Catégorie : Civil Society

Linked with Linda Burnham – USA, and with The Great Unmasking.

Mission: Founded in 1990, the Women of Color Resource Center (WCRC) is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area and promotes the political, economic, social and cultural well-being of women and girls of color in the United States. Informed by a social justice perspective that takes into account the status of women internationally, WCRC is committed to organizing and educating women of color across lines of race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, class, sexual orientation, physical ability and age … (about 1/2).

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Peace & Solidarity Internship … : The Women of Color Resource Center is offering an enthusiastic, self-starting, hardworking student an exciting internship in the Peace & Solidarity Program of a respected social justice organization.

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Picked up on Weitzenegger’s Website for International  Development Cooperation, and its Newsletter.

AfDevInfo is:

• a research facility and software house working at the interface between cutting edge data capture, processing and distribution technologies and pragmatic politico-economic research.
• Our sister site, afdevinfo.com tracks the mechanics of political and economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa.
• At the heart of AfDevInfo ‘s development and delivery capability is a suite of integrated databases tracking and linking people, organisations and places; projects, meetings and disputes; financial transactions, documents, news and statistics.
• We develop technologies and practices that transform the high volume of unstructured, low quality electronic data now available into accessible, structured, high quality information.
• Our team encompasses a wide range of in-country development experience in Sub-Saharan Africa, with diverse academic and professional backgrounds.
• AfDevInfo is a commercial, not-for-profit enterprise committed to harnessing information to strengthen and improve government in Africa.

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Linked with Gayle Williams – South Africa and UK, and with UK charity worker killed in Kabul.

Our Purpose: SERVE Afghanistan’s purpose is to express God’s love and bring hope by serving the people of Afghanistan, especially the needy, as we seek to address personal, social and environmental needs … (who we are 1/2).

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Who we are 2/2: … UK Registered Charity: SERVE Afghanistan is a Christian charity registered in the UK (no.1105086), has been working with Afghan refugees since 1980 in Pakistan and has gradually moved both its project work and its head office into Afghanistan itself. Until September 2001, SERVE’s Head Office was located in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. Currently, the Head Office is located in Kabul.

Funding Sources: SERVE Afghanistan’s expatriate staff are all volunteers. SERVE’s funding comes from a combination of private agency donations, government co-funding, trusts, foundations, churches and concerned individuals. Its accounts and books are audited annually by an external chartered accountant. In 2005 SERVE provided full time paid employment to over 200 Afghan nationals, male and female.

On the Ground: SERVE Afghanistan is registered with the governments of Afghanistan and Pakistan and works in cooperation with UN bodies and other local and international relief and development organizations.

Linked with Antonio « Toni » Negri – Italy, and with Professor David Held Interviewed by Naked Punch.

Naked Punch originates from a collective, now dissolved, called “The Postanalytic Group”, that in 2002 met for a series of weekly gatherings. Naked Punch is run by a large editorial collective headed by three editors working on a voluntary basis … (about).

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About: Naked Punch is an engaged review of contemporary art and thought. Essentially a federal, « non-institutional » project, Naked Punch is the spontaneous collaboration of thinkers and artists residing in different cities of the world. Before being a magazine, a container of material or a « cabinet of objects », it is a shared understanding, a shared feeling of unease, a shared concern, and a shared sensitivity.

A distinguishing feature of Naked Punch is its contemporaneity . The review aims to actively engage with current developments in, broadly, three deeply connected areas.

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Linked with Beena Sarwar – Pakistan.

Convention Statement: We, the participants of this convention on human development, believe that we must take control of our own future and work for an enabling environment for pro-poor and development-friendly public policy. We pledge to continue working for a Pakistan where:

• Governance of public institutions is transparent and effective; there is austerity in government spending; and wide public participation in national decision-making.
• Ready access to justice for all is ensured, constitutional supremacy and rule of law is established, and the independence of judiciary and media is respected.
• Public spending is re-directed to significantly increase investments in education, primary and preventive health care, and grass roots economic development.
• The culture of dependence on foreign aid and loans is curtailed.
• Social and economic entrepreneurs are given the space to create a vibrant and just society.

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About: Introduction: For the past decade, the Human Development Foundation of North America (HDF) has helped more than 200,000 of the most underprivileged people in all four provinces of Pakistan.

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