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Excerpt: … One night not so very long ago, I could be found barefoot, my jeans’ cuffs rolled up, peeping at star fish in tidal pools under Puerto Peñasco’s night sky, full of its stars. I shared this glorious experience with a group of flashlight-wielding Colorado university students and their renowned professor of invertebrate science, thanks to the local Intercultural Center for the Study of Deserts and Oceans, CEDO. … /

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Linked with our presentation of Kundan Lal Chowdhury MD – India / Kashmir., and The Political Economy of the Kashmir Conflict.
The legal owners of the hospital: It is functioning as a trust and there are five trustees at present. The trust is formally registerd in Jammu. J&K state (Kashmir), India. K.L.Chowdhury is one of the trustees.

See the whole presentation of this Hospital on our blog Our Projects (about Shirya Bhatt Mission Hospital).

See also our presentation Search for donors.

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Bangkok Post, 17 February 2005, by TUL PINKAEW

An initiative to bring together the public and private sectors to promote biodiversity, conservation and economic development was kicked off yesterday as the world’s first network of cooperation was inaugurated.

« Perhaps we can speak of two sides of a coin, or two parts of a duet. What is key is that the two parts, namely non-government organisations (NGOs) on one side and the private sector on the other, must be considered together, » said Paul Wedel, executive director of the Kenan Institute Asia (KIAsia), a Thai-US non-profit development organisation headquartered in Bangkok that is spearheading the move.

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Linked with our presentations of Dawan Chantarahassadee – Thailand, and of the Klong Dan Local Conservation Group – Thailand.

The Assembly of the Poor AOP is a grassroots people’s movement consisting of seven social networks including the rural poor, farmers, urban poor, workers, indigenous peoples and NGOs. It is widely supported by community organizations, non-governmental organizations, academics and the general public. It collaborates on regional and international levels with networks on issues such as globalization, human rights, women, indigenous peoples, the environment and the protection of biodiversity.

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Linked with our presentations of  Michel Chossudovsky – Canada, and of  The Use of 9/11 … and with many other articles since …

UPGRADED July 6, 2010:

• 1) NEW WEBSITE – Global Research TV: its Homepage, About.
• 2) upgrading the Center’s presentation.

The Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG) is based in Montreal, Canada, and is a registered non-profit organization. The CRG is a fully independent research and media group of writers, scholars, journalists, filmmakers and activists. It publishes a webpage containing news articles, commentary, background research and analysis on a broad range of issues, focussing on social, economic, strategic and environmental processes … (full text about).

Homepage;
Membership; Issues, archives, countries, author’s index: left column; Donate; Online Store; Newsletter, audio/video, highlights, latest books: right column;
Address: Centre for Research on Globalization CRG, PO Box 55019, 11 Notre-Dame Ouest, MONTREAL, Qc, H2Y 4A7, CANADA;
Contact.

The Global Research webpage at CRG based in Montreal publishes news articles, commentary, background research and analysis on a broad range of issues, focussing on social, economic, strategic, geopolitical and environmental processes.  Continuer la lecture de « Center for Research on Globalisation CRG »

… 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 Maria Domingas Fernandes Alves – East Timor, and with Maria Manuela Perreira – Timor East.

FOKUPERS, Forum Komunikasi Untuk Perempuan Loro Sae (Communication Forum for Women from the East), is an NGO established in 1997. Its main goal is to speak out about violence against women – from the military, husbands and the government – in East Timor. It has an office with a small number of staff and many volunteers who have law and economics degrees. (See hawai.edu).

See the list of all East Timorese Grassroots Organisations & Networks (based within East Timor), Organisasi dan jaringan populer.

FOKUPERS, the Communication Forum for East Timorese Women, was established in 1997 to promote women’s rights. The founders were widows, wives of political prisoners, women who were former political prisoners, and women who had been raped by the Indonesian military. During the September 1999 post-referendum scorched-earth operation, the Indonesian military destroyed FOKUPERS’ office and targeted its members, who went into hiding.

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Linked with our presentation of Bjorn Lomborg – Denmark, and of the
Copenhagen Consensus 2006.

The Copenhagen Consensus Center (CCC) analyzes the world’s greatest challenges and works with any organization concerned with mitigating the effects of these problems.
The Copenhagen Consensus process aims to establish a framework in which solutions to problems are prioritized based upon the best information possible. This process was started in 2003 when some of the world’s best economists wrote comprehensive analyses of the major challenges facing the planet. Using this information, a panel of stellar economists – including four Nobel laureates – produced a prioritized list of opportunities responding to those challenges, at the Copenhagen Consensus 2004 meeting.

The Center’s core project, the follow-up conference Copenhagen Consensus 2008, is funded by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and will result in an updated global priority list. The project reflects the continued need to focus on priorities, the enhanced scientific and economic understanding of the problems, and encourages the implementation of innovative and cost-efficient solutions.

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Israël – Palestine, une action contre les mots qui peuvent aussi « tuer ».

Une ONG israélienne et une ONG palestinienne, lancent un projet commun de surveillance des médias pour promouvoir la tolérance et la modération et pour lutter contre la déshumanisation et la haine de l’autre.

Voir:

le site du projet lui-même, et son média-monitoring;

Site Israelien ‘la paix maitenant‘;

Site Palestinien ‘the Palestinian initiative for the promotion of global dialogue & democracy;

le homepage en anglais de Keshev.

