Mois : février 2011

Global Initiative to End all Corporal Punishment of Children

Linked on our blogs with Progress towards ending corporal punishment.

A human rights issue: Corporal punishment of children breaches their fundamental human rights to respect for human dignity and physical integrity. Its legality in almost every state worldwide – in contrast to other forms of inter-personal violence – challenges the universal right to equal protection under the law. The aims of the Global Initiative already have the support of UNICEF, members of the Committee on the Rights of the Child and key international human rights organisations and individuals. Click here for details of supporters of the Global Initiative … (Introdution 1/2).

Frontpage; Sitemap;
Human Rights and Law; Global Progress; Research; Resources; Reform; Key Judgements; FAQs; Newsletters;
Contact: not found.

Introduction 2/2: … In previous centuries, special defences existed in legislation in many states to justify corporal punishment of wives, servants, slaves and apprentices. Continuer la lecture de « Global Initiative to End all Corporal Punishment of Children »

Chips Quinn Scholars

giving opportunity, training and voice to young journalists of color – run and underwritten by the Freedom Forum. – Linked on our blogs with Freedom Forum.

  • The Chips Quinn Scholars program offers journalism students of color hands-on training in journalism and mentoring by caring news veterans. The aim: Provide special support and encouragement that will open doors to news careers and bring greater diversity to the nation’s daily newspaper newsrooms.
  • The program, sponsored by the Freedom Forum, provides internships, training and $500 housing allowance to college students who are pursuing careers in print journalism. Internships are offered in Spring and Summer … (full text about the program).

Homepage;
Resources; Skills; Scholars; Voices; News; Coach’s Archive; Jobs;
Address: Chips Quinn Scholars, c/o Freedom Forum, 555 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20001, USA;
Feedback online; Contacts.

About /Welcome: … This Web site, its content and its dedicated proprietors combine to add yet another unique ingredient to the CQS program, its cause and its commitment. We invite all to join this stepped-up pace in the march to greater diversity in the world of journalism. So log on and come together, … :  Continuer la lecture de « Chips Quinn Scholars »

Institut National de Recherche Pédagogique INRP

also in english, and en espanol.

  • L’INRP a pour mission générale de conduire ou de piloter des recherches en éducation, particulièrement sur les méthodes éducatives concernant les différents niveaux d’enseignement en formation initiale et continue, au bénéfice de la communauté éducative ; il effectue notamment des travaux de recherche en associant les personnels éducatifs. Par ses partenariats scientifiques nationaux et internationaux, il remplit un rôle d’animation et de mobilisation de la communauté scientifique en matière de recherche en éducation;
  • et d’appuyer le pilotage national et académique de l’enseignement scolaire en matière de réformes pédagogiques, de pratiques nouvelles, d’innovation et d’expérimentation, par le transfert des résultats de la recherche en éducation au profit de la communauté éducative.
  • A cet effet, l’INRP développe en particulier: … (voir le texte entier Mission).

Accueil;
Agenda, Manifestations; Programmes; Recrutement; Recherche; Resources, Services; Partenariat, Liens; L’équipe NéoPassAction; Blog;

Contact: Accès réservé, donc ni adresse ni contact direct, mais voyez l’Université de Lyon /Contacts, resp. l’École normale supérieure de Lyon /Contact dont l’INRP dorénavant fait parti *. En plus il y a aussi l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.

See also on INRP’s english website: International – The Web-site of the european Network of experts in Social Sciences of Education and training
NESSE coordinated by INRP for the European Commission is launched.

* Présentation: Depuis le 1er janvier, l’INRP a été dissout, à cette même date, les droits, obligations et biens, mobiliers et immobiliers, de l’Institut national de recherche pédagogique, à l’exception de ceux afférents au Musée national de l’éducation, sont transférés à l’École normale supérieure de Lyon, comme l’indique le décret. Continuer la lecture de « Institut National de Recherche Pédagogique INRP »

Fédération des Amis de la Morale Laïque FAML asbl

Lié sur nos blogs avec L’humanisme laïque en tant que référence, et avec Europe: sécularisation de la société, réactions des églises, Colloque 2011 de FAML asbl.

  • … La FAML est, aux yeux de beaucoup, devenue le mouvement laïque par excellence, celui qui existe concrètement sur le terrain, qui vise une audience large, qui fait vivre la laïcité au quotidien, qui entretient des rapports avec les autorités communales, avec les groupes de base.
  • Si elle n’existait pas, il faudrait l’inventer…
  • Regroupant plus d’une centaine d’associations francophones, elle a choisi le mode de fonctionnement de la fédération. Fédérer veut dire respecter dans sa diversité, mais aussi rassembler, coordonner.
  • Etre laïque, c’est se réjouir des «ifférences (compatibles avec la dignité humaine – le fasciste et le totalitaire sont aussi différents), des sensibilités diverses, enrichissantes pour les uns et les autres, mais ce n’est pas s’en tenir là … (texte entier Valeurs de la FAML /Le pluralisme dans l’engagement).

