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The mission of the International HIV/AIDS Alliance is to support communities to reduce the spread of HIV and to meet the challenges of AIDS. Our vision is of a world in which people do not die of AIDS. (Homepage).

How we work; Alliance partners’ contact details;
Where we work: Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe, Latin America and Caribbean,
Frontiers Prevention Project; How you can help;
News and Events; Publications and resources; Media Center;
Address: International HIV/AIDS Alliance (secretariat), 1st and 2nd Floor, Preece House, 91-101 Davigdor Road, Hove, BN3 1RE, United Kingdom;
Contact.

Who we are (about): Established in 1993, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance (the Alliance) is a global partnership of nationally-based organisations working to support community action on AIDS in developing countries. Continuer la lecture de « International HIV/AIDS Alliance »

(in english / en espanol)

Linked with Ashoka, and with Mohammed Ahmed Abdallah – Soudan.

Changemakers is an initiative of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public that focuses on the rapidly growing world of social innovation. It provides solutions and resources needed to help everyone become a changemaker and presents compelling stories that explore the fundamental principles of successful social innovation around the world … (About 2/2).

Homepage;
Competitions; Community; Changemakers Jobs;
Meet the Changemakers Team; Sponsoring a Collaborative Competition; FAQ;
Library; Stories; Studio: Multimedia Presentations; newsletter; Ashoka facts.
Address: Ashoka Global Headquarters, 1700 North Moore Street, Suite 2000 (20th Floor), Arlington, VA 22209, USA;
Contact.

About 2/2: … Changemakers is building the world’s first global online « open source » community that competes to surface the best social solutions, and then collaborates to refine, enrich, and implement those solutions. Changemakers begins by providing an overarching intellectual framework for collaborative competitions that bring together individual social change initiatives into a more powerful whole.

Continuer la lecture de « Changemakers »

the world’s largest orphan charity
« SOS Children – a charity where deeds speak louder than words » (The Dalai Lama)

This is the UK charity homepage of SOS Children, the world’s largest orphan and abandoned children’s charity. Child sponsors and donors worldwide provide a new family and home for more than 70,000 children in 473 unique Children’s Villages in 123 countries. Our supporters also help a million children and their families through SOS community outreach programmes … (full text Homepage).

Sitemap;
News;
Sponsor a child; Donate and help; Aids in Africa;
World Orphan Week;
Address: SOS Children’s Villages, St Andrew’s House, 59 St Andrew’s Street, Cambridge, CB2 3BZ, England;
Contact.

Charity Facts – Choosing a charity: When the Dalai Lama said that we were « a charity where deeds speak louder than words » doubtless he knew there are lots of ways to choose a particular charity, for example through which to sponsor a child.

Continuer la lecture de « SOS Children's Villages »

Advancing innovative and inclusive approaches to social change at local, national, and global levels. Since its founding in Denver in 1981, the Fund has contributed over $80 million to social change through a blend of grant making and operating programs. (Homepage).

Sitemap;
Programs; Resources; Press Room; Terms of Use;
Women Moving Millions; Partnerships;
The Institute for Inclusive Security; ARTWorks for Kids; Prime Movers: Cultivating Social Capital;
Addresses: Mt. Auburn Office, 625 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA;
Washington Office, The Initiative for Inclusive Security, 2040 « S » Street, NW, Washington, DC 20009, USA;
Contact.

About: Mission: Hunt Alternatives Fund advances innovative and inclusive approaches to social change at the local, national, and global levels.

Continuer la lecture de « Hunt Alternatives Fund »

Comparative Case Studies of Women’s Activism and Scholarship

The ‘Global Feminisms Project’ is a collaborative international project that examines the history of feminist activism, women’s movements and academic women’s studies in China, India, Poland, and the United States. We are examining the histories of feminism in local contexts by collecting ten videotaped oral histories of women’s movement activists and women’s studies scholars in each country. The Project is based in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) at UM, which is also the home for the US site research team. (On Homepage).

Conferences and Publications; Course Information;
China; India; Poland; United States; Cross Site;
Our international collaborators are: SPARROW – Sound and Picture ARchive for Research On Women; Fundacji Kobiecej eFKa; The Chinese Women’s College Shandong Branch; The Institute for Research on Women and Gender;
Links;
Address: University of Michigan, Global Feminisms Project, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, 1136 Lane Hall, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1290, USA;
Contact.

About: The ‘Global Feminisms Project’ was funded, beginning in 2002, by a major grant from the Rackham Graduate School, with additional funding provided by the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Women’s Studies Program, and the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Michigan.

Continuer la lecture de « Global Feminisms Project, at the Universty of Michigan »

Linked with Vina Mazumdar – India.

As an intrinsic dimension of the Centre’s commitment to focus on issues of discrimination and enhancing gender equality, members of the centre have been active in the fields of advocacy, whether through lobbying with and against the State and its policies, forming common platforms with other organizations and civil society institutions, and assisting in campaigns to bring about changes in public awareness.  The Centre has been actively developing many networks to carry forward these processes.  Over the last year, the faculty of the centre have been members of and initiators among networks of women’s organizations and women’s studies associations on a range of issues. (Networking and Advocacy).

