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Formed in December 2003, the African Regional Youth Initiative ARYI works with over 400 youth and community-based organizations across Africa addressing development issues outlined in the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals- namely, poverty and hunger, HIV/AIDS and malaria, primary education, gender equity, child mortality, maternal health, and environmental sustainability. The work of ARYI is based on action plans developed by over twenty ARYI country and regional teams.

The organization not only empowers individuals and communities, but also nurtures the exchange of knowledge and capacity between entities through programmatic partnerships with regional organizations and networks. Direct community engagement and support mechanisms ensuring both sustainability and quality programming set ARYI’s work apart.

See ARYI mentionned also on these sites:

• de.staying-alive.org;
• Geocities.com;
• kabissa.org;
• taking it global.org;
• one world.net;
• afronets;
• missing link, etc.

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AEKW is a pan-African education portal which services African School Net practitioners, policymakers and school-based communities on ICTs in education across Africa.

The Schoolnet Centre: SchoolNet Africa is dedicated to providing schoolnet practitioners in Africa with value-added information and a range of resources in support to the use of ICTs in Education initiatives at local level. We have developed this African SchoolNet Centre to provide information and resources for African schoolnet practitioners to enhance the implementation efforts. The African SchoolNet Centre collects and houses information on national schoolnets in Africa and globally and provides space for networking and collaboration among schoolnet practitioners. By working together, we can collectively consolidate our efforts, harness the knowledge and skills at our disposal and celebrate our victories. For more information, email us.

See also: SchoolNet Africa’s Flagship Programs.

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(Their site exists also in other international languages).

FairTradeNet is the only non-profit online service procurement organization that distinguishes committed, high quality freelance workers from those who ‘just want to get the job done’.

Our freelancers have been subjected to stringent tests of credibility, integrity, motivation and professionalism, to ensure that their clients receive a service that is fair and worth every cent.

Unlike other procurement organizations, FairTradeNet does not force providers to lower prices as this only induces freelancers to cut corners and deliver substandard jobs – a situation no quality-conscious client can accept.

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Linked with Johan Galtung – Norway, with TRANSCEND’s Advanced International Training Programme, with Kai Frithof Brand-Jacobsen – Romania & Canada & Norway, with Violence, War, and Their Impact, with The Power of Nonviolence, and with Transcent.

The Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research TFF, Sweden.

Contact.

Created in 1986, TFF is an independent think tank, a global network and a homepage for peace by peaceful means. It inspires a passion for peace from the grassroots to the corridors of power.

TFF is an independent think tank, a global network and a website for peace by peaceful means. It inspires a passion for peace from the grassroots to the corridors of power.

TFF is an all-volunteer global network. It promotes conflict-mitigation and reconciliation in general and in selected conflict regions through meticulous on-the-ground research, active listening, education and advocacy.

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Linked with Kai Brand-Jacobsen – Romania & Canada & Norway, with The Power of Non-Violence, with Johan Galtung – Norway, with The Transnational Foundation, with Violence, War, and Their Impact, and with TRANSCEND’s Advanced International Training Programme.

Transcend-International, a peace and development organization for conflict transformation by peaceful means.

about: To work for peace is to work against violence; by analyzing its forms and causes, predicting in order to prevent, and then act preventively and curatively since peace relates to violence like health relates to illness.

Particularly important is genocide, or massive category killing, across the fault-lines in human society: nature (between humans and their environment), gender, generation, race, class, exclusion, nation, state. Whether as direct violence or as the indirect slow, grinding violence of social structures that do not deliver sufficient nutrition and health at the bottom of world society, enormous suffering, dukkha, is the effect.

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Linked with Kai Brand-Jacobsen – Romania, with Transcent, and with TRANSCEND’s Advanced International Training Programme.

WHERE THE WORLD MEETS FOR PEACE
Mission statement: The World Puja Network is a global internet broadcasting system whose core purpose is to activate a global culture of peace, wisdom and unstainability. World Puja is now in its 8th year of informing and inspiring thousands of people in more than 80 countries.
Programs and teachers;
Archives;
MP3 downloads;
links;

Contact: We rely on member feedback to help us improve our offerings. We are here to serve you and welcome any feedback you may have. Use the e-mail links below to contact World Puja.
Producer and Host: Maureen Moss, Tech Support & Webmaster: Randy Barris.

