Africa and WMD

Africa’s Development and the Threat of Weapons of Mass Destruction – a project by the Institute for Security Studies ISS.

Linked on our blogs with African Peace Support Trainers’ Association APSTA.

This blog is maintained by the Africa’s Development & the Threat of Weapons of Mass Destruction Project at the Institute for Security Studies – Pretoria, South Africa, & funded by the Royal Norwegian Government. (see right column on each page).

Homepage;
Treaty; NPT; Nuclears; Bio and Chemicals; Africa Space; CD- /IAEA- /UN-docs;
Contact: see ISS.

U.N. Chief Seeks Global Nuclear Disarmament Within Lifetime: (on Homepage /scroll down).  U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon yesterday said he would seek the elimination of all nuclear weapons before the end of his life, Kyodo News reported (see GSN, July 19, 2010).  Continuer la lecture de « Africa and WMD »

Focus on Food Campaign

Focus on Food is a Campaign which raises the profile and importance of food education and helps secure, sustain and strengthen the status of food in primary and secondary schools nationally, and the wider community. The Campaign focuses on the making and cooking of food as the key experience in learning about the social immortance of food. (about 1/2).

Homepage; Sitemap;

Cook School magazine; Cooking School; the Bus and it’s diary; Receipes; Techniques; News, events; Partners;
Address: Focus on Food, at Design Dimension, Dean Clough, Halifax, West Yorkshire, HX3 5AX, UK;
Map; Contact.

About 2/2: At the heart of the Campaign is the drive to: Continuer la lecture de « Focus on Food Campaign »

Center for Economic and Social Rights CESR

social justice through human rights – also in spanish

The Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) works to promote social justice through human rights. In a world where poverty and inequality deprive entire communities of dignity, justice and sometimes life, we seek to uphold the universal human rights of every human being to education, health, food, water, housing, work, and other economic, social and cultural rights essential to human dignity … (about 1/2 ).

Homepage; Sitemap;
Issues; Countries; Resources; Accountability; Publications; News; Blog;
Address: Center for Economic and Social Rights, Fuencarral, 158-1ºA, 28010 Madrid, Spain;
Contact.

About 2/2: … Extreme poverty and rising inequality should not simply be considered an inevitable tragedy.  Continuer la lecture de « Center for Economic and Social Rights CESR »

Torture Archive

Linked with Latest update of the Torture Archive.

The Torture Archive, an ongoing project of the National Security Archive, is assembling at a single location documents from wide-ranging sources on United States government policy toward rendition, detainees, interrogation, and torture. In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, and the George W. Bush administration’s subsequent launching of its « Global War on Terror », the Afghanistan war, and the invasion of Iraq, rumors circulated of disappearances, abusive treatment of prisoners, « extraordinary renditions », and « black site » (secret) prisons … (Mainpage and About 1/2).

Help; Titles; Creators; Recipients;Individuals; Organizations; NSA Homepage;
no direct Contact mentionned, go to National Security Archive, Suite 701, Gelman Library, The George Washington University, 2130 H Street, NW, Washington, D.C., 20037 – Phone: 202/994-7000 – Fax: 202/994-7005 – e.mail.

Mainpage and About 2/2: … Human rights and civil liberties organizations, investigative journalists, and congressional committees, including, notably, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Center for Constitutional Rights, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Senate Armed Services Committee, and the Associated Press; …  Continuer la lecture de « Torture Archive »

Foodfirst Information and Action Network FIAN

fighting hunger with human rights – also in spanish

FIAN is an international membership based organisation. FIAN’s institutional members are its national and regional sections which are legal entities in their own right and have their own membership and elected decision-making bodies … (full text who we are).

english Homepage; Sitemap;
Programs; Cases; Resources; Newsletter; Worldwide; Membership; Jobs; Get involved; Donate;
Address: FIAN International e.V., PO Box 10 22 43 – 69012 Heidelberg /or Willy-Brandt-Platz 5 – 69115 Heidelberg, Germany;
Contact.

About /Introduction: FIAN – that is FoodFirst Information and Action Network. FIAN is an international human rights organization that has advocated for the realization of the right to food for more than 20 years. Continuer la lecture de « Foodfirst Information and Action Network FIAN »