Shakti Women's Aid

Shakti Women’s Aid understands the importance of being listened to, being believed and not being judged. We also understand that it is crucial that you know that there is a way out of abuse and that you do have choices. Shakti Women’s Aid will give you support for what your wishes are and to allow you to gain control of your life … (about 1/2 /Aims and Objectives).

Homepage;
Training, events; Help/Info: for women, for young people; Jobs; Links; Donate;
Address: Shakti Women’s Aid, Norton Park, 57 Albion Road, Edinburgh, EH7 5QY, UK;
Contact online.

About 2/2: … The core values under which we work have developed from what our service users have told us would be most helpful to them. Continuer la lecture de « Shakti Women's Aid »

Africa Policy Institute API

peace and prosperity through knowledge

The Africa Policy Institute (API) is an independent, not-for-profit pan-African think tank designed as a centre of excellence on peace, security and governance, conceived as enablers of sustainable development. The Institute is devoted to field-based research, analysis and serious thinking to generate credible knowledge as the basis for policy dialogue and sharing of innovative policy perspectives with African institutions, states, civil society and the private sector. API`s headquarters is in Nairobi, (Kenya), with a regional office in Pretoria, South Africa and a liaison office in Kampala, Uganda … (about 1/2).

Homepage;
Transnationals; Governance; Projects; Regionals; News, events; API UKUMBI CENTRE; Networks, resources; Vacancies;
Address: NAIROBI OFFICE, NHIF PARKING TOWER, 5th FLR, RAGATI ROAD, P.O. BOx 34791-00100, NAIROBI, KENYA;
Contact.

About 2/2: … Vision: Our vision is of a peaceful, democratic, and prosperous Africa shaping its own destiny and contributing to a just and equitable world.  Continuer la lecture de « Africa Policy Institute API »

African Peace Support Trainers' Association APSTA

Association Africaine des Formateurs au Soutien de la Paix – Designed, maintained and hosted (as a one of their many projects) by the Institute for Security Studies ISS

… Major General Karangi, then Commandant of the Kenya Defence Staff College, was requested by ACCORD to act as Patron of the envisaged Chapter, and in this capacity to invite other centres to an inaugural meeting to set it up. Invited participants included delegates from the peacekeeping training centres on the continent including the Southern African Development Community Regional Peacekeeping Training Centre, the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Centre, the Zambakro School of Peacekeeping and the Kenya Peace Support Training Centre … (about 1/2).

Homepage;
News; Docs; Reports; Events; Partners;
Contact.

About 2/2: … The objective of the initiative was to provide a forum in which representatives from these centres could discuss issues pertaining to their work, explore areas of co-operation, and more importantly develop strategies on how to contribute to the capacity building needs of the African Union and its subsidiary sub-regional organisations. Continuer la lecture de « African Peace Support Trainers' Association APSTA »

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 »

The Hunger Site

The Hunger Site was founded to focus the power of the Internet on a specific humanitarian need; the eradication of world hunger. Since its launch in June 1999, the site has established itself as a leader in online activism, helping to feed the world’s hungry and food insecure. On average, over 220,000 individuals from around the world visit the site each day to click the yellow « Click Here to Give – it’s FREE » button. Its grassroots popularity has been recognized with Web awards in the activism category — a Cool Site of the Year Award and a People’s Voice winner at the Webby Awards. Since its inception, visitors at The Hunger Site and shoppers at The Hunger Site store have given more than 671 million cups of food … (full text about the Hunger Site).

Homepage;
Free ways to help; Teachers; Take action; News; World Hunger; Girl Effect; Games that give; Donate food; Global Food Security Act;
Address: The Hunger Site, One Union Square, 600 University Street, Suite 1000, Seattle, WA 98101-4107, USA;
Contacts.

About our projects /Millennium Promise Update: 2010 – We proudly support Millennium Promise, the leading international non-profit organization solely committed to supporting the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals to halve extreme poverty by 2015 … watch the video, 2.00 min.  Continuer la lecture de « The Hunger Site »

US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants USCRI

The Mission of U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants: To address the needs and rights of persons in forced or voluntary migration worldwide by advancing fair and humane public policy, facilitating and providing direct professional services, and promoting the full participation of migrants in community life. (About USCRI).

Homepage;
Immigration; Network; Newsletter; Jobs; Support; Get involved;
Address: U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, 2231 Crystal Drive, Suite 350, Arlington VA 22202-3711, USA;
Contact.

About Refugees /End Warehousing /NGOs Draft Rights-based Conclusion on Self-Reliance: Ask Your Government to Support it! A number of NGOs from refugee hosting and donor nations have drafted a rights-based Conclusion on Self-Reliance with equitable international responsibility sharing for consideration at the 2009 session of UNHCR’s Executive Committee.   Continuer la lecture de « US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants USCRI »

Decade of ROMA Inclusion 2005 – 2015

Linked with ROMA Initiatives.

