Linked with Sandra Jiménez Loza – Mexico.

UNICEF – Global Movement for Children: Add your voice and Say Yes to the 10 critical actions needed to improve the lives of children and adolescents everywhere. People of all ages are joining together as part of a new Global Movement for Children, determined to build a better world for children and for all of us. Their message is straightforward: the citizens of the world care about children and expect governments to keep the promises they make to them. Add your voice and say Yes to the 10 critical actions needed to improve the lives of children and adolescents everywhere. More than 94 million people have said Yes In a ceremony at UN headquarters on 7 May 2002, 12-year-old Barron Hanson presented the ‘Say Yes for Children’ pledge tally to Mr. Nelson Mandela and Mrs. Graça Machel, inspirational leaders of the Global Movement for Children. (Read more about this historic event on this UNICEF page).

Say Yes now!

The following are GMC founding partners:

• NetAid
• Save The Children
• Unicef
• World Vision International
• Plan International
• Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC)

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Regarding Darfur, linked with PBS.org, and with Understanding Sudan – The Darfur conflict, and with .

Workers World has united Black, Latino, Native, Asian, Arab and white in the struggle against racism. It has brought together women and men, lesbian, gay, bi, trans and straight, youth and seniors, workers and the unemployed, native-born and immigrants to fight for better conditions for all. Members of WWP have worked hard and long to build many of the most important progressive actions of the last three decades.

But you can’t just patch up this racist, sexist society. Capitalism rests on the exploitation of the many by the few. The monopoly of economic and political power by a small ruling class becomes more concentrated every day with mega-billion-dollar mergers and mass layoffs. That’s why capitalist democracy produces nothing but hot air. The power of the workers and the oppressed is in the streets, not in Washington.

Workers World fights for a socialist society—where the wealth is socially owned and production is planned to satisfy human need.

That’s also what workers around the world, from Cuba to China, have been struggling for. The U.S. rulers have spent trillions of our tax dollars trying to stop them in a global class struggle. WWP promotes international working-class solidarity, the right of every nation to sovereignty and self-determination, and militant resistance at home to imperialist interventions and wars.

Contact: National Office Workers World Party, 55 W. 17 St., New York, NY 10011, Tel. 212-627-2994, Fax 212-675-7869, E-mail, Web.

See Workers World about Sudan’s Darfur Situation: Oil is behind struggle in Darfur.

Linked with Christine Ntahe – Burundi.

PEACE X PEACE (pronounced “peace by peace”) – connecting women for peace – empowers women as the most effective means to enrich lives locally and promote peace globally. We connect women’s groups (“Circles”) in the United States with women’s Circles everywhere in the world—directly via the Internet—for the exchange of information and personal experiences that typically result in mutually supportive actions.

MISSION: PEACE X PEACE is an international movement that empowers women to help build sustainable peace locally and globally through online communication, the exchange of ideas and mutually supportive actions. Founded upon the belief that achieving sustainable peace requires women to come into their full potential as leaders alongside men, it is dedicated to creating a world where women are powerful and effective decision-makers in building peace for all. A central initiative designed to achieve the mission of building peace is the PEACE X PEACE Global Network. Via the Internet, the Global Network connects and empowers groups of women (or “circles”) in the U.S. in one-on-one, supported communication with women’s circles outside the U.S. and thereby fosters understanding and constructive actions that help create peace. Today, more than 250 women’s Circles from 37 nations are actively involved with the PEACE X PEACE Global Network.

VISION: PEACE X PEACE is dedicated to creating a world where women are no longer those most tragically affected by conflict and strife, but are the core power building substantive, sustainable peace for all.

CONTACT: Carol Fleming, PEACE X PEACE, e-mail

Resources

Linked with Christine Ntahe – Burundi.

Founded in 1982, Search for Common Ground works to transform the way the world deals with conflict – away from adversarial approaches and towards collaborative problem solving. We work with local partners to find culturally appropriate means to strengthen societies’ capacity to deal with conflicts constructively: to understand the differences and act on the commonalities.

In the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide in 1994 and in response to ongoing instability in the Great Lakes Region, Search for Common Ground (SFCG) opened its first office in Africa in 1995 in Burundi’s capital Bujumbura. With satellite offices in Ngozi and Makamba, SFCG in Burundi operates a national programme that uses a variety of mutually enhancing methods targeting multiple sectors of society. Through community peace-building and media work, SFCG in Burundi informs and educates the public about pertinent issues, builds the capacity of journalists and civic leaders, and strengthens the potential for inclusive participation in local communities. SFCG in Burundi consists of the radio-production facility Studio Ijambo, the Community Outreach Team, and the Victims of Torture Project.

Throughout the 1990s, a civil war fought mainly along ethnic lines raged in Burundi and ultimately claimed the lives of nearly 300,000 people. The signing of the Arusha Peace Agreement in August of 2000 laid the foundation for a stabilising domestic security situation in most of the country and, in August 2005, former Hutu rebel leader Pierre Nkurunziza was elected president becoming the nation’s first democratically elected president since 1993.

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Concerning the Darfur Conflict, linked with Workers World, and with Understanding Sudan – The Darfur conflict.

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See PBS’s report on SUDAN, the Darfur Situation.