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Linked with Viloyat Mirzoyeva – Tajikistan, and with Bihodjal Rahimova – Tajikistan.

Homepage:

UNIFEM is the women’s fund at the United Nations. It provides financial and technical assistance to innovative programmes and strategies to foster women’s empowerment and gender equality. Placing the advancement of women’s human rights at the centre of all of its efforts, UNIFEM focuses its activities on four strategic areas:

• (1) reducing feminized poverty,
• (2) ending violence against women,
• (3) reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS among women and girls, and
• (4) achieving gender equality in democratic governance in times of peace as well as war. (read more; lea más; et aussi).

UNIFEM Project Office in Tajikistan, 35, Khusein-zade Street, Dushanbe 734025, TAJIKISTAN. National Project Coordinator: Viloyat Mirzoeva, Tel: +992 372 211831, Fax: +992 372 210645 (Go to this UNIFEM site and scoll down).

NGO Committee on UNIFEM – The NGO Committee on UNIFEM was established to promote the work of UNIFEM. It consists of representatives of 32 NGOs in consultative status with ECOSOC. Inquiries about the committee may be directed to Jackie Shapiro, Convener of the Committee, at +1 212-249-4065. (full text).

Linked with Peter Waterman – England, with Reflections on an Emancipatory Labour Internationalism … , with Surpassing the binary opposition between reform and revolution.

Turtle People;
Book Reviews;
Archive/Graveyard;
Turtle’s links;
Contact;
And last but not least: the very deep, very red Homepage.

About: The Voice of the Turtle is an online journal of left-wing politics and culture. Its Editors are scattered across the face of the globe, in San Francisco, California and Ithaca, New York; Oxford, England and Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, England, and – from time to time – Harare, Zimbabwe. The Turtle edits and publishes material as it comes in to our shifting Headquarters. In most of the months of the year, a Monthly Missive informs those who subscribe to the Turtle’s email list of the latest developments on the site.

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(site in russian)

CACEE has been established at the Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU), Tomsk, Russia, as a satellite centre of the UNESCO International Centre for Engineering Education UICEE, which is based at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. This has been accomplished within the framework of a Memorandum of Understanding signed between the TPU and the UICEE, which came into effect on January 01, 2001.

Information;
Contact. Address: Central Asia Centre for Engineering Education, 634034, 30 Lenin Ave., Tomsk, Russia.

Partners:
Monash University (Melbourne, Australia);
Aalborg University, Faculty of Engineering & Science (Aalborg, Denmark);
Anna University (Chennai, Madras, India);
Glasgow Caledonian University (Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom);
Ryerson Polytechnic University (Toronto, Canada);
Technical University of Denmark (Lyngby, Denmark);
University of Technology, Business & Design (Hochschule Wismar, Wismar, Germany).

Goals: The CACEE seeks to accomplish several goals in the realm of engineering education, namely:

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Linked with all links on CANGO.net on this blog.

An internet resoure page hosted by the East European, Russian, and Eurasian National Resource Center at Columbia University. As part of a longstanding effort to provide resources on Central Asia and the Caucasus, the Center is pleased to present the resources below. Center staff would be grateful for suggested additional links.

A site with a great amount of links:

Excemple: all country links;
links for educators;
Contact on their website:

NGOs:
CANGO.net;
Central Asia Insitutute;
Eurasia Foundation;
Open Society Institute;
International Research & Exchanges Board;
Silkroad Foundation;
CIMERA;

See many other topics, like more NGOs, on their Homepage.

Linked with Dilorom Mukhsinova – Uzbekistan, with Mubarak Gurbanova – Turkmenistan, with Viloyat Mirzoyeva – Tajikistan, with Gavkhar Juraeva – Tajikistan, and with Bihodjal Rahimova – Tajikistan.

Linked also with former personalities of Central Asia on this web blog: with Adiba Kamiljonovna Akhmedjanova – Uzbekistan, with Sakhibakhon Irgasheva – Uzbekistan, with Mutabar Tadjibayeva – Uzbekistan, with Natalia Shabunz – Turkmenistan, with Fatimakhon Ahmedova – Tajikistan, with Aziza Abdirasulova – Kyrgyzstan, with Raisa Kadyrova – Kyrgyzstan, with Tolekan Ismailova – Kyrgyzstan, with Natalia Shabunz – Turkmenistan, and with Rozlana Taukina – Kazakhstan.

