Mois : mars 2009

Linked with Anna Hoare Sr. – England.

The College has as a top priority the well being of all its students. All staff have pastoral responsibilities for the social, moral, academic and spiritual development of the students in their care. To achieve this end teachers in their role as Form Tutors are given specific pastoral responsibility for a group of 20 -30 students in their Form Class. They are members of a team consisting of all the Form Tutors of the same year group under the leadership of a Year Head. The Year Heads in turn form a team under the Head of Pastoral Care and the Head of Discipline. The Form Tutor will care for the students in their Form Class through daily contact. They should be the first person to whom a student will turn for help or advice, although it may be necessary to refer a particular matter to the Head of Year, the Head of Pastoral Care or the Head of Discipline. (Pastoral Care 2007-08).

Homepage;
Exam FAQs; Extra Curricular Activities; Calendar; Board of Covernors;
Photo Gallery; Newsletter;
Address: Lagan College, 44 Manse Road, Lisnabreeny, BELFAST, BT8 6SA, Irland;
Contact.

Principal’s Welcome: Welcome to the Lagan College website which was launched in 2001 in our 20th Anniversary Year. Continuer la lecture de « The Lagan College »

Linked with Jane Buchanan – USA.

Join SCBWI: Membership in the SCBWI is open to anyone with an active interest in children’s literature or media. We welcome aspiring and published writers and illustrators, librarians, educators, artists, students, dramatists, musicians, filmmakers, and others. A passion for children’s literature is our #1 criterion. Dues are US$75 for the first year and US$60 each renewing year … (full text).

Homepage;
News; Publications;
Events; For our members; Regional Chapters; Discussion boards;
Awards and grants; Links;
Address: Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators SCBWI, 8271 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA;
Contact: General Questions, Membership Questions.

About: The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, formed in 1971 by a group of Los Angeles based writers for children, is the only international organization to offer a variety of services to people who write, illustrate, or share a vital interest in children’s literature.

Continuer la lecture de « Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators SCBWI »

Restoring Citizen Authority over Corporations

ReclaimDemocracy.org works to create a representative democracy with an actively participating public, where citizens don’t merely choose from a menu of options determined by elites, but play an active role in guiding the country and its political agenda. We believe that one’s influence should be a direct result of the quality of one’s ideas and the energy one puts into promoting these ideas, independent of wealth or status … (about 1/2).

Homepage;
Primers;
Issues: Corporate Accountability, Corporate Personhood, Globalization, Independent Business, Political Transformation, (etc, see the left column);
Resources: local groups, Corporate Logo Flag (make a statement against corruption), Presentations and Workshops, Recommended resources;
links; Donate;
Address: ReclaimDemocracy.org, 222 South Black Ave., Bozeman MT, USA;
Contact.

About 2/2: … We inspire citizens to make conscious choices about what role corporations should play in our society and to limit them to that role. We are a non-partisan, non-profit (501c3) organization and welcome the opportunity to work with all who share our goals. Learn more about our mission, vision, goals and values.

Continuer la lecture de « Reclaim Democracy.org »

PRWatch is a blog, filed under the same URL you find: Homepage, Projects, Publications, CDM reports.

You find links to:
Latest News; annual report; what journalists say;
SourceWatch: … and hidden behind the link ‘projects’: Congresspedia, Climate Change, Coal Issues, Front groups, Global Corporations, Nuclear Issues, Tobacco;
Address: Center for Media & Democracy CDM, 520 University Avenue, Suite 227, Madison, Wisconsin 53703, USA;
Contact.

About: The Center for Media and Democracy was founded in 1993 as an independent, non-profit, non-partisan, public interest organization. CMD’s mission is to promote transparency and an informed debate by exposing corporate spin and government propaganda and by engaging the public in collaborative, fair and accurate reporting …

Continuer la lecture de « Center for Media and Democracy CDM – PR watch.org »

GLOBALES ÜBERLEBEN – GLOBAL SURVIVAL – SUPERVIVENCIA GLOBAL – SOPRAVVIVENZA GLOBALE – SURVIE GLOBALE

a website existing in DEUTSCH, ENGLISH, ESPAÑOL, ITALIANO, FRANÇAIS, RUSSIAN.

in english: GLOBAL SPIRIT – PLANET PEACE – The web sites Emanzipation ad Humanum and Being Humane wish to contribute to recognition and spreading of a world-view which still is trapped within hierarchies and concepts that do not lead towards the liberation which is waiting for humanity. This world-view wishes to facilitate responsible and dynamic potentialities of humanity … (full long text … and still scroll more down for a huge amount of interesting links).

