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The organisation holds ‘special’ Consultative status with United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)

Interfaith International is a non-governmental association of individuals. Its purpose is to provide a space to its members and associates to promote the rights of persons of all different religions and ethnic groups. It was created in 1993 at the ‘World Conference on Human Rights’ sponsored by the United Nations in Vienna, Austria … (about 1/2).

All internal pages of this website have the same URL. To reach them, please click on the items in the left column:

• About Us, and Report to members of Interfaith International July 2007, and Progress Report October 2007;
• UN statements;
• Speech Archives;
• UPR;
• Press Releases;
• Events;
• Photo Gallery;
• Links;
• II team;
• Contact and Permanent Headquarters Adress: 1246 Corsier, Geneva, Switzerland.

About 2/2: … The founding personalities are His Eminence Sayyed Mohammed Musawi, president of the World Islamic League (WABIL) and Charles Graves, D. Theol. a Christian.

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We who believe in freedom cannot rest — Ella Baker

Linked with the Bay Area Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement.

… Those who were tactically nonviolent used Nonviolent Resistance as a tool for building political power, – in demonstrations, as an organizing technique and style, and as a political strategy to achieve specific goals. But it was a tactic, not a philosophy of life; and in other situations, – both personal and political, – other strategies and tactics might be used. We who were tactically nonviolent used Nonviolent Resistance because we wanted to win. We saw nonviolence as the most effective way to accomplish our goals through political means. We did not love our enemies, nor did we believe that our redemptive suffering would win over racists and segregationists to a new world of inter-racial brotherly love. By 1963 the great majority of Freedom Movement activists in CORE, SNCC, NAACP, and even SCLC, were tactically nonviolent rather than philosophically nonviolent … (excerpt from Two Kinds of Nonviolent Resistance, by Bruce Hartford, 2004).

Homepage;
Sitemap;
Table of Contents;
Photo Album – Images of a Peoples’ Movement;
Veterans Roll Call;
Nonviolent Resitance;
Our Thoughts;
Your Thoughts;
In Memory;
Movement Bibliography — Alphabetic List;
Archive;
History and Timeline of the Southern Freedom Movement;
the blog: Spartacus Educational;
Annual Report, January 2008;
Information on Fair Use;
Newsletter;
Links;
Contact.

About:
I.: The Civil Rights Movement Veterans Website (This website is of, by, and for Veterans of the Southern Freedom Movement of the 1960s): The mass media called it the « Civil Rights Movement, » but most of us who were involved in it prefer the term « Freedom Movement » because it was about so much more than just civil rights.

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Literayc, Education and Science for Peace, Unity and Self-Reliance

Linked with Komal Srivastava – India.

… The BGVS is a registered society sponsored by the National Literacy Mission Authority. It came out of the efforts of Shri Sam Pitroda, at that time Advisor on Technology Missions to the then Prime Minister, late Shri Rajiv Gandhi, and Shri Anil Bordia the then Education Secretary. Having appreciated the effectiveness of the Bharat Jan Vigyan Jatha of 1987 sponsored by NCSTC, DST, and by the people’s science movements, in communicating science to the people and propelling them to action during the very first meeting of General Council of NLM Authority held in July 1988, they together with the then minister of HRD Shri Shivshankar urged the People’s Science Movements to give all out support to the cause of literacy and plan a Jatha similar to BJVJ-87 but now for literacy … (full text about BGVS).

Homepage;
Sitemap;
Basic Education and Continuing Education;
Kala Jatha / Mobilisation;
Panchayats and Development;
Publications / Janvachan;
Reports and Articles;
Statistics and Links;
Address Natinal Office: Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti, Basement of Y.W.A., Hostel No. II, Avenue – 21, G-Block, Saket, New Delhi – 110 017, India;
Contact.

About / History: The expectation at the time of independence, fifty years ago, that political freedom and representative democracy will assuage the conditions of the people of India, has obviously not turned out to be true, since people continue to battle with problems of poverty, exploitation and ignorance.

