Homepage;
Sitemap;
The First Dead Body;

Fellowship;
Trauma Research;
Regional Offices (London, Melbourne, Americas);
Mission; 
Staff & Personnel; 
Executive Committee; 
Advisory Council; 
Governance, Funding & Partnerships; 
Contacts.

History: The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma was founded at the University of Washington in 1999. It continues a mission begun nearly a decade earlier.

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(also in french and spanish) – about Migration

Our purpose is to invent, to share, and to practice new forms of collective action, from the local to the global scales, so that together we can exercise more control, together and with Nature, over the future of an increasingly complex and interdependent world.
The challenge of the Alliance is to favor unity within diversity by proclaiming our societies’ capacity to understand and assess the complexity of situations, the interdependence of the issues, and the legitimacy of all the different geocultural, thematic, social, and professional viewpoints, and to encourage them all to act accordingly … (What is the Alliance).

What’s new;
workgroups;
proposals;
participate;
other important moments;
interesting websites;
Contacts (click on the wanted item).

History of the Alliance: Since the end of the 1980s, different actors of society from a broad range of spheres in various regions of the world have taken a large number of initiatives to contribute to and organize a huge world movement capable of participating in the quest for values, proposals, and rules to overcome the new challenges humanity is facing.

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(in eight languages)

Linked with Binda Pandey – Nepal, August 7th, 2008;

Uniting the world’s workers: How can workers face up to the might of the global corporations? By organising globally. That is why more than 20 million workers worldwide are already members of the ICEM, the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers’ Unions. The ICEM is a rapidly growing industry-based world labour federation dedicated to practical solidarity. It unites trade unions in its sectors on all continents. Its aim is to become a truly global trade union … (about 1/2).

ICEM affiliates: by November 2007, the ICEM represented 467 industrial trade unions in 132 countries.

Homepage;
Gender Issues;
ICEM regions;
Federations;
Staff;
Statutes, 19 pdf-pages;
Weekly newsletter;
Address: ICEM, 54bis route des Acacias, 1227 Geneva, Switzerland;
Contact.

About 2/2: ICEM’s main focuses are negotiating and monitoring global agreements …

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Linked with Betty Burkes – USA, and with the International Bureau of Education IBE.

Peace education is a participatory holistic process that includes teaching for and about democracy and human rights, nonviolence, social and economic justice, gender equality, environmental sustainability, disarmament, traditional peace practices, international law, and human security. (Homepage). 

Peace Lessons from around the world (to reach peace we need to teach peace); 
History; Conference of ‘99;
Publications /HAP resources;
Network;
Newsletter Archive;
Peace Boat US;
The Tirana Call for peace education;
Contact: Tel: 212-687-7214, Fax: 212-661-2704, e-Mail.

About: The Hague Appeal for Peace is an international network of organizations and individuals dedicated to the abolition of war and making peace a human right. The Global Campaign for Peace Education GCPE was launched at the Hague Appeal for Peace conference in May 1999. After the conference, Hague Appeal for Peace took the responsibility of coordinating the Campaign.

in all 6 UN languages

Mission: The IBE’s main mission is to act as UNESCO’s centre specialized in contents, methods and structure of education. It builds networks to share expertise on curriculum development in all regions of the world and aims to introduce modern approaches in curriculum design and implementation, improve practical skills and promote informed policy dialogue at national, regional and international levels … (full text).

Homepage;
Sitemap;
Curriculum Development;
Policy Dialogue;
Conflict and social cohesion;
HIV & AIDS;
Poverty Alleviation;
Learn to live together;
Inclusive Education;
IBE Databases;
Official information sources on education;
Databases on education systems;
UNESCO-IBE Contacts.

About: The International Bureau of Education (IBE): a global centre in the area of curriculum development and a field-oriented institute supporting UNESCO action aimed at attaining quality Education for All.

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