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As the links below are no more working, find an upate of ELDIS on 31 January 2010.

Eldis is one of a family of knowledge services from the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex. Eldis is core funded by Sida, Norad, SDC and DFID. (full text).

Our aim to share the best in development policy, practice and research. Browse more than 22,000 summarised documents from over 4,500 development organisations – all available free to download. Share your work with over 80,000 development practitioners.

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About:

• 18,000 full text documents free to download: We maintain an ever-growing collection of editorially selected and abstracted full-text, online documents selected by our editors from more than 4,500 different publishers. All documents are available free of charge;
• Eldis resource guides: Our 24 subject-focused guides offer quick access to key documents, organisations, research themes, discussions and other key resources;
• Eldis country profiles: Quick access to our database arranged by country, plus quick links to country briefing services on other websites;
• Eldis email newsletters: Our email news services bring the latest research to your mail-box on 35 topics;
• Eldis newsfeeds: Add an Eldis RSS newsfeed to your website or newsreader for the latest information on 25 topics;
• News, events and jobs: Our selection of recent development news, announcements, email newsletters and job adverts.

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INSNA is the professional association for researchers interested in social network analysis. The association is a non-profit organization incorporated in the state of Delaware. Founded by Barry Wellman in 1978, the current president is Bill Richards, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada V5A 1S6. A copy of its charter and by-laws are available here.

What is Network Analysis?
Courses in Social Networks and Network Analysis;
Links to Network Researchers’ web sites;
Graduate programs that offer training or emphasis in Social Network Analysis;
different contacts & newsletters.

The principal functions of INSNA are as follows:

• We publish Connections, a bulletin containing news, scholarly articles, technical columns, and abstracts and book reviews:
• We sponsor the annual International Social Networks Conference (also known as Sunbelt);
• We maintain electronic services:
  1. A web site accessible at http://www.insna.org which includes an extensive bibliography of published network-related documents, information about network conferences, an index of websites of numerous network researchers, an extensive directory of and network analysis software, a growing selection of powerpoint presentations and pdf documents, a listing of universities offering network graduate degree programs, syllabi from many courses taught by network researchers, and on-line access to almost all issues of Connections ever published, a link to La revista REDES which publish works of quality in Castilian and Portuguese that include the perspective of the analysis of social networks, and much more,
  2. SOCNET, a ListServ electronic discussion forum, and a link to REDES, a Spanish language network listserve.
• We maintain a database of information on members, selling a mailing list to selected publishers and educator;
• We provide a way to subscribe to the journal of Social Networks, published by Elsevier and edited by Lin Freeman and Ron Breiger.

in the 6 UN languages and german

« We need business to give practical meaning and reach ro the values an principles that connect cultures and people everywhere ». Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations.

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About: In an address to the World Economic Forum on 31 January 1999, the former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, challenged business leaders to join an international initiative – the Global Compact – that would bring companies together with UN agencies, labour and civil society to support universal environmental and social principles.

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Linked with Lesley Ann Foster – South Africa.

The MASIMANYANE WOMEN’S SUPPORT CENTRE is a non-profit international women’s organisation based in East London, South Africa. We promote the domestic implementation of international human rights standards by building the capacity of women and human rights advocates to claim and realise women’s human rights. This is done through the development of new knowledge and the utilisation of a rights-based approach.

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OUR HISTORY: Masimanyane started in January 1996 as a crisis and support centre for women victims of domestic violence, rape and sexual assault.

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Linked with C.T. Butler – USA, with Keith McHenry – USA, and with Helping the Homeless – The Right To Food.

The main menu;
Seven steps to organizing a Food Not Bombs chapter in your community;
graphics, flyers, paintings;
Contact: Food Not Bombs, P.O. Box 424, Arroyo Seco, NM 87514, USA, 505-776-3880, 1-800-884-1136, e-mail, Webs.

Cook for Peace: You can make a big difference by having everyone you know send in A DOLLAR FOR PEACE. Food Not Bombs is as busy as ever. We are growing rice and yams in Africa, starting a movement to provide free medical assistance called Healthcare Not Warfare, organizing numerous actions for peace, social justice and animal rights, working for the release of our volunteers who are jailed in the Philippines, help finish our documentary, and most importantly we are feeding thousands of hungry people every week in hundreds of communities all over the world.

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