Guttmacher Institute

advancing sexual and reproductive Health worldwwide through research, policy analysis and public education

Mission: The Guttmacher Institute advances sexual and reproductive health through an interrelated program of social science research, policy analysis and public education designed to generate new ideas, encourage enlightened public debate and promote sound policy and program development … (Mission).

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Address (1 of 2): Guttmacher Institute, 125 Maiden Lane, 7th floor, New York, N.Y. 10038, USA;
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Values: The Institute’s program is guided by six overarching institutional values:  Continuer la lecture de « Guttmacher Institute »

Still Human Still Here

the campaign to end destitution of refused asylum seekers

How the Still Human Still Here campaign is run: Still Human Still Here is a broad coalition of  organisations that are campaigning together to bring to an end the destitution of refused asylum seekers by extending asylum support, permission to work and access to health and education until the time of departure from the UK or their grant of leave to remain … (governance doc 1/2 … click link down ofthe right column: Governance Doc).

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All Campaign Supporters: click links on right column; Take action; Resources;
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Governance Doc 2/2 /How the Still Human Still Here campaign is run: … The coalition brings together organisations that believe we can campaign more effectively with a common banner.   Continuer la lecture de « Still Human Still Here »

Children's Society

Update dec. 12, 2010: Linked with One Million Kids on Anti-Psychotics.

We take action to prevent, rescue and support children facing life trapped in a vicious circle of fear and harm; a vicious circle driven by violence, neglect, poverty and discrimination.
We intervene in the lives of children across the country, providing the right support at the right time. Take our work with young runaways, for example … (full text what we do).

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How we do it; What’s; You can; Commission us; Kid’s Zone; Media; Newsletter; Research;
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About /Who we are: The Children’s Society is a leading national charity that makes childhood better for all children in the UK. Continuer la lecture de « Children's Society »

International Slavery Museum, Liverpool

For more than 2,000 years people in many different parts of the world have forced their fellow humans into slavery. Between about 1500 and 1900, Europeans forcibly uprooted millions of people from throughout West Africa and West Central Africa and shipped them across the Atlantic in conditions of great cruelty. To refer to the Africans who were enslaved only as ‘slaves’ strips them of their identity. They were, for instance, farmers, merchants, priests, soldiers, goldsmiths and musicians. They were husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, sons and daughters. They could be Yoruba, Igbo, Akan or Kongolese … (full text History of the slave trade). Continuer la lecture de « International Slavery Museum, Liverpool »

International Community School ICS

doing the just thing – The ICS student body is composed of 400 students from over 40 countries. Collectively, our students speak more than fifteen languages

  • The ICS focus is on educating the whole child, seeking to develop the innate curiosity of our students while celebrating cultural differences in a challenging, nurturing and intentionally multi-ethnic environment.
  • With the dedication of our faculty and staff, the steadfast support of parents and the larger community, ICS has created a learning environment second to none despite the challenge of inadequate facilities, substandard equipment and non-competitive salaries … (Who we are).

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Admissions; Faculty; Students; Employment; ICS Community; Fast facts; Get involved;
Watch this video in german on SF1: Die Schule der Flüchtlinge, 3.15 min, on SF1, October 2010;
map and Address (1 of 2): ICS, K-4 Decatur (Avondale) Campus, 3260 Covington Hwy, Decatur, GA 30032-1121, USA;
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Curriculum: ICS curriculum follows the Georgia Performance Standards taught within the framework of the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme.  Continuer la lecture de « International Community School ICS »

DrugFreeChildren.org

Ritalin is not a drug to be trifled with. It is an amphetamine. Ritalin has dangerous short-term side effects; that is, the effects appear within weeeks or months after initiating the drug. It also has long-term side effects, about which research is lacking. (David Stein, Ph.D.).

Update dec. 12, 2010: Linked with One Million Kids on Anti-Psychotics.

… This website is sponsored by the Alliance for Drug Free Children, a non-profit organization that believes harmfull, addictive drugs are not the answer for our children … (full long text Homepage).

Clinical information on Ritalin; Parents; Teachers; Resources; Bookstore; Mailing list;
More infos: on Natural News /Physicians speak out; on The Department of Justice’s information on amphetamines; and Legal Cases on AbleChild.org /Legal Issues;
Contact /Feedback online.

About: Ritalin is the most widely prescribed, and the most controversial, drug used in the treatment of attention deficit disorder (ADD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and other behavioral disorders in children. Adderol and Concerta are two more recently released drugs in the same classification.  Continuer la lecture de « DrugFreeChildren.org »

Health Research Foundation HRF by Dr. Doris J. Rapp

Our Mission: The Health Research Foundation is a charitable organization (51-0243144), serving the public since 1977. Our Mission Is Threefold:

  • To inform the public and educate medical doctors about health issues, i.e. environmental health issues.
  • Conduct research to find better, faster, easier, less expensive and safer ways to help children and their families.
  • To help underprivileged children obtain the specific healthcare they need. (down of Homepage 1/2).

