Linked with Darshan Pal – India, and with Draft Minutes of the IWC Meeting New Delhi.

The official Website of the World Social Forum, updated August 27, 2006 (in 4 languages).

(See also: FAQ about the preparation of the WSF 2007).

The World Social Forum is not an organisation, not a united front platform, but « …an open meeting place for reflective thinking, democratic debate of ideas, formulation of proposals, free exchange of experiences and inter-linking for effective action, by groups and movements of civil society that are opposed to neo- liberalism and to domination of the world by capital and any form of imperialism, and are committed to building a society centred on the human person ».

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Linked with Adelle Potgieter – South Africa, and with South African Police Service SAPS, and with The Restoration of Human Abilities Association ROHA.

African Regional Youth Initiative;
Kellogg Foundation;
Dell Foundation;
Credit Suisse First Boston Foundation;
Milagro Foundation;

Cuny Campaign: help dogs help people;
The Samaritan Guide;
Listings of other non-profits and charities … on Charity Advantage.
Intercultural Conference;
With the Leicester Warwick Medical Schools;
kabissa, change in Africa.

Linked with Adelle Potgieter – South Africa, and with HOPE Foundations, and with South African Police Service SAPS.

ROHA is a registered non profit organisation that works in the field of mental health. As its name states ROHA focuses on providing therapeutic services and personal development that will restore the abilities lost through mental illness, disability and neglect. Our programmes are aimed at aimed at providing therapeutic services to the sufferers of mental illness and their caregivers. Our services can be divided into three categories, namely Therapeutic Services, Community Services and Educational Services. Read all services on ROHA’s Homepage.

More Activities presented through these sites:

African Friendship Ring;
WebAdz;
San Stop: Home, Activities, Connections;
The Herald online.

Linked with Adelle Potgieter – South Africa, and with HOPE Foundations, and with The Restoration of Human Abilities Association ROHA.

The South African Police Service is the national police force of the Republic of South Africa.

Policing in South Africa underwent a radical change in 1994 in terms of transformation and democratisation. The previous 11 police agencies (SAP and 10 former homeland agencies) entered a process of amalgamation and rationalisation to create a single South African Police Service (SAPS) which functions at national and nine provincial levels.

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Linked with Yuki Ando – Japan.

In 1999 ISPCAN launched the National Partner Program, establishing affiliations with national child abuse and neglect prevention organizations around the world. The collaboration aims to further the common mission, goals and programs of ISPCAN and its Partners. The program seeks out existing national, multidisciplinary organizations working in CAN prevention, with a special focus on groups in developing countries. ISPCAN believes that effective and sustainable CAN prevention is achieved through education and professional cooperation, and thus sees the strength of the partnerships in enhancing the global network of those working for child welfare. Partnership describes a close, on-going and coordinated working relationship, supporting an exchange of materials, information and membership benefits between ISPCAN and other societies. By sharing experience, research and resources ISPCAN hopes to augment individual, regional and national efforts to end child maltreatment. The first meeting of National Partner leaders took place at ISPCAN’s 13th International Congress in Durban, South Africa in September of 2000. In 1999 ISPCAN launched the National Partner Program, establishing affiliations with national child abuse and neglect prevention organizations around the world. The collaboration aims to further the common mission, goals and programs of ISPCAN and its Partners. The program seeks out existing national, multidisciplinary organizations working in CAN prevention, with a special focus on groups in developing countries. ISPCAN believes that effective and sustainable CAN prevention is achieved through education and professional cooperation, and thus sees the strength of the partnerships in enhancing the global network of those working for child welfare. Partnership describes a close, on-going and coordinated working relationship, supporting an exchange of materials, information and membership benefits between ISPCAN and other societies. By sharing experience, research and resources ISPCAN hopes to augment individual, regional and national efforts to end child maltreatment. The first meeting of National Partner leaders took place at ISPCAN’s 13th International Congress in Durban, South Africa in September of 2000. ISPCAN with partners of many countries, Here specially with JAPAN:

Continuer la lecture de « ISPCAN International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect »

Child Abuse Prevention, The CAP Center, Texas: Child abuse occurs at every level of society and among families of every race, color, creed and financial status. The abuse can range from subtle to savage and is both mentally and physically crippling. Even in less severe forms, abuse degrades the spirit and affects almost every aspect of a child’s life.

MISSION: to break the cycle of child abuse by equipping parents and caregivers for success. Our mission resonates through our four educational and counseling programs for families at risk for abuse. The Center works to empower its clients by teaching positive parenting methods and supporting parents in strengthening their families, emotionally, economically, and socially. CAP Center is a key provider of prevention services for at-risk children and families in Dallas County.

Programs: Parent Aide, Healthy Families, Families First, Shaken Baby Syndrome Education.

What is Child Abuse?

Daycare Center; Childrens Hospital of Wisconsin and its Child Abuse Prevention Fund; Child Abuse Prevention Services CAPS; East Bay Agency for Children and its Child Assault Prevention Training Center; Child abuse, incest, and rape: select resources and links.

Linked with Jason Leopold – USA.

TruthOut.org is an American political website aimed at providing an alternative to corporate news sources. It was started in the aftermath of the 2000 presidential election with the goal of, in its words, « hoping to reach a few people, have some small impact on the dialogue, and maybe try to restore a little integrity. » It claims to have more than 4 million visits per month. Some of its prominent contributors include William Rivers Pitt, Jason Leopold, Scott Galindez David Bacon, Dean Baker, Tom Engelhardt, William Fisher, Dahr Jamail, Ray McGovern, J. Sri Raman, Norman Solomon, David Swanson and James Zogby. The organization has reported extensively on the anti-war movement and helped to put Cindy Sheehan on the map by publishing many of her writings. Focus is also provided to issues concerning the environment, labor, women, health, and voter rights. It’s articles are now carried by many international publications including World News , scoop.co.nz/ and California News. The website also has an active blog where visitors can discuss various issues or specific articles. (See on wikipedia, were this article is currently protected from editing, until disputes have been resolved). See this on talk about truthout.org.

See truthOut.org/

And see forum truthOut.org/blog/

See also truthOut.com

DCCD: Publication of the results from the impact evaluation of DCCD’s and ERH’s – in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs – courses in Contract Management in Copenhagen and abroad. Read the text by clicking on ‘Read the publication‘ (and read all about Services, Courses and other Guidelines by clicking on the respective links on this page). See also the same text on OECD.org.

OVERVIEW OF THE DANISH INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE (DANIDA): The overall objective of Danish bilateral development assistance is poverty alleviation. An effective reduction of poverty is a precondition for a stable and sustainable global development … // … SCHOLARSHIPS: For a limited number of counterparts in Danida financed programmes and projects, training is available through the Danida Fellowship Programme. The Fellowship Programme primarily supports training activities of a strategic or technical, innovative nature that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, embassies, and programmes/projects in programme countries may want to promote. The training activities can take place in the region or in Denmark. Visit the Fellowship’s website for more information about the Danida Fellowship Programme. Scholarships for studying in Denmark is not available through the Embassy. Please visit Denmark.dk or Cirius for information about scholarships and studying in Denmark. (Edited May 9, 2006). (Read all informations on Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark).

Linked with Torild Skard – Norway, and with Frontal Attack on the UN.
Website in Norsk; and website in english.

Forum for Development Studies

Publications of NUPI

The Norwegian Research Database: INDEX and dbh/…

The Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) was established by the Norwegian Parliament in 1959 in order to promote a better understanding of international issues in Norway. NUPI has sought to achieve this by undertaking a wide range of research activities and by disseminating information on international issues. The Institute has an independent position in studying matters of relevance to Norwegian foreign policy and economic relations.

As a small nation, Norway depends strongly on stable and open ties to the rest of the world. Consequently, the understanding of international relations and the constantly evolving international economy is a vital prerequisite when the foreign, as well as domestic policy of Norway is to be shaped. With more than 40 years of experience, NUPI is one of Norway’s leading independent centres for research and information on political and economic issues.

