gnn guerilla news network

You’ll find an URL gnn.com … and an URL gnn.TV (= GNN 2.0 Updates).

Guerrilla News Network is an independent news organization with headquarters in New York City and production facilities in Berkeley, California. Our mission is to expose people to important global issues through cross-platform guerrilla programming.

FAQ;

GNN press;

Contact.

… in any way, just full of links to hundreds and thousands of articles, headlines, videos, links to other webs, users, blogs, forums, and an E-store,

GNN 2.0 is currently in Beta stage. New features are being added weekly. For updates on GNN 2.0 progress, see developer Jessey White-Cinis’ blog, and the site design by STOLEN.

Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC

(in russian)

Linked with Gulnara Derbisheva – Kyrgyzstan;

Reducing Poverty and Promoting Peace: Switzerland invests about CHF 1.5 billion a year in combating poverty and promoting economic development in countries of the Third World and Eastern Europe. Two federal offices coordinate international development cooperation on behalf of the Swiss Confederation: the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), and the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (seco).

All official development cooperation activities aim to improve living conditions for the world’s most disadvantaged people. The SDC focuses primarily on conflict transformation, social development, good governance, promoting economic structures and safeguarding natural resources. The SDC also strives to strengthen the abilities of its partner countries to take their own initiatives. (full text).

Sitemap;
Swiss Regional Strategy in Central Asia 2007-2010;
Activities in Kyrgyzstan;
Activities in Tajikistan;
Activities in Uzbekistan;
Links;
Download the Annual Report 2004, 24 pages.

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WACC World Association for Christian Communication

Upcomming Congress: Communication is Peace, in Cape Town, South Africa, October 6-10, 2008. Communicators, journalists, and media activists committed to using the media to prevent conflict, advance democracy, and promote a culture of peace are invited to participate in Congress 2008. The five-day event scheduled for Cape Town, South Africa in October 2008 will focus on:

  • Communication rights;
  • Media and gender justice;
  • Power, conflict and peace: Telling the story;
  • New communication and information technologies and peace.

Online Pre-registration for the Congress;
See also the infos on the actual Homepage;
Sitemap;
Regional Associations;
WACC Programmes;
WACC Publications;
Join;
Contact.

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The HARIRI FOUNDATION

Linked with Bahia Hariri – Lebanon.

The HARIRI FOUNDATION was founded in Lebanon upon a wise decision taken by H.E PM Rafic Hariri. Its mission is to make education a means for the development of the young in Lebanon.

The University Loan Program;
PUBLISH BOOKS AND SPECIAL STUDIES;
Contributions & Development;
CARE FOR THE LEBANESE HERITAGE AND CIVILIZATION;
Organizing & Supporting Education.

It is a non-profit institution which responded to a dire national need that resulted from the events caused by the war in the country.
Hariri Foundation started its mission in Sidon in 1979; it was then called « The Islamic Institute for Culture and Higher Education » but has carried its present name since 1984 and moved to its its central offices in Beirut. It opened offices in Tripoli and Bekaa, in addition to those in in Sidon, in an attempt to facilitate the granting of loans to those who — regardless of their religious or dominational affiliation — had applied to join institutions of higher learning in Lebanon . Likewise, it opened offices in Paris, London, and Washington, D.C, to keep in close contact with its student proteges who had joined around a hundred universities in Western Europ, North Africa, Canada and U.S.A. (Homepage).

Crisis Center for Women and Family SEZIM

Linked with Byubyusara Ryskulova -Kyrgyzstan, and with Kyrgyzstan, Domestic Violence, Tradition Or Crime?

The Crisis Psychological Center for Women and Families Sezim was founded in January 1998 in Bishkek. The aim of the organization is the assistance and psychological rehabilitation of abused women, protection (judicial, social, economic) rights of women and families, researching and analyzing problems of violence in the Kyrgyz society, and education of rights. The tasks are to prepare guidelines for additional crisis centers throughout Kyrgyzstan, and organize services and programs that will help to solve the problems of violence, prevention of violence and protection of human rights. Volunteers will be trained to operate hot lines in Russian and Kyrgyz languages.

Contact:
Bishkek: Sovetskay str. 105/3 #23, Tel 28 14 55, e-mail.
Sokuluk: St.Pionerskay 103, Tel.(0 31 34) 4 18 79.

Program:

Trust Hot Line: The hot line is available for callers seven days a week, 24 hours a day. All participants of Sezim’s activities called the hot line when they were in a crisis situation.

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