Scriptorium

SANAT is a project of the Centre for Social Research.

(The project was funded by:
The Academy for Educational Development AED;
The South Asia Regional Initiative (named on AED);
The Equity Support Program SARI/Q.

The Project:

• Promoting the development of regional communications networks, which will facilitate the monitoring, and control of activities relating to trafficking in persons;
• Encourage co-coordinated social movements against the trafficking of women;
• Devise strategies to carry out rehabilitation programmes for young women who have been subjected to trafficking keeping in mind education and employment opportunities to women in their own socio-economic settings;
• Lobby with SAARC governments to develop appropriate legislation for implementation of SAARC Convention of trafficking especially for rehabilitation of trafficked victims;
• Put pressure on all countries to implement the SAARC convention to improve the status of women (e.g. CEDAW, and SAARC Convention of Trafficking), and on all countries, which have ratified the conventions to establish laws and enforcement in accordance with the conventions; Facilitate, encourage and lobby for bilateral talks with India and other South Asian countries to terminate the practice of trafficking people between countries.

Project’s Objectives:

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In these days of growing media concentration, Green Left Weekly is a proudly independent voice committed to human and civil rights, global peace and environmental sustainability, democracy and equality. By printing the news and ideas the mainstream media won’t, Green Left Weekly exposes the lies and distortions of the power brokers and helps us to better understand the world around us.

Homepage & lastest news;
comments & analysis;
cultural dissent;
global jobs / vestas;
free online book;
archives;
green left discussion, a yahoo group;
australian activist calendar;
other progressive sites;
address: Green Left, PO Box 394, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia;
Contact.

About Green Left Weekly:
Green Left Weekly aims to provide a much-needed forum for discussion and debate about changing the world. By giving a voice to progressive ideas, by sharing a wide range of views, by linking issues, campaigns and activists, and by letting people know how they can join with others to take action for change, the paper contributes to the development of a more just and democratic world.

Most importantly, Green Left Weekly is a campaigning paper: it helps strengthen the anti-racist, feminist, student, trade union, environment, gay and lesbian, civil liberties and anti-imperialist movements by linking the issues and activists, and by letting people know how they can join others in action for change.

Green Left Weekly is your paper … (full text).

Linked with Laila Iskandar – Egypt.

Company Profile – a helping hand: The challenges facing businesses and community projects in a developing country can be daunting. Recognizing weaknesses or gaps in an organizational structure without having the time or specialized expertise to remedy them, can be a frustrating experience. That is where we, at CID, come in to lend a hand.

Homepage;
Sitemap;
CID Team;
Private Sector Development;
Community Development;
Training;
Communication;
Contact: on the web, by e-mail, by Tel-Egypt +20 2 736 44 79

CID is a business. It began by working with the 60,000 zabaleen who live on the outskirts of Cairo and gather daily 10,000 tons of garbage. CID introduced innovative social and environmental initiatives, including recycling as much as 80% of the inorganic waste into raw materials and manufactured goods. CID works with local and international partners and clients to link business and poor communities and create viable partnerships to address a myriad of needs, from rural sanitation and low cost housing to sustainable waste recycling programs. CID highlights how the reality of megacities, particularly in emerging markets, must place people at the center of waste management planning. (full text).

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also in espanol, francais, portugues, arab

Linked with remember some Arab NGOs.

The Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) is a growing alliance of trade unions, community groups, faith groups, women and youth organisations, NGOs and other campaigners working together across more than 100 national platforms. GCAP is calling for action from the world’s leaders to meet their promises to end poverty and inequality … (full long text).

Homepage and Latest News;
worldwide GCAP sites;
ISSUES;
GCAP partners;
Volunteer;
Documents and Reports;
Photo-Gallery;
Audio and Video;
Contact.

About:
At the start of the 21st century more than a billion people are trapped in a situation of abject poverty and gross inequality. 70% of them are women. We face an AIDS and Malaria emergency, with 40 million people infected by the disease. 104 million children are denied access to school and 860 million adults. (70% of them women) cannot read or write. Millions of people are unemployed or working in precarious jobs with deteriorating conditions of labour. Neither have a secure income to sustain their families. Children and young people make up half of the world’s population and suffer from the lack of inclusion and provision of basic services. Hunger is a daily reality for many. In parts of the world, the death of mothers in childbirth and infant children are still routine – deaths that could be prevented by the availability of simple healthcare. 1.4 billion people don’t have access to safe water. We draw inspiration from their persistent daily struggles to realise their rights to livelihoods, resources, assets and basic services. Today the world has enough resources, knowledge and technology to eradicate poverty … (full long text).

