Mois : septembre 2009

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We are the International Rescue Committee – a critical global network of first responders, humanitarian relief workers, healthcare providers, educators, community leaders, activists, and volunteers. Working together, we provide access to safety, sanctuary, and sustainable change for millions of people whose lives have been shattered by violence and oppression … (about 1/2 /who we are).

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About 2/2 /who we are: … Our mission: Founded in 1933, the IRC is a global leader in emergency relief, rehabilitation, protection of human rights, post-conflict development, resettlement services and advocacy for those uprooted or affected by violent conflict and oppression.
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(also named Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children)

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The Women’s Refugee Commission was established in 1989 to address the particular needs of refugee and displaced women and children. The Women’s Refugee Commission is affiliated with and is legally part of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, and does not receive direct financial support from the IRC (down of each page).

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Addresses: 1): Women’s Refugee Commission, 122 East 42nd Stree, New York, NY 10168-1289, USA;
2): Women’s Refugee Commission, c/o International Rescue Committee, 1730 M Street, NW, Suite 505, Washington, DC 20036, USA;
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About /How we work: Through research and fact-finding field missions, we identify critical problems that affect displaced women, children and young people, including gaps in lifesaving reproductive health care, lack of dignified livelihoods for refugees and, in the U.S., the treatment of asylum-seekers. Continuer la lecture de « Women's Refugee Commission »

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Humorality.com is the brainchild of Tim Patrick, which in itself is somewhat gross given that brains don’t have children, at least not male brains … (about 1/2).

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About 2/2: … Tim Patrick has been a software developer since the early days of personal computers, so you know he’s qualified to write offbeat humor. And that’s just what you find in the pages of Humorality.com.

Tim has been writing books and articles since the very-late twentieth century, and he’s unlikely to stop now. He has a half-dozen technical books on the market and many articles on technical, humorous, and religious topics.

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Linked with The implications of trade liberalization for diet and health, and with I washed and fed my mother before going to school.

Globalization and Health is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal that provides an international forum for high quality original research, knowledge sharing and debate on the topic of globalization and its effects on health, both positive and negative. (The journal is is affiliated with the London School of Economics LSE Health) … (about 1/2).

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About 2/2: … Globalization, namely the intensification of flows of people, goods, and services across borders, has a complex influence on health. The journal publishes material relevant to any aspect of globalization and health from a wide range of social science and health-related disciplines (e.g. economics, sociology, epidemiology, demography, psychology, politics and international relations).  Continuer la lecture de « Globalization and Health »

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• Welcome to the Progressive Book Club, a unique new space for debate, discussion and community based on that venerable yet still so vital form of media: the printed word.
• More than two centuries ago, Thomas Paine published Common Sense, the radical democratic inspiration for mass support of the American Revolution. Books have played a critical role in American politics ever since, regardless of changes in technology, culture, politics, and communications … (about 1/2).

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About 2/2: … It was Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass that galvanized the abolitionist movement. It was Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle – with its gripping portrait of rapacious industry – that inspired the reforms of the Progressive Era.  Continuer la lecture de « Progressive Book Club PBC »