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Linked with Rahela Khatun – Bangladesh, and with the Noai Landless Women Organization.

BELA is mentionned on these links:
On The Japan Environmental Education Forum / Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association BELA; on Green Cities; on friends of the earth bangladesh-groups; on e-law partners in Asia; on and Child Rights Information Network. And later on their own new website, now under construction.

The Worldwide movement for the conservation of environment quite justifiably hit Bangladesh, a country of extreme poverty, where natural environment was facing continuous degradation for a number of reasons. Attraction of sophisticated and high yielding technologies has over powered rationality in many instances, as consciousness for environment was yet to develop amongst governmental organizations and citizens group. When realities primarily forced by demand of increasing population, and natural disasters started taking tolls on human lives and livelihood, the consciousness began to change from status quo.

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Linked with Rina Amiri – Afghanistan & USA, with The Women Waging Peace Network, with Women Likely to Suffer Most in Central Asia’s Turmoil, and with Muslim Women As Symbols and Pawns.

RAWA is the oldest political/social organization of Afghan women struggling for peace, freedom, democracy and women’s rights in fundamentalism-blighted Afghanistan since 1977.

Website edited in the main UNO languages, plus português and german, as most of the following texts:

Listen to a short biography in audio of Martyred Meena (1956-1987), founding leader of RAWA.

Links to more publictions / audios / movies:

• Afghanistan the Bloodiest Field for Slaughtering Human Rights, RAWA communiqué on Universal Human Rights Day, Dec.10, 2006 (see picture above);
• Five Years Later, Afghanistan Still in Flames, Speech by Zoya at a benefit for RAWA in Los Angeles on October 7, 2006;
• Afghan orphans reshape their lives at RAWA orphanages; August 22, 2006;
• 28th April 1992, Mourning for People – Joy for Fundamentalists!
• RAWA denounces the gloomy day of April 28, 1992;
• April 28, 2006 ,
• Defense of Abdul Rahman Misses the Mark!, March 26, 2006;
• … Find many more links on RAWA.

If you are freedom-loving and anti-fundamentalist, you are with RAWA. Support and help us. Contact and Contributions.

Linked with Rina Amiri – Afghanistan & USA, with Muslim Women As Symbols and Pawns, with Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan RAWA, and with Women Likely to Suffer Most in Central Asia’s Turmoil.

About: The Initiative for Inclusive Security includes The Women Waging Peace Network, a network of women peacemakers from conflict areas around the world, ranging from Sudan to Sri Lanka, Colombia to Bosnia, the Middle East to Sierra Leone. The Network was launched in 1999 to connect these women with each other and with policy shapers.

Members of the Waging network: all (are) demonstrated leaders among women peace builders, are elected and appointed government officials, directors of non-governmental organizations and movements in civil society, scholars and educators, businesspeople, representatives of multilateral organizations, and journalists. With varied backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, they bring a vast array of expertise to the peacemaking process.

Publications.

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Linked with Virginia/Ginny Shrivastava – India.

ASTHA is an organization with ‘Faith in the People’. Astha is a Hindi word, which means “deep faith or conviction”. We have “faith in the people” – faith that people have abilities, strengths and knowledge to solve the problems they face. Poor people are marginalized, exploited, deprived, and usually do not recognize their strength – but Astha does!

The Mission of Astha is to help People to organize, expand their capacities and equip themselves for the struggles they must wage to overcome the various deprivations under which they live.

Astha works for Structural Change:

• Bringing into being new structures of the poor (organized and aware), which changes the “structure of society” – before, there was no organization of the poor that society had to deal with, now there is.
• Bringing changes in some of the laws and policies, rules and regulations, that form part of the root causes of injustice, deprivation, exploitation and marginalization. And so Astha’s work includes research, documentation and networking to prepare for the advocacy work it does, along with others, to bring changes in those laws and policies in need of change.

Contact: Astha, 39 Kharol Colony, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. 313 004 – Phone 91 294 245 1348, Fax 91 294 2451391, write astha39 atsancharnet dotin.

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IFG is a North-South research and educational institution composed of sixty leading activists, economists, scholars, and researchers providing analyses and critiques on the cultural, social, political, and environmental impacts of economic globalization.

Formed in 1994, the IFG came together out of shared concern that the world’s corporate and political leadership was rapidly restructuring global politics and economics on a level that was as historically significant as any period since the Industrial Revolution. Yet there was almost no discussion or even recognition of this new « free market, » or « neoliberal » model, or of the institutions and agreements enforcing this system—the World Trade Organization (WTO), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and other such bureaucracies. In response, the IFG began to stimulate new thinking, joint activity and public education about this rapidly rising economic paradigm.

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Linked with George Monbiot – England, and with Other Economies are Possible!

Read first the Field Report on Al Gore’s Climate Project, and this project presented on the WorldChanging-website.

about: WorldChanging.com works from a simple premise: that the tools, models and ideas for building a better future lie all around us. That plenty of people are working on tools for change, but the fields in which they work remain unconnected. That the motive, means and opportunity for profound positive change are already present. That another world is not just possible, it’s here. We only need to put the pieces together.