News; Contributions; Sponsors; Referrals, Doctors; Appearances;
3 more websites with Dr. Rapp’s informations:

Address: physical: 8040 East Morgan Trail, Suite 13, Scottsdale, Arizona 85258, USA; for post: P.O. Box 6603, Scottsdale, AZ   85261, USA;
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Homepage’s full text 2/2: Doris J. Rapp, M.D.  founder of the Health Research Foundation, is committed to educating both the public and health professionals about the distressing physical and behavioral changes that frequently disrupt the lives and well-being of children and adults. Continuer la lecture de « Health Research Foundation HRF by Dr. Doris J. Rapp »

Block Center (The) of Dr. Mary Ann Block

An International Medical Center for the Treatment of Chronic Health Problems in Adults and Children and a Special Program for Treating ADHD-ADD without Drugs – Update dec. 12, 2010: Linked with One Million Kids on Anti-Psychotics.

  • Dr. Block was compelled to go to medical school at the age of 39 to save her daughter after doctors made the child ill with inappropriate use of drugs for bladder infections.
  • Today her daughter is a healthy adult as a result of her mother’s determination and devotion. Dr. Block was honored by the Ladies` Home Journal and The Lifetime Channel for helping her daughter in such an inspirational way … (about Dr. Block’s work 1/2).

Homepage – The Block center; Sitemap;
to find many Health Issues: see left column of each page;
Blog; Read; Learn; Facts;
Address: The Block Center, Dr. Mary Ann Block, Medical Director, 1750 Norwood Drive, Hurst, Texas 76054, USA;
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About Dr. Block’s work 2/2: … As Medical Director of The Block Center in the Dallas area, an international clinic for adults and children with chronic health problems, Dr. Block now offers other parents the same kind of health care she desperately needed for her own child.  Continuer la lecture de « Block Center (The) of Dr. Mary Ann Block »

Asian Peasant Coalition

  • … What is APC? APC is an Asia-wide peasant coalition of farmers, landless peasants, fisherfolks, , agricultural workers, dalit, indigenous peoples, herders and pastoralists, including the women and youth across these sectors. It has more than 15 million members representing 21 organizations coming from 9 countries in Asia such as Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines and Sri Lanka.
  • APC fosters close relationship with all democratic and progressive people’s movements towards gathering their support for the plight of the peasants of the region. Likewise, it also support the struggles of all the toiling masses in the world … (about 1/2).

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Campaigns; Resourcees; Members; Blog; Archive; Press;
Address: Asian Peasant Coalition, Rm. 23, 2nd Floor, 3J Heights Bldg., 35 Visayas Avenue, Quezon City, Philippines;
Join, Contact online.

About 2/2: … APC advocates for the following:  Continuer la lecture de « Asian Peasant Coalition »

Safe Harbor – Alternative Mental Health

Update dec. 12, 2010: Linked with One Million Kids on Anti-Psychotics.

  • Safe Harbor is a nonprofit corporation, founded in 1998 and based in Los Angeles, California.
  • In 1958, when Safe Harbor founder Dan Stradford (see photo) was four years old, his father, William Stradford, vanished into a mental hospital with a « nervous breakdown. » After receiving a series of shock treatments and potent drugs, William Stradford returned home a broken man. His memory was gone, his personality had deteriorated, and he could scarcely hold a job.
  • William Stradford – a once-vibrant, personable man – never recovered. The family, with 4 children, plummeted into poverty and fell apart. All the children except for Dan ended up in children’s homes … (What is Safe Harbor 1/2).

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Organizations, Experts, Facilities; Practitioner search; Patient’s Rights Groups; Volunteering; What is Alternative Mental Health; Articles; Donations;
Address: Safe Harbor, 787 W. Woodbury Rd. #2, Altadena, CA 91001, USA;
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What is Safe Harbor 2/2: … From a very early age, Dan Stradford felt there had to be safer, more effective alternatives for treating the mentally disturbed. In 1998 he formed the groundwork for the Safe Harbor Project to help others avoid the tragedy he witnessed growing up.  Continuer la lecture de « Safe Harbor – Alternative Mental Health »

Committee to Protect Journalists CPJ – defending journalists worldwide

also in spanish, portugues, french, russian and arabic

From violence in Iraq to repression in China, CPJ recounts a troubling year in Attacks on the Press: New York, February 4, 2008—China’s onerous restrictions on the media in the run up to the 2008 Olympic Games, the erosion of press freedom in many of Africa’s new democracies, the criminalization of journalism in central Asia, and the increasing use of vague “antistate” charges to jail journalists around the world are among the troubling trends revealed in the new edition of Attacks on the Press. Reported and written by the staff of the Committee to Protect Journalists, Attacks on the Press in 2007  also details the devastating violence in Iraq, where 32 journalists were killed in the line of duty. Worldwide, 65 journalists were killed in 2007, the highest toll in more than a decade.

