Mois : juillet 2009

Positive change, one that is adaptable to most any educational level in any society throughout the world.
Here is a working outline for our course, written in this case as a seminar for university-level students. Please send your comments and suggestions to Devon White at peace@humanity.org. Thank you. (Positive Change).

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Who we are: A small circle of neighbors on four continents, we are working, like you, to find the best paths to positive change.  Continuer la lecture de « The Humanity Initiative »

This NGO has no website, but an e-mail, an address: RUC, Nagercoil Road, Nanguneri, Tirunelveli 627 108, Tamil Nadu, India;

and is decribed on Wiser Earth /About: Organisation aims and activities: RUC envisions a just society in which marginalized will ensure their rights and contrlo over their own lives. RUC’s objectives are to organize the focus groups and to build their capacity in order to promote a strong people’s movement, which strives to protect their rights to live and their to livelihood;
Further details: RUC is also involved in various human rights promotion activities through conducting compaigns, seminars, human rights intervention and monitoring and taking advocacy measures.

also described:

• on CRIN;
• on in TERRA gate;
• on SiliconIndia.

Helping Calcutta ’s young talents grow and share their gifts with the world

Calcutta Foundation, established in 1993/4 by Mrs Fran Caterini (…), is a Charitable Trust, exempt from tax, under 80-G of Income Tax Act.  Mrs Caterini and Mrs Shamlu Dudeja were the working Members of the Board of Trustees; but Mrs Caterini went back to the US, in 1995, leaving Mrs. Dudeja to manage the affairs of the Trust. Mr. Russi Mody was the Chairman, at that time; that mantle was passed on to Mrs. Dudeja, soon thereafter. (Homepage).

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Address: Calcutta Foundation, 4/1 Alipore Park Road, Calcutta 700027, India;
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OBJECTIVES: In one line, Calcutta Foundation’s primary objective is to WIPE A TEAR, BRING A SMILE, where-ever possible and to spread literacy amongst the underprivileged and the “dif-abled”.   Continuer la lecture de « Calcutta Foundation »

Although the IHRFG does not make grants, the Funders Directory lists funders that do, including the Fund for Global Human Rights … (full text Homepage).

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Address: International Human Rights Funders Group, c/o Wellspring Advisors LLC, 1410 Broadway, 23rd Floor, New York, New York 10018, USA;
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About: The International Human Rights Funders Group (IHRFG) is an association of grantmakers devoted to supporting efforts to achieve the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the treaties and laws it has generated so that all people may enjoy a truly and fully human existence.  Continuer la lecture de « International Human Rights Funders Group »

Centro Italiano Aiuti all’Infanzia CIAI

Founded in 1968 CIAI – Italian Association for Aid to Children – has been fighting for the children of the whole world to be entitled the same rights: the first one, and the most important, is the right to grow within the love of a family, and where it is possible, to have permanence with a family of native origin.
CIAI put all its efforts into promoting a revolutionary idea for that period: to show how it was possible to give to a needy child, a family belonging to another culture and ethnic groups. To understand the power of the breaking-up of this approach toward the existing tradition, we have to think that in Italy there wasn’t, at that time, any law that regulated the adoption of a foreign child …  (full text english Homepage).

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Headquarter: CIAI Head Quarter, Via Bordighera, 6, 20142 Milan, Italia;
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About: The child is at the centre of our interests. In particular the focus of our attention is the child who is obliged to work or to prostitute him or herself, the child who cannot be cured should he fall ill, but also a child who is not adult to look after him, a violated child, a child who is victim of violence and exploitation and any other child who is not guarantee his/her fundamental rights.   Continuer la lecture de « Italian Association for Aid to Children »