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Linked with Elizabeth Odio Benito – Costa Rica, and with Ensuring Peace through Justice.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) was established in 2002 as a permanent tribunal to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, as defined by several international agreements, most prominently the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. The ICC is designed to complement existing national judicial systems: the Court can only exercise its jurisdiction when national courts are unwilling or unable to investigate or prosecute such crimes, thus being a « court of last resort ». Primary responsibility to exercise jurisdiction over alleged criminals is therefore left to individual states.

The ICC is separate from, and not to be confused with, the International Court of Justice, which is a body to settle disputes between nations, and the Belgian War Crimes Law

It should be noted that « International Criminal Court » is sometimes abbreviated as ICCt to distinguish it from the « International Chamber of Commerce » or the « International Cricket Council, » both of which also use the abbreviation ICC. However in these articles the more common abbreviation of ICC is used.

See all on wikipedia. See there also ‘Cases before the court’, also Development, Composition of the Court, Structure and powers etc.

Linked with Alarmed at rising violence in Sri Lanka, and with Hina Jilani – Pakistan.

AGHS Legal Aid Cell is a relatively small but important NGO in Pakistan. It was set up in 1980 for providing free legal aid to women. Over the years, the mandate of AGHS has expanded to respond to the needs of a growing civil society and the demands made by various groups for legal recourse. AGHS is a professional organization headed by two Supreme Court Lawyers, Asma Jahangir and Hina Jilani. AGHS is quite unique in the country in term of its legal research, review of existing laws and lobbying new laws. It has strong links with the Bar Associations, police, political parties and the press. It also works closely with other groups of civil society nationally as well as internationally. With Regional Focus on Middle East or Asia, and with Country Focus on Pakistan. (Read more on International Rule of Law Directory).

AGHS Legal Aid Cell (ALAC) was set up in February 1980 in Lahore. Initially lawyers working for AGHS Law Associates supported the activities of ALAC. The activities were confined to providing legal aid to women. Gradually, however, these activities increased. Now legal awareness, education, protection from exploitation, legal research, counseling and providing legal assistance is all part of legal aid.

Objectives:
– To disseminate information on Family law and laws for the protection of the target group (women, children, elderly, disadvantaged etc.);
– Provision of legal aid to target group;
– Training of paralegal to involve more women in the mainstream movement for women rights;
– Campaign for child, women prisoners and crimes against women.

Activities in cooperation with Friedrich-Naumann-Foundation: AGHS provides legal assistance to women prisoners in Lahore and Multan along with monitoring situation of women prisoners in Punjab province. Besides that AGHS prepares and prints legal literacy material focused on women and human rights.

See AGHS also on the Human Rights Databank of hri.ca. And e-mail.

Linked with Arvind Kejriwal – India, and with KABIR.org – India.

Parivartan fights for people’s right to information. Parivartan, initially started up to help people get their work done in government departments without having to pay bribes, continues its crusade to educate and help people assert their right to information

Parivartan, a voluntary organisation active in Delhi, started out as a people’s movement in June 2000, to provide relief to taxpayers from extortionist corruption in the income tax department. “The idea was to help people get their income tax refunds without paying bribes,” says Manish Sisodia Parivartan’s founder. Taxpayers in Delhi were instructed not to pay bribes but to approach Parivartan with their grievances. The organisation has so far resolved about 700 grievances and helped some 2,500 customers in the Delhi Vidyut Board (DVB).

Parivartan soon realised that although its role as troubleshooter provided immediate relief to people, it neither empowered citizens to resolve their grievances directly, nor helped bring about permanent systemic changes. The organisation began to use the Delhi Right to Information Act 2001 to resolve public grievances.

Continuer la lecture de « PARIVARTAN, Fighting Corruption – India »

Linked with Tiere sind weder Menschen noch Waren, and with Othmar Keel – Switzerland.