News;
Archive;
Counterpart Consortium Offices in Central Asia (full text/addresses);
Database.

The site exists also in russian, see link on english homepage.

CANGO.net is a Civil Society Support Initiative. A new program of the United States Agency on International Development USAID for Central Asian NGOs, exactly in Kasakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

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(also in espanol) – Linked with Paul Rice – USA, and with Fair Trade and Human Rights.
Fair Trade Blog; who we are; Producer Profiles; Buy Fair Trade; Fair Trade Products; Fair Trade Links. Their contact address can be found on bapd.org.

TransFairUSA on wikipedia. TransFairUSA is part of FLO International.

Overview: Fair Trade Certification empowers farmers and farm workers to lift themselves out of poverty by investing in their farms and communities, protecting the environment, and developing the business skills necessary to compete in the global marketplace:

• Fair Trade is much more than a fair price! Fair Trade principles include:
• Fair price: Democratically organized farmer groups receive a guaranteed minimum floor price and an additional premium for certified organic products. Farmer organizations are also eligible for pre-harvest credit.
• Fair labor conditions: Workers on Fair Trade farms enjoy freedom of association, safe working conditions, and living wages. Forced child labor is strictly prohibited.
• Direct trade: With Fair Trade, importers purchase from Fair Trade producer groups as directly as possible, eliminating unnecessary middlemen and empowering farmers to develop the business capacity necessary to compete in the global marketplace.
• Democratic and transparent organizations: Fair Trade farmers and farm workers decide democratically how to invest Fair Trade revenues.
• Community development: Fair Trade farmers and farm workers invest Fair Trade premiums in social and business development projects like scholarship programs, quality improvement trainings, and organic certification.
• Environmental sustainability: Harmful agrochemicals and GMOs are strictly prohibited in favor of environmentally sustainable farming methods that protect farmers’ health and preserve valuable ecosystems for future generations.

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Linked with Byllye Avery – USA, with An Open Letter to my Sisters,
with The Health Care Crisis … , and with the National Black Women’s Health Imperative.

The Avery Institute for Social Change is a national, non-profit organization based in Harlem, N.Y., that is committed to quality health care for all. The organization takes a practical, visionary approach to health care reform, linking the grassroots, academic and policy communities, giving voice to those who experience the impact of health disparities, particularly in communities of color. Through public education, technical assistance and leadership development, The Avery Institute for Social Change is building a new knowledge base and a network of leader-activists. The organization seeks community-driven solutions for ending health disparities while stimulating a grassroots movement for national health care reform.

Contact.
Communiversity.
Press-Room.

Our goal is to inspire a grassroots movement to work for health care reform using the « Health Care as a Human Right » platform.

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Linked with Byllye Avery – USA, with An Open Letter to my Sisters, with The Health Care Crisis … , and with the Avery Institute for Social Change.

Homepage and links to many topics.
Contact and affiliates.

Who We Are: Black Women’s Health Imperative, the new name of the National Black Women’s Health Project, is a leading African American health education, research, advocacy and leadership development institution. Founded in 1983 by health activist Byllye Y. Avery, it has been a pioneer in promoting the empowerment of African American women as educated health care consumers and a strong voice for the improved health status of African American women. The organization is gaining the well-earned reputation as the leading force for health for African American women. Black Women’s Health Imperative possesses national stature as the only national organization devoted solely to the health of the nation’s 19 million Black women and girls. Our mission is to promote optimum health for Black women across the life span—physically, mentally and spiritually.

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Linked with Jane Roberts and Lois Abraham – USA, with UNFPA, and with 34 Million Friends of UNFPA.

Americans for UNFPA (United Nations Fund for Population Activities) is dedicated to building American support for the work of UNFPA and to restoring the United States’ moral and financial contribution to the organization. This is a non-partisan, charitable organization funded by private foundations and individual donors. The U.S. Committee for UNFPA, now Americans for UNFPA, was founded in 1998. We are the official committee for UNFPA in the United States. We support UNFPA by generating awareness of UNFPA’s work, fundraising for field programs, and advocating for U.S. policies in support of UNFPA, including the release of Congressionally-allocated U.S. funds that have been withheld by the Administration since 2002.

Women’s Health;
Rights of Women;
Take Action;
Donate;
Contact us online.

