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INDIA’S NATIONAL MAGAZINE, from the publishers of THE HINDU

Linked with Are Presidents Entitled to Kill Foreigners? and with Breaking Down an Innocent Man.

Homepage of frontline India, as frontline, and also as flonnet.com;
The digital Frontline;
archives;
The Hindu Group Publications;
The Hindu e-books;
images;
Business Line (from the Hindu group of publications);
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See two of the latest articles:

JAMMU & KASHMIR, Signals from ceasefire, published on FRONTLINE, by PRAVEEN SWAMI in Srinagar, Volume 24/Issue 21 – Oct. 20-Nov. 02, 2007: The United Jihad Council is desperate to join in the political dialogue on Jammu and Kashmir’s future, but it may be too late …

and: POLITICS, No-win situation, published on FRONTLINE, by VENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN, Volume 24/Issue 21 – Oct. 20-Nov. 02, 2007: Electoral compulsions and the prospect of some NSG countries opposing the Indo-U.S. deal forced the government’s climbdown …

(the Original, established 1989)

Linked with Jamal Saadeddine Ibrahim – Egypt.

In the name of God,The Compassionate, The Merciful – Oh mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that you may know each other (Not that you may despise each other). 49;13

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About/(TAM info): The American Muslim is dedicated to the promotion of peace, justice, and reconciliation for all humanity. We strive to:

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Linked with Ashanti Alston Omowali – USA.

The Institute for Anarchist Studies IAS, a nonprofit foundation established in 1996 to support the development of anarchism, is primarily a grant-giving organization for radical writers. Our aim is to promote critical scholarship that explores social domination and reconstructive visions of a free society. To date, we have funded almost sixty projects by authors from countries around the world, including Argentina, Canada, New Zealand, Lebanon, Chile, Ireland, Nigeria, Mexico, the Philippines, Germany, Uruguay, South Africa, the Czech Republic, and the United States. In addition to organizing projects like the Renewing the Anarchist Tradition (RAT) conference and the Radical Theory Track at the National Conference on Organized Resistance (NCOR), we also publish a biannual magazine, Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, to cultivate community among those interested in the development of anarchism and offer a « Mutual Aid » list of IAS speakers available for public talks. The IAS is part of a larger movement to radically transform society as well. We are internally democratic and work in solidarity with people around the globe who share our values.

Newsletter;
Brecht Forum;
Archives;
A Scholarly Conference in Montpelier, Vermont, Nov. 2 to 4, 2007 (sorry, registration is closed);
Contact: Institute for Anarchist Studies, PO Box 15586, Washington, DC 20003, USA, e-mail.

About: Anarchism emerged out of the socialist movement as a distinct politics in the nineteenth century. It asserted that it is necessary and possible to overthrow coercive and exploitative social relationships, and replace them with egalitarian, self-managed, and cooperative social forms. Anarchism thus gave new depth to the long struggle for freedom.

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Linked with Rebecca MacKinnon – USA.

Global Voices is an internship program at the Kennedy School of Government. It is also a non-profit global citizens’ media project founded at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, a research think-tank focused on the Internet’s impact on society. Rebecca MacKinnon has founded Global Voices, together with Ethan Zuckerman.

Global Voices online: the world is talking, are you listening?

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for bloggers;
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About: … Global Voices seeks to aggregate, curate, and amplify the global conversation online – shining light on places and people other media often ignore. We work to develop tools, institutions and relationships that will help all voices, everywhere, to be heard.

With tens of millions of people blogging all over the planet, how do you avoid being overwhelmed by the information overload? How do you figure out who are the most influential or respected and credible bloggers or podcasters in any given country, especially those outside your own?

Our international team of volunteer authors, regional blogger-editors and translators are your guides to the global blogosphere … (full text).

Linked with Jamal Saadeddine Ibrahim – Egypt.

CSID Boards: The CSID is managed by a Board of Directors (BOD) made up of a diverse group of influential and highly-respected scholars, activists and leaders, including some of the most respected figures in the Muslim community and mainstream North American academia.

The Board of Directors, Old Version;

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ABOUT: CSID is a non-profit organization, based in Washington DC, dedicated to studying Islamic and democratic political thought and merging them into a modern Islamic democratic discourse.