See also its Sitemap (it’s the same for all languages).

Linked with North Pakistan at the Crossroads of Central and South Asia.

The Geneva Asia Society is a non-profit association. All personalities in charge of supervising its activities are unpaid and voluntary. Their profiles and professional backgrounds are diverse. The legal status and provision of the Association can be obtained from the Executive Secretariat. (Organization).

Homepage;
News: in english, en français (inkl. in french: 2009 and archive);
Committee; Members;
Links;
Address (down of each page): The Geneva Asia Society, Rue de Lausanne, 63, CH-1202 Geneva, (Switzerland);
Contacts (scroll down).

Activities: Networking and Clustering:

Continuer la lecture de « Geneve Asie Association »

(english, espanol, francais, portugues, russian)

The mission of the International HIV/AIDS Alliance is to support communities to reduce the spread of HIV and to meet the challenges of AIDS. Our vision is of a world in which people do not die of AIDS. (Homepage).

How we work; Alliance partners’ contact details;
Where we work: Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe, Latin America and Caribbean,
Frontiers Prevention Project; How you can help;
News and Events; Publications and resources; Media Center;
Address: International HIV/AIDS Alliance (secretariat), 1st and 2nd Floor, Preece House, 91-101 Davigdor Road, Hove, BN3 1RE, United Kingdom;
Contact.

Who we are (about): Established in 1993, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance (the Alliance) is a global partnership of nationally-based organisations working to support community action on AIDS in developing countries. Continuer la lecture de « International HIV/AIDS Alliance »

(in english / en espanol)

Linked with Ashoka, and with Mohammed Ahmed Abdallah – Soudan.

Changemakers is an initiative of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public that focuses on the rapidly growing world of social innovation. It provides solutions and resources needed to help everyone become a changemaker and presents compelling stories that explore the fundamental principles of successful social innovation around the world … (About 2/2).

Homepage;
Competitions; Community; Changemakers Jobs;
Meet the Changemakers Team; Sponsoring a Collaborative Competition; FAQ;
Library; Stories; Studio: Multimedia Presentations; newsletter; Ashoka facts.
Address: Ashoka Global Headquarters, 1700 North Moore Street, Suite 2000 (20th Floor), Arlington, VA 22209, USA;
Contact.

About 2/2: … Changemakers is building the world’s first global online « open source » community that competes to surface the best social solutions, and then collaborates to refine, enrich, and implement those solutions. Changemakers begins by providing an overarching intellectual framework for collaborative competitions that bring together individual social change initiatives into a more powerful whole.

Continuer la lecture de « Changemakers »

the world’s largest orphan charity
« SOS Children – a charity where deeds speak louder than words » (The Dalai Lama)

This is the UK charity homepage of SOS Children, the world’s largest orphan and abandoned children’s charity. Child sponsors and donors worldwide provide a new family and home for more than 70,000 children in 473 unique Children’s Villages in 123 countries. Our supporters also help a million children and their families through SOS community outreach programmes … (full text Homepage).

Sitemap;
News;
Sponsor a child; Donate and help; Aids in Africa;
World Orphan Week;
Address: SOS Children’s Villages, St Andrew’s House, 59 St Andrew’s Street, Cambridge, CB2 3BZ, England;
Contact.

Charity Facts – Choosing a charity: When the Dalai Lama said that we were « a charity where deeds speak louder than words » doubtless he knew there are lots of ways to choose a particular charity, for example through which to sponsor a child.

Continuer la lecture de « SOS Children's Villages »

Advancing innovative and inclusive approaches to social change at local, national, and global levels. Since its founding in Denver in 1981, the Fund has contributed over $80 million to social change through a blend of grant making and operating programs. (Homepage).

Sitemap;
Programs; Resources; Press Room; Terms of Use;
Women Moving Millions; Partnerships;
The Institute for Inclusive Security; ARTWorks for Kids; Prime Movers: Cultivating Social Capital;
Addresses: Mt. Auburn Office, 625 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA;
Washington Office, The Initiative for Inclusive Security, 2040 « S » Street, NW, Washington, DC 20009, USA;
Contact.

About: Mission: Hunt Alternatives Fund advances innovative and inclusive approaches to social change at the local, national, and global levels.

Continuer la lecture de « Hunt Alternatives Fund »

Comparative Case Studies of Women’s Activism and Scholarship

The ‘Global Feminisms Project’ is a collaborative international project that examines the history of feminist activism, women’s movements and academic women’s studies in China, India, Poland, and the United States. We are examining the histories of feminism in local contexts by collecting ten videotaped oral histories of women’s movement activists and women’s studies scholars in each country. The Project is based in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) at UM, which is also the home for the US site research team. (On Homepage).

