Mois : mai 2011

Project on Defense Alternatives PDA

a project of the Commonwealth Institute – Linked on our blogs with The Commonwealth Institute TCI.

  • Since its inception in 1991, the Project on Defense Alternatives has sought to adapt security policy to the challenges and opportunities of the post-Cold War era. Toward this end it promotes consideration of the broadest range of defense options.
  • Central to its mission is the development of « transitional security policy, » which would serve to create conditions favorable to the advent of regional and global cooperative security regimes … (about Mission Statement 1/2).

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Mines Advisory Group MAG

Linked on our blogs with International Campaign to Ban Landmines ICBL.

  • MAG Mines Advisory Group – is a neutral and impartial humanitarian organisation that clears the remnants of conflict for the benefit of communities worldwide.
  • Saving lives and limbs … We work in current and former conflict zones, to reduce the threat of death and injury from remnants of conflict. These include anti-personnel and anti-vehicle landmines, as well as rockets, missiles, mortars, grenades, ammunition, small arms and light weapons, and many more types of deadly items. So we don’t just carry out plain landmine or bomb clearance – some of our projects aren’t even about landmines … (about 1/2).
  • MAG on en.wikipedia, and on fr.wikipedia.

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Where we work; News; Multimedia; Media Center; Downloads, Reports; Get involved; Jobs; FAQs; Donate;
Address: MAG, 68 Sackville Street, Manchester, M1 3NJ, UK;
Contact.

About 2/2: … We educate people living, working and travelling through contaminated areas, to minimise the risks of them, their friends and families being killed or maimed.   Continuer la lecture de « Mines Advisory Group MAG »

Center for Contemplative Mind in Society

What are Contemplative Practices? Contemplative practices quiet the mind in order to cultivate a personal capacity for deep concentration and insight. Examples of contemplative practice include not only sitting in silence but also many forms of single-minded concentration including meditation, contemplative prayer, mindful walking, focused experiences in nature, yoga and other contemporary physical or artistic practices. We also consider various kinds of ritual and ceremony designed to create sacred space and increase insight and awareness to be forms of contemplative practice … (full long text).

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Address: The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, 15 Conz Street, Suite 1, Northampton, MA 01060, USA;
Contact.

About the Center 2/2: The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society works to integrate contemplative awareness and contemporary life in order to help create a more just, compassionate, reflective, and sustainable society.   Continuer la lecture de « Center for Contemplative Mind in Society »

Rochester Women's Shelter, Inc. (US)

Women’s Shelter, Inc. was started by and has been sustained by survivors of domestic abuse. It began in the late 1970’s by four survivors who were determined to give other abused women something they didn’t have: a safe and secure place to live and help in learning how to live independently. Over the years, Women’s Shelter, Inc. has expanded to provide more space to safely house women and children … (about /History 1/2).

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Resources /Fact Sheets; Services; Donations;
Address: Rochester Women’s Shelter, PO Box 457, Rochester, MN 55903, USA;
Contacts.

About 2/2: … In addition, Women’s Shelter, Inc. has added children’s advocacy, an International Shelter with programming specific to immigrant battered women and their children, Transitional Housing, and a multi-lingual staff.  Continuer la lecture de « Rochester Women's Shelter, Inc. (US) »

Refuge.org (UK)

  • A refuge is a safe house for women and children escaping domestic violence. The address is confidential and no men are allowed in the building. A refuge is a place where women can be sure they are safe, and where they can access emotional and practical support from staff who understand what they have been through.
  • Every woman in the refuge is escaping abuse, meaning they can share their experiences and offer each other support … (about /what we do 1/2).

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Office Address: Refuge.org, 4th Floor, International House, 1 St Katharine’s Way, London E1W 1UN, UK;
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About /what we do 2/2: … We recognise that some women may wish to live in refuges sensitive to their cultural needs or preferences. Some of our refuges are specifically for women from particular ethnic or cultural backgrounds.  Continuer la lecture de « Refuge.org (UK) »