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keep the internet open, innovative and free

Linked with Gregory T. Nojeim – USA.

The Center for Democracy and Technology works to promote democratic values and constitutional liberties in the digital age. With expertise in law, technology, and policy, CDT seeks practical solutions to enhance free expression and privacy in global communications technologies. CDT is dedicated to building consensus among all parties interested in the future of the Internet and other new communications media. (About 1/2).

Homepage and Headlines;
Activities;
Annual Reports etc.;
Other Reports and Articles;
Legislative Center;
Issues;
CDT’s Blog;
Newsletters and Publications;
Postal mail: CDT, 1634 Eye Street, NW #1100, Washington DC, 20006, Tel. +1.202.637.9800, Fax +1.202.637.0968;
Contact on the website.

About 2/2 – CDT’s Mission and Principles: The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit public policy organization dedicated to promoting the democratic potential of today’s open, decentralized global Internet. Our mission is to conceptualize, develop, and implement public policies to preserve and enhance free expression, privacy, open access, and other democratic values in the new and increasingly integrated communications medium.

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Our Mission: Digital Freedom Network DFN is a non-profit group that seeks to promote human rights as an attainable goal for all countries. Evident in our writing, we believe that free enterprise, limited government, rule of law and individual freedom are the most effective means to ensure the rights of men and women across the world. (About 1/2).

Homepage and latest news;
Sitemap;
Publications;
Domestic Institutes and Organizations;
Educational Tools and Resources;
Important Websites;
International Organisations;
Address: Digital Freedom Network, 520 Broad Street, 3rd Floor, Newark, NJ 07102, U.S.A., Phone: + (973) 438.7345, Fax: + (202) 969.9900;
Contacts.

( … and many more pages for different regions, items, the Org).

About 2/2: DFN supports classically liberal ideas in both the economic and the political realm. We seek to eliminate human rights violations through the implementation of the principles of freedom; robust property rights, free markets, rule of law, and legitimate democracy. We use foundational texts as well as report on current events to explain and promote the basic principles of freedom and underscore how modern situations relate to core philosophies of freedom. We attempt to spread our message, in a variety of languages when relevant and possible, through individuals, organizations, and media, regardless of viewpoint.

Linked with Sandra Nyaira – Zimbabwe.

Homepage and ALL links (with every new link, watch more links about the item in the left column);

some of them hereafter:
News;
Archives;
Help and Support Groups;
other related sites;
Independent Results Centre;
Newsletter/mailing list;
Contact one, and contact two.

Some external links:

Zimbabwe Metro;

Sokwanele – Zvakwana – Enough is Enough;

ZIM today;

chirundu.com, the place for homesick Africans.

Linked with Sandra Nyaira – Zimbabwe, and with The Women’s International Perspective WIP.
The Association of Zimbabwean Journalists in the UK (AZJ-UK) was launched in 2005 to bring together exiled journalists and other media practitioners living outside the country. So far we number about 40 experienced Zimbabwean journalists, having left the country for various reasons connected to the political and economic problems bedevilling our country.

Homepage and Top Story;
Media Watch;
news;
politics;
Opinion/Analysis;
Downloads;
Links;
Address: Association of Zimbabwe Journalists, 83 Glendale Drive, Burpham, Surrey, GU4 7JA, editor’s e-mail, feedback;
Contact.

About: The Association of Zimbabwe Journalists in the UK (AZJ-UK) was launched in 2005 to bring together exiled journalists and other media practitioners living outside the country.

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Linked with Sandra Nyaira – Zimbabwe, and with The Association of Zimbabwean Journalists.

The Women’s International Perspective, The WIP, is a comprehensive news website of women contributors that reports world news, opinion, and commentary. Our mission is to provide quality news from the unique perspectives of women that is accessible worldwide and free to our readers. (About 1/2).

Homepage and featured articles;
Sitemap;
Current Headlines;
Byline Portal;
WIP talk;
Contributors;
Archives;
Address: The WIP, 563 Figueroa Street, Monterey, CA 93940, USA, +1 831 274 8884, e-mail.
Contact.