Linked with Sonia Pierre – Dominican Republic, with the International Women’s Rights Action Watch irwaw, and with The Dominican Republic Country Report.

MUDHA has not its own website, but this organisation is mentionned on many other sites, like these:

MUDHA challenges both gender discrimination and racism in the Dominican Republic by empowering women, providing them with access to basic social services. It has built schools and health clinics in bateyes, and established day care and adult education programs. MUDHA also challenges laws and practices that maintain women and children of Haitian descent in conditions of poverty. For example, Ms Pierre has led a campaign to provide Dominican-born children of Haitian descent with the Dominican birth certificates to which they are entitled. Without them, children are excluded from schools and denied the advancement of education. Historically, the Dominican Republic has had uneasy relations with neighboring Haiti and politicians decry the « Haitian invasion » of the country and scapegoat Haitians as the source of their country’s problems. Although Ms. Pierre has herself been publicly attacked and her children threatened for their mother’s activism, she has continued to inspire women around her, personifying the possibilities of what struggle can achieve. (Read all on AmnestyUSA.org).

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Linked with Sonia Pierre – Dominican Republic, with Movement for Dominican Women of Haitian Decent MUDHA, and with The Dominican Republic Country Report.

The International Women’s Rights Action Watch IWRAW was organized in 1985 at the World Conference on Women in Nairobi, Kenya, to promote recognition of women’s human rights under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (the CEDAW Convention), a basic international human rights treaty. IWRAW now is the primary international nongovernmental organization that facilitates use of international human rights treaties to promote women’s human rights and rights within families.

IWRAW promotes democracy in action, assisting women—and men who care about women and families—understand their human rights and claim them. It provides technical assistance and research support for projects concerning the rights of women and girls, such as law reform, policy advocacy, and monitoring government performance under international human rights treaties. It facilitates communication and connection between activists who share these concerns. In every region, women use IWRAW’s work to change their world.

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Linked with Reports and Texts about DARFUR.

Read: The Darfur Peace-Process.

The Darfur Relief and Documentation Centre (DRDC) is an independent, apolitical and not-for-profit non-governmental organisation (NGO) based in Geneva (Switzerland.) DRDC was established in May 2004 with the view to injecting an independent and impartial civil society perspective for a peaceful resolution of armed conflicts in the Darfur region of western Sudan. DRDC brings together a panoply of individuals from different backgrounds including intellectuals, scholars, community leaders, human rights and pro-democracy activists, and groups from Darfur and other parts of the world and engages them in an effort to help the people of Darfur to put an end to the conflict in the region and rebuild their destroyed lives and livelihood. DRDC conducts its work through advocacy, lobby, research and documentation on the different aspects that affect life in the Darfur region. DRDC’s core members are persons of solid knowledge of Sudan and the Darfur region combined with modern academic, technical and practical expertise in areas of benefit to the people of the region.

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Linked with Jason Rezaian – Iran & USA, and with A World Between.

Offering a range of services for news crews, reporters and other Western media representatives working in Iran and the Middle East.

Committed to creating a uniquely rewarding experience for media professionals and artists in an awe-inspiring and often misunderstood region of the world.
Providing articles on Iran that shed more light on current events there than do many found in most US newspapers.

About: The Iran Media Service was founded in 2000 when Jason Rezaian began writing about Iran for US publications. What began as several articles aimed at showing Iran to Americans in a more representative light, has grown to an operation that now provides resources to other Western journalists and production crews assigned to Iran.

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Linked with María del Carmen Sarthes – Argentina.

This link seems to be their website, but it is actually not available.

The group is also mentionned under the following links:

Who Are ‘Catholics for a Free Choice‘? (The) Pro-abortion Group Has Benefited from Pornography, Copyright © 1993 by Diane S. Dew, Published in ALL About Issues, Sept/Oct 1993 – Founded in 1972, Catholics For a Free Choice, a nominally Catholic, pro-abortion organization, has an annual budget of $900,000, and claims 8,000 members. According to the Encyclopedia of Associations, Catholics For a Free Choice (CFFC) is an association of « Catholics within the Roman Catholic Church who support the right to legal reproductive health care, especially to family planning and abortion.