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Linked with Azra Hasanbegovic – Bosnia and Herzegovina, with Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hopes Betrayed, and with Trafficking Women and Children.

The Association “ŽENA BIH”, Mostar works to combat trafficking through research and the reintegration of women who have been trafficked from Bosnia and Herzegovina to places abroad.

Excerpt: … The next day we drove in warm sunny weather through isolated mountainous country to Mostar. There, in a bombed-out building, we visited the office of the women’sproject Zena BIH. The project leader, Azra Hasanbegovic, and her colleagues gave us a detailed account of their work, which encompasses mainly legal counseling, AIDS-prevention, information on trafficking in women, mediation and conciliation programs. We then drove to a day center which they run for senior women citizens, visited their women’s center (boutique, café, hairdresser and massage), and then went to the new women’s refuge Marguerite, which was inaugurated on December 8. Fadila regrets that for our Project only 3 candidates from Bosnia-Herzegovina are planned, as so many women there are engaged in peace work worthy of recognition.

Udruženje Âssociation ŽENA B&H WOMAN.

Small grants make large contributions in trafficking prevention.

Linked with Erika Lesser – USA, see there more about.

Slow Food USA is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to supporting and celebrating the food traditions of North America. From the spice of Cajun cooking to the purity of the organic movement; from animal breeds and heirloom varieties of fruits and vegetables to handcrafted wine and beer, farmhouse cheeses and other artisanal products; these foods are a part of our cultural identity. They reflect generations of commitment to the land and devotion to the processes that yield the greatest achievements in taste. These foods, and the communities that produce and depend on them, are constantly at risk of succumbing to the effects of the fast life, which manifests itself through the industrialization and standardization of our food supply and degradation of our farmland. By reviving the pleasures of the table, and using our tastebuds as our guides, Slow Food U.S.A. believes that our food heritage can be saved.

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Linked with Maninha Xukuru-Kariri – Brazil (1966 – 2006), with The Forum for the Defense of Indigenous Rights APOINME, with Aracruz Celulose and the World Cup: propaganda and deforestation, and with Indigenous representatives campaign in Europe.

See also: Table of indigenous organisations of Brazil, and Alert against the Green Desert Movement, and Promoting the Rights, Voices and Visions of Indigenous Peoples, and Texts about Economy and Indigenous Peoples, and Indigenous Webs for Information, and Texts about Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights, and definition of what Indigenous Peoples are, on wikipedia,
and ciesin.org.

The World Rainforest Movement WRM works to secure the lands and livelihoods of forest peoples and supports their efforts to defend the forests from commercial logging, dams, mining, plantations, shrimp farms, colonisation and other projects that threaten them.

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Linked with Maninha Xukuru-Kariri – Brazil (1966 – 2006), with The World Rainforest Movement WRM, with Aracruz Celulose and the World Cup: propaganda and deforestation, and with Indigenous representatives campaign in Europe.

See also: Table of indigenous organisations of Brazil, and Alert against the Green Desert Movement, and Promoting the Rights, Voices and Visions of Indigenous Peoples, and Texts about Economy and Indigenous Peoples, and Indigenous Webs for Information, and Texts about Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights, and definition of what Indigenous Peoples are, on wikipedia
and ciesin.org.

The Forum for the Defense of Indigenous Rights / Articulação dos Povos e Organizações Indígenas do Nordeste, Minas Gerais e Espírito Santo APOINME, is created, July 05, 2004

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Linked with Paula Clermont Péan – Haiti, and with Haiti and its problems.

Centre Culturel Pyepoudre, 92 bis Rue Christ-Roi, Port-au-Prince, Haïti, Tél / Fax (509) 244-2838. Adresse postale : Boîte Postale 15045, Pétion-Ville, Haïti HT6140.
Activités:

Nos Services: A la meme page cliquez sur photos.

I.- La bibliothèque/le livre.
La bibliothèque et la lecture publique ouverte à toutes les couches de la société, principalement aux jeunes désireux de s’initier aux pratiques de la lecture et du même coup, d’élargir leur champ de connaissance générale. En terme d’activités : conférences-débats, expositions, festivals, spectacles, projections, panneaux d’affichage, jeux questions-réponses, lecture dirigée, heure du conte, la bibliothèque est devenue un lieu de référence pour les résidants de Christ-Roi et ses environs.

II.- Animation/Création artistique.
A ce niveau, le Centre a produit une série d’activités présentées à la fois en Haïti et à l’extérieur du pays. Art de communication, d’expression et geste lié à la parole, la création théâtrale, selon Pyepoudre, doit être ouverte à diverses couches de la population, et peut, à l’instar, des autres arts, s’associer au grand combat du peuple pour sa survie et sa dignité.

III.- La formation.
Le Centre met l’accent sur le travail théâtral et forme des comédiens tant à Port-au-Prince que dans les villes de province et dans les milieux ruraux, soit à travers des ateliers de théâtre, soit par des sessions de formation en techniques théâtrales. Il organise également des sessions de formation sur les techniques d’animation socioculturelle, de structuration de groupe et de vie associative.

