Catégorie : Civil Society

Linked with Adelle Potgieter – South Africa, and with HOPE Foundations, and with The Restoration of Human Abilities Association ROHA.

The South African Police Service is the national police force of the Republic of South Africa.

Policing in South Africa underwent a radical change in 1994 in terms of transformation and democratisation. The previous 11 police agencies (SAP and 10 former homeland agencies) entered a process of amalgamation and rationalisation to create a single South African Police Service (SAPS) which functions at national and nine provincial levels.

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Linked with Yuki Ando – Japan.

In 1999 ISPCAN launched the National Partner Program, establishing affiliations with national child abuse and neglect prevention organizations around the world. The collaboration aims to further the common mission, goals and programs of ISPCAN and its Partners. The program seeks out existing national, multidisciplinary organizations working in CAN prevention, with a special focus on groups in developing countries. ISPCAN believes that effective and sustainable CAN prevention is achieved through education and professional cooperation, and thus sees the strength of the partnerships in enhancing the global network of those working for child welfare. Partnership describes a close, on-going and coordinated working relationship, supporting an exchange of materials, information and membership benefits between ISPCAN and other societies. By sharing experience, research and resources ISPCAN hopes to augment individual, regional and national efforts to end child maltreatment. The first meeting of National Partner leaders took place at ISPCAN’s 13th International Congress in Durban, South Africa in September of 2000. In 1999 ISPCAN launched the National Partner Program, establishing affiliations with national child abuse and neglect prevention organizations around the world. The collaboration aims to further the common mission, goals and programs of ISPCAN and its Partners. The program seeks out existing national, multidisciplinary organizations working in CAN prevention, with a special focus on groups in developing countries. ISPCAN believes that effective and sustainable CAN prevention is achieved through education and professional cooperation, and thus sees the strength of the partnerships in enhancing the global network of those working for child welfare. Partnership describes a close, on-going and coordinated working relationship, supporting an exchange of materials, information and membership benefits between ISPCAN and other societies. By sharing experience, research and resources ISPCAN hopes to augment individual, regional and national efforts to end child maltreatment. The first meeting of National Partner leaders took place at ISPCAN’s 13th International Congress in Durban, South Africa in September of 2000. ISPCAN with partners of many countries, Here specially with JAPAN:

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Child Abuse Prevention, The CAP Center, Texas: Child abuse occurs at every level of society and among families of every race, color, creed and financial status. The abuse can range from subtle to savage and is both mentally and physically crippling. Even in less severe forms, abuse degrades the spirit and affects almost every aspect of a child’s life.

MISSION: to break the cycle of child abuse by equipping parents and caregivers for success. Our mission resonates through our four educational and counseling programs for families at risk for abuse. The Center works to empower its clients by teaching positive parenting methods and supporting parents in strengthening their families, emotionally, economically, and socially. CAP Center is a key provider of prevention services for at-risk children and families in Dallas County.

Programs: Parent Aide, Healthy Families, Families First, Shaken Baby Syndrome Education.

What is Child Abuse?

Daycare Center; Childrens Hospital of Wisconsin and its Child Abuse Prevention Fund; Child Abuse Prevention Services CAPS; East Bay Agency for Children and its Child Assault Prevention Training Center; Child abuse, incest, and rape: select resources and links.

Linked with Jason Leopold – USA.

TruthOut.org is an American political website aimed at providing an alternative to corporate news sources. It was started in the aftermath of the 2000 presidential election with the goal of, in its words, « hoping to reach a few people, have some small impact on the dialogue, and maybe try to restore a little integrity. » It claims to have more than 4 million visits per month. Some of its prominent contributors include William Rivers Pitt, Jason Leopold, Scott Galindez David Bacon, Dean Baker, Tom Engelhardt, William Fisher, Dahr Jamail, Ray McGovern, J. Sri Raman, Norman Solomon, David Swanson and James Zogby. The organization has reported extensively on the anti-war movement and helped to put Cindy Sheehan on the map by publishing many of her writings. Focus is also provided to issues concerning the environment, labor, women, health, and voter rights. It’s articles are now carried by many international publications including World News , scoop.co.nz/ and California News. The website also has an active blog where visitors can discuss various issues or specific articles. (See on wikipedia, were this article is currently protected from editing, until disputes have been resolved). See this on talk about truthout.org.

See truthOut.org/

And see forum truthOut.org/blog/

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DCCD: Publication of the results from the impact evaluation of DCCD’s and ERH’s – in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs – courses in Contract Management in Copenhagen and abroad. Read the text by clicking on ‘Read the publication‘ (and read all about Services, Courses and other Guidelines by clicking on the respective links on this page). See also the same text on OECD.org.

OVERVIEW OF THE DANISH INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE (DANIDA): The overall objective of Danish bilateral development assistance is poverty alleviation. An effective reduction of poverty is a precondition for a stable and sustainable global development … // … SCHOLARSHIPS: For a limited number of counterparts in Danida financed programmes and projects, training is available through the Danida Fellowship Programme. The Fellowship Programme primarily supports training activities of a strategic or technical, innovative nature that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, embassies, and programmes/projects in programme countries may want to promote. The training activities can take place in the region or in Denmark. Visit the Fellowship’s website for more information about the Danida Fellowship Programme. Scholarships for studying in Denmark is not available through the Embassy. Please visit Denmark.dk or Cirius for information about scholarships and studying in Denmark. (Edited May 9, 2006). (Read all informations on Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark).