Catégorie : Civil Society

Linked with Vimochana.

SAWNET The South Asian Women’s NETwork, a forum for and about women from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka …

Domestic Violence;
Divorce (laws, stories, therapy, mediation, children, self-help etc.);
News;
Bookshelf;
The Sawnet Discussion List;
How others see SAWNET;
Contact.

About: SAWNET started as a mailing list in Nov 1991, with about 40 subscribers. The mailing list was originally run by its founders by simply emailing the collected posts to all subscribers every day. The number of subscribers grew rapidly, and the logistics of running it manually became too much for us. Darci Chapman and Lata Narayanan got Sawnet its own email address, which eventually moved to its current home at Concordia University in Canada …

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Linked with Madhu Kishwar – India, with Donna Fernandes – India, and with SAWNET.

Vimochana seems not having an english website, but is named (in english) on:

India together – Vimochana has been working for 20 years on women’s issues. Our focus has been domestic violence and sexual harassment at the workplace. Initially, we operated as an office based counselling organisation. But soon enough, we got fed up with arm-chair theorising and decided to personally investigate the cases that came to us. The transition brought many shocks. The first was the sight of burnt bodies of young girls and women. Our initial attempts at investi-gation were not easy … (full text).

Vimochana: A Forum for Women’s Rights: Towards gendered justice and reaffirming the ethic of the feminine.

STREELEKHA, (named on mailman.rice.edu), is a feminist bookstore based in Bangalore, South India. It is a sister concern of Vimochana, an activist organisation based in the same city. The women at Vimochana and Streelekha have been working in and around Karnataka for the last 17 years, mostly to protest and defend the rights of women wherever and whenever they have been violated. (full text).

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(a global network of individuals and organizations working for a better world)

About: Our Vision is of a world that works for everybody, where all people have enough to eat, a decent place to live, a good education, clean water and sanitation, access to basic healthcare, right livelihood, and a decent standard of living. This would include a world where we protect and restore our natural environment, live sustainably, treat each other with respect and dignity, protect all people’s basic human rights, can participate equitably in local to global decision making, and resolve our conflicts and differences peaceably.

Conferences, Events;
Breakthrough;
Volunteer;
Articles;
Contact.

Our Mission is to gather and develop a listing of the most promising proposals and initiatives for solving our primary global problems and challenges and developing an active network of people and organizations that will promote and support these initiatives. It is to develop sufficient support to actually achieve and implement these goals.

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Linked with Another Side to Race and Immigration.

The BLACK CoMMentator is a weekly Internet magazine featuring commentary, analysis and investigations on issues affecting African Americans.

Newsletter;
Cartoons;
past issues;
links;
Contact.

About: http://www.blackcommentator.com/about_us.html
The Black Commentator’s core audience is African Americans and their allies in the struggle for social and economic justice. It is also important to share Black American perspectives with the rest of the world, a mission uniquely suited to the Internet.

Our focus is commentary, analysis and investigation, elements of political dialogue that are absolutely essential to the creation of movements for social change. Without regular forums for advocacy and debate, a people are at the mercy of their adversaries.

With the publication of issue #200 on October 5, 2006 BC announced the creation of a multi-dimensional BC Editorial Board and took a new, more inclusive and broader direction … (full text).

(a home for orphans, not an orphan house, in Pakistan).

Linked with Muhammad Anwar Dar – Pakistan, see also CRIN.
Overview: Roshni Homes has a covered area of 225,000 square feet, play grounds for cricket, hockey, football & badminton, one administration block, and eight homes.

Vision;
Mission;
President’s Message;
What we do;
News & Events;
FAQs;
Donations;
Contacts.

The Roshni Homes Trust is a volunteer, non-political, non-sectarian and non profitable charity organization established by Founder Trustees. The Roshni Homes Trust provides residency and full modeled family care services for the children without parental care. The main purpose of this trust is better socialization and physical growth of deprived children. The core objective of all these efforts is to make these deprived children highly productive, responsible and integral members of the society through Higher Education and Character Building.