Catégorie : Z – OLD + privat

(en français, en espanol)

Linked with the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre of 2008-01-18.

The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre has become the world’s leading independent resource on the subject. Our website is updated hourly with news and reports about companies’ human rights impacts worldwide – positive and negative. The site covers over 3600 companies, over 180 countries. It receives over 1.5 million hits per month. Topics include discrimination, environment, poverty & development, labour, access to medicines, health & safety, security, trade. “An essential guide to the world’s companies and their records on human rights.”
Guardian newspaper. “No debate can move forward, no positive change can be made, without facts. The Resource Centre is the only website to provide such a broad range of balanced information on business and human rights – company by company, country by country, issue by issue.” Mary Robinson (Director of the Ethical Globalization Initiative, former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and President of Ireland). (full text).

The english Homepage;
getting started;
sitemap;
links;
Contact.

About:
Purpose:

• To encourage companies to respect human rights, avoid harm to people, & maximise their positive contribution;
• To provide easy, one-stop access to information for companies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and others, whether they are experienced or new to the subject;
• To facilitate constructive, informed decision-making and public discussion.

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Your best source for antiwar news, viewpoints and activities.

Linked with Chalmers Johnson – USA, with JPRI The Japan Policy Research Institute, with about Chalmers Johnson’s “Nemesis »-book, and with Iraqi Wars – (or how to end it?). And also with Antiwar.com of November 21, 2007.

Antiwar.com is one project of our parent foundation the « Randolph Bourne Institute. » It is a program that provides a sounding board of interest to all who are concerned about US foreign policy and its implications.

Antiwar Radio: audios of interviews with around 60 activists;
Letters;
Blog;
Regional News;
Newsletter;
Contact.

About: This site is devoted to the cause of non-interventionism and is read by libertarians, pacifists, leftists, « greens, » and independents alike, as well as many on the Right who agree with our opposition to imperialism. Our initial project was to fight for the case of non-intervention in the Balkans under the Clinton presidency and continued with the case against the campaigns in Haiti, Kosovo and the bombings of Sudan and Afghanistan. Our politics are libertarian: our opposition to war is rooted in Randolph Bourne’s concept that « War is the health of the State. » With every war, America has made a « great leap » into statism, and as Bourne emphasizes:  » . . . it is during war that one best understands the nature of that institution [the State]. » At its core, that « nature » includes the ever-increasing threat to individual liberty and the centralization of political power. (full text).

en français: Fédération Internationale des ligues des Droits de l’Homme; in english: International Federation for Human Rights; en espanol: Federacion Internacional de los Derechos Humanos; in arabic: fidh-arab.

Human Rights are not a Utopia, but a reality. A reality embodied by the universal demand expressed by all these men and women activists, by the 155 FIDH member organisations, by defenders all over the world. A reality that is also at the heart of the action of FIDH, to which my commitment, by your side, is entire and unrelenting. FIDH President Souhayr Belhassen. (full text).

News (Press Releases, Reports, Urgent Appeals, Regions, Global Issues, Intergovernmental Organizations);
Make a donation;
Contact sur le web.

About – All Human Rights … for All:

Facts for taking action: The aim of the FIDH is to obtain effective improvements in the protection of victims, the prevention of Human Rights abuse and the prosecution of those responsible.

A broad mandate: FIDH’ s mandate is to contribute to the respect of all the rights defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. FIDH aims at obtaining effective improvements in the protection of victims, the prevention of Human Rights violations and the sanction of their perpetrators. Its priorities are set by the triennial World Congress and the International Board (22 members), with the support of the International Secretariat (30 staff members).

4 STATUTORY PRIORITIES:

• Protecting Human Rights, assisting victims;
• Mobilising the community of States;
• Supporting local NGO’s capacity for action;
• Raising awareness.

(full text).

Linked with Chalmers Johnson – USA, with AntiWar.com, with about Chalmers Johnson’s “Nemesis »-book, and with Iraqi Wars – (or how to end it?).

The Japan Policy Research Institute JPRI is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to the promotion of understanding of Japan’s political and economic behavior and growing significance in world affairs.

Publications;
Members, friends in the medias;
Recommended reading;
Links;
Contact: JPRI, P.O. Box 235882 | Encinitas, CA 92023-5882, e-mail.

About: JPRI was founded in 1994 by Chalmers Johnson and Steven C. Clemons to promote public education about Japan, its then growing significance in world affairs, and trans-Pacific international relations. Despite our name, it was never our intent to focus exclusively on Japan, and over the years JPRI has published many articles about China, Korea, southeast Asia, and inner Asia. JPRI is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization and all donations to it are fully tax deductible in the U.S. Our board and officers all serve without pay, and our web site is maintained with the generous assistance of the University of San Francisco’s Center for the Pacific Rim …

… Starting in late 2003, JPRI ceased to mail monthly articles to its members and switched exclusively to internet publication. Since its web site is open to all, JPRI no longer requires memberships; however, donations are gratefully accepted and are fully tax deductible … (full text).

Building an Economy for the Earth

Linked with Lester Brown – USA, with Plan B 2.0, and with Search for an Eco-Economy.

Welcome to the Earth Policy Institute, … a Washington, D.C.-based independent environmental research organization … dedicated to planning a sustainable future as well as providing a roadmap of how to get from here to there. — Lester Brown, President.

Notice on the homepage: Look on EPI IN THE NEWS – HIGHLIGHTS, with many audio-, video- and text-links.

The Earth Policy Institute is a Partner in the Green Power Partnership, an EPA voluntary program working to reduce the emissions associated with conventional electricity generation by encouraging organizations to switch a specific percentage of their electricity to green power. Additional information is available at The Green Power Partnership.

PEOPLE ARE TALKING … ;
Who is using Plan B 2.0 … and how;
Upcoming lectures;
newsletter;
Contact: Earth Policy Institute, 1350 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington DC 20036, Ph: 202.496.9290, Fax: 202.496.9325, Email.

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