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Linked with Joel S. Hirschhorn – USA, and with The Grand Delusion.

We are a non-partisan association of American citizens from every state in our Republic comprised of a broad range of occupations, ethnicities, religious affiliations and political persuasions. Our common bond is a deep commitment to preserving the values and principles embodied in our founding documents – the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution – upon which this nation was founded. (Homepage FOAVC).

Article V of the U.S. Constitution (on the Cornell University Law School): The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress; provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.

The United States Constitution, on Cornell University Law School.

Press Release FOAVC, Oct. 4, 2007.

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ALREADY on this blog on April 30th, 2006: Transparency International Switzerland for the set-up of the anonymous hotline for white-collar “whistleblowers”, see Transparency International Switzerland;

The Anti-corruption handbook ACH: The ACH is a practical guide which aims to assist the process of designing and applying anti-corruption measures – from legal reform to institution-building. Intended as a one-stop reference for practitioners around the world, it provides a unique and up-to-date overview of key reform elements, developing guidelines for their effective implementation illustrated by examples of good practice.

The ACH is based on TI’s National Integrity System approach to countering corruption, which offers a framework for assessing the adequacy and effectiveness of national anti-corruption efforts. The ACH seeks to build on this approach, addressing the key elements of anti-corruption reform in a useful and practical way.

The Handbook features key measures for tackling corruption, grouped into six main areas: … (full text).

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global priorities;
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corruption perception 2007;
Contacts via web & address: Transparency International Secretariat, Alt-Moabit 96, 10559 Berlin, Tel. +49-30-3438 20-0, Fax +49-30-3470 391.

About: Transparency International, the global civil society organisation leading the fight against corruption, brings people together in a powerful worldwide coalition to end the devastating impact of corruption on men, women and children around the world.
TI’s mission is to create change towards a world free of corruption.

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[adhunika (fem.) adj. of present times: modern: recent: current (Bangla Acedamy Bengali-English Dictionary)].

Community: Women from all walks of life of Bangladesh belong to adhunika. Experience our lives through our work;

out future: Listen to our next generation, our future; teach them, learn from them, guide them, follow them; they are the pioneers of an egalitarian society;

our blog: Adhunika blog is launched with a mission to share knowledge among women from every walk of life. Sometime it would be in the form of sharing experience to find a feasible solution of a problem; sometime it would be in the form of professional consultation, which Adhunika group will arrange for its bloggers. Nevertheless, the intent of this blog always remains the same – to help and empower women through a common web-based platform;

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CONTACT: You can contact us by sending email with your work for consideration.

ABOUT: Adhunika is a global volunteer based organization, dedicated to promoting technology usage for the Bangladeshi women worldwide.

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(also available in german)

Linked with Mohua Paul – Bangladesh.

Flood rehabilitation programme: A large area in Bangladesh was submerged by devastating floods from July to September 2007. Million of people became shelterless. Many people suffered from diseases due to inadequate supply of pure drinking water and lack of food. Disabled people are especially vulnerable during the flood. Government of Bangladesh had started relief programme to face the situation and non- governmental organizations urged to stand by the flood victims. In this context CRP has requested Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF), the funding body of the project titled “Strengthening the Establishment of Rights of Disabled People in Bangladesh” to extended their support under the contingency fund. In response to this MJF approved support amounting BDT 400000.00 on August 2007. CRP has also appeal to its individual donors and medicine companies to come forward in this regard. Under this programme dry food, oral dehydration supplements and water purification tablets were distributed among the flood affected extreme poor and disabled people. CRP’s relief distribution programmme was carried out from August to September 2007 in 40 Upazillas under 7 districts.

The Homepage-URL is valuable for all pages, just click on the internal links to reach the pages you want.

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Linked with A charter of Dalit human rights, and with Nishikant Waghmare – India.

« Our’s is a battle not for wealth or for power. It is a battle for freedom. It is a battle for the reclamation of human personality. » Dr. B.R. Ambedkar.

NCDHR recieves ‘RAFTO Human Rights Prize-2007‘ on November 4 in Bergen, Norway.

Who are Dalits? & What is Untouchability;
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Women’s Rights Overview;
Dalit Economic Rights;
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Address: NCDHR National Secretariat, 8/1, 2nd Floor, South Patel Nagar, New Delhi – 110008, Tel: (+91) 011-25842249 , Fax: 011-25842250
Contact.

About NCDHR: Human Rights (NCDHR) is a coalition of Dalit Human Rights activists, civil society organizations, journalists, and academics who are committed to ending the caste-based discrimination and “untouchability” practices that deny human rights and dignity to 170 million Indian citizens – one sixth of India’s population. Established in 1998, NCDHR is a non-party based secular platform centered in Delhi and with offices in 14 states of the country.