Remembering some Arabian NGOs, some already on this blog in summer 2005:

GCAP: the world largest Civil Society Movement, for an END to Poverty & Inequality website, and e-mail. If you wish to join GCAP, please contact the relevant person hereafter in your country:

• Algeria: El-Irchad Organization;
• Bahrain: Awal Women’s Organisation;
• Egypt: Egypt Association for Health and Environment;
• Iraq: Al Amal Organization;
• Jordan: Jordanian’s Women Movement;
• Kuwait: Kuwaitian Economic Organization;
• Lebanon: Collective NGO in Lebanon;
• Morocco: Espace Assoicative;
• Palestine: Palestinian NGO Network PNGO; or Bisanrd,
• Saudi Arabia: Yousef Makki;
• Sudan: Gender Centre for Research and Training;
• Syria: Committees for Mobilization of Civil Society, Fayez Sarah;
• Tunisia: Association of Democratic Women;
• Yemen: Chaqa’eq Forum.

I would also like to invite you to join an open discussion group on the Arab NGO Network for Development:

• ANND: Arab NGO Network for Developmend, website, and e-mail; ANND’s participion in the World Social Forum 2008;
• AHED: Association for Health and Environmental Development, website, and e-mail, (on our blog as Action against Poverty).

See also: CIVICUS World Alliance for Citizen Participation, (also in french and spanish), (on our blog as CIVICUS).

Linked with Angie Zelter – England.

Trident Ploughshares TP is a campaign to disarm the UK Trident nuclear weapons system in a non-violent, open, peaceful and fully accountable manner.

Introduction part I: Trident Ploughshares TP is a part of the international nuclear disarmament movement. Trident Ploughshares activists have pledged to disarm the UK Trident nuclear weapons system in a non-violent, open, peaceful, safe and fully accountable manner. At this time over 200 Trident Ploughshares activists have signed a pledge to prevent nuclear crime. (full text).

Homepage and latest news;
Sitemap;
Invitation to join;
TP Defences in Court, Legal Documents & Articles;
TP Legal Support;
TP Prisoner Support;
Anti War Actions;
Photo Gallery;
Newsletter;
Address: TP Office: 42-46 Bethel Street, Norwich Norfolk NR2 1NR, United Kingdom, Phone: 0845 45 88 366 (from overseas +441259 753815), Fax: 08454588364 (from overseas +441259751959);
Contact by e-mail.

Introduction, part II /(About): We believe that the use or threatened use of nuclear weapons is totally immoral and irresponsible and that the Trident system is illegal under international law.

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main language: german, second language english – same URL (to change, click on ‘Sprache’ in the left column)

Linked with Walden Bello – Philippines.

Homepage:

Climate Corporation’s EU Emission Trading Services assist companies affected by the EU Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS) in selling or buying carbon credits. Our company was one of the first members of the leading spot exchange for EU allowances PowerNext. Climate Corporation provides companies with the means to efficiently manage allowance positions and secure investments in the GHG market …

All pages on this website run under the same URL. To find them, click on the links on the Homepage, for Emission Desk, CO2-Management, Compliance Package, Carbon Pool Europe, Newsletter, Archive 2005-2008 …

Address: Climate Corporation, Guntramsdorferstrasse 103, A-2340 Moedling/Austria, Tel: +43 2236 8002 7000.

Principles – The EU ETS: Facts and Figures:

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a worldwide felloship of committed scholar-activists

Linked with Walden Bello – Philippines.

Founded in 1974, the Transnational Institute (TNI) is an international network of activist-scholars committed to critical analyses of the global problems of today and tomorrow, with a view to providing intellectual support to those movements concerned to steer the world in a democratic, equitable and environmentally sustainable direction. In the spirit of public scholarship, and aligned to no political party, TNI seeks to create and promote international co-operation in analysing and finding possible solutions to such global problems as militarism and conflict, poverty and marginalisation, social injustice and environmental degradation.

Homepage and latest News;
The Carbon Connection – see also the video
Latest Publications;
Militarisation and Globalisation;
Newsletter;
links;
Contact.

About – TNI programmes engage in a broad range of research, policy advocacy and civil society networking activities:

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The America’s Union Movement

… (available also en espanol)

The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations AFL-CIO is a voluntary federation of 55 national and international labor unions.

Homepage and latest News;
Sitemap;
Corporate Watch;
Join a Union;
Newsletter /take action /network;
Stop Sweatshops;
Union Jobs;
Research Resources;
Address: AFL-CIO, 815 16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006;
Contact.

