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• The Global Justice Center (GJC) is a human rights legal organization that develops innovative strategies to enforce international law.
• With projects in Burma, Iraq, Sierra Leone and U.S. foreign policy, the GJC applies a unique twofold approach to its human rights work. The GJC equips local leaders in project countries with the legal strategies to promote justice and equality rights using international law. The GJC also focuses on the UN Security Council’s enforcement of international humanitarian law … (about 1/2 /Mission).

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Vision; Projects; Publications; News, events; Research and links; Legal Tools;
Address: The Global Justice Center, 25 East 21st Street, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10010, USA;
Contact.

About 2/2 /Mission: … Our work is based on three founding principles:  Continuer la lecture de « Global Justice Center »

no own webite found, but the forum is mentionned on many good websites:

The Forum of Women’s NGOs is a non-profit NGO created in 1994 to address the lack of women’s participation in Kyrgyzstan’s regional, local, and national political structures. The Forum is a network of over 85 separate Kyrgyz NGOs committed to protecting women’s rights, promoting gender equality, and strengthening the role of local civil societies … (full text on Global Justice Center); More on ADB; on ma ma cash.org; on PeaceWomen Project; on CSO Net /ESANGO; on One Table Blog; … and many more on Google Web-search.

Find them also in pdf-reports: in Shadow report, 32p; in Infos for 42nd CEDAW, 11p; Reproductive Health in Kyrgystan, 4p;

Address found on Friends-Partners.org: Forum of Women’s NGOs of Kyrgyzstan, ul./street Isanova 147, kv./app. 7, 720033 Bishkek, Kyrgystan;
Contact: Nurgul Janaeva, Tel: 21-45-85, E-mail.

Found on WLUML /March against criminality (Source: Forum of women’s NGOs of Kyrgyzstan): In Kyrgyzstan there is a growing risk from criminal organizations to impact stability in the country. Criminals are organizing meetings in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan. Continuer la lecture de « Forum of Women’s NGOs of Kyrgyzstan »

also in french, spanish, german and chinese

Linked on our blogs with Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research CGIAR, and with Jean Ziegler – Switzerland and its links.

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) seeks sustainable solutions for ending hunger and poverty. IFPRI is one of 15 centers supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research CGIAR, an alliance of 64 governments, private foundations, and international and regional organizations … (about 1/2).

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Our work; Products, Publications; Resources; Countries; News, Events; Careers; Staff;
Address: IFPRI Headquarters, 2033 K St, NW, Washington, DC 20006-1002, USA;
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About 2/2 … /IFPRI’s Vision: A World Free of Hunger and Malnutrition.  Continuer la lecture de « International Food Policy Research Institute IFPRI »

In July 2003, the first incarnation of IPOC – the Southern African Online Corruption Information Centre, was launched. Our vision was to develop an online resource centre that would ultimately become one of the primary online reference points for those in Southern Africa interested in combating corruption .The initiative was informed by a meeting of Southern African civil society organisations in August 2002 , organised by Southern African Human Rights Initiative Trust and Transparency Zimbabwe, which identified the need for a regional portal on corruption … (about /History 1/2).

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Projects; Database; Publications; Case Stadies; Links; Anti Corruption Hotline Numbers;
Address: iPOPC Africa, 2nd Floor, Armoury Building, Buchanan Square, 160 Sir Lowry Road, Woodstock, South Africa;
Contact.

About /History 2/2: … In 2004, having received feedback from anti-corruption practitioners, the team decided to revamp the site and changed the name to the Information Portal on Corruption (IPOC).  Continuer la lecture de « Information Portal on Corruption in Africa iPOC »

Linked on our blogs with Hinckley forum discusses Turkish minority’s lack of rights in China, with Hinckley Institute of Politics, and with Oslo Freedom Forum – a conference for human rights.