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En lien avec La Philosophie et les enfants.

Bienvenue sur le site de la philosophie pour les enfants de l’Université Laval!

Mis à part les cours sur place, vous pouvez être interessé par leur cours à distance L’OBSERVATION EN PHILOSOPHIE POUR LES ENFANTS! PHI-22693

Gagnant de deux prix d’excellence en 2005 (Association canadienne de l’éducation à distance et Réseau de valorisation de l’enseignement de l’Université Laval), ce cours de 3 crédits porte sur l’observation de communautés d’enfants engagés dans l’acte de philosopher. Il s’adresse d’abord aux personnes qui désirent observer, voire comprendre puis expliquer les principales composantes du processus consistant à faire de la philosophie avec les enfants.

Pour suivre ce cours, vous devez avoir accès à un ordinateur et à une connection Internet. De plus, si vous n’avez pas la haute vitesse, vous devez avoir un lecteur DVD dans votre ordinateur qui vous permettra de visionner les séquences à l’étude. Le cours est en lien avec une série documentaire de 13 émissions Des enfants philosophent présentées à Canal Savoir.

Il est difficile de bien comprendre la pratique de la philosophie avec les enfants sans observer ce qui se passe en classe. L’approche pédagogique de ce cours à distance est donc centrée sur l’observation de plus en plus fine d’un matériel audiovisuel montrant trois communautés d’enfants – première, troisième et sixième année du primaire – engagés dans la recherche philosophique. Qui plus est, elle donne l’occasion, tout en observant, de participer, comme tous les autres étudiants et étudiantes qui suivent le cours sur le Web, à la création d’une communauté de recherche virtuelle. Bien que différente de celles créées par les enfants, cette communauté de recherche virtuelle permet de vivre les premiers pas de ce qui pourrait devenir un jour une réalité … (full long text).

Adresse: Université Laval, Faculté de PHILOSOPHIE, Pavillon Félix-Antoine-Savard, Bureau 644, Université Laval, Québec (Québec) G1K 7P4, CANADA – Renseignements, Secrétariat: (418) 656-2244, Télécopieur: (418) 656-7267, mail, Site web.

Linked with Nora Castañeda – Venezuela.

BANMUJER cumple seis años de gestión: Con excelentes resultados el Banco de Desarrollo de la Mujer (BANMUJER), ente adscrito al Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Economía Comunal (MINEC), llega a seis años de gestión, alcanzando significativos logros a favor de las mujeres venezolanas en condiciones de pobreza, contribuyendo a mejorar, íntegramente, su calidad de vida.

En seis años de funcionamiento, BANMUJER ha beneficiado a más de un millón 984 mil personas (1.984.815) en todo el territorio nacional, a través de sus servicios financieros y no financieros; aunado a los programas especiales, impulsando la economía popular y solidaria con la participación protagónica de las mujeres.
Hasta el mes de agosto del año en curso, BANMUJER otorgó un total de 76.659 créditos, equivalentes a una inversión de 234.511 millones de bolívares. La entrega masiva de los créditos ha generado casi 397 mil empleos en todo el país.

Ha beneficiado un total de 2.265 cooperativas y 73.490 unidades económicas asociativas (UEAs) o microempresas, las cuales han fortalecido los diferentes sectores económicos del país: 60% sector manufacturero, 19% sector servicio, 11% sector agrícola y 10% sector comercio.

Paralelamente, al apoyo económico, a través de talleres de Economía Popular y de Diagnóstico Comunitario, ha ofrecido, permanentemente, la orientación, el acompañamiento y la asesoría a todas sus usuarias y todos sus usuarios, con el fin de prepararlas y formarlas de manera íntegra. En seis años ha facilitado más de 10 mil (10.080) talleres, en los cuales han participado 147.321 mujeres y hombres. Prensa Banmujer, 25 / 09 / 2007. (full text).

The Women’s Development Bank, or Banmujer, was established in Venezuela in 2001 to remedy the political, economic, and social disadvantages faced by women. The Bank offers both financial and non-financial services to women. The latter is revolutionary and distinguishes the Bank from other banks.

The bank provides small, low-interest loans, known as micro-credit loans, ranging from 500,000 to 1,000,000 bolívars (US$260 to $520) per woman, for the establishment of business ventures. Loans are not granted to individuals, but rather to groups of five to ten women. In this manner, the bank is ideologically aligned with President Hugo Chávez, by promoting community solidarity over individualism, which is associated with capitalism. The bank has provided over 40,000 such loans since its establishment. These loans have been responsible for the creation of more than 70,000 jobs.[citation needed] The bank also offers financial advice to women, and serves as a consultant in the formation and development of business projects … (wikipedia).