About: Today’s unions represent 10 million working women and men of every race and ethnicity and from every walk of life. We are teachers and truck drivers, musicians and miners, firefighters and farm workers, bakers and bottlers, engineers and editors, – and more …

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(in the six UN languages)

Linked with Francis S.L. Wang – USA & China;

The International Association of Law Schools (IALS) is a non-profit organization founded in 2005 with a membership of educational institutions, associations, and legal educators from throughout the world. Its members are committed to the proposition that the quality of legal education in any society is improved when students learn about other cultures and legal systems and the diverse approaches to solving legal problems employed in those legal systems … (full text).

The Charter for the IALS;
membership;
Services;
Meetings;
Board;
IALS Newsletter;
Links;
Contact & Address: International Association of Law Schools (IALS), 1201 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 800, Washington, DC, 20036-2717, Phone: 202.296.8851, Fax: 202.296.8869

About:

What Is the Mission of the IALS?

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Linked with The World Social Forum 2008.

Focus on the Global South is dedicated to regional and global policy analysis and advocacy work. Focus also concentrates on linking grassroots experiences to macro level issues such as trade liberalisation and the International Monetary Fund. (OneWorld.net).

Listen the video: a world without the WTO, November 29, 2006.

Homepage and latest News;
Site Index;
Programmes/Peace & Security;
Programmes/Trade Campaign;
Programmes/Alternatives;
Publications;
Contact.

Walden Bello is executive director of Focus on the Global South, professor of sociology and public administration at the University of the Philippines, and a fellow of the Transnational Institute. He is the author of numerous books on Asian issues and globalisation … (full text).

SPECIAL ISSUE ON THE WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Saturday 26 January is the World Social Forum Global Day of Action. More than 600 actions and events are being planned on or close to the day, in every continent; they range from defening housing rights in Omsk in Siberia and protesting anti-military bases actions in Aotearoa/New Zealand to dozens of local social forums, protests, gatherings and celebrations of resistance … (full text);

(also in french, and german)

Linked with Bahman Nirumand – Iran & Germany, with The Lost Children of the Revolution .
CASMII is dedicated to public education and engagement about war and sanctions on Iran. CASMII board members and affiliate consultants, are knowledgable experts of various backgrounds who have appeared on BBC, MSNBC, Dubai TV, CNN International, Aljazeera, Pacifica Radio, and many other networks. Many are published authors of reports and articles featured in many news media sources. If you are interested in inviting CASMII speakers to participate. (Speaking Engagements).

Homepage;
CASMII educational resources;
columns;
viewpoints section;
getting involved;
contact.

About CASMII:

Mission Statement:

CASMII is an independent campaign organisation with the purpose of opposing sanctions, foreign state interference and military intervention in Iran.

Statement of Purpose:

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good catholicss use condoms!

Linked with Maria José Rosado Nune /Sister Zecas – Brazil, with Catholics for a free choice, and with Religious Ideology and Social Control: Abortion and the Catholic Church.

Condoms4Life is an unprecedented worldwide public education effort to raise public awareness about the devastating effect of the bishops’ ban on condoms. The campaign was launched on World AIDS Day 2001 with the display of billboards and ads in subways and newspapers saying, “Banning Condoms Kills.”

Homepage;
The Facts about HIV/AIDS;
HIV/AIDS-resources;
Take action;
See the campaign;
Contact / become involved.

About: The advertising campaign in the US, Mexico, the Philippines, South Africa, Kenya, Chile and Zimbabwe, was the first phase of an effort to change the Vatican’s policy and challenge its aggressive lobbying against availability and access to condoms in areas of the world most at risk. The ads point out that many of the 4,000 plus bishops lobby governments and the United Nations to restrict access to condoms claiming that condoms cause AIDS, not prevent it.

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Linked with Maria José Rosado Nune /Sister Zecas – Brazil.

“If there is one issue that resonates across all sections of society, it is that Americans want to reduce the need for abortion. Over the coming weeks, and continuing throughout the year, Catholics for Choice will be promoting our Prevention Not Prohibition campaign. The first series of ads will be in newspapers in states where early caucuses and primaries take place: Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Nevada and Colorado.

Sitemap;
Issues;
Conscience Magazine;
News & Media;
Campaigns;
Contact.

About: Catholics for Choice (CFC) was founded in 1973 to serve as a voice for Catholics who believe that the Catholic tradition supports a woman’s moral and legal right to follow her conscience in matters of sexuality and reproductive health.

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Linked with Maria José Rosado Nune /Sister Zecas – Brazil, and with Religious Ideology and Social Control: Abortion and the Catholic Church.

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Letter to Pres. G.W. Bush, March 14, 2003;
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