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Linked with Rahela Khatun – Bangladesh, and with the Noai Landless Women Organization.

BELA is mentionned on these links:
On The Japan Environmental Education Forum / Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association BELA; on Green Cities; on friends of the earth bangladesh-groups; on e-law partners in Asia; on and Child Rights Information Network. And later on their own new website, now under construction.

The Worldwide movement for the conservation of environment quite justifiably hit Bangladesh, a country of extreme poverty, where natural environment was facing continuous degradation for a number of reasons. Attraction of sophisticated and high yielding technologies has over powered rationality in many instances, as consciousness for environment was yet to develop amongst governmental organizations and citizens group. When realities primarily forced by demand of increasing population, and natural disasters started taking tolls on human lives and livelihood, the consciousness began to change from status quo.

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Linked with Rina Amiri – Afghanistan & USA, with The Women Waging Peace Network, with Women Likely to Suffer Most in Central Asia’s Turmoil, and with Muslim Women As Symbols and Pawns.

RAWA is the oldest political/social organization of Afghan women struggling for peace, freedom, democracy and women’s rights in fundamentalism-blighted Afghanistan since 1977.

Website edited in the main UNO languages, plus português and german, as most of the following texts:

Listen to a short biography in audio of Martyred Meena (1956-1987), founding leader of RAWA.

Links to more publictions / audios / movies:

• Afghanistan the Bloodiest Field for Slaughtering Human Rights, RAWA communiqué on Universal Human Rights Day, Dec.10, 2006 (see picture above);
• Five Years Later, Afghanistan Still in Flames, Speech by Zoya at a benefit for RAWA in Los Angeles on October 7, 2006;
• Afghan orphans reshape their lives at RAWA orphanages; August 22, 2006;
• 28th April 1992, Mourning for People – Joy for Fundamentalists!
• RAWA denounces the gloomy day of April 28, 1992;
• April 28, 2006 ,
• Defense of Abdul Rahman Misses the Mark!, March 26, 2006;
• … Find many more links on RAWA.

If you are freedom-loving and anti-fundamentalist, you are with RAWA. Support and help us. Contact and Contributions.

Linked with Rina Amiri – Afghanistan & USA, with Muslim Women As Symbols and Pawns, with Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan RAWA, and with Women Likely to Suffer Most in Central Asia’s Turmoil.

About: The Initiative for Inclusive Security includes The Women Waging Peace Network, a network of women peacemakers from conflict areas around the world, ranging from Sudan to Sri Lanka, Colombia to Bosnia, the Middle East to Sierra Leone. The Network was launched in 1999 to connect these women with each other and with policy shapers.

Members of the Waging network: all (are) demonstrated leaders among women peace builders, are elected and appointed government officials, directors of non-governmental organizations and movements in civil society, scholars and educators, businesspeople, representatives of multilateral organizations, and journalists. With varied backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, they bring a vast array of expertise to the peacemaking process.

Publications.

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Linked with Virginia/Ginny Shrivastava – India.

ASTHA is an organization with ‘Faith in the People’. Astha is a Hindi word, which means “deep faith or conviction”. We have “faith in the people” – faith that people have abilities, strengths and knowledge to solve the problems they face. Poor people are marginalized, exploited, deprived, and usually do not recognize their strength – but Astha does!

The Mission of Astha is to help People to organize, expand their capacities and equip themselves for the struggles they must wage to overcome the various deprivations under which they live.

Astha works for Structural Change:

• Bringing into being new structures of the poor (organized and aware), which changes the “structure of society” – before, there was no organization of the poor that society had to deal with, now there is.
• Bringing changes in some of the laws and policies, rules and regulations, that form part of the root causes of injustice, deprivation, exploitation and marginalization. And so Astha’s work includes research, documentation and networking to prepare for the advocacy work it does, along with others, to bring changes in those laws and policies in need of change.

Contact: Astha, 39 Kharol Colony, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. 313 004 – Phone 91 294 245 1348, Fax 91 294 2451391, write astha39 atsancharnet dotin.

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