Catégorie : Project, Partnership, good work

Linked with Latest update of the Torture Archive.

The Torture Archive, an ongoing project of the National Security Archive, is assembling at a single location documents from wide-ranging sources on United States government policy toward rendition, detainees, interrogation, and torture. In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, and the George W. Bush administration’s subsequent launching of its « Global War on Terror », the Afghanistan war, and the invasion of Iraq, rumors circulated of disappearances, abusive treatment of prisoners, « extraordinary renditions », and « black site » (secret) prisons … (Mainpage and About 1/2).

Help; Titles; Creators; Recipients;Individuals; Organizations; NSA Homepage;
no direct Contact mentionned, go to National Security Archive, Suite 701, Gelman Library, The George Washington University, 2130 H Street, NW, Washington, D.C., 20037 – Phone: 202/994-7000 – Fax: 202/994-7005 – e.mail.

Mainpage and About 2/2: … Human rights and civil liberties organizations, investigative journalists, and congressional committees, including, notably, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Center for Constitutional Rights, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Senate Armed Services Committee, and the Associated Press; …  Continuer la lecture de « Torture Archive »

one of the many projects of Open Society Foundations. – Linked with ROMAs – these excluded tribes, eternally poors, trained thiefs … and our reactions, with zu Peter Sloterdjiks Buch: die Verachtung der Massen /July 26, 2005, and with Decade of ROMA Inclusion 2005 – 2015.

Roma Initiatives builds upon the Open Society Institute’s many years of support for Roma communities, seeking to challenge prejudice and discrimination and to pursue policy change. It guides all OSI program and grantmaking activity related to the Decade of Roma Inclusion, a commitment by 12 European governments to improve the social and economic status of Roma … (about this Initiative 1/2).

Homepage;
Focus Areas; News; Publications, articles; Multimedia; Events; Links; No Data—No Progress: Country Findings;
Address: Roma Initiatives, OSI-Budapest, Oktober 6. u. 12, H-1051 Budapest, Hungary;
Contact online.

About this Initiative 2/2: … Roma Initiatives works to increase the ability of Roma to participate in public life, advocate for systemic change in policies affecting Roma, challenge anti-Roma prejudice and negative stereotypes, and increase Roma participation in the Decade to make it an enduring success. Continuer la lecture de « ROMA Initiatives »

promoting mobilisation and legal accountability – a project of ActionAid International, London – also in french and spanish

Linked with MDGs and the right to education: a series of policy briefs from the RTE Project.

The Right to Education Project aims to promote social mobilisation and legal accountability, looking to focus on the legal challenges to the right to education. The cornerstone of the Project is this wide-reaching website on education rights, a partial continuation of the groundbreaking website (under the same address) of the former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, Katarina Tomaševski … (about 1/2).

Homepage; Sitemap;
Database; Forum; Media; Jobs; FAQs; Partners;
Address: c/o ActionAid International, Hamlyn House, Macdonald Rd, LONDON N19 5PG, UK; (place page on Google maps);
Contact.

About 2/2: … To ensure continued relevance and engagement with activists and the academic community the Project also undertakes comparative research to advance an understanding of the right to education.  Continuer la lecture de « Right to Education project »

by US Congress-members – About: same text for all 4 websites: … is a bipartisan, non-profit organization committed to educating the public about issues that have significant fiscal policy impact. The Committee is made up of some of the nation’s leading budget experts including many of the past Directors of the Budget Committees, the Congressional Budget Office, the Office of Management and Budget and the Federal Reserve Board …

• Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget CRFB.org: Homepage; Contact online.
• Stimulus.org: Homepage; Contact online.
• US BudgetWatch.org: Homepage; Contact online.
• Peterson-Pew Commission PEW.org: Homepage; Contact online.

For all 4 the same address: 1899 L. Street, N.W., Suite 400, Washington, DC 20036, USA; Direct Tel/Fax/e-mail down of each page.
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a Project on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights ADH.

Linked on our blogs with the website Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights ADH, with Global cereal supply and demand update, with Training on ESC Rights,  and with Jean Ziegler – Switzerland.

The right to food is a human right. It protects the right of all human beings to live in dignity, free from hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition. The right to food is not about charity, but about ensuring that all people have the capacity to feed themselves in dignity … (What is the right to food? 1/2).

Homepage;
What’s new; Work of Jean Ziegler; Team; Training on ESC Rights; Publications; Links;
Address: Project on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, P.O. Box 136, 1211 Geneva 21, Switzerland;
Contact.

What is the right to food? 2/2:  … The right to food is protected under international human rights and humanitarian law and the correlative state obligations are equally well-established under international law. Continuer la lecture de « Right to Food »