Link: Banmujer planifica y discute presupuesto para 2007.

Linked with Bruce Cumings – USA.

The Columbia Law School’s Center for Korean Legal Studies is the only center devoted entirely to the study of both the South and North Korean legal systems. The Center has dedicated itself to building the most comprehensive depository of Korean legal materials outside the Koreas. The Center has also created the Korean Language and Cultural Exchange Program, which matches visiting Korean scholars with law students mutually interested in improving their English/Korean language skills. Other noteworthy programs offered by the Center are the Korean Law Forum, the Annual Trade Law Seminar, and the Visiting Scholars program.

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Contact: Columbia University School of Law, Center for Korean Legal Studies, Mail Code: 4024, Box A-19, 435 West 116th Street, New York, NY 10027, PHONE: (212) 854-5759, FAX: (212) 854-4980

About: With the establishment of the Center for Korean Legal Studies, Columbia Law School became the first American law school to have a center dedicated to the study of Korean law.

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The Center for Third World Organizing is a racial-justice organization led by people of color whose mission is to achieve social and economic justice.

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Contact. Center for Third Eorld Organizing CTWO, 1218 E. 21st Street, Oakland, CA 94606, PH (510) 533-7583, FAX (510) 533-0923, WEBsite.

About: The Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO, pronounced « C-2 ») is a racial-justice organization dedicated to building a social-justice movement led by people of color. CTWO is a 25-year-old training and resource center that promotes and sustains direct-action organizing in communities of color in the United States. CTWO’s programs include training of new and experienced organizers, including the well-known Movement Activist Apprenticeship Program (MAAP); establishing model multi-racial community organizations; and building an active network of organizations and activists of color to achieve racial justice in its fullest dimensions … (full text).

Linked with Ingrid Eide – Norway.

The International Peace Research Institute Oslo is an independent research institute that is international in terms of staff, audience and perspective.

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About: International Peace Research Institute, Oslo PRIO was founded in 1959 and became a fully independent institute in 1966. It was one of the first centres of peace research in the world, and it is Norway’s only peace research institute. Its founding and early influence were instrumental in projecting the idea of peace research.

PRIO is independent and international in staff and perspective. Our working language is English. The staff at PRIO comprises 50–60 people, of whom two-thirds are researchers (including PhD students). In addition to this, there are 5–10 MA students, who are provided with work spaces and scholarships while completing their theses.

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also available in Norwegian.

Linked with

NRC provides humanitarian assistance, protection and durable solutions to displaced persons worldwide. The majority of our approximately 2000 staff members are employed locally by the NRC in the countries where we work. All NRC projects are run directly by an efficient administration in Oslo. For more information about each of our programme countries, click on the menu to the left.

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About: NRC promotes and protects the rights of people who have been forced to flee their countries, or their homes within their countries. It is the only Norwegian organisation that specialises in international efforts aimed at this target group.

The majority of our approximately 2000 staff members are national employees in NRC’s projects in around 20 countries in Africa, Asia, America and Europe. All our projects are run from a small and efficient administration in Oslo.

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Linked with Demba Moussa Dembele – Senegal, with What Is Development Ethics, with People’s Strugles, People’s Alternatives, with EUROPE SELF-SERVING IN TRADE TALKS WITH AFRICA, with Millennium Development Goals and debt cancellation, and with the Jubilee South Network JS.

The Forum is dedicated to challenging the neo-liberal agenda in Africa and to proposing alternative policies. We have been involved in these activities for a long time. Almost three years ago, in December 2000, we organized a conference on debt cancelation in Senegal. I was the co-ordinator of that conference. That conference organized a big march in Dakar in which over five thousand people participated. Since then we have had other marches in Africa – in Nigeria, in Ghana. In South Africa a few weeks ago, during the World Summit on Sustainable Development,we organized a big march that overshadowed the official march sponsored by the government … (full text).

There is no website, but Google search shows many items with the key words ‘African Alternatives’:

• Books about ‘African Alternatives‘ on amazon;
• Institute for African Alternatives;
• East African Alternatives;
• AEGIS European Conference on African Studies;
• Agricultural Biotechnology Reconsidered: Western Narratives and African Alternatives, African Studies Review, Dec 2006;
• Same on AWP;
• Research projects in the Department of Social Anthropology, Univ. Cambridge, August 2007.

more on this Google’s search.