Homepage;
Research Activitis; Action Research;
Seminars and Conferences; We and Our People;
Address: CWDS, 25, BHAI VIR SINGH MARG, (GOLE MARKET), NEW DELHI – 110001, INDIA;
Contact.

About: The Centre for Women’s Development Studies(CWDS) was established on 19th April 1980, in the middle of the International Women’s Decade,  by a group of men and women, who were involved in the preparation of the first ever comprehensive government report on the ‘Status of Women in India’.

Continuer la lecture de « Centre for Women's Development Studies CWDS »

Dans le cadre d’une enquête sociologique sur le tabagisme, on cherche des personnes pouvant répondre à un questionnaire avant le 18 mars.

Voir le fichier enquete-sociologique-sur-le-tabagisme

Profil des personnes pouvant répondre au questionnaire :

• Condition 1: Sont domiciliées et / ou travaillent dans le canton de Genève;
• Condition 2: Ont été fumeurs/euses et ont arrêté. Ou sont de nouveau fumeurs/euses après une ou plusieurs périodes d’arrêt, dont au moins un arrêt de 3 semaines ou plus.

Merci d’y répondre (pour les personnes concernées) et / ou de retransmettre ce message à votre réseau de connaissances.

A voir sur Valact.org.

MTV was born on August 1, 1981, when co-creator John Lack spoke those first immortal words: “Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll.” Since then, the station has transformed the way the world views and accesses popular music … (about 1/2).

Welcome Page in arabic; Homepage in arabic; Homepage in english;
Sitemap;
News; Shows; Music; You and MTV; Be creative; Be aware;
Careers; Feedback online; SignUp/register;
Address: Arab Media Group, Al Quoz Ind 3, Dubai, PO BOX 500666, UAE (United Arab Emirates);
Contact.

About 2/2: … Poignantly, as the first channel of its kind anywhere in the world, the track that holds the honour of being the first to play on the ground-breaking station was ‘Video Killed the Radio Star’ by The Buggles. It was a prophetic choice given MTV’s subsequent stratospheric ascendance as well as its immeasurable impact on youth culture across the globe.

Continuer la lecture de « MTV Arabia »

the ethical globalization initiative

Realizing Rights was founded in October 2002 by Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland (1990 – 1997) and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (1997 – 2002). Our supporters include Jimmy Carter, Desmond Tutu and Musimbi Kanyoro. Our mission is to put human rights standards at the heart of global governance and policy-making and to ensure that the needs of the poorest and most vulnerable are addressed on the global stage … (about 1/2).

Homepage;
WHAT IS ETHICAL GLOBALIZATION; Realizing Rights: Action Updates;
Leaders’ Call to Action; What you can do;
Weblogs; News Archives;
Address: Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization, Initiative Headquarters, 271 Madison Avenue, Suite 1007, New York, NY 10016;
Contact.

About 2/2: In collaboration with, The Aspen Institute, Columbia University and the International Council on Human Rights Policy, we are committed to convening key stakeholders in new alliances to integrate concepts of human rights, gender equality and enhanced accountability into efforts to address global challenges and governance shortcomings.

Continuer la lecture de « Realizing Rights.org »

Transnational Perspectives is a journal of world politics and social policy with an emphasis on currents of thought which cross frontiers and unite peoples. Transnational Perspectives, founded in 1974, has three aims:

• To propose measures for order and justice in the world society;
• To suggest creative possibilities for conflict transformation and the reduction of violence;
• To encourage ecologically-sound development and reverence for life.

In order to provide a useful forum for analysis of difficult problems, authors take the responsibility of the views expressed in their articles and book reviews. The responsibility of the editors is to champion the free expression of findings. (on Homepage).

All other web-pages have the same URL (in the left column) as: Agbajigbeto at the United Nations, Currents and counter-currents of Asia, The Alchemy of Conflict Transformation, The Century of the Common Man, The Voices of Aquarius, Another Life Force : The Orphic Poems of Transnational-Perspectives, Books, Letters to the Editor,  Links, Contact.

Editorial Notes: With the end of the Cold War and the decade-long dismemberment of the Cold War structures, humanity is once more on the move. As Francisco Sagasti, formerly Chairman of the UN Advisory Committee on Science and Technology for Development has written “We are witnessing the emergence of what I would call a ‘fractured’ global order.

Continuer la lecture de « René Wadlow's Transnational Perspectives »

(also in espanol and portugues)

Linked with Irma Schwager – Austria.

All pages of this website have the same URL, as for Homepage, Agenda, Campaign, Regional Workshops, News, Gallery, Letters, Newsletter, Contact, etc. etc.

Address: Women International Democratic Federation, Guimarães Passos street, 422 – Vila Mariana, São Paulo – SP – Brazil – 04107-031;

History – WIDF Foundation Congress and Eugenie Cotton, our first President:

• We are a Not Governmental Organization that congregate in its joint the women of different sectors, believes and points of view, of different Countries, social schemes of the five continents.
• The purpose of Women International Democratic Federation – WIDF it’s  the women struggle don’t  strengthen the contradictions between the  sexes  in the middle of the people, but the backward, intents to contribute whit the union of women and men  having in sight the reinforce, the participation and the elevation of women in a way the both can be unit.
• In the confrontation of the hardness lived by our people and also our brother people, fighting for better life’s conditions for all, whit sovereignty, development and peace, for a just world, more fraternalism and equality.
• The principles of WIDF are narrowly connected. The women rights of a happy future for the children’s can only be fully reached in a world in peace.
• The WIDF gave new impulses, throughout these 56 years, to many national feminine organizations which have a tradition of fight for the women rights, for the peace, for our children and for better conditions of life to our peoples.

Currently the WIDF counts on 660 filial organizations, of 160 countries (to find them, click on Regional Workshops, and then on a region, you’ll find its countries) … (full text).

Linked with Michel Sasseville – Canada; with Matthew Lipman – USA; and with The IAPC program.

ChildrenThinking was set up by practising teachers in order to provide support and training in the area of Philosophy with Children. It coordinates a range of courses and systems of mentoring and support for teachers and students.

upgrades on Dec 3, 2014: Homepage; Who? What? How? Why? Resources; Training; Stay in Touch;

Philosophy in action: Philosophy with Children is a method of enabling children to philosophise using the model of Socratic Dialogue with the aid of a facilitator.

Continuer la lecture de « ChildrenThinking.co.uk »

… Annually on 8 March, thousands of events are held throughout the world to inspire women and celebrate achievements. A global web of rich and diverse local activity connects women from all around the world ranging from political rallies, business conferences, government activities and networking events through to local women’s craft markets, theatric performances, fashion parades and more … (about 1/2).

Homepage; some videos on IWD;
Events; International Women’s Day 2009 Theme; Whats YOUR International Women’s Day 2009 Theme? e-mail us;
Networking; Global Issues; Innovation; Work; Business /Finance; Media /Arts; Government; Link; Register; Log-in;
Contact online.

About 2/2: International Women’s Day has been observed since in the early 1900’s, a time of great expansion and turbulence in the industrialized world that saw booming population growth and the rise of radical ideologies … (see: 1908 – 2000 and beyond):

Continuer la lecture de « International Women's Day IWD 2009 »

Linked with Pinar Ilkkaracan – Turkey.

IASSCS was formed in July 1997 in Amsterdam, following a successful conference, “Beyond Boundaries: Sexuality Across Cultures”, jointly hosted by the Universities of Amsterdam and Chicago. This gathering was broadly concerned with the social and cultural study of sexuality, and drew together scholars from the disciplines of anthropology, history, sociology, health policy and cultural and gender studies. It was noted in the Amsterdam meeting that no organization existed which provided a forum for the interdisciplinary and cross-cultural studies of sexuality. The impetus behind the creation of IASSCS was the perceived need to address the fragmentation of studies in sexuality and to provide a forum for expanding and developing sexuality as a legitimate area of scholarships … (about 1/2).

ALL INTERNAL PAGES OF THIS WEBSITE HAVE THE SAME URL. To find a page, click on the link in the left column, as for:
Homepage,  Sitemap, Conferences, Research Dissemination, News, Regional Partners, Courses and Training Opportunities, Contact.

Address: Avenida Armendariz 445 Miraflores Lima 18, Peru,
Tel: +1-511-241-6929 Ext. 124 Fax: +1-511-241-6929 Ext. 123

About IASSCS 2/2 –

Continuer la lecture de « International Association for the Study of Sexuality Culture and Society IASSCS »

Linked with Mohammed Ahmed Abdallah – Soudan.

• Physicians for Human Rights mobilizes health professionals to advance health, dignity, and justice and promotes the right to health for all. Harnessing the specialized skills, rigor, and passion of doctors, nurses, public health specialists, and scientists, PHR investigates human rights abuses and works to stop them.
• Our research takes us to conflict zones, to AIDS-ravaged Africa, to US prisons and juvenile detention centers—and our advocacy brings us to the offices of national and international policymakers. The courts, decision makers and the media have come to rely on our credibility and expertise. Motivated by moral urgency, based on science, and anchored in international human rights standards, PHR’s advocacy advances global health and protects human rights.
• PHR is building a new movement for human rights based on the solid foundation of two decades of investigation, advocacy, and accomplishment … (PHR’s Mission).

Homepage; Sitemap / Join PHR;
What we do – campaigns: Health Action AIDS; Darfur Survival Campaign; Campaign Against Torture; Health and Justice for Youth; Campaign to Ban Landmines; Investigations; International Forensic Program; The Asylum Network; Get Involved with PHR; Support;
Addresses: National Office, Physicians for Human Rights, 2 Arrow Street, Suite 301, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Washington Office, Physicians for Human Rights, 1156 15th Street, NW, Suite 1001, Washington, DC 20005, USA;
Contact.

About PHR: PHR was founded in 1986 on the idea that health professionals, with their specialized skills, ethical duties, and credible voices, are uniquely positioned to investigate the health consequences of human rights violations and work to stop them. Continuer la lecture de « Physicians for Human Rights PHR »