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Linked with Jane Roberts and Lois Abraham – USA, with UNFPA, and with Americans for UNFPA.

34 Million Friends of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.

Have been spent through Jan. 31, 2007: $ 3,465,699.63;

Contribute: Be one of 34 million Americans to contribute at least $1 to our grassroots movement for the women of the world. Invite others to join you:

BY MAIL: Americans for UNFPA – 34 Million Friends, P.O. Box 681, Toms River, NJ 08754;

online ($10 minimum);

All contributions are tax deductible.

Contact us.

Linked with Jane Roberts and Lois Abraham – USA, with 34 Million Friends of UNFPA, and with Americans for UNFPA.

UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.

Our Mission: UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is an international development agency that promotes the right of every woman, man and child to enjoy a life of health and equal opportunity. UNFPA supports countries in using population data for policies and programmes to reduce poverty and to ensure that every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe, every young person is free of HIV/AIDS, and every girl and woman is treated with dignity and respect. UNFPA? because everyone counts.

Meeting Development Goals;
Sitemap;
Contact;

The state of world population;
Population Issues;
Publications;
News release.
etc. etc., got to their huge webs.

Add: 102 Bazaar Street, Pandamangalam – 763 008, Tamil Nadu, Tel: 91-4268-430960, Email. siva_word@hotmail.com, The Organisation has no Website.
Contact: Mrs Ramachandran Sivakamavalli.

Purpose: Aged, Agriculture, Child welfare, Environment, Food and Nutrition, Health, Human Rights, Micro-enterprises, Poverty, Rural Development, Sanitation, Sustainable Development, Training, Tribal issues, Water, Women’s issues
Aim/Objective/Mission: The organisation has been formed for the cause of women community. It is looking at the women issues in this area with grave concern. The conditions of the women in Kabilarmalai block of Namakkal district are painting an alarming picture.

While the women live under a pathetic state of affairs, there are increasing cases of female infanticides. The organisation has taken serious efforts to curb this practice. Generally there has been fruitful results with declining number of female infanticides.

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The Child Rights Information Network CRIN is a global network that disseminates information about the Convention on the Rights of the Child and child rights amongst non-governmental organisations (NGOs), United Nations agencies, inter-governmental organisation (IGOs), educational institutions, and other child rights experts. The Coordinating Unit is based in London, UK.

CRIN’s regional gateway, inclusive with Other organisations based in India (pull down the page);
The Convention on the Rights of the child;
CRIN publications;
CRIN newsletter;
NGO alternative reports;
Contact (in many languages).

The network is supported, and receives funding from Save the children Sweden, Save the Children UK, UNICEF, Plan International, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and World Vision International. Project funding is also received from the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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exist also in Francais, Deutsch, Svenske, Japanese.

Linked with Annapurna Moharana – India.

Sarvodaya, Sri Lanka’s biggest charity, is dedicated to making a positive difference to the lives of rural Sri Lankans. Our grassroots movement now reaches 15,000 villages in 34 districts with 1,500 staff throughout Sri Lanka. Founded by a Sri Lankan schoolteacher in 1958, our philosophy is based on Buddhist-Gandhian philosophy and we work across all ethnic and religious communities. We are dedicated to the sustainable empowerment of people through self-help and collective support, to non-violence and peace. It is not as much what we do to alleviate rural poverty but the way in which we do it which makes us so effective and sustainable – through the active participation and engagement of the villagers themselves.

Contact.

Development Model: Shramadana means “sharing work, knowledge, talents, and time.” The aim of the Movement is to use shared work, voluntary giving and sharing of resources to achieve the personal and social awakening of everyone ~ from the individual, to the village, and continuing up to the international level. ‘Awakening’ means developing human potential, and is a comprehensive process taking place on the spiritual, moral, cultural, social, economic and political levels.

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Linked with Duiji – India, and with the Mahila Samakhya Programme.

The Educational Resource Unit ERU is a consulting group established in 1996 with the objective of working in an interdisciplinary manner on education, health, rights, livelihood and sustainable development. Since inception ERU has executed a range of research studies and evaluations/reviews in primary education, women’s education, rural livelihoods, social security, primary healthcare and women’s health. We have special expertise in qualitative research and process documentation.

Strategic planning and programme development has been a running theme in our work. We also facilitate policy development and implementation by government, donors, corporate foundations and voluntary organisations.

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