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CONCORD European NGO Confederation for relief and development

The main objective of the Confederation is to enhance the impact of European development NGOs vis-à-vis the European Institutions by combining expertise and accountability.

Report 2007 on Development aid: Europe fails to live up to its promises;
Rising trends in the Development co-operation;
Publications;
Press;
Interesting links;
Contact.

NGOs want European governments to:

Provide genuine increases in European aid;
Agree clear and binding year-on-year timetables to reach, at a minimum, the 2010 and 2015 targets; with genuine aid resources;
Stop including refugee, student costs and debt relief in official aid reporting;
Improve transparency in aid reporting;
End all tied aid;
Ensure aid is focused on helping the world’s poor;
Take further steps to make aid more effective.

About: CONCORD is the European NGO Confederation for Relief and Development. Its 19 international networks and 22 national associations from the European Member States and the candidate countries represent more than 1600 European NGOs vis-à-vis the European Institutions.

The Manthan AIF-Award

Linked with Bibek Debroy – India, with Body mass politic, and with ‘We are 30 years behind China in terms of development‘.

The Manthan Award is an Indian initiative by Digital Empowerment Foundation, India as the national initiative of World Summit Award, to select and promote the best practices in e-Content and Creativity in India. It involves representatives from each state and union territory of India and visualizes the bridging of digital divide and narrowing of the content gap as its overall goal.

A message of empowerment, by Bibek Debroy;
News, press coverage;
Contact.

Digital Empowerment foundation works in the area of Development in relations to Information Communication Technology with especial focus in research and assessment and recognizing the un-recognised. Ironically, most of the movements in the ICT for Development sector are more about technology and less about final deliverables or content in general. DEF observed that most of the innovative initiatives at the grassroots level using ICT do not get attention and recognition which could easily enable them to move forward.

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Circus2Iraq C2I

Linked with Jo Wilding – England, http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/1287

Circus2Iraq C2I is a Circus going to different countries with traumatised children. there is no explaining homepage, but pages showing all the famous projects, like the following:

… and many other pages.

the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq OWFI

Linked with Yanar Mohammed – Irak, and with Honor Killings in the New Iraq, The Murder of Du’a Aswad.

In 2003, Yanar Mohammed founded the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), which shelters Iraqi women targeted in honor killings and sectarian violence (both on the rise since the war and occupation). It also monitors women in jail and assists formerly detained women, such as prostitutes. And, most visibly, OWFI speaks out loudly and insistently for women’s legal rights and secular law in opposition to Iraq’s growing Islamism. Her demands shed light on the precarious position of women under radical Islamism but, perhaps more to the question at hand, they confirm the disastrous consequences of the Iraq war and the political repercussions of occupation, which, according to Mohammed, has unleashed militant fundamentalism that is proving impossible to subdue. (full text).

Yanar Mohammed tells about OWFI: « We mainly work out of our main office in Baghdad and also in the southern city of Nasiriyah. In Kirkuk we have representatives but we couldn?t maintain the office. We still have our representatives working from their homes. They open their homes when a woman needs sheltering ». (full text May 11, 2007).

See the organisation on wikipedia. See also a better article on the french wikipedia.

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Collective Security Treaty Organization CSTO

In the framework of Commonwealth of Independent States the CIS Collective Security Treaty CST was signed on May 15, 1992, by Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, in the city of Tashkent. Azerbaijan likewise signed the treaty on September 24, 1993, Georgia on December 9, 1993 and Belarus on December 31, 1993. The treaty came into effect on April 20, 1994 … (Read full long text on wikipedia). Retrived (for calendar datings) on 2007-02-17.