The DBS has several publications:

• The series ORBIS BIBLICUS ET ORIENTALIS (OBO and OBO.SA), including new and forthcoming titles.
  You can also browse the complete list of back volumes still available, with ordering facilities.
• The series NOVUM TESTAMENTUM ET ORBIS ANTIQUUS (NTOA and NTOA.SA), including new and forthcoming titles.
  You can also browse the complete list of back volumes still available, with ordering facilities.
• The publications of the project BIBLE+ORIENT MUSEUM.

For other recent publications by members of the department, please refer to Fribourg University’s Futura database or the profiles of our researchers.

Ancien Testament, Groupe Lefebvre – Comment la recherche biblique peut-elle croiser d’autres disciplines, et d’abord des disciplines théologiques ? Comment rendre utilisables les conclusions de l’histoire du texte biblique au théologien, au philosophe, au littéraire ? Un groupe se constitue, réunissant quelques biblistes du Département d’Études Bibliques (premiers membres : Ph. Hugo, Y. Goldman, Ph. Lefebvre) : les membres de ce groupe travaillent d’abord un passage précis de la Bible, puis ils présentent de manière simple quelques conclusions sur les plans de la critique et de l’histoire du texte, de la philologie, de l’exégèse ; enfin ils questionnent, à partir de ce matériau mis en forme, des représentants d’autres disciplines. Il ne s’agit donc pas pour chacun de développer un discours spécifique qui ne trouve dans le texte biblique que ce qui peut consonner avec sa propre démarche ; il s’agit au contraire de tenter une véritable rencontre, un croisement, entre un texte qui définit des potentialités de sens, à la fois multiples et précises (ce que le travail biblique aura permis de dégager) et diverses disciplines.

Continuer la lecture de « Departement of Biblical Studies, Univ. Fribourg (CH) »

Linked with Sandra Jiménez Loza – Mexico.

UNICEF – Global Movement for Children: Add your voice and Say Yes to the 10 critical actions needed to improve the lives of children and adolescents everywhere. People of all ages are joining together as part of a new Global Movement for Children, determined to build a better world for children and for all of us. Their message is straightforward: the citizens of the world care about children and expect governments to keep the promises they make to them. Add your voice and say Yes to the 10 critical actions needed to improve the lives of children and adolescents everywhere. More than 94 million people have said Yes In a ceremony at UN headquarters on 7 May 2002, 12-year-old Barron Hanson presented the ‘Say Yes for Children’ pledge tally to Mr. Nelson Mandela and Mrs. Graça Machel, inspirational leaders of the Global Movement for Children. (Read more about this historic event on this UNICEF page).

Say Yes now!

The following are GMC founding partners:

• NetAid
• Save The Children
• Unicef
• World Vision International
• Plan International
• Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC)

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Regarding Darfur, linked with PBS.org, and with Understanding Sudan – The Darfur conflict, and with .

Workers World has united Black, Latino, Native, Asian, Arab and white in the struggle against racism. It has brought together women and men, lesbian, gay, bi, trans and straight, youth and seniors, workers and the unemployed, native-born and immigrants to fight for better conditions for all. Members of WWP have worked hard and long to build many of the most important progressive actions of the last three decades.

But you can’t just patch up this racist, sexist society. Capitalism rests on the exploitation of the many by the few. The monopoly of economic and political power by a small ruling class becomes more concentrated every day with mega-billion-dollar mergers and mass layoffs. That’s why capitalist democracy produces nothing but hot air. The power of the workers and the oppressed is in the streets, not in Washington.

Workers World fights for a socialist society—where the wealth is socially owned and production is planned to satisfy human need.

That’s also what workers around the world, from Cuba to China, have been struggling for. The U.S. rulers have spent trillions of our tax dollars trying to stop them in a global class struggle. WWP promotes international working-class solidarity, the right of every nation to sovereignty and self-determination, and militant resistance at home to imperialist interventions and wars.

Contact: National Office Workers World Party, 55 W. 17 St., New York, NY 10011, Tel. 212-627-2994, Fax 212-675-7869, E-mail, Web.

See Workers World about Sudan’s Darfur Situation: Oil is behind struggle in Darfur.