Conferences and Publications; Course Information;
China; India; Poland; United States; Cross Site;
Our international collaborators are: SPARROW – Sound and Picture ARchive for Research On Women; Fundacji Kobiecej eFKa; The Chinese Women’s College Shandong Branch; The Institute for Research on Women and Gender;
Links;
Address: University of Michigan, Global Feminisms Project, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, 1136 Lane Hall, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1290, USA;
Contact.

About: The ‘Global Feminisms Project’ was funded, beginning in 2002, by a major grant from the Rackham Graduate School, with additional funding provided by the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Women’s Studies Program, and the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Michigan.

Continuer la lecture de « Global Feminisms Project, at the Universty of Michigan »

Linked with Vina Mazumdar – India.

As an intrinsic dimension of the Centre’s commitment to focus on issues of discrimination and enhancing gender equality, members of the centre have been active in the fields of advocacy, whether through lobbying with and against the State and its policies, forming common platforms with other organizations and civil society institutions, and assisting in campaigns to bring about changes in public awareness.  The Centre has been actively developing many networks to carry forward these processes.  Over the last year, the faculty of the centre have been members of and initiators among networks of women’s organizations and women’s studies associations on a range of issues. (Networking and Advocacy).

Homepage;
Research Activitis; Action Research;
Seminars and Conferences; We and Our People;
Address: CWDS, 25, BHAI VIR SINGH MARG, (GOLE MARKET), NEW DELHI – 110001, INDIA;
Contact.

About: The Centre for Women’s Development Studies(CWDS) was established on 19th April 1980, in the middle of the International Women’s Decade,  by a group of men and women, who were involved in the preparation of the first ever comprehensive government report on the ‘Status of Women in India’.

Continuer la lecture de « Centre for Women's Development Studies CWDS »

Dans le cadre d’une enquête sociologique sur le tabagisme, on cherche des personnes pouvant répondre à un questionnaire avant le 18 mars.

Voir le fichier enquete-sociologique-sur-le-tabagisme

Profil des personnes pouvant répondre au questionnaire :

• Condition 1: Sont domiciliées et / ou travaillent dans le canton de Genève;
• Condition 2: Ont été fumeurs/euses et ont arrêté. Ou sont de nouveau fumeurs/euses après une ou plusieurs périodes d’arrêt, dont au moins un arrêt de 3 semaines ou plus.

Merci d’y répondre (pour les personnes concernées) et / ou de retransmettre ce message à votre réseau de connaissances.

A voir sur Valact.org.

MTV was born on August 1, 1981, when co-creator John Lack spoke those first immortal words: “Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll.” Since then, the station has transformed the way the world views and accesses popular music … (about 1/2).

Welcome Page in arabic; Homepage in arabic; Homepage in english;
Sitemap;
News; Shows; Music; You and MTV; Be creative; Be aware;
Careers; Feedback online; SignUp/register;
Address: Arab Media Group, Al Quoz Ind 3, Dubai, PO BOX 500666, UAE (United Arab Emirates);
Contact.

About 2/2: … Poignantly, as the first channel of its kind anywhere in the world, the track that holds the honour of being the first to play on the ground-breaking station was ‘Video Killed the Radio Star’ by The Buggles. It was a prophetic choice given MTV’s subsequent stratospheric ascendance as well as its immeasurable impact on youth culture across the globe.

Continuer la lecture de « MTV Arabia »

the ethical globalization initiative

Realizing Rights was founded in October 2002 by Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland (1990 – 1997) and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (1997 – 2002). Our supporters include Jimmy Carter, Desmond Tutu and Musimbi Kanyoro. Our mission is to put human rights standards at the heart of global governance and policy-making and to ensure that the needs of the poorest and most vulnerable are addressed on the global stage … (about 1/2).

Homepage;
WHAT IS ETHICAL GLOBALIZATION; Realizing Rights: Action Updates;
Leaders’ Call to Action; What you can do;
Weblogs; News Archives;
Address: Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization, Initiative Headquarters, 271 Madison Avenue, Suite 1007, New York, NY 10016;
Contact.

About 2/2: In collaboration with, The Aspen Institute, Columbia University and the International Council on Human Rights Policy, we are committed to convening key stakeholders in new alliances to integrate concepts of human rights, gender equality and enhanced accountability into efforts to address global challenges and governance shortcomings.

Continuer la lecture de « Realizing Rights.org »