Accueil;
Débaptisation / Apostasie; Cooronées; Colloque 2011; Publications; Composition Bureau; Séction locales;
Adresse: Fédération des Amis de la Morale Laïque asbl, 54 Avenue de Stalingrad, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium;
Contact online.

Histoire de la FAML: En instaurant dans l’enseignement officiel les cours d’option philosophique, le Pacte Scolaire du 8 mai 1963 avait également suscité la création d’une série de nouvelles associations dont le but était de défendre et de promouvoir le cours de morale non confessionnelle nouvellement créé.  Continuer la lecture de « Fédération des Amis de la Morale Laïque FAML asbl »

First Amendement Center

Update August 14, 2012:

Jennifer Jenkins writes:

… I came across your website and wanted to notify you about a broken link on your page in case you weren’t aware of it. The link on the First Amendement Center is no longer working. I’ve included a link to a useful page on the First Amendment that you could replace the broken link with if you’re interested in updating your website: Online University: the First Amendement … Thanks … best, Jennifer Jenkins

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(… below I have crossed out the links witch no more work):   Continuer la lecture de « First Amendement Center »

Diversity Institute

Linked with Freedom Forum.

… The Diversity Institute was established and funded by the Freedom Forum to be a school dedicated to recruiting, training, mentoring and retaining a diverse workforce in the newsrooms of the United States. The Diversity Institute is committed to helping media companies develop a workforce that reflects the multicultural makeup of the communities they serve and was inspired by the challenge from Freedom Forum Founder Al Neuharth: “The First Amendment guarantees a free press. We in the media must make sure it is a fair press” … (who we are 1/2).

Homepage;
Best Practices; Resources; Press; Staff; Founders;
Contact online.

Who we are 2/2: … The Freedom Forum Diversity Institute, Inc., is a Tennessee public charity corporation with offices, staff, programs and classes at the John Seigenthaler Center in Nashville, at the Al Neuharth Media Center in Vermillion, S.D., and at the Freedom Forum headquarters and Newseum in Washington, D.C. Continuer la lecture de « Diversity Institute »

Duang Prateep Foundation DPF

NGO in Klong Toey, Slum of Bangkok – Linked with Slums in Thailand.

  • … The recession that hit Thailand in the first half of 1997 caused great suffering for poor people. Many workers lost their jobs and were struggling to survive without any unemployment benefit and without any savings to fall back on. At that time, with the government’s encouragement, many of the urban poor, who had been struggling to survive in the slums, returned to their home villages. The same villages that they originally fled from to escape the grinding poverty they were experiencing …
  • … However, in September 2006, the military seized power, which was justified by accusations of corruption and human rights abuses against the Thaksin government … (full text Introduction to Thailand).

english Homepage (in german, and in thai);
Projects; Volunteer; News, Press; Public relation; Gallery; Donate;
Address and map: Duang Prateep Foundation DPF, No 34, Lock 6, Art Narong Road, Klong Toey, Bangkok 10110,THAILAND;
Contact.

About Duang Prateep Foundation /Origins of DPF: In the nineteen sixties one Klong Toey Slum dweller was a teenage girl working on the docks to pay her way through a teacher training college.  Continuer la lecture de « Duang Prateep Foundation DPF »

nawaat.org

Nawaat.org est un blog collectif indépendant animé par des Tunisiens. Il donne la parole à tous ceux qui, par leur engagement citoyen, la prennent, la portent et la diffusent. Nos choix éditoriaux sont entre autres guidés par les préoccupations qui affectent le quotidien de nos compatriotes et de nos semblables … (about 1/2).

Accueil;

International; Pouvoir, Opositions;
Culture; Social; Economie; Reflexions; Videos; Livres; Réseaux; Censorship; Tunileaks on nawaat; Tunileaks’ Homepage; Babtounes.com;
Alerte Infos; Contact online.

About 2/2: … Lancé en 2004, Nawaat.org mue à nouveau en faisant évoluer sa plateforme technique.  Continuer la lecture de « nawaat.org »

Action des chrétiens pour l'abolition de la torture – ACAT France

Lié dans nos blogs avec Les cyber-activistes arabes face à la liberté sur Internet made in USA, and with Stop Impunity.

Homepage;
Peine de mort; Nos moyens; Textes; Bureau; Histoire; Liens et staff;
ACAT mondiales; Réseau FIACAT; Fédération Internationale de l’ACAT – (en).FIACAT;
Adresse: ACAT, 7 rue Georges-Lardennois, 75019 Paris, France;
Contact online.

Protéger les victimes: Protéger, soutenir, accompagner les victimes, autant d’enjeux pour l’ACAT-France, qui, depuis sa création, a inscrit dans son mandat d’assister les victimes et de concourir à leur protection.  Continuer la lecture de « Action des chrétiens pour l'abolition de la torture – ACAT France »

UN Women Watch

information and resourcex on gender equality and empowerment of women

Linked on our blogs with Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality IANWGE.

