Scriptorium

Linked with Fawzia Adam – Somalia.

renewal is the website turning adversity into opportunity for refugees in West-London.

What is Renewal SRB? West London is the most dynamic economic sub region in London. However, most refugees face a number of complex barriers that prevent them from taking a full part in daily life and contributing to Renewal is a unique programme funded by SRB6, via the London Development Agency, to support Refugee Community Organisations (RCOs) in the 6 West London boroughs of (Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Hounslow, Harrow, Brent and Hillingdon). The Accountable Body for the SRB Scheme is Ealing Primary Care Trust, one of the new NHS Trusts set up in April 2002 to provide primary care and to commission health services. The Renewal project team is based at Ealing PCT and consists of 5 staff, headed by a Programme Manager.

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Linked with Boua Chanthou – Cambodia, and with Thavrin THONG – Cambodia, with The Khmer Rouge next at Trial, and with DCA DanChurchAid Cambodia – the right to food.

NGO Forum on Cambodia’s Homepage in english; and Homepage in local language.

The NGO Forum has employed a full-time Representative since 1995. Since that time, the Representative and core staff have played an essential role in organising discussion and debate among member organisations, responding to requests for information, and representing NGOs’ perspectives on a range of development issues. The Representative (now termed “Executive Director”) represents the NGO Forum to government, donors and other bodies on the full range of NGO Forum’s concerns. As such, the Core Project is the most essential and permanent feature of the NGO Forum’s work. As the NGO Forum’s influence increased, it became necessary to create projects to better fulfil the demand for the NGO Forum’s services. Since 1998, the NGO Forum has created additional projects that look after particular sectors of the NGO Forum’s work. Thus the Core Project now provides administrative and management support to ensure effective functioning of the NGO Forum’s ten projects, each of which facilitates an NGO network on a thematic issue. Therefore, in addition to the Core Project’s representational role, the Core Project provides essential back up to the projects, without which the projects would be unable to function.

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Somewhat like Amnesty International begins more and more taking place, but here by forcing governments to stop war.

Go to Ceasefire Campaign and follow the indicated steps to act for stopping a possible war with Iran.

About CeasefireCampaign.org: The Ceasefire Campaign began when 300,000 individuals from over 150 countries came together to demand a ceasefire in Lebanon. The campaign is a project of Res Publica, a global civic advocacy group and registered charitable organization based in New York City. Please write by email.

And visit the Res Publica.org-website for more information.

A website providing human rights professionals with easy access to the best online resources.

Here 6 graphical illustrations:

1) by INA’s infographics, the International Networks Archive INA: Glass half empty: the coming water wars;

2) Darfur Drawn, pictures made by children in Darfur;

3) true Majority;

4) Survival International; and its Homepage:

5) Advancing Science Serving Society;

6) Global map of hunger.

The website is primarily aimed at human rights activists – persons monitoring the respect of human rights and advocating for positive change. Persons who are passionate about quality human rights work, have a thirst to continually deepen their knowledge, and are looking for a collection of top reference material.

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Linked with Lyudmila Alekseeva – Russian Federation.

On December 12 2005 the Second All-Russian Civil Congress took place in Moscow. Advancing the slogan “Russia for democracy, Against Dictatorship” it has brought together leaders of liberal opposition parties and more than 700 representatives of civil and human rights organizations from all over the country. Several questions were discussed during the Congress: resistance to the destruction of civil society in Russia, elections in 2007-2008 and the creation of a united party of democrats, the threat of nationalism and fascism and the creation of a civil (independent) television network (20-DEC-2005). (Read more on humanrightshouse.org).

Links:

Kaukasian Knot;

Russia Profile.org;

the other Russia.

Linked with Ngun Fung Liu – Hong Kong SAR.

The Hong Kong Association for the Survivors of Women Abuse Kwan Fook is part of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China.

Some sites:

• Homepage;
• English Version;
• english Text only Version;
• Subcommittee on Review of the Comprehensive Social Security Assistance Scheme;
• Subcommittee on Strategy and Measures to Tackle Family Violence;

etc.

Linked with Gauriben RaysinghbHai KOLI – India, and with Women as the Leaders of Development.
Read all the rest on SEWA’a Website.

Introduction: SEWA is a trade union registered in 1972. It is an organisation of poor, self-employed women workers. These are women who earn a living through their own labour or small businesses. They do not obtain regular salaried employment with welfare benefits like workers in the organised sector. They are the unprotected labour force of our country. Constituting 93% of the labour force, these are workers of the unorganised sector. Of the female labour force in India, more than 94% are in the unorganised sector. However their work is not counted and hence re-mains invisible. In fact, women workers themselves remain uncounted, undercounted and invisible.

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Linked with Doreen Spence – Canada.

And also linked with Chief Arvol Looking Horse – Sioux Nation USA, with Rev. Mother Mary Elizabeth Thunder, with Peacemessage from Chief Arvol Looking Horse, Sioux Nation, with The Wolakota Foundation, Facing the Winds of Change.

The DNA Ancestry Project.

Links to American Indian Reference Sites by Phil Konstantin – Page 1 (goes to 4, with hundreds of links).

The Native Americans (Homepage), with their countless sub-pages, like the Native American Testing; the American Native Press Archives; Native American Religion. Find also many links to more Websites for Newspapers, Treaties, Assemblies, Friendship Centres, Indigenous Education and some Enterprise Activities on this page of the Native American.

To find a special nation, put Native American(s) into Google and find a selection of many nations, like for exemple this site for Eskimos.

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Website, Services etc. in english, but also in deutsch, en français, en español e português.