The Decade of Roma Inclusion 2005–2015 is an unprecedented political commitment by European governments to improve the socio-economic status and social inclusion of Roma. The Decade is an international initiative that brings together governments, intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations, as well as Romani civil society, to accelerate progress toward improving the welfare of Roma and to review such progress in a transparent and quantifiable way. The Decade focuses on the priority areas of education, employment, health, and housing, and commits governments to take into account the other core issues of poverty, discrimination, and gender mainstreaming … (about 1/2).

Homepage;
News; Publications; Newsletter; Video; Events; Decade Watch; Funding;
Address: Decade of Roma Inclusion, Secretariat Foundation, Károly krt. 11, 8th floor, H-1075 Budapest, Hungary;
Contact.

About 2/2: … The idea of the Decade emerged from « Roma in an Expanding Europe: Challenges for the Future, »  a high-level regional conference on Roma held in Budapest, Hungary, in 2003.  Continuer la lecture de « Decade of ROMA Inclusion 2005 – 2015 »

ROMA Initiatives

one of the many projects of Open Society Foundations. – Linked with ROMAs – these excluded tribes, eternally poors, trained thiefs … and our reactions, with zu Peter Sloterdjiks Buch: die Verachtung der Massen /July 26, 2005, and with Decade of ROMA Inclusion 2005 – 2015.

Roma Initiatives builds upon the Open Society Institute’s many years of support for Roma communities, seeking to challenge prejudice and discrimination and to pursue policy change. It guides all OSI program and grantmaking activity related to the Decade of Roma Inclusion, a commitment by 12 European governments to improve the social and economic status of Roma … (about this Initiative 1/2).

Homepage;
Focus Areas; News; Publications, articles; Multimedia; Events; Links; No Data—No Progress: Country Findings;
Address: Roma Initiatives, OSI-Budapest, Oktober 6. u. 12, H-1051 Budapest, Hungary;
Contact online.

About this Initiative 2/2: … Roma Initiatives works to increase the ability of Roma to participate in public life, advocate for systemic change in policies affecting Roma, challenge anti-Roma prejudice and negative stereotypes, and increase Roma participation in the Decade to make it an enduring success. Continuer la lecture de « ROMA Initiatives »

Bank Information Center BiC

in english, arabic, french, spanish and russian – Linked with Forest Peoples’ Programme and others send letter to Zoellick on palm oil.

The Bank Information Center partners with civil society in developing and transition countries to influence the World Bank and other international financial institutions to promote social and economic justice and ecological sustainability … (about BIC 1/2 /Mission).

english Homepage; Sitemap;
Resources; Institutions; Regions; Issues; Calendar; Media;
Addresses (1 of 3): Bank Information Center, 1100 H Street, NW, Suite 650, Washington, D.C. 20005, USA;
Contacts.

About BIC /Mission 2/2: … The above mission rests on the core premise that socially and environmentally sustainable development is not possible without the informed and active participation of local communities. Continuer la lecture de « Bank Information Center BiC »

Right to Education project

promoting mobilisation and legal accountability – a project of ActionAid International, London – also in french and spanish

Linked with MDGs and the right to education: a series of policy briefs from the RTE Project.

The Right to Education Project aims to promote social mobilisation and legal accountability, looking to focus on the legal challenges to the right to education. The cornerstone of the Project is this wide-reaching website on education rights, a partial continuation of the groundbreaking website (under the same address) of the former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, Katarina Tomaševski … (about 1/2).

Homepage; Sitemap;
Database; Forum; Media; Jobs; FAQs; Partners;
Address: c/o ActionAid International, Hamlyn House, Macdonald Rd, LONDON N19 5PG, UK; (place page on Google maps);
Contact.

About 2/2: … To ensure continued relevance and engagement with activists and the academic community the Project also undertakes comparative research to advance an understanding of the right to education.  Continuer la lecture de « Right to Education project »

European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes EADI

Association Européenne de Recherche er de Formation en Matière de Développement / Europäischer Verband der Entwicklungsforschungs- und Ausbildungsinstitutionen

EADI – the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes – is the leading professional network for development and regional studies in Europe. Our membership includes a wide range of development research and training organisations, think tanks, national bodies and researchers throughout Europe …(about 1/2).

Homepage; Sitemap;
Programmes; Training; Networking; Working Groups; Events; Service; Membership; Publications; News; Newsletter;
Address: EADI, Kaiser Friedrich Strasse 11, 53113 Bonn, Germany;
Contacts.

About 2/2: … EADI pursues the following objectives: Continuer la lecture de « European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes EADI »