Catégorie : Civil Society

For this organisation I have not found an own website, but it is mentionned on two other websites:

1) on the Sudanese Media Center: GoSS Signs Memo of Understanding with Sudan Women General Union, 23 May 2007;

2) on the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, RESPONSES TO INFORMATION REQUESTS (RIRs): The Sudanese Women’s Union (SWU), whose current President (New Internationalist Feb. 1996) and founding member is Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim, is banned from operating in the Sudan (Sisterhood Is Global 1984, 650). In 1971 an « ‘official' » organization known as the Sudan Women’s Union was created by the government in place of the original outlawed group (ibid.). Also known as the Sudanese Women’s General Union (SWGU), the Sudan Women’s Union marked its 13th anniversary on 20 January 2003 with a public celebration that included the Vice-President of the Republic of Sudan, Moses Machar, and secretary-general Raja Hasan Khalifah of the women’s union (Suna News Agency 22 Jan. 2003).

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Linked with Eric Breteau – France, with Children do not belong to their parents, with Chad’s children, with Mes réactions concernant les enfants du Tchad, (yes, last year I believed what mass-medias told us), with Marc Garmirian – Lebanon and France, and with the betrayal on Darfour’s children.

(Page d’acccuil en francais / french homepage, … sorry, the english homepage seems not be available for the moment).

Homepage in french, click on (french) video ‘sauver les enfants du Darfour‘, 3.55 min., put online May 17, 2007: Massacres au Darfour, L’Arche de Zoé lance un cri d’alarme, ‘Il faut sauver les enfants du Darfour pendant qu’il est encore temps. Dans quelques mois, ils seront morts! » … (save the Darfur children while it is time, in some months they will be death, showing the devasted situation, and that nothing had be done for this children since now; telling: now, today, in Darfur every 5 minutes a child is dying; and asking: act now). Voilà quatre ans que dure le conflit du Darfour, à l’ouest du Soudan. Quatre ans que des millions de civils innocents, pour la plupart des femmes et des enfants, sont massacrés, torturés, violés, pillés, affamés et chassés de leurs villages par la dictature islamiste du gouvernement soudanais ou les milices qu’il a armées, les Janjaweeds / Since 4 years … mostly innocent women and children are tortured, raped, looted, famished and hound out of their village by the dictatorship of the Sudanese Gov. … (full long text in french).

Sorry, the web pages ‘operation Darfour and ‘Forum’ seem not working, nor in english, nor in french. Postal Contact: L’Arche de Zoé, 23 rue Hallé, 75014 PARIS, France.

Backgrounder Zoe’s Ark group (the star.com): by Reuters, Nov 02, 2007 – The group (in French ‘L’Arche de Zoe’) was formed by a group of motoring enthusiasts in the wake of the tsunami that devastated parts of Asia on Dec. 26, 2004:

• The Zoe’s Ark members set up four temporary camps in Banda Aceh in Indonesia.
• The organization has a president, co-founder and volunteer firefighter Eric Breteau, a general secretary and about 50 active volunteers.
• In April, Zoe’s Ark announced a campaign to evacuate 10,000 orphans from Sudan’s Darfur region alongside other French charities.
• It said it wanted to place orphaned Darfuri children aged under five in foster care with French families, invoking its right to do so under international law.
• The general secretary, Stephanie Lefebvre, told the Le Parisien daily last month the organization never aimed to have the children in its care adopted and simply wanted to save them from starvation.
• A seven-member team – which included a doctor, a nurse and firefighters – was based in Chad. Lefebvre said the group sought authorization from French authorities to grant safe passage to the children it intended to bring back to France, so Zoe’s Ark could seek the right of asylum for them … (full text).

Linked with People power is taking on new forms.

website available in 13 languages

AVAAZ.org is an international civic organization that promotes political action on issues such as climate change, human rights, and religious conflicts. Its stated mission is to « ensure that the views and values of the world’s people inform global decision-making. » The organization operates in thirteen languages, and claims more than one million members from every country in the world … (full text).

Campaigns;
ADS in newspapers and on TV;
media;
BLOG;
Sign Up;
for Burma;
for Darfur;
Contact/Feedback:
Avaaz Foundation, 260 Fifth Avenue, 9th Floor, New York, NY 10001, USA, website.

Our mission: As major new challenges like climate change and escalating religious conflict threaten our common future, people from around the world are coming together to take global politics into their own hands. Avaaz.org (Our name means « Voice » or « Song » in several languages including Hindi, Urdu, Farsi, Nepalese, Dari, Turkish, and Bosnian) is a community of global citizens who take action on the major issues facing the world today. Our aim is to ensure that the views and values of the world’s people – and not just political elites and unaccountable corporations – shape global decisions. Avaaz.org members are taking action for a more just and peaceful world and a vision of globalization with a human face … (full text).

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Linked with Spasenija Moro – Croatia, and with the Center for Peace, Nonviolence, and Human Rights.
The Network: The core membership of the GPPAC network is comprised of regional and international civil society organizations and networks involved in conflict prevention and peacebuilding activities. Wherever possible, the network engages in active partnerships with individual governments, intergovernmental organizations, private sector associations and other relevant bodies to pursue conflict prevention and peacebuilding activities. (full text).

Homepage;
Sitemap;
News and Events;
Programmes;
GPPAC resources;
Sign-up;
Contact: European Centre for Conflict Prevention, Laan van Meerdervoort 70, 2517 AN The Hague, The Netherlands, tel: +31 (0)70 311 0970, fax: +31 (0)70 360 0194, e-mail, website.

About: GPPAC is the world-wide civil society-led network to build a new international consensus on peacebuilding and the prevention of violent conflict. GPPAC works on strengthening civil society networks for peace and security by linking local, national, regional, and global levels of action and effective engagement with governments, the UN system and regional organizations.

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Linked with Spasenija Moro – Croatia.

According to Marina Skrabalo, an Open Society Institute International Policy Fellow and External Evaluator: « For five years, the Center for Peace, Nonviolence and Human Rights in Osijek, Croatia, has worked effectively to support capacity development in eight communities in Eastern and Western Slavonia through a project called « Building a Democratic Society Based on the Culture of Nonviolence. » The project promotes partnerships among a wide array of local state and non-state actors, mobilizes local peace constituents, and integrates « participatory action research » into each stage of its work from needs assessment to evaluation. The project is unique in the post-Yugoslav context as one of the most ambitiously envisioned community-based peacebuilding endeavours, undertaken by an indigenous peace organization and enriched by international, national, and local partnerships.

« The Center for Peace, Nonviolence and Human Rights was conceived in 1991 in a basement during the shelling of Osijek when the people seeking shelter there began to discuss peacemaking civic action. The Center has grown into a network with more than 150 members, 30 full-time activists, a budget of more than $2 million, and three basic programs-education, human rights, and peacebuilding. In 1998, it partnered with the Life and Peace Institute from Sweden to obtain funds from the European Union and other private funders for the « Building a Democratic Society Based on the Culture of Nonviolence » project.

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