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Added April 10, 2008: Linked with Videos concerning Human Rights and more.

WITNESS uses video and online technologies to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations.

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Contact. WITNESS, 80 Hanson Place, 5th Fl. Brooklyn, NY 11217 ph: 718.783.2000 f: 718.783.1593

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Mission: WITNESS uses video and online technologies to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations. We empower people to transform personal stories of abuse into powerful tools for justice, promoting public engagement and policy change.

Values and Vision: We envision a just and equitable world where all individuals and communities are able to defend and uphold human rights.

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Transformation Through the Arts

All links are inside of the same URL, just click on the lonks of the homepage.About: Ba Futuru, meaning “For the Future,” is a peacebuilding organization located in Timor-Leste (East Timor). The organization’s mission is to build a culture of peace and non-violence in Timor Leste (East Timor) by developing the values, skills, knowledge and wellbeing of conflict-affected, vulnerable and at-risk young people, and those who care for them. To this end, Ba Futuru engages children and youth in artistic conflict resolution and human rights activities, offers training for people working with children, and provides capacity development for government officials. (full text).

Contact:

• Email;
• East Timor: Ba Futuru, Rua Vila Verde, Suco Haksolok Dili, Timor-Leste, + 67 0 724 6022, + 67 0 726 2251;
• United States: Ba Futuru, 721 Van Wyck Road, Bellingham, WA 98226, USA;
• Australia: Danielle Ujvari, Board President, University of Melbourne – SAGES, 221 Bouverie St, Carlton, Australia 3053, + 61 0 423 165 161.

Homepage: Ba Futuru engages children and youth in artistic, conflict resolution and human rights activities in East Timor. By facilitating healing among children afected by conflict, raising knowledge of human rights and their relevance in day-to-day living, and encouraging creative expression and co-operation, the Transformative Arts and Human Rights Education (TAHRE) program helps break the cycle of violence.

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Linked with BASJAK’s report on Jammu and Kashmir, with Paul Beersmans – Belgium, with the Belgian Association for Solidarity with Jammu and Kashmir BASJAK, and with Professor Pandita’s Blog about Kashmir and IDPs.

Starting Page;
homepage in english;
homepage en français.

All links are on the respective homepages. Offices in Geneva, Bruxelles, New York.

ITS BASIC PRINCIPLES:

• affirms the unity of human nature;
• affirms the fundamental equality of all races, of all peoples, of all cultures, and works towards the advancement of a genuine international community;
• believes in the efficacy of spiritual values to promote comprehension and collaboration among peoples; however, the Movement is non-confessional;
• rejects every method inspired by hatred, its doctrine being a doctrine of peace in justice and love;
• promotes the aims and objectives of the United Nations.

Mail-Contact and questions.

ACTIVITIES at the local level through various involvements in the social, medical and educational fields … (full text).

COOPERATION WITH THE UNITED NATIONS.

Linked with Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta – Australia, with UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, with The Irati Wanti declaration, and with Articles for Indigenous Peoples on our blogs.

Starting page – cultural warning: Kulinma Wiya tjuta kutjupa tjutanti nyiri nyang ka ngaranyi. Ka nyura nyiri nyangatja alara nyakulan ngalturingkuku minu kuntaringkutu – Visitors to this website should be aware that if members of some Aboriginal communities see names or images of the deceased, particularly their relatives, they may be distressed.

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About: We are the Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta, the Senior Aboriginal Women from Coober Pedy, South Australia: Ivy Makinti Stewart, Eileen Wani Wingfield, Eileen Unkari Crombie, Angelina Wonga, Emily Munyungka Austin and Myra Tjunmutja Watson. They say:

• We are the Aboriginal women Yankunytjatjara, Antikarinya and Kokatha;
• We know the country;
• The poison the Government is talking about will poison the land;
• We say « NO radioactive dump in our ngura – in our country;
• Its strictly poison we don’t want it.

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Linked with Haris Ibrahim – Malaysia.

This website is a busy and strongly visited Forum with all-philosophical items, going from abortion, via Islam to women, through the whole abc.

You can also create your own busy item. You have to sign in. By categories seems to have some religious touch.

all today’s categories;

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forums;

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Linked with Dahr Jamail – USA.
Presentation – October 17, 2007, Wednesday, October 17, 7 p.m.: The Center for Economic Research and Social Change and The Nation Institute present Dahr Jamail and Jeremy Scahill Beyond the Green Zone, a talk, book launch, discussion, and book signing. (Tickets $5 at the door), at Broadway Presbyterian Church, 601 West 14th Street on Broadway, New York … (full invitation text).

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Covering the Middle East: (it) provides analysis and discussion of US mainstream news in light of Dahr Jamail’s reports and photographs from the Middle East. Its intent is to identify unreported news from the Middle East and to make a broader audience aware of events there. ‘Covering the Middle East’ encourages your comments, reactions, and participation … (full text).

vies perdues, vies retrouvees (lifes lost, lifes found) – in EN FR DE IT

Linked with A page full of actualities.

Contact. Fondation SURGIR, Avenue Ruchonnet 3, CH-1003 Lausanne VD, Tel : +41 21 / 311 27 31, Email.

All internal links of the WEBSITE are reached by the same external URL. Just click on the links in the left column.

Who we are: A movement which individually targets the defence and rescue of girls and women subjected to criminal traditions, martyrs in their souls and their bodies, with their children. Mutilated, prostituted, raped, rejected, burnt, lapidated, held hostage, designated victims so chosen because they are females. They can be found all over the world. Adolescents and women enslaved, girls kept illiterate and in bondage, girls sexually mutilated, women raped during wars, widows with AIDS rejected with their children, girls and women killed in the name of family honour, women assassinated for lack of dowry, etc.

Having witnessed their suffering, SURGIR wants to cry out and help them in their action, their revolt, and become the instrument of their fight.

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Latest Action (on homepage): More doctors, medicines and safe drinking water needed to contain cholera outbreak.

Government must scale up health centres to contain cholera outbreak: As a deadly cholera outbreak hits tribal areas of Orissa, ActionAid is helping to check the spread of the virus by organising health camps and awareness drives with indigenous communities in areas adjacent to those already reeling from the epidemic. (full text).

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About: ActionAid is an international anti-poverty agency working in over 40 countries, taking sides with poor people to end poverty and injustice together.

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(français: Carrefour Jeunesse)

Linked with Severn Cullis-Suzuki – Canada, and with The Skyfish Project.

If you’re passionate, care about sustainability, love your bike, write about social justice or are just INVOLVED with the planet, then this site is for you.

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The Youth Engagement Program (YEP):

This website – the Youth Action Centre – is part of the Green Street’s National Youth Engagement Program (YEP). The YEP was created to link youth who had participated in a Green Street program (see below, under ‘What’s Green Street?’) with other environmental learning and action opportunities.

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Linked with Severn Cullis-Suzuki – Canada, and with Youth Action Centre.
… In the spring of 2002, Severn and some friends spearheaded an internet-based think-tank called The Skyfish Project. And as member of Kofi Anan�s Special Advisory Panel, she and members of the group brought their first project, a pledge called the Recognition of Responsibility to the recent UN World Summit in Johannesburg in August 2002. Their trip also was the subject of a documentary film that aired on CBC�s long running documentary series, The Nature of Things in January 2003. The African adventure was quickly followed up by a speaking tour of Japan in November, 2002. (full text).

Recognition of Responsibility: This is a statement of intent for our generation. Many nations represent a small fraction of the world’s population, but use far more than our share of the world’s energy, and emit a large percentage of the world’s carbon dioxide pollution. We are a countries with a huge ecological footprint.

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(Also in espanol, français, portugues, russian, arab, link on the Homepage)

Linked with Kavita Ramdas – India & USA.

The Global Fund for Women is an international network of women and men committed to a world of equality and social justice. We advocate for and defend women’s human rights by making grants to support women’s groups around the world.

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About: We are part of a global women’s movement that is rooted in a commitment to justice and an appreciation of the value of women’s experience. The challenges women face vary widely across communities, cultures, religions, traditions and countries. We believe that women should have a full range of choices, and that women themselves know best how to determine their needs and propose solutions for lasting change. The way in which we do our work is as important as what we do. This philosophy is reflected in our flexible, respectful and responsive style of grantmaking.

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We connect people with learning opportunities and creative ideas from the UK to build lasting relationships around the world.

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About: Our purpose is to build mutually beneficial relationships between people in the UK and other countries and to increase appreciation of the UK’s creative ideas and achievements.

This work is driven by our strong belief in internationalism, a commitment to professionalism and an enthusiasm for creativity. These qualities, coupled with our integrity and our conviction that cultural relations can help individuals and the world community to thrive, make the British Council a good partner and a special place to work.

Combat Law (a journal on human rights and law), offers you the latest on human rights issues in India. Subscribe to the magazine to access the complete website and receive regular updates. A good online journal, but:

CombatLaw.org is a subscribers-only site; you have to log in to view complete contents.

Non-subscribers, or registered users who have not logged in, will be able to see only summaries of articles, and the full contents of two articles per issue, indicated with a ‘Full Access’-icon.

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About: A bimonthly, Combat Law brings together diverse voices united against all forms of discrimination and exploitation in order to engage in an active, meaningful discussion and foster a climate for legal activism in pursuit of crafting a more tolerant, just, democratic and equitable world. The bimonthly provides its readers with sharp insights into some of the most pressing legal/human rights issues of our times. Our writers comprise experts, lawyers, professors and journalists, who more often are also activists, and are amongst the leaders in their fields. Though a bimonthly, Combat Law also releases special issues without adhering to the bimonthly schedule when urgent and contemporary topics require it.

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The European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC) is a centre of education, training and research activities in European policy areas related to the promotion of human rights and democracy. The principal activities of EIUC are:

• to ensure the continuation of the European Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation (E.MA );
• to ensure the continuation of the EIUC EU-UN Fellowship Programme;
• to initiate other training and research activities in the field of human rights and democratisation.

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EIUC-profile: EIUC, identified by Decision N°791/2004/EC of the European Parliament and the Council (21 April 2004) as one of the 7 European Institutions which seek « to extend and deepen knowledge of the building of Europe, or to contribute to the achievement of the common policy objectives in the field of education and training both inside and outside the Community », is founded on a commitment to the realisation of the values enshrined in the draft European Constitution and to contribute to a shared global understanding of human rights and democracy … (full text).

Homepage: We have more than 10 billion paper records, 30 million photographs and close to three million maps and charts, all stored in more than 30 buildings around the country.

These historical documents are available to you in our exhibits and research rooms. Some are on this web site. Visit America’s Historical Documents

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About the National Archives: Of all documents and materials created in the course of business conducted by the United States Federal government, only 1%-3% are so important for legal or historical reasons that they are kept by us forever.

Those valuable records are preserved and are available to you, whether you want to see if they contain clues about your family’s history, need to prove a veteran’s military service, or are researching an historical topic that interests you.