About 2/2: The WIP is a balanced media source that promotes diversity and is not associated with any particular religion, political party, or cultural affiliation. As a worldwide collective of women writers, The WIP is an opportunity to eliminate the tremendous under-representation of women journalists and offers a greater diversity of background and opinion than typically found in one online news publication. The WIP strives to bring divergent cultures, opinions, and ideas together in solution-based dialog.

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Yale University, USA

Founded in 1980, EWI is an international, non-partisan, entrepreneurial organization with centers in Brussels, New York and Moscow. Our directors, professional staff and alumni constitute the core of a worldwide network of women and men from diverse regional and professional backgrounds. Our track-record of mentoring, partnering and networking has made us an institution of choice for state and non-state actors seeking to cooperate, prevent conflict, and manage regional and global challenges … (full text, about 1/2).

Meeting of the Core Group of EWI’s Internat. Task Force on Preventive Diplomacy, April 13 -15, 2008 … (full text).

Homepage;
Policy Ideas;
Conflict Prevention;
Global Security;
Leadership and Learning;
EWI in Asia;
Association’s Organizations;
Contacts.

About 2/2: Our Values: The EWI network is united by the values of respect, fairness, responsibility, honesty and compassion. We work to give everyone a voice and establish trust among all parties within the framework of these values.

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WomenAid International is a humanitarian aid and development agency which promotes all rights for all people in all countries.

Humanitarian Aid and all other pages: you will reach them by a link in the left column;

Address: WOMENAID INTERNATIONAL, 3 WHITEHALL COURT, LONDON SW1A 2EL, TEL: +44 (0) 20 7839 1790, FAX: +44 (0) 20 7839 2929, e-mail, Reg. Charity No. 299224.

About: Founded over ten years ago as a humanitarian aid and development agency, WomenAid’s mission is to provide relief and assistance to women and children suffering distress caused by war, disasters or poverty, to
empower women through education, training, provision of credit and to campaign against violations of women’s human rights.

Millions of women throughout the world are marginalised, overlooked and locked in an unequal struggle for survival. Living in abject poverty, working long hours for little or no money, they are trapped in a life of suffering, hunger, malnutrition and disease.

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EPIC is a public interest research center in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values … (about 1/2 & annual reports).

Homepage and latest news;
Job Openings, Fellowships and IPIOP Clerkships;
Litigation Docket;
Policy Issues: free speach;
Press release;
Events;
Publications;
CFP 2007: Open panel on Net Freedom;
address: EPIC National Office, 1718 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20009;
contact: board and staff, and general inquiries.

About 2/2: EPIC publishes an award-winning e-mail and online newsletter on civil liberties in the information age – the EPIC Alert. We also publish reports and even books about privacy, open government, free speech, and other important topics related to civil liberties. We have no clients, no customers, and no shareholders. We need your support.

View EPIC’s most recent annual reports, all available as PDF documents … (about 2/2 & annual reports).

The American system of government is founded on two counterbalancing principles: that the majority of the people governs, through democratically elected representatives; and that the power even of a democratic majority must be limited, to ensure individual rights. (About 1/2).

Homepage and links;
Press Room;
Supreme Court;
Legislative Update;
Action Center;
Successes;
Download/Multimedia;
Join/donate;
Address: ACLU, 125 Broad Street, 18th Floor, New York, NY 10004;
contact.

About 2/2: Majority power is limited by the Constitution’s Bill of Rights, which consists of the original ten amendments ratified in 1791, plus the three post-Civil War amendments (the 13th, 14th and 15th) and the 19th Amendment (women’s suffrage), adopted in 1920.

The mission of the ACLU is to preserve all of these protections and guarantees:

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Added April 7, 2008: Linked with FINDINGS 188: World Prison Population List.

An Australian website. Here you will reach a big full Homepage with all links to the individual cases. No explanation needed, just actions.

Linked with Brian Moore – USA.

A strange website full with links to good items, like one exemple: A Guide to the Patriotic Act … (full text).

Not many usual texts as ‘about’ to copy out and fill my page, but take this:

Homepage;
newsletters;
Podcasts;
today’s papers;
today’s blogs;
other magazines.