  • WomenWatch is an Initiative of IANWGE.
  • Womenwatch is the central gateway to information and resources on the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women throughout the United Nations system, including the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), the United Nations Secretariat, regional commissions, funds, programmes, specialized agencies, and academic and research institutions … (about 1/2).

Homepage; Sitemap;
News; Topics; UN entities; Feature; Calendar;
Contact.

About 2/2: … The portal contains a directory of resources on selected topics including the critical areas of concern of the Beijing Platform for Action, statistics and indicators, gender mainstreaming and online clearinghouses on themes currently on the United Nations global agenda, such as climate change. Continuer la lecture de « UN Women Watch »

Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality IANWGE

Linked on our blogs with UN Women Watch.

… Members of the Inter-agency Network on Women and Gender Equality promote the incorporation of gender perspectives into the work programmes of their organizations. The Network itself provides support to gender mainstreaming through opportunities for exchange of experience and good practice at the annual meetings as well as at informal meetings. Many of the taskforces, through which the Network carries out its work, also explicitly promote gender mainstreaming, for example, the taskforces working on programme budgets, financing for development, CCA/UNDAF and ICTs … (full text Gender Equality).

Homepage; Sitemap;
Meetings; Task Forces; Resolutions; Links: Collaboration: Interagency, outside the UN;
Address: Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality IANWGE, 2 United Nations Plaza, 12th floor, New York, NY 10017, USA;
Contact.

UN SYSTEM WIDE POLICY AND STRATEGY ON GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN: Workshops on gender mainstreaming at annual meetings. Continuer la lecture de « Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality IANWGE »

Freedom Forum.org

  • The Freedom Forum, based in Washington, D.C., is a nonpartisan foundation that champions the First Amendment as a cornerstone of democracy
  • The Freedom Forum is the main funder of the operations of the Newseum in Washington, D.C., the First Amendment Center and the Diversity Institute.
  • The First Amendment Center and the Diversity Institute are housed in the John Seigenthaler Center at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. The First Amendment Center also has offices in Washington and the Diversity Institute has offices and programs at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion … (full text Who we are).

Homepage;
Trustees; Officers; Programs; Publications; Internships; Links; First AmendmentCenter.org; Diversity Institute; Newseum;
Contacts.

Founder’s message: Free press, free speech and free spirit. These are the guiding principles of the Freedom Forum.  Continuer la lecture de « Freedom Forum.org »

International Association of Schools of Social Work IASSW

in all 6 UN-languages – See also: European Association of Schools of Social Work EASSW; and Nordic Committee of Schools of Social Work NCSSW.

  • The International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) is an international association of institutions of social work education, organisations supporting social work education and social work educators. Its mission is:
  • To develop and promote excellence in social work education, research and scholarship globally in order to enhance human well being … (about 1/2 /Mission).

english Homepage;
Ethics; Standards; Attractive to whom? Membershhip; Gallery; Links;
Address: IASSW, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Department of Applied Social Sciences (Rm HJ412), Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong;
Contact.

About /Overview: The International Association of Schools of Social Work, IASSW, is the worldwide association of schools of social work, other tertiary level social work educational programmes, and social work educators. Continuer la lecture de « International Association of Schools of Social Work IASSW »

Council on Social Work Education CSWE

strengthening the profession of social work

About CSWE: The Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) is a nonprofit national association representing more than 3,000 individual members, as well as graduate and undergraduate programs of professional social work education. Founded in 1952, this partnership of educational and professional institutions, social welfare agencies, and private citizens is recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation as the sole accrediting agency for social work education in this country.
Mission: … (full text About /Mission).
Homepage; Sitemap;
Educators; Students; International; Membership; Careers; Annual reports; FAQs; Giving;
Address: Council on Social Work Education CSWE, Alexandria, VA 22314-3457, USA;
Contacts.

About 2/2 /Governance: the direct vote of full members and an elected Board of Directors govern CSWE. Continuer la lecture de « Council on Social Work Education CSWE »

NICE HEART FOUNDATION

Commemoration of International Year of Disabled Persons – mainly in japanese

the english presentation in one page;
Address: Nice Heart Foundation, U-life Center, 1-4-26 Kaigan, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0022, Japan;

Text: The Nice Heart Foundation was established in August of 1982, following the IYDP, under the authorization of the Prime Minister’s Office(presently, the Cabinet Office). The objectives include: to nurture the concept of consideration for others and mutual help among youth through meeting/sharing of experiences with persons with disabilities; to develop a « circle of nice heart « (goodwill) throughout the nation, which will play an integral part in promoting the sound and healthy development of youth and to promote the well-being of persons with disabilities in general.

« Nice Heart Fureai-no- Music Hiroba » Activities:   Continuer la lecture de « NICE HEART FOUNDATION »