The organization was founded in March 1999 by a diverse group of academicians, professionals, and activists–both Muslim and non-Muslim–from around the USA who agree on the need for the study of and dissemination of reliable information on this complex topic …

… There is no narrow ideological or sectarian litmus test for involvement in CSID–the organization has no agenda other than the production and dissemination of rigorous research into Islam and democracy–but its members are united in the conviction that this subject has been widely misunderstood both in the West and the Muslim world, and that this fact has caused much fitnah (discord) among Muslims and continues to hamper attempts at cross-cultural dialogue today. (full text).

Linked with Rebecca MacKinnon – USA.

The Berkman Center’s mission is to explore and understand cyberspace, its development, dynamics, norms, standards, and need or lack thereof for laws and sanctions. We are a research center, premised on the observation that what we seek to learn is not already recorded. Our method is to build out into cyberspace, record data as we go, self-study, and publish. Our mode is entrepreneurial nonprofit.

Teaching; research; advising; advocacy; Newsletter (the filter); Weblogs at Harvard La School; the Berkman Center’s people; Publications; books;
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About: The Berkman Center is a research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. We represent a network of faculty, students, fellows, entrepreneurs, lawyers, and virtual architects working to identify and engage with the challenges and opportunities of cyberspace.

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Free, independent and non-profit access to worldwide law – 865 databases from 123 countries and territories via the Free Access to Law Movement.

Diveded in global (all coutries, all databases), regions, other groupings, libraries & projects, catalog (all categories, subjects)them, see in the left column of the homepage.

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8th international conference lw via the internet LEXUM, Montreal 25-26 October 2007 (en francais & in english).

The Jewish Virtual Library’s purpose is to provide information about all facets of Jewish life: Judaism, Jews in the Diaspora, the history of Anti-Semitism, the rise of Zionism and Zionist thought, biographies of prominent Zionists, The Holocaust, Israel and Jerusalem, Israel’s Wars, and Jewish holidays, Who is a Jew?

Startsite;
the library;
bookstore;
Publications;
Latest library news;
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and many more … like:
On One Foot: A Middle East guide for the perplexed, or: How to respond on your way to class, when your best friend joins an anti-Israel protest, by Mitchell G. Bard, Ph.D.;

Links:

Library of Congress;

Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress: Spinoza’s Opera Posthuma;

From Publishers Weekly: The Library of Congress has one of the world’s great collections of Judaica … (full text);

From the Ends of the Earth, by Rizzoli on amazon.

Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) as a Tool for Fisheries Management – new Web site launched in all 6 UN languages

Published on FAO.org, 18 October 2007.

The FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department has launched a Web site to increase knowledge on the contribution of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) to fisheries management. This Web site has been developed under a project aimed at supporting the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD). One section of the site presents guidelines prepared by FAO on the design, implementation and testing of MPAs as a fisheries management tool.

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Activities;
Statistics;
Geoinfo;
Meetings & News;
Publications;
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link to the old fisheries website;
Contact: FAO – FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS.

About: Mission – The mission of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Department of FAO is to facilitate and secure the long-term sustainable development and utilization of the world’s fisheries and aquaculture. FAO is acutely aware of the fundamental social and economic role played by these two sectors in:

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The Rights Philosophy Forum is dedicated to promoting the exploration and discussion of human rights, and the philosophy and rationale behind them …

Top 20 Rights Philosophers, A crash-course in rights philosophy;
Classic Honorable Mentions;
The Modern Debate;
General Philosphy (with links to most known philosophers, and on its left column: favorite philosophy links);
Rights Education;
Rights Resources;
Rights and Law;
editor’s blog;
Join now (contact): for philosophy.

About:
Mission Statement: Many of the practical problems associated with human rights – from civil rights violations, to genocide, to international intervention – stem from fundamental disagreements about ethical philosophy. The Rights Philosophy Forum aims to nurture understanding of competing philosophies, and to encourage everyone involved in the human rights debate to continually refine, strengthen, and even overhaul their own arguments when necessary. At the same time, the RPF hopes to cultivate a sense of cooperation and tolerance in the discussion of human rights philosophy, and to promote a healthy, fruitful interchange of ideas between peoples and countries holding vastly different viewpoints.

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Linked with Nosandla Malindi – South Africa.

DELTA stands for Development Education and Leadership Teams in Action. It is a collective training event to prompt action for social change. Its roots are in Freirean critical awareness, human relations training in group work, organizational development, social analysis and a conceptualization of transformation derived from liberation theology.