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Catalyst Project is a center for political education and movement building based in the San Francisco Bay Area. We are committed to anti-racist work in majority white sections of left social movements with the goal of deepening anti-racist commitment in white communities and building multiracial left movements for liberation. We are committed to creating spaces for activists and organizers to collectively develop relevant theory, vision and strategy to build our movements. Catalyst programs prioritize leadership development, supporting grassroots fighting organizations and multiracial alliance building. (Welcome).

Homepage and Bookstore;
our work;

Resources:

• Training Programs;
• Movement Strategy Resources;
• Analysis and Strategy;
• Catalyst Project Workshop Readers;
• Heads Up Collective;

Projects:

• the Closing Ceremony Thanks (of the Anne Braden Anti-Racist Training Program);
• Participant reflections;
• Anti-war program update;
• Anne Braden photo gallery (with 212 photos);

Staff;
Subscribe Catalyst Project Updates /newsletters;
Address: The Catalyst Project, 522 Valencia St #2, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA;
Contact.

Organization: Catalyst Project is a collectively run, democratic organization that prioritizes empowered leadership and accountability in our internal culture and practice.  We blend structures from non-profit staff organizations and volunteer based activist collectives.  We strive to incorporate our left, democractic, feminist and anti-authoritarian principles into our organizational model and our organizing practice.

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Added June 6, 2010: Linked also on our blogs with / Lié sur nos blogs aussi avec La Commission des Citoyens pour les Droits de l’Homme CCDH (au 7 juin 2010), and with / et avec NON AU PROJET DE LOI FACILITANT LES INTERNEMENTS PSYCHIATRIQUES.

Linked with Psychiatry and Drugs.

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights CCHR is a non-profit, public benefit organization dedicated to investigating and exposing psychiatric violations of human rights. It also ensures that criminal acts within the psychiatric industry are reported to the proper authorities and acted upon … (full text about).

Homepage;
Mission Statement; Mental Health Declaration of HR; PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS; videos; CCHR in action; take action;
publications; report abuse; sample US bills and resolutions; press room; museum; intro virtual tour; free DVD and information kit;
Contacts and all addresses worldwide.

Message from the President: Most people today have difficulty understanding the destructive impact psychiatry has on communities around the world. For far too many, the lesson is learned only after a psychiatrist has destroyed some part of their life.

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housing – food – justice

Linked with Kip Tiernan – USA.

Our mission at the Poor People’s United Fund is to advocate for a change to the current policies, programs, conditions and perceptions affecting poor and homeless people and to alleviate the pain and suffering they are forced to endure. We seek to provide a consistent, resolute and credible voice for poor and homeless people and to counter the misperceptions and misinformation that blame poor and homeless people for the current social and financial crises. (About).

Homepage;
Membership;
Publications /the book Urban Meditations;
Events /resources;
Want to help or make a donation;
History and Programs;
Founders and Staff Bios;
Board of Directors;
Newsletter;
Address: Poor People’s United Fund, 645 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02117, USA;
Contact.

A Message from Kip, (on the Homepage): Dear Brothers and Sisters,

For over 25 years Fran Froehlich and I have been friends and human services colleagues with a thirst for justice, working in the trenches of suffering. We have spent years helping to create an ethic that might meet these new desperate needs, and we have been responsible for creating and supporting a number of human service alternatives.

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also in german (Bildung statt Fundamentalismus)

Linked with Reinhard Erös – Germany, with Fighting for peace with the weapons of literacy, with The International Council on Security and Development ICOS, and with POPPY FOR MEDECINE.

The GERMAN AID for AFGHAN CHILDREN GAAC is a private initiative of a family in Regensburg, Germany: Dr Reinhard Eroes, Annette Eroes and their five children Veit (24), Urs (22), Welf (21), Cosima (12) and Veda (12). The organization was created 1998 to aid the medical and educational needs of Afghan refugee women and children in Pakistan and Afghanistan … (about 1/2).

Homepage /start / lectures in english /our partners;
download printable information, in english,
Projects:

• Paghman Trutz High School
• Schools at Jalalabad
• Village School of Zawa
• Village School of Chewa
• Sir Peter Ustinov School
• Start of Building Additional Schools
• « Iron Cow » (Milk Supply for Children)
• Mother-and-Child Hospital
• Unicef
• Basic Health Units
• Orphanage « Children`s House Afghanistan

Contributions (scroll down /Liga Bank Regensburg);
Afghanistan;
Address: Dr. med. Reinhard und Annette Erös, Im Anger 25, 93098 Mintraching, Germany;
Contact.