Linked with our presentation of Maria Teresa Leal – Brazil, and … realities about business and poverty ….

The mission statement of COOPA-ROCA, Rocinha Seamstress and Craftwork Co-operative Ltd is to provide conditions for its members, female residents of Rocinha, to work from home and thereby contribute to their family budget, without having to neglect their childcare and domestic duties. The work developed at COOPA-ROCA has made it possible to improve the quality of life of the craftswomen and, indirectly, also their families. Apart from providing work which can be carried out at home and generating extra income, an improvement can be seen in terms of professional quality, in general health (through voluntary work by acupuncturists) and in their self-esteem. It has also lead to a collective intrinsic understanding of the practices of a co-operative as clearly demonstrated by COOPA-ROCA´s impact on the local community.

Established at the beginning of the 80s, COOPA-ROCA arose as an offshoot from a recycling project involving the local children (1981). The craftwork produced from textile remnants was the idea behind organising the first group of women and then later the formation of the co-operative.

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Linked with our presentation of Antonio Jacanamijoy – Colombia.

COICA is the Coordinating Body for the Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin. COICA is a group that brings more than four hundred indigenous people together. It was founded in Lima Peru in 1982 in order for native people to be able to defend their rights, fight for the survival of their culture, and to exchange experiences in to find solutions to their various problems.

Since 1992 COICA has made its headquarters in Quito, Ecuador. They have a Congress that meets every four years in order to make up policies and find new authorities. It is this group that comes up with official goals such as the desire to promote and develop the interaction between indigenous peoples and COICA members. They also want to be able to defend territorial restoration, indigenous peoples self-determination and the human rights of its members. An additional goal is to strengthen the unity for the region’s indigenous peoples; and finally, to promote the cultural comeback and recuperation of the Amazon indigenous peoples.

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Linked with our presentation of CADTM activities.

CADTM, Committee for the abolition of the Third World dept. e-mail:

Read: The creation of the Bretton Wood Institution.

The International Debt Observatory is born under the impulse of the Committee for the abolition of the Third World Debt (CADTM) and of the Left-wing Economists (EDI, Argentina) on January 28th, 2005 at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

The International Debt Observatory is a tool of exchange of knowledge, analyses and research on the problematic of the debt. Its aim is to provide precise analyses in most domains relating to problematic of the debt as well as a unique statistical database to the individuals and the organizations that study the mechanism of the debt and/or act for an alternative to the domination of the most powerful countries of the North.

The IDO does not especially substitute itself for the national and international campaigns on the debt. It rather stands at their sides as a resource to provide them of the detailed information and a recognized appraisal.

All those that wish an alternative to the present economic model that, via the debt, submits the populations of the countries of the South to the requirements of the creditors, with the complicity of the local potentates, are welcomed to join the IDO.

The IDO secretary office of the is held by the CADTM Belgium, that has built its website. The IDO website aims to encourage the collaborations between its members and to foster the research and the diffusion of their results.

To become members, read more on this page of CADTM.

Linked with our presentations of Katrin Rohde – Burkina Faso & Germany, and of Dialog der Kulturen.

In 1995 I moved from Germany to Burkina Faso, West Africa, in order to found a home for street boys. I called this very first house « A.M.P.O. » (Assocation Managré Nooma Pour la Protection des Orphélins). « Managré Nooma » means Kindness is never forgotten in the country’s native language. I strongly believe in this saying until this day. From these small beginnings an organisation has developed, which is also called « Kingdom of the poor » within the population. All institutions have grown out of local necessities and have not been planned at the round table. We are exclusively financed by private contributions. We are small and efficient, and this is exactly how we want to stay! In this poor country it is still possible to help a lot with a little. Now about 150 girls and boys belong to our projects. Their age ranges from 6 to 18 years and they are orphans, half-orphans, abandoned children, and boys from the street – all live and learn together. What started as a small home, grew into a long term institution. I did not expect this to happen in 1995, though it is obvious: Kindness is never forgotten. » (Read this and more on AMPO Sahel eV).

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Linked with our presentation of Ayorinde, or Ayo Ajayi – Ghana.

The Population Council, an international, nonprofit, nongovernmental organization, seeks to improve the well-being and reproductive health of current and future generations around the world and to help achieve a humane, equitable, and sustainable balance between people and resources. The NGO conducts biomedical, social science, and public health research.

See this Text: Globalization is transforming the adolescence in the developing world.

See here about research areas.

Population Council’s Press Release.

BIOMEDICINE: The Population Council conducts fundamental research on reproductive and immunological processes, which serves as the basis for the development of new contraceptive methods, hormone therapies, and AIDS-prevention products.

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Linked to our presentation of Stanislavka Zajovic – Serbia and (now independent) Montenegro, and of March across the Nullarbor, and of WLUML – A Different Kind Of Power Is Possible.

First see about regional activities on some WOMEN IN BLACK-links: women in black Homepage UK and internationally; women in black Net; women in black for justice with country links; women in black Baltimore; women in black Northwest; Coalition of (Israelo-Palestinian) women for Peace/women in black and their Homepage; women in black Arizona; women in black Belgrade; women in black Bay Aera … etc. Just put ‘women in black’ into Google and find more.

Women in Black movement nominated for Nobel Peace Prize, June 2, 2001 – We have the pleasure to announce that eight Danish and Norwegian parliamentarians (four women and four men) have nominated the movement « Women in Black » represented by the Israeli and the Serbian group to the Nobel Peace Prize 2001.

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