Arab NGO Network for Development ANND

(already mentionned on remember some Arab NGOs). – Linked on ourblogs with World Educational Social Forum Palestine, and with Global Campaign for Education.

  • The Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND) is a regional network, working in 10 Arab countries with 7 national networks (with an extended membership of 200 CSOs from different backgrounds) and 23 NGO members. ANND was established in 1997 and its headquarters is located in Beirut, Lebanon since 2000.
  • ANND aims at strengthening the role of civil society, enhancing the values of democracy, respect of human rights and sustainable development in the region. ANND advocates for more sound and effective socio-economic reforms in the region, which integrate the concepts of sustainable development, gender justice, and the rights-based approach … (about 1/2).
  • Letter to Mrs. Catherine Ashton.

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Address: ANND, P.O.Box: 5792/14, Mazraa: 1105 – 2070, Beirut, Lebanon;
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About 2/2 /… The network programs cover three main areas:  Continuer la lecture de « Arab NGO Network for Development ANND »

World Educational Social Forum Palestine

also in arabic, french and spanish – Linked on our blogs with Global Campaign for Education, and with Arab NGO Network for Development ANND.

Our Mission: The World Education Forum aims to work to reinforce the concept of education as a fundamental human right and a key for sustainable development, for the establishment of peace and stability among countries and of a cooperative world community. It seeks to foster improvements in education policies and practices to meet the individual and shared educational needs of people of all ages … (Mission, Vision 1/2).

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Mission, Vision 2/2: … /The specific goals of the WEF are the following:  Continuer la lecture de « World Educational Social Forum Palestine »

Center for Victims of Torture

Linked on our blogs with New Tactics in Human Rights Project.

  • The Center for Victims of Torture (CVT) exists to heal the wounds of government-sponsored torture on individuals, their families and their communities, and to stop its practice.
  • As many as 500,000 torture survivors are living in the United States. These individuals were brutalized by repressive regimes abroad because of what they believed, what they said or did, or what they represented. Many survivors, their families, and their communities suffer the lingering, debilitating effects of their horrific traumas in silence … (full text Who we are).

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Address (1 of 6): Minneapolis Administration: Center for Victims of Torture, 717 East River Parkway, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA;
Directions to the St. Paul Healing Center; Contact.

History /Governor Perpich’s Commitment to Human Rights: The Center for Victims of Torture began with a conversation between an Amnesty International volunteer at Stanford Law School, Rudy Perpich, Jr., and his father, then Minnesota Governor Rudy Perpich.  Continuer la lecture de « Center for Victims of Torture »

New Tactics in Human Rights Project

Empowering social change advocates with knowledge, innovation and community – also in french and spanish – Linked on our blogs with Center for Victims of Torture.

Despite an increasingly global and connected network of human rights organizations, strategic and tactical isolation remains a constant challenge to activists across the world.  Confronted with local challenges, groups often resort to “reinventing the wheel” or deploying known tactics that, while familiar, may not offer the best possible solutions.  The creative innovations of one group often remain invisible to others, and these actions therefore fail to enter the collective tool kit of global advocacy … (about 1/2).

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Informed Comment

thoughts on the middle east, history and religion – Linked on our blogs with Tomgram: Shahin and Juan Cole, The Women’s Movement in the Middle East.

  • Welcome to Informed Comment, where I do my best to provide an independent and informed perspective on Middle Eastern and American politics.
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About: Juan Cole is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. For three decades, he has sought to put the relationship of the West and the Muslim world in historical context.  Continuer la lecture de « Informed Comment »