The program was originally developed for use in Kenya. It has spread thereafter to other neighboring countries in Africa thanks to mobile training teams. It has also been used in European countries. (full text).

Delta started in 1992 as a project of the Catholic Welfare Development (CWD). In 1995 it became independent from CWD. Delta has been empowering women in the urban and rural areas in the Western Cape. (full text).

I found no own website.

Links:

Google Scholar-search;

Practical Action Publishing.

(english, francais, portuguesa, espanol, deutsch)

Linked with ‘Stand Up against poverty‘ on this blog of October 11th, 2006.

Welcome to the updated Stand Up and Speak Out 2007 website. We’ve tried to make it as simple as possible for you to get involved in Stand Up and Speak Out. You can find events and see if any are planned near you. Hosting your own event is easy when you know the « Three Rs » of Stand Up and Speak Out: Register, Record, Report. Simply come to the Homepage to register your event (Good news, you are already here!) … (full text).

Online Video Announcement: At 14:00 GMT on Oct. 18th (2007). The event will be hosted here.

Join us to hear the officially verified Guinness World Record number for the number of people who took part in the “Stand Up and Speak Out” challenge on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. At 14:00 GMT on Oct. 18, 2007 the event will be hosted at this web address;

The Stand Up blog;
materials in all languages (from arabic material to youth material);
Events;
Updates/Newsletter;
Contacts.

About: ‘End Poverty 2015′, the Millennium Campaign, is an interagency initiative of the United Nations that supports citizens’ efforts to hold their governments to accountable for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals Working in more than 30 countries, both rich and poor, the Campaign partners with a wide range of partners at the international and local level to inspire grassroots movements toward the achievement of the Goals.

Go to Millenium campaign and click on the links.
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The Right to Food Campaign is an informal network of organisations and individuals committed to the realisation of the right to food in India. We consider that everyone has a fundamental right to be free from hunger. Our shared commitment is expressed in the campaign’s foundation statement. For a brief account of the campaign’s activities so far, here is an introductory note.

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Employment Guarantee Act;
Integrated Child Development Services ICDS;
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Contact: Right to Food Campaign, Secretariat, Q – 21-B, Top Floor, Jungpura Extn., New Delhi – 110014, (Ph 011 43501335). E-mail, web-contact.

About: Foundation statement: “The right to food campaign is an informal network of organisations and individuals committed to the realisation of the right to food in India. We consider that everyone has a fundamental right to be free from hunger and undernutrition. Realising this right requires not only equitable and sustainable food systems, but also entitlements relating to livelihood security such as the right to work, land reform and social security. We consider that the primary responsibility for guaranteeing these entitlements rests with the state. Lack of financial resources cannot be accepted as an excuse for abdicating this responsibility. In the present context, where people’s basic needs are not a political priority, state intervention itself depends on effective popular organisation. We are committed to fostering this process through all democratic means.” (full text).

Conferences on Science and World Affairs

Here, then, is the problem which we present to you, stark and dreadful and inescapable: Shall we put an end to the human race; or shall mankind renounce war?

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pugwash UK, the British Pugwash Group;
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About: The purpose of the Pugwash Conferences is to bring together, from around the world, influential scholars and public figures concerned with reducing the danger of armed conflict and seeking cooperative solutions for global problems. Meeting in private as individuals, rather than as representatives of governments or institutions, Pugwash participants exchange views and explore alternative approaches to arms control and tension reduction with a combination of candor, continuity, and flexibility seldom attained in official East-West and North-South discussions and negotiations. Yet, because of the stature of many of the Pugwash participants in their own countries (as, for example, science and arms-control advisers to governments, key figures in academies of science and universities, and former and future holders of high government office), insights from Pugwash discussions tend to penetrate quickly to the appropriate levels of official policy-making.

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(informations in english, espanol, portugues, italiano, francais, deutsch, nederlands)

Linked with Hollman Felipe Morris – Colombia.

Reporting on the Drug War and Democracy from Latin America

Homepage: with latest Drug News, today from Sept. 11 to Oct. 16, 2007;

More articles on Narcosphere;

apply for a co-publisher account … and many other links for similar articles and websites, directly from the homepage.

Read: Information Apartheid in Colombia, Independent Media and Authentic Journalism Under the Uribe Administration, by Laura del Castillo Matamoros, Special to The Narco News Bulletin, July 11, 2005.