Scriptorium

Linked with Maria LINIBI – Papua New Guinea, and with Strategies for agriculture and rural development in Papua New Guinea.

NARI is a publicly-funded statutory research organisation for conducting applied and development-oriented research on food crops, emerging food and cash crops, livestock and resource management issues. In its vision for PNG, NARI foresees « Prosperous PNG Agricultural Communities. » The word « prosperous » implies economic, social, and cultural well-being of all residents of PNG. Reference to « agricultural communities », in its wider sense, means that the prosperity of all in PNG will be realised through wealth creation and sustainable broad-based economic growth from agricultural development. The major targets are the smallholder, semi-subsistence, semi-commercial and commercial farmers and rural communities in the country.

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Linked with Nicole Magloire – Haiti.

Friends of St. Vincents. The Friends of St. Vincent’s Center for handicapped children is a volunteer group formed in 1997 to help the children and staff at St. Vincent’s Center for Handicapped Children in Port-au-Prince, Haiti obtains the resources needed to educate and care for the children. The Friends of St. Vincent’s Center is an interfaith outreach ministry of St. James’s Episcopal Church in West Hartford, Connecticut.

The Friends of St. Vincent’s Center mission statement is to provide service, supplies and support to the children and staff at St. Vincent’s Center, a residential school, day school, orphanage and hospital for approximately 350 handicapped children in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

2005 has been a very difficult year for our colleagues and the children at St. Vincent’s Center due to the political situation and civil unrest. The Friends of St. Vincent’s Center continued their support in many different ways as it was not possible to conduct medical, construction and education missions in Haiti.

St. Vincent Hospital.

Linked with Lázara Lizette Vila Espina – Cuba.

¿Qué es el Proyecto Palomas?

USTED PUEDE AYUDAR A CIENTÍFICOS A CONTESTAR LAS SIGUIENTES PREGUNTAS:

1. ¿Por qué existen las palomas en colores tan variados?

2. ¿Qué color de pareja suele escoger una paloma?

Los participantes del Proyecto Palomas observan palomas y envían sus observaciones y cómputos al Laboratorio de Ornitología de Cornell en donde científicos recopilan los datos y usan la información para examinar estas dos preguntas de interés científico. La gente participa al contar palomas y anotar los comportamientos de cortejo observados en las bandadas de palomas del vecindario.

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Linked with Wally N’Dow – Gambia, with Lori Wallach – USA, and with Marshall B. Rosenberg – Switzerland & USA.

Big Picture TV BPTV – an online media channel that streams free video clips of global leaders in sustainability. (To) browse a growing archive of internationally renowned names including scientists, environmentalists, politicians, journalists, academics and activists. BPTV is easy to watch. Simply select a speaker, choose a clip and press play (see how to watch tv). (The) video clips can only be watched with Microsoft’s Media Player (can be downloaded on their website).

They write about themselves: Big Picture TV (BPTV) is a free media channel based in London and San Francisco. We stream short talking heads of some of the most renowned pioneers in Sustainable Development and from the environmental, social justice and peace movements. By offering progressive leaders in these inter-related fields a fully independent web-based media platform, we aim to make the big picture a clearer one for the world’s online community. We would very much like to thank our sponsors Green & Black’s and Groovy Gecko, with particular thanks to Craig Moehl at Groovy Gecko for providing us with their excellent streaming services free of charge. We would also like to thank all the speakers who have so generously contributed to the archive. In addition, we want to thank Petica Watson and Simon Levermore for their much valued technical expertise and advice as consultants. Finally, we wish to thank the following people for their kind help and support: (Read the rest on ‘about‘).

Register and Newsletter.

Linked with Lori Wallach – USA, with Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, and with Why Does the WTO Want My Water?

The Public Citizen for Protecting Health, Safety and Democracy. Public Citizen is a national, nonprofit consumer advocacy organization founded in 1971 to represent consumer interests in Congress.

The executive branch and the courts:

• Take Actions;
• the Latest Publications;
• the Latest Press Releases.

We have six divisions and two state offices. To learn more about each of the divisions, click on the links below:

• Auto and Truck Safety;
• Congress Watch;
• Critical Masss Energy Program;
• Global Trade Watch;
• Health Research Group;
• The Litigation Group.

… and Texas and California offices:

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Linked with Lori Wallach – USA, with Why Does the WTO Want My Water?, and with The Public Citizen. Also linked with Third World Traveler, and with Michael Parenti – USA.

Global Trade Watch was created in 1995 as a division of the U.S.-based NGO Public Citizen that monitors the WTO and other trade agreements such as NAFTA and CAFTA. Like Public Citizen in general, GTW advocates for a greater public role in international, federal, state and local policy-making, and for a different set of policies and institutions that govern the current model of globalization, according to its website. [See Public Citizen].

Its director and founder is trade lawyer and activist Lori Wallach. Wallach has been compared to « Ralph Nader with a sense of humor » in a Wall Street Journal profile, dubbed « the Trade Debate’s Guerrilla Warrior » by the National Journal,[see the Journalism School] and « a key player in Washington debates on trade policy » by The Nation. [See commondreams].

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From November 30 – December 3, 2006 will take place WANGOs World Congress. This year in the Mövenpick Resort & Spa, Dead Sea, Jordan.

Some links:

• Conference Committee;
• General Information;
• About Conveners;
• Important Dates;
• Registration;
• Lodging.