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Alerts/News; CPJ Blog; CPJ impact; Donate; About/FAQs;
Address: Committee to Protect Journalists, 330 7th Avenue, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10001, USA;
Write to CPJ online and Contacts for Media.

Reports, Publications: In Yemen, brutal repression cloaked in law – In the past two years, the Yemeni government has taken legislative and administrative steps to further restrict free expression.   Continuer la lecture de « Committee to Protect Journalists CPJ – defending journalists worldwide »

Development Policy Review Network DPRN

Linked with Global Connections, with African Studies Centre ASC, and with Connecting Africa.

DPRN was set up by the Research School  for Resource Studies for Development (CERES) in 2003, with a view to stimulating increased cooperation and synergy between science, policy and practice. In the course of its existence the corporate sector was added to the target groups because businesses are increasingly engaging in development issues, while still being poorly connected to any of the other sectors. DPRN aims to bring the four sectors together to stimulate interaction and informed debate. (about).

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Activities; Events, agenda; Partners; Publications; Organisation; Links;
Address: Development Policy Review Network DPRN; Coordination unit: University of Amsterdam/AMIDSt, Nieuwe Prinsengracht 130, 1018 VZ Amsterdam, NL;
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Mission statement: The Development Policy Review Network is committed to stimulating informed debate and discussion of issues related to the formulation and implementation of development policies, in particular those related to Dutch policies and aid organisations. Continuer la lecture de « Development Policy Review Network DPRN »

Global Connections

Linked with African Studies Centre ASC, with Connecting Africa, and with Development Policy Review Network DPRN.

  • Welcome to Global-Connections, the searchable database for international cooperation and development experts based in the Netherlands and Flanders.
  • As a project, Global-Connections is part of the Development Policy Review Network.
  • A Dutch initiative to stimulate informed debate, cooperation and synergy among development experts from science, policy, practice and business. (Homepage ff).

Search for expertise; Complet a survey; DPRN: the whole process in the right column (or on it’s own website);
Contact online.

About: Global-Connections is an initiative of the Development Policy Review Network (DPRN), a network of development experts from science, policy, development practice and the corporate sector (whose purpose is to stimulate debate on development policy and to increase collaboration and synergy between the different sectors). The searchable database at Global-Connections helps achieving this. The database provides access to the thematic, geographical and MDG expertise of Dutch and Flemish scientists, policymakers, development practitioners and those who work in the private sector.

Connecting Africa

Linked with African Studies Centre ASC, with Global Connections, and with Development Policy Review Network DPRN.

Connecting-Africa is a service that provides access to African research information and materials produced in the Netherlands and elsewhere.
The service provides:

  • details of Africa experts (researchers, policymakers, development practitioners) affiliated to Dutch and Belgian organizations;
  • details of Dutch and Belgian development-related organizations, universities and research institutes;
  • titles of published research on Africa in the Netherlands and elswhere;
  • digital resources on Africa (full-text of publications, images and sound) in about 55 institutional repositories … (about 1/2).

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Events to remember; Add your profile; Browse and search; Forum; Global Connections;
Address: Connecting Africa, c/o African Studies Centre, PO Box 9555, 2300 RB Leiden, The Netherlands;
Feedback and Contact.

About 2/2: … Connecting-Africa provides access to these digital resources by « harvesting » their descriptive metadata (records) using OAI-PMH (the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) and by filtering the metadata using its Post Harvest Analyzer.   Continuer la lecture de « Connecting Africa »

Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers

also in french and spanish

We are a coalition to stop the use of child soldiers, both girls and boys – to prevent their recruitment and use; to secure their demobilization; and to promote their rehabilitation and reintegration. We work to achieve this through advocacy, research and monitoring.
The Coalition’s goal is to promote the adoption and adherence to national, regional and international legal standards (including the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict) prohibiting the military recruitment and use in hostilities of any person younger than eighteen years of age; and the recognition and enforcement of this standard by all armed groups, both governmental and non-governmental … (full text Coalition /Mission Statement).

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What we do; Internat. standards; Action appeals; Schools; Links; Forum; FAQs; Get involved; Donate; Child Soldiers Global Report 2008;
Address: Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, International Secretariat, 4th Floor, 9 Marshalsea Road, London, SE1 1EP, UK;
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Child soldiers: « I would like you to give a message. Please do your best to tell the world what is happening to us, the children. So that other children don’t have to pass through this violence. »  Continuer la lecture de « Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers »