Catégorie : Civil Society

working to prevent conflict worldwide – in many languages

… The International Crisis Group is now generally recognised as the world’s leading independent, non-partisan, source of analysis and advice to governments, and intergovernmental bodies like the United Nations, European Union and World Bank, on the prevention and resolution of deadly conflict … (full text, about 1/2).

Homepage und latest publications;
sitemap;
crisiswatch;
crisiswatch database;
research resources and links;
speeches;
current positions/vacancies;
Download the Annual Report 2008, 52 pages – download previous reports on the same page
contact: advocacy and Field Offices.

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… Crisis Group was founded in 1995 as an international non-governmental organisation on the initiative of a group of well known transatlantic figures who despaired at the international community’s failure to anticipate and respond effectively to the tragedies in the early 1990s of Somalia, Rwanda and Bosnia.

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The Homepage of LBH APIK in Indonesian.

Linked with Nursyahbani Katjasungkana – Indonesia.

Sorry, there exists an english website, but I cannot reach it for the moment. What I can get is the following:

Based on the analysis of the said legal system and in addition to the reality that the existing legal aid does not consider the issue of women as a significant human rights issue, Nursyahbani Katjasungkana, one of the founders and the director of APIK formulated a concept for legal aid called legal aid structural gender. By using the feminist legal theory approach (that includes unsure women as significant elements for legal changes) and in order to explain its objective as a tool for social transformation, its name was changed to gender and transformative legal aid.[4] Based on this concept, APIK formulated its mission to correct unjust gender relations that are the basis of the legal system and to eradicate structural poverty that imprisons the life of the majority of the Indonesian women.

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Socialinvestments.com provides current and prospective investors with information on the fast-growing UK social business sector … (full text Homepage and more links).

Introduction to social business;
individual social business;
resorts by topic;
news;
glossary;
links;
feedback;
catalist blogs;
contact.

About: Our Aim: We want socialinvestments.com to be the site that gives investors better access than exists anywhere else to intelligent commentary on the social business sector and information about the companies within it. We would like this site to be as useful as possible to the investor and to social businesses and so welcome suggestions on how we could improve our offering.

Background: Companies in the social business sector are poorly served (or not served at all) by financial commentators. We consider this lack of information to be a considerable obstacle to investment. We have built socialinvestments.com because we believe that it will facilitate the flow of much-needed investment into the sector.

Principles: During the development of this website we have tried to adhere to the following principles: … (full text).

Links:

Social Entrepreneurship driven by Web 2.0;

Social Entrepreneurship on wikipedia.

National Endowment for the Humanities

EDSITEment contains a variety of links to other websites and references to resources available through government, nonprofit, and commercial entities. These links and references are provided solely for informational purposes and the convenience of the user … (down of each page).

Homepage;
SITEMAP;
Calendar (events);
all Lessons;
all Subject Categories;
all Websites (204);
Partners;
Contact.

About: EDSITEment is a partnership among the National Endowment for the Humanities, Verizon Foundation, and the National Trust for the Humanities.

EDSITEment offers a treasure trove for teachers, students, and parents searching for high-quality material on the Internet in the subject areas of literature and language arts, foreign languages, art and culture, and history and social studies.

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Stop Child Sexual Abuse

Stop the Silence® is a non-profit, charitable 501(c)3 organization working with others toward the prevention and treatment of child sexual abuse … Stop the Silence is pleased to be able to offer organizations a tested and available program to train various types of service providers about the realities of CSA, dealing sensitively with survivors, and CSA prevention. Contact Pamela Pine to inquire how your organization can benefit from this training.

Hotlines;

Homepage;
What is Child sexual abuse and how common is it;
International;
You can help, an overview;
our work;
survivors;
Contact online.

About: The mission of Stop the Silence is two-fold:

• to increase awareness about and conduct programming to address the prevention and treatment of child sexual abuse (CSA),
• to address the relationships between this issue and the broader issues of overall family and community violence.

This mission underlines the importance of a shift in focus on positive development within our overall social complexes (e.g., the relationships between men and women, adults and children, cultural groups) to hinder violence-prone relationships. Our goal is to stop CSA and related forms of violence by changing societal relationships among and between groups.

The history of Stop the Silence: … (full text).