About 2/2: … GAAC evolved through German Federal Armed Forces physician Dr. Eroes and his great expertise, acquired in over twenty years of related work. During these years, he worked extensively with UN and international relief organizations to provide humanitarian and disaster relief within the area as well as in India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Iran, Albania, Rwanda and East-Timor. Dr Eroes worked in and for Afghanistan since 1985.

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formerly known as The Senlis Council (London)

Linked with Reinhard Erös – Germany, with Kinderhilfe Afghanistan /German Aid for Afghan Children GAAC, and with POPPY FOR MEDECINE.

ICOS is an international policy think tank committed to implementing change at all policy levels, by bridging the gap between people and policy in three key areas: … (about 1/2).

Homepage;
Fellowship Programme;
Events;
Publications;
POPPY FOR MEDECINE;
ICOS film/video reports;
ICOS maps;
Links;
Centre of Excellence on Public Security‘s website;
General Info: Tel +44 207 953 3755 (UK), e-mail.
Contacts (with 6 addresses worldwide).

About 2/2: (three key areas): …

GLOBAL SECURITY PROGRAMME:

The Global Security Programme aims to support innovative political leadership on security and development crises in conflict zones. Through field research such as the ICOS survey of 17,000 Afghan men on their perceptions of current security and development issues in Afghanistan, the programme provides policy-makers and the wider public with informed strategic response options, and the grassroots perspectives necessary to unlock progress.

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Linked with Kate Michelman – USA.

The right to choose is about more than a woman’s right to safe, legal abortion. Freedom of choice encompasses preventing unintended pregnancy through sex education and improved access to birth control, defending a woman’s right to bear healthy children, defending the independence of our nation’s courts, and addressing the inequities in reproductive health care … (Issues 1/2).

Homepage;
Sitemap;
Siteguide;
News;
Choice Action Center;
Our Blog;
Our bloggers;
Issues 2/2;
Newsletter /e-mail Updates;
Donate;
Address: NARAL Pro-Choice America, 1156 15th Street, NW Suite 700, Washington, DC 20005, USA;
Contact.

About:
Our website is the first stop where you and pro-choice Americans from all walks of life can get the information, tools, and inspiration to make a difference.

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Linked with Aruna Roy – India.

Website of the MKSS (Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan), Rajasthan, India: Among the pioneers of the Indian RTI (Right to Information) movement. This website contains articles, writings, social audit reports, videos, online tutorials, RTI Act/Rules, sample petitions and other tools and information, about the MKSS, Right to Work and Employment Guarantee and the Indian RTI movement … (Homepage).

Online RTI Training;
Presentations;
RTI in action;
RTI Acts;
Sample Petitions;
Writings;
Credits;
Recent Posts;
Forums;
Links;
Address: MKSS, Head Quaters: Village Devdoongri, Post Brar, District Rajsamand, Rajasthan, India;
Contact.

About: … Right to know, right to live – Building a campaign for the right to information and accountability – Sowmya Kidambi. Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS)- Championing the « Right to Information » in Rural India – Soumya Kidambi.

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Linked with Aruna Roy – India.

The NCPRI is a movement of committed individuals working towards making our government and society more transparent and accountable … (Homepage 1/2).

Sitemap;
Structure of NCPRI;
The Right to Information Act, 2005;
RTI CENTRAL RULES;
RTI STATE RULES;
RTI RULES FOR OTHER COUNTRIES;
Freedom Of Information FIO/RTI/Other Countries;
Newsletter;
Addresses:

• Shailesh Gandhi- Convenor, B2, Gokul Apartment, Podar Road, Santacruz(W), Mumbai – 400054, India;
• Suchi Pande, National Campaign for People’s Right to Information, 14, Tower 2, Supreme Enclave, Mayur Vihar Phase-I, New Delhi – 110 091, India;

Contacts.