For this organisation I have not found an own website, but it is mentionned on two other websites:

1) on the Sudanese Media Center: GoSS Signs Memo of Understanding with Sudan Women General Union, 23 May 2007;

2) on the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, RESPONSES TO INFORMATION REQUESTS (RIRs): The Sudanese Women’s Union (SWU), whose current President (New Internationalist Feb. 1996) and founding member is Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim, is banned from operating in the Sudan (Sisterhood Is Global 1984, 650). In 1971 an « ‘official' » organization known as the Sudan Women’s Union was created by the government in place of the original outlawed group (ibid.). Also known as the Sudanese Women’s General Union (SWGU), the Sudan Women’s Union marked its 13th anniversary on 20 January 2003 with a public celebration that included the Vice-President of the Republic of Sudan, Moses Machar, and secretary-general Raja Hasan Khalifah of the women’s union (Suna News Agency 22 Jan. 2003).

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Linked with Eric Breteau – France, with Children do not belong to their parents, with Chad’s children, with Mes réactions concernant les enfants du Tchad, (yes, last year I believed what mass-medias told us), with Marc Garmirian – Lebanon and France, and with the betrayal on Darfour’s children.

(Page d’acccuil en francais / french homepage, … sorry, the english homepage seems not be available for the moment).

Homepage in french, click on (french) video ‘sauver les enfants du Darfour‘, 3.55 min., put online May 17, 2007: Massacres au Darfour, L’Arche de Zoé lance un cri d’alarme, ‘Il faut sauver les enfants du Darfour pendant qu’il est encore temps. Dans quelques mois, ils seront morts! » … (save the Darfur children while it is time, in some months they will be death, showing the devasted situation, and that nothing had be done for this children since now; telling: now, today, in Darfur every 5 minutes a child is dying; and asking: act now). Voilà quatre ans que dure le conflit du Darfour, à l’ouest du Soudan. Quatre ans que des millions de civils innocents, pour la plupart des femmes et des enfants, sont massacrés, torturés, violés, pillés, affamés et chassés de leurs villages par la dictature islamiste du gouvernement soudanais ou les milices qu’il a armées, les Janjaweeds / Since 4 years … mostly innocent women and children are tortured, raped, looted, famished and hound out of their village by the dictatorship of the Sudanese Gov. … (full long text in french).

Sorry, the web pages ‘operation Darfour and ‘Forum’ seem not working, nor in english, nor in french. Postal Contact: L’Arche de Zoé, 23 rue Hallé, 75014 PARIS, France.

Backgrounder Zoe’s Ark group (the star.com): by Reuters, Nov 02, 2007 – The group (in French ‘L’Arche de Zoe’) was formed by a group of motoring enthusiasts in the wake of the tsunami that devastated parts of Asia on Dec. 26, 2004:

• The Zoe’s Ark members set up four temporary camps in Banda Aceh in Indonesia.
• The organization has a president, co-founder and volunteer firefighter Eric Breteau, a general secretary and about 50 active volunteers.
• In April, Zoe’s Ark announced a campaign to evacuate 10,000 orphans from Sudan’s Darfur region alongside other French charities.
• It said it wanted to place orphaned Darfuri children aged under five in foster care with French families, invoking its right to do so under international law.
• The general secretary, Stephanie Lefebvre, told the Le Parisien daily last month the organization never aimed to have the children in its care adopted and simply wanted to save them from starvation.
• A seven-member team – which included a doctor, a nurse and firefighters – was based in Chad. Lefebvre said the group sought authorization from French authorities to grant safe passage to the children it intended to bring back to France, so Zoe’s Ark could seek the right of asylum for them … (full text).

Linked with People power is taking on new forms.

website available in 13 languages

AVAAZ.org is an international civic organization that promotes political action on issues such as climate change, human rights, and religious conflicts. Its stated mission is to « ensure that the views and values of the world’s people inform global decision-making. » The organization operates in thirteen languages, and claims more than one million members from every country in the world … (full text).

Campaigns;
ADS in newspapers and on TV;
media;
BLOG;
Sign Up;
for Burma;
for Darfur;
Contact/Feedback:
Avaaz Foundation, 260 Fifth Avenue, 9th Floor, New York, NY 10001, USA, website.

Our mission: As major new challenges like climate change and escalating religious conflict threaten our common future, people from around the world are coming together to take global politics into their own hands. Avaaz.org (Our name means « Voice » or « Song » in several languages including Hindi, Urdu, Farsi, Nepalese, Dari, Turkish, and Bosnian) is a community of global citizens who take action on the major issues facing the world today. Our aim is to ensure that the views and values of the world’s people – and not just political elites and unaccountable corporations – shape global decisions. Avaaz.org members are taking action for a more just and peaceful world and a vision of globalization with a human face … (full text).

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