It is a small and dynamic consulting firm handling a wide range of political and economic advisory services to governmental and private clients in developing and transitional countries. We combine our consultancy services with implementation and capacity building. Our business is part of the cooperative AGEG Consultants eG. We build on valuable experience and robust networks in the expert community. e-mail.

Newsletter in english.

Special Newsletter on Post-conflict economies: The Web version is available on http://www.weitzenegger.de/new/2006/1006.html, with new recommended books:

• The Impact of Crime on the Enterprise Sector, Transition Versus Non-Transition Countries, Academic Article;
• Transnational Organized Crime, Terrorism, and WMD, Academic Article;
• War as a Network Enterprise, The New Security Terrain and its Implications, Academic Article.

Services:

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Updated 2010-04-02: World Wide Web Virtual Library.

The WWW Virtual Library VL is the oldest catalogue of the Web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of HTML and of the Web itself, in 1991 at CERN in Geneva.

About: Unlike commercial catalogues, it is run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert; even though it isn’t the biggest index of the Web, the VL pages are widely recognised as being amongst the highest-quality guides to particular sections of the Web.

Where is it? Individual indexes live on hundreds of different servers around the world. A set of catalogue pages linking these pages is maintained at http://vlib.org/. A mirror of the Catalog is kept at East Anglia (UK). The catalogue pages started life on the original web server at CERN, and have been hosted at various locations around the World since then. They moved to a new server in Geneva in 2004, not many kilometres from their first location.

Who runs it: Each maintainer is responsible for the content of their own pages, as long as they follow certain guidelines. The central Catalog pages are maintained by the Council of the VL.

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alliance contre la faim / Allianz gegen den Hunger / alleanza contro la fame

journée mondiale de l’alimentation:

Chaque année, le 16 octobre, l’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture célèbre la Journée mondiale de l’alimentation, qui commémore la date de sa création, en 1945. Le thème retenu pour la Journée mondiale de l’alimentation et le TeleFood en 2006, est « Investir dans l’agriculture pour la sécurité alimentaire ».

Même si l’agriculture est aujourd’hui un secteur économique secondaire dans de nombreux pays industrialisés, elle doit jouer un rôle de premier plan sur la scène internationale si l’on veut que la faim ne soit plus qu’un mauvais souvenir.

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Linked with Arnold Tsunga – Zimbabwe, with human rights first, and with Appearance of ZCTU human rights defenders in Harare Court.

Mission of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions ZCTU: To promote, advance and safeguard the economic, social and constitutional freedoms of workers by securing legal, political, democratic and good governance framework in Zimbabwe through strengthening its capacity and independence and those of its affiliates.

• Brief History.
• Publications.
• Download the ZCTU-Constitution.
• Contact for ZCTU and e-mail.
• ZCTU on wikipedia
• see also kubatana.net, the NGO NETWORK ALLIANCE PROJECT – an online community for Zimbabwean activists
• Contemporary Africa Database: ZCTU

Taking position:

THE International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, the World Confederation of Labour and the European Trade Union Confederation express their firm support for the leaders and members of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions ZCTU. (Read all on allAfrica.com).

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Linked with Samir Makdisi – Lebanon.

The Global Development Network (GDN) is a worldwide network of research and policy institutes working to provide a fresh and relevant perspective to the development challenges of our time. At GDN, we strongly believe that policy-relevant research, if properly applied, can accelerate the pace of global development. What makes our initiative different is that we aim to generate this research at the local level in developing and transition countries. Thus, it is in the generation of local knowledge that, we believe, lies a much needed alternative perspective on facilitating change.
Five core activities: which work towards building research capacity in developing and transition economies. We believe that by investing in human capital and unearthing and mentoring new talent, we can advance innovative development policies in developing and transition countries.

These include:

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Linked with Arnold Tsunga – Zimbabwe, with Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions ZCTU, and with Appearance of ZCTU human rights defenders in Harare Court.

Mission: Human Rights First is the new name of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights. Since 1978, we have worked in the U.S. and abroad to create a secure and humane world by advancing justice, human dignity and respect for the rule of law. We support human rights activists who fight for basic freedoms and peaceful change at the local level; protect refugees in flight from persecution and repression; help build a strong international system of justice and accountability; and make sure human rights laws and principles are enforced in the U.S. and abroad. (see on this page).

Arnold Tsunga, a leading human rights defender in Zimbabwe, has received credible threats on his life. This is an escalation in the harassment and persecution to which he has long been subjected. At the same time, he has become the target of a politically motivated prosecution. Human Rights First has worked closely with Mr. Tsunga for many years and fears that now his life and liberty are in grave danger. We ask that you take action to support him.

Human rights defenders like Mr. Tsunga have become lonely voices of dissent in Zimbabwe as independent media outlets have been closed down and opposition political parties are being stifled. As a result, they face severe persecution. In Zimbabwe, where the judiciary lacks independence, the best way we can help protect Mr. Tsunga is to show the Zimbabwean government that the world is aware and watching. Please join Human Rights First in asking that the threats on his life cease and that the charges against him are dropped. (Read all on human rights first).

Will you Stand Up against poverty?

Join people in more than 100 countries to Stand Up Against Poverty. Between 10 hrs (GMT) on Sunday, 15 October and 10 hrs (GMT) on Monday, 16 October, people all over the world will Stand Up to ask government leaders to keep their promises to help end poverty by 2015. The global public action will culminate in the International Day of Poverty Eradication on 17 October.

Show your commitment to fight poverty on 15-16 October: Take part in local, group Stand Up events to symbolize the fight against poverty and encourage others to join you too. The purpose of the action is to publicly demonstrate to policy makers the growing global support for the eradication of poverty.

Find out how you can join an existing event in your area or organize your own Stand Up events

Action:

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