Catégorie : Civil Society

Human Rights Tools

A website providing human rights professionals with easy access to the best online resources.

Here 6 graphical illustrations:

1) by INA’s infographics, the International Networks Archive INA: Glass half empty: the coming water wars;

2) Darfur Drawn, pictures made by children in Darfur;

3) true Majority;

4) Survival International; and its Homepage:

5) Advancing Science Serving Society;

6) Global map of hunger.

The website is primarily aimed at human rights activists – persons monitoring the respect of human rights and advocating for positive change. Persons who are passionate about quality human rights work, have a thirst to continually deepen their knowledge, and are looking for a collection of top reference material.

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All-Russian Civil Congress

Linked with Lyudmila Alekseeva – Russian Federation.

On December 12 2005 the Second All-Russian Civil Congress took place in Moscow. Advancing the slogan “Russia for democracy, Against Dictatorship” it has brought together leaders of liberal opposition parties and more than 700 representatives of civil and human rights organizations from all over the country. Several questions were discussed during the Congress: resistance to the destruction of civil society in Russia, elections in 2007-2008 and the creation of a united party of democrats, the threat of nationalism and fascism and the creation of a civil (independent) television network (20-DEC-2005). (Read more on humanrightshouse.org).

Links:

Kaukasian Knot;

Russia Profile.org;

the other Russia.

Kwan Fook – Hong Kong

Linked with Ngun Fung Liu – Hong Kong SAR.

The Hong Kong Association for the Survivors of Women Abuse Kwan Fook is part of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China.

Some sites:

etc.

Self Employed Women's Association SEWA

Linked with Gauriben RaysinghbHai KOLI – India, and with Women as the Leaders of Development.
Read all the rest on SEWA’a Website.

Introduction: SEWA is a trade union registered in 1972. It is an organisation of poor, self-employed women workers. These are women who earn a living through their own labour or small businesses. They do not obtain regular salaried employment with welfare benefits like workers in the organised sector. They are the unprotected labour force of our country. Constituting 93% of the labour force, these are workers of the unorganised sector. Of the female labour force in India, more than 94% are in the unorganised sector. However their work is not counted and hence re-mains invisible. In fact, women workers themselves remain uncounted, undercounted and invisible.

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some Nativ American's websites

Linked with Doreen Spence – Canada.

And also linked with Chief Arvol Looking Horse – Sioux Nation USA, with Rev. Mother Mary Elizabeth Thunder, with Peacemessage from Chief Arvol Looking Horse, Sioux Nation, with The Wolakota Foundation, Facing the Winds of Change.

The DNA Ancestry Project.

Links to American Indian Reference Sites by Phil Konstantin – Page 1 (goes to 4, with hundreds of links).

The Native Americans (Homepage), with their countless sub-pages, like the Native American Testing; the American Native Press Archives; Native American Religion. Find also many links to more Websites for Newspapers, Treaties, Assemblies, Friendship Centres, Indigenous Education and some Enterprise Activities on this page of the Native American.

To find a special nation, put Native American(s) into Google and find a selection of many nations, like for exemple this site for Eskimos.

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