… (Homepage 2/2) /Objectives: The National Campaign for People’s Right to Information (NCPRI) seeks to empower people and to deepen democracy, through promoting people’s right to information. Through the use of this right, it seeks to fight corruption and social apathy, to make governments, and other institutions and agencies having an impact on public welfare, more humane and accountable to the people, and to promote efficiency and frugality.

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Linked with Kate Fereday Eshete – Ethiopia and England, and with Kate, a girl who can’t say no.

(THIS WEB SITE IS BEING CONSTRUCTED DURING NOV 2008 SO PLEASE CHECK IT AGAIN LATER IN THE MONTH. (TO SEE CHANGES YOU MAY NEED TO CLICK VIEW/REFRESH ON YOUR BROWSER WHEN VIEWING THIS SITE). (Homepage).

Donate;
News;
Projects;
Links;
Contact Kate.

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The Empress Mentewab School is a charitable, non-profit-making primary school for poor children in Gondar. It is funded by donations. To support the school financially, please use the international bank transfer details given in the DONATE section:

• Do the children go on educational outings?
• Can I send books and toys to the school?
• Are there school fees?
• How is a child selected to join the school?
• How many children attend the school?
• Where is the school located?

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United Nation’s Disarmament Demobilization and Reintegration DDR Resource Centre

The United Nations has been engaged in the disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) of former combatants in post-conflict situations for over fifteen years. Together with bilateral and non-governmental partners, the United Nations’ departments, programmes, funds, and agencies are operational in dozens of countries across the globe … (what is DDR).

Homepage;
Sitemap;
Directory;
IDDRS (DDR reintegration standards);
Country Programmes;
DDR Resources;
Documents;
Submit Info;
Address: DDR, Room S-3035, Peacekeeping Best Practices Section, Department of Peacekeeping Operations Peacekeeping, United Nations, NY 10017 USA;
Contact: on about/scroll down.

About the UN Inter-Agency Working Group on DDR: The UN DDR Resource Centre is developed and managed by the UN Inter-Agency Working Group on DDR. The Working Group also performs the following key functions:
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a sanctuary for poor and homeless women

Linked with Kip Tiernan – USA, and with Why are people homeless.

Rosie’s Place, a sanctuary for poor and homeless women, offers both emergency and long-term assistance to women who have nowhere else to turn.  Established in 1974, Rosie’s Place is committed to welcoming each guest with respect and unconditional love.  Rosie’s Place accepts no government funds, and relies instead on committed volunteers and private supporters to accomplish its effective and innovative work. (Homepage).

General information;
Online giving;
Programs;
Events: Friday, December 19, 2008 /7:00 p.m.;
The women’s craft cooperative;
news and media;
the tour;
Advocacy;
Childworks;
Kip Tiernan Fellowship;
Newsletter Archive;
Address: Rosie’s Place, 889 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA, 02118, USA;
Contact: Tel 617-442-9322, Fax 617-442-7825, on the website.

About /Fact Sheet: Since 1974 poor and homeless women have found an oasis of hope and nourishment at Rosie’s Place.  The mission of Rosie’s Place is to help women maintain their dignity, seek opportunity and find security in their lives.

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A Social Science and Policy Research Institute

The International Centre for Ethnic Studies (ICES) is a world leader in the study of violent group conflict. Established in September 1982, the Centre was a pioneer in the field of conflict studies and research when the subject of conflict was not the fashionable subject for academic research and teaching that it is today. The work it has done covers South Asia and many other parts of the world which is also unusual for a think tank located in a small developing country. However, ICES also soon concluded that the study of violent group conflict needs to be studied and understood in its broader socio-economic, political context and global context. Thus the focus of the ICES soon widened to encompass a much broader research and publication agenda that extended to, among other things, sustainable development, governance and gender. The ICES vision is animated by six themes: … (full text Profile).

Homepage;
Research /current projects, and past ICES’ projects;
Publications;
Profile;
Library & Documentation Centre;
Sri Lanka database;
Board of directors;
Address: ICES, 554/6A, Peradeniya Road, Kandy. Sri Lanka;
Contacts.

About / ICES History – A narration by Prof K M de Silva:

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