… just go there and click on any link.

Linked with Paul Wellstone – USA (1944 – 2002), and with The real threat.

Wellstone Action is a national center for training and leadership development for the progressive movement. Founded in January 2003, Wellstone Action’s mission is to honor the legacy of Paul and Sheila Wellstone by continuing their work through training, educating, mobilizing and organizing a vast network of progressive individuals and organizations. (about 1/2).

Homepage and latest news;
news & events;
become a member;
advisory committee;
meet our trainers;
pictures from Campus Camp Wellstone;
contact.

About 2/2: In three years, Wellstone Action has experienced tremendous growth, adding over 108,000 members and training 14,322 (and counting!) citizen activists and professionals in 36 states in political organizing skills. In addition to training, Wellstone Action engages our members in non-partisan voter mobilization efforts; lobbies Congress on behalf of mental health parity, Social Security and the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act; trains domestic violence advocates to be organizers on their issue, and helps preserve the Wellstone archives for future generations. Our book, Politics the Wellstone Way: How to Elect Progressive Candidates and Win on Issues, was released in the fall of 2005.

Our Training Programs: … (full text).

Linked with Brian Moore – USA.

The Peace and Freedom Party PFP is committed to socialism, democracy, ecology, feminism and racial equality. We represent the working class, those without capital in a capitalist society. We organize toward a world where cooperation replaces competition, a world where all people are well fed, clothed and housed; where all women and men have equal status; where all individuals may freely endeavor to fulfill their own talents and desires; a world of freedom and peace where every community retains its cultural integrity and lives with all others in harmony (homepage).

Membership;
Platform;
Resolutions and Statements;
Literature and Pamplets;
The Partisan;
The Partisan’s Archive-Homepage on P&F;
Contact Membership;
General contact.

About: The Peace and Freedom Party PFP is committed to socialism, democracy, ecology, feminism and racial equality. We represent the working class, those without capital in a capitalist society. We organize toward a world where cooperation replaces competition, a world where all people are well fed, clothed and housed; where all women and men have equal status; where all individuals may freely endeavor to fulfill their own talents and desires; a world of freedom and peace where every community retains its cultural integrity and lives with all others in harmony.

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(also auf deutsch, en français, en espanol)

The Women and Life on Earth internet project began in 1999 to help connect women internationally, share information and work for ecological health and peace with justice in the new millennium.

Sitemap;
homepage and latest news in english;
coming events;
information;
action;
resources;
support;
archive 2007;
e-newsletter;
contact.

About: The Women and Life on Earth internet project began in 1999 to help connect women internationally, share information and work for ecological health and peace with justice in the new millennium. Our roots go back to an earlier Women and Life on Earth movement (see below). Since 2002 we have worked from an office in Berlin, Germany. Our non-profit association Women and Life on Earth: women in international cooperation for peace, ecology and social justice has been staffed by volunteer members and funded by contributions and project work. In 2006 we shifted our first website to a new open content format and decentralized our project work. In March 2008 we are launching our first fundraising drive to support and expand our work. How you can help …

… We want:

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Sharing Information to pursue progress in human rights

Linked with Anthony Ravlich – New Zealand.

The HR Network (excerpt):

• The Human Rights Network is a meeting place for New Zealanders with an interest and commitment to human rights;
• Available social research suggests New Zealanders have a commitment to human rights, yet the human rights movement in New Zealand has been fragmented, making it difficult to share information and ideas and to mobilise to meet human rights challenges;
• A determination to establish a network infrastructure, the Human Rights Network, came about as a result of the experience of some individuals and organisations during the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1998, and during the debate about the future of New Zealand’s domestic human rights protections;
• Through the Human Rights Network knowledge can be exchanged more often, news can be disseminated more widely and consultation can take place more easily. Where there is a need for collective action, mobilisation can take place with greater haste.

Homepage/Welcome;
sitemap;
news;
big issues;
communities;
projects;
discussion forums;
address: Human Rights Network, PO Box 24 423, Wellington, NEW ZEALAND, e-mail;
contact.

About Human Rights: Human Rights are those rights that everyone everywhere has by virtue of being human.

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