• The Uyghur American Association (UAA) is based in Washington, DC and is a tax-exempt, non-profit membership organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Tax Code.
• The Uyghur American Association (UAA) works to promote the preservation and flourishing of a rich, humanistic and diverse Uyghur culture, and to support the right of the Uyghur people to use peaceful, democratic means to determine their own political future. The UAA has undertaken the Uyghur Human Rights Project for the purpose of promoting improved human rights conditions for Uyghurs and other indigenous groups in East Turkistan (also known as China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region), on the premise that the assurance of basic human rights will facilitate the realization of the community’s democratic aspirations. (about UAA).

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Relief Fund; Join / Service; PDF: Political Prisoners Info; Articles; Gallery; Links; Donate;
Address: Uyghur American Association UAA, 1420 K Street, NW. Suite 350 Washington DC, 20005, USA;
Contact. Tel: (202) 478-1920, Fax: (202) 478-1910, E-mail.

About Uyghurs: An introduction to Uyghurs and their motherland, East Turkistan. Continuer la lecture de « Uyghur American Association UAA »

Advancing innovative and inclusive approaches to social change at local, national, and global levels. Since its founding in Denver in 1981, the Fund has contributed nearly $90 million to social change through a blend of grant making and operating programs … (full text Homepage).

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Our work; Programs; Resources; Grant Guidelines; Press; Staff; Jobs; Link to Us;
Institute for Inclusive Security; Prime Movers; ArtWork for Kids; Increasing Philantrophy; Demand Abolition; Political Parity;
Address: Mt.Auburn Office, 625 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA;
Contact.

About /Mission: Hunt Alternatives Fund advances innovative and inclusive approaches to social change at the local, national, and global levels.  Continuer la lecture de « Hunt Alternatives Fund »

Linked with CSR in a season of economic downturn, with New Economy Movement, with CSR in a season of economic downturn, with New Economics Foundation NEF, and with Emergence Collective.

Assata, Exile since 1979: On May 2 1973, Black Panther activist Assata Shakur (fsn) JoAnne Chesimard, was pulled over by the New Jersey State Police, shot twice and then charged with murder of a police officer. Assata spent six and a half years in prison under brutal circumstances before escaping out of the maximum security wing of the Clinton Correctional Facility for Women in New Jersey in 1979 and moving to Cuba … (Main Page and about Assata Shakur 1/2).

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Partner: The talking Drum collective and its collective Member Site;
Contact online.

Main Page and about 2/2 … /Assata /In her own words: My name is Assata (« she who struggles ») Shakur (« the thankful one »), and I am a 20th century escaped slave.  Continuer la lecture de « Assata Shakur and the Forums »

promoting media diversity, pluralism, self sufficiency, independence

The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) is a non-governmental organisation with members in 11 of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) countries. Officially launched in September 1992, MISA focuses primarily on the need to promote free, independent and pluralistic media, as envisaged in the 1991 Windhoek Declaration … (about /Background 1/2).

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Programmes; Publications; Events; Releases; Newsletter; Jobs; Links;
Address: MISA Regional Secretariat, 21 Johann Albrecht Street, Private Bag 13386, Windhoek, Namibia;
Contacts.

About /Background 2/2: … MISA seeks ways in which to promote the free flow of information and co-operation between media workers, as a principal means of nurturing democracy and human rights in Africa.  Continuer la lecture de « Media Institute of Southern Africa MISA »

(former Society for the Protection of Science and Learning SPSL). – Linked with Network for Education and Academic Rights NEAR.

The Academic Assistance Council  (AAC) was founded in March 1933 by William Beveridge, then Director of the London School of Economics, in response to an article in a Viennese newspaper announcing « that a dozen leading professors were being dismissed from posts in German Universities by the newly established Nazi regime, either on racial or on political grounds » … (about 1/2).

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What; Campaigns, Events; UK Univ. Network; Resources; Media; Grants; How to help;
Address: CARA, London South Bank University, Technopark, 90 London Road, SE1 6LN, London, UK;
Contact: Phone: +44 (0)207 021 0880, Fax: +44 (0)207 021 0881, e-mail.

About 2/2: … He returned to the UK to rally support for fellow academics suffering persecution under the rise of  Fascism in Europe and, eight weeks later, the AAC was born.  Continuer la lecture de « Council for Assisting Refugee Academics CARA »