Linked with Marshall B. Rosenberg – Switzerland & USA., and with Raising Children Compassionately.
The Center for Nonviolent Communication emerged out of work he was doing with civil rights activists in the early 1960s. During this period he provided mediation and communication skills training to communities working to desegregate schools and other public institutions. (Read much more on wikipedia).
Nonviolent Communication NVC helps us stay connected with what is alive in ourselves and others moment-to-moment, and enhances our ability to make life more wonderful for ourselves and others.

Vision: The Center for Nonviolent Communication CNVC is a global organization whose vision is a world where all people are getting their needs met and resolving their conflicts peacefully. In this vision, people are using Nonviolent Communication NVC to create and participate in networks of worldwide life-serving systems in economics, education, justice, healthcare, and peace-keeping.

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Linked with Thavrin THONG – Cambodia, with Boua Chanthou – Cambodia, with The Khmer Rouge next at Trial, and with NGO Forum on Cambodia.

Established in 1922, DanChurchAid DCA is today one of the major Danish humanitarian non governmental organisations (NGO), working with local partners, international networks, churches and non-religious civil organisations to assist the poorest of the poor. DanChurchAid’s work abroad is focused on the poorest population groups in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Central America, and Central Asia & Eastern Europe. Financed by private donations and funds DanChurchAid is an independent non-profit organisation whose activities are financed by private donations and funds from the Danish government (Danida), the UN, EU and other bilateral donors.

Homepage;
News and Publictions;
Newsletter;
E-mail.

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Linked with Fawzia Adam – Somalia.

renewal is the website turning adversity into opportunity for refugees in West-London.

What is Renewal SRB? West London is the most dynamic economic sub region in London. However, most refugees face a number of complex barriers that prevent them from taking a full part in daily life and contributing to Renewal is a unique programme funded by SRB6, via the London Development Agency, to support Refugee Community Organisations (RCOs) in the 6 West London boroughs of (Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Hounslow, Harrow, Brent and Hillingdon). The Accountable Body for the SRB Scheme is Ealing Primary Care Trust, one of the new NHS Trusts set up in April 2002 to provide primary care and to commission health services. The Renewal project team is based at Ealing PCT and consists of 5 staff, headed by a Programme Manager.

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Linked with Boua Chanthou – Cambodia, and with Thavrin THONG – Cambodia, with The Khmer Rouge next at Trial, and with DCA DanChurchAid Cambodia – the right to food.

NGO Forum on Cambodia’s Homepage in english; and Homepage in local language.

The NGO Forum has employed a full-time Representative since 1995. Since that time, the Representative and core staff have played an essential role in organising discussion and debate among member organisations, responding to requests for information, and representing NGOs’ perspectives on a range of development issues. The Representative (now termed “Executive Director”) represents the NGO Forum to government, donors and other bodies on the full range of NGO Forum’s concerns. As such, the Core Project is the most essential and permanent feature of the NGO Forum’s work. As the NGO Forum’s influence increased, it became necessary to create projects to better fulfil the demand for the NGO Forum’s services. Since 1998, the NGO Forum has created additional projects that look after particular sectors of the NGO Forum’s work. Thus the Core Project now provides administrative and management support to ensure effective functioning of the NGO Forum’s ten projects, each of which facilitates an NGO network on a thematic issue. Therefore, in addition to the Core Project’s representational role, the Core Project provides essential back up to the projects, without which the projects would be unable to function.

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Somewhat like Amnesty International begins more and more taking place, but here by forcing governments to stop war.

Go to Ceasefire Campaign and follow the indicated steps to act for stopping a possible war with Iran.

About CeasefireCampaign.org: The Ceasefire Campaign began when 300,000 individuals from over 150 countries came together to demand a ceasefire in Lebanon. The campaign is a project of Res Publica, a global civic advocacy group and registered charitable organization based in New York City. Please write by email.

And visit the Res Publica.org-website for more information.

A website providing human rights professionals with easy access to the best online resources.

Here 6 graphical illustrations:

1) by INA’s infographics, the International Networks Archive INA: Glass half empty: the coming water wars;

2) Darfur Drawn, pictures made by children in Darfur;

3) true Majority;

4) Survival International; and its Homepage:

5) Advancing Science Serving Society;

6) Global map of hunger.

The website is primarily aimed at human rights activists – persons monitoring the respect of human rights and advocating for positive change. Persons who are passionate about quality human rights work, have a thirst to continually deepen their knowledge, and are looking for a collection of top reference material.

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Linked with Lyudmila Alekseeva – Russian Federation.

On December 12 2005 the Second All-Russian Civil Congress took place in Moscow. Advancing the slogan “Russia for democracy, Against Dictatorship” it has brought together leaders of liberal opposition parties and more than 700 representatives of civil and human rights organizations from all over the country. Several questions were discussed during the Congress: resistance to the destruction of civil society in Russia, elections in 2007-2008 and the creation of a united party of democrats, the threat of nationalism and fascism and the creation of a civil (independent) television network (20-DEC-2005). (Read more on humanrightshouse.org).

Links:

Kaukasian Knot;

Russia Profile.org;

the other Russia.

Linked with Ngun Fung Liu – Hong Kong SAR.

The Hong Kong Association for the Survivors of Women Abuse Kwan Fook is part of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China.

Some sites:

• Homepage;
• English Version;
• english Text only Version;
• Subcommittee on Review of the Comprehensive Social Security Assistance Scheme;
• Subcommittee on Strategy and Measures to Tackle Family Violence;

etc.