A play by the Centre Pyepoudre, In memory of the poet Jacques Roche. The Centre Culturel Pyepoudre presents Le premier poète by Jack London. This story has been adapted into a play and directed by Paula Clermont Péan. It will be interpreted by Actelié. It will also be an occasion to celebrate the anniversary of the Pyepoudre Cultural Center. (FOKAL). (Homepage).

Linked with Paula Clermont Péan – Haiti, and with Haiti and its problems.

The Center for Assistance to Information Technology Initiatives (CAITI) is a non-profit and non-governmental organization created by a Caribbean youth group striving to democratize and popularize the NICTs in our area. We have gathered together, since the beginning of 2002, many access centers, cyber cafés, Associations, community schools and colleges in order to help them:

• Give service to built their community’s capacity;
• Lower their access costs;
• Maintain their access service through training on basic management techniques.

(See on Stand 225.05 ict4d).

Vernous Guyverson, Haiti, from the Center for Assistance with IT Initiatives CAITI, Haiti. Vernous Guyverson is an ICT consultant for the Haitian government. He holds a master’s degree in public administration with a focus on e-government and a bachelor’s degree in major accounting. Vernous is the international expert for several projects in the Caribbean, in Africa and in Canada. He is also an e-business lecturer at several universities in Haiti and French Guyana. (See Internet Governance and Policy).

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Linked with The price of power. See also nef on Nov. 6, 2006.

nef is an independent think-and-do tank that inspires and demonstrates real economic well-being. We aim to improve quality of life by promoting innovative solutions that challenge mainstream thinking on economic, environment and social issues. We work in partnership and put people and the planet first.

We are unique in combining rigorous analysis and policy debate with practical solutions on the ground, often run and designed with the help of local people. We also create new ways of measuring progress towards increased well-being and environmental sustainability.

nef works with all sections of society in the UK and internationally – civil society, government, individuals, businesses and academia – to create more understanding and strategies for change.

Go to this page for all our publications.

nef is a registered charity founded in 1986 by the leaders of The Other Economic Summit (TOES), which forced issues such as international debt onto the agenda of the G7/G8 summit meetings. It has taken a lead in helping establish new coalitions and organisations, such as the Jubilee 2000 debt campaign; the Ethical Trading Initiative; the UK Social Investment Forum; and new ways to measure social and environmental well-being.

The lack of access to reliable and clean energy supplies is a major barrier to improving human well-being around the globe – there are an estimated 1.6 billion people living in the rural areas of developing countries who lack access to electricity – but so is dependence on fossil fuels. Climate-driven ‘natural’ disasters also threaten far worse. Rather than just failing to improve the human condition, we could be about to witness the great reversal of human progress.

Contact: 3 Jonathan Street, London, SE11 5NH, tel 020 7820 6300, e-mail.

Linked with Ferial Haffejee – South Africa, and with An incomplete freedom.

Promoting gender equality in and through the media.

Genderlinks GL is committed to a Southern Africa in which women and men are able to realise their full potential and participate equally in all aspects of public and private life. (See Homepage and more).

MISSION

Genderlinks GL works to achieve this vision through promoting gender equality in and through the media as well as in all areas of governance. The organisation’s specific goals are to:

Empower women, who have been socialised to occupy private spaces, to claim their voices as citizens, decision-makers, and in all aspects of public and private life. This objective recognises that it is not enough to focus on gender sensitisation of the media. Women must also be empowered to claim their space. GL thus places its specific focus on the media within the context of gender and governance more broadly.

Promote equal representation and participation of women and men within the institutional structures of the media.

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GeoCities (on wikipedia) is a free webhosting service founded by David Bohnett and John Rezner in late 1994 as Beverly Hills Internet. (Go to this Yahoo! page).

In its original form, site users selected a « city » in which to place their webpages; the « cities » being named after cities or regions according to their content — for example, computer-related sites were placed in « SiliconValley » and those dealing with entertainment were assigned to « Hollywood » — hence the name of the site; now, however, this feature has since been abandoned.

Geocities Highlights.
Get a free website on geocities yahoo.
Geocities Membership.

Overview in english.
same in portugues.
same in spanish.

Find interesting pages created by members.

Find special Indian sites:

Indian Human Rights.org,

Human Rights Movement in India,

Citizen Forum on Human Rights, LN. S.K.BHATTACHARJEE – National President, CELL NO. 09426215334, HOTLINE FAX NO. 02836-232308 (ROUND THE CLOCK),  TEL. OFFICE: 02836-220213 POSTAL ADD: P.O.BOX NO: 51, GANDHIDHAM -37020. Then go to this e-mail, or this e-mail, or this e-mail.

GeoCities began as BHI which stood for « Beverly Hills Internet« , a small Web hosting and development company in Southern California. The company also created their own Web directory, organized thematically in six « neighborhoods » such as « SiliconValley » (for technology) and « SunsetStrip » (for nightlife and music).

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