groupes en action

Linked with Fact-Based Intelligence Prevails on Nukes and Iran.

Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity VIPS (for VIPs, Very Important Persons) is a group of current and former officials of the United States Intelligence Community, including some from the Central Intelligence Agency CIA, the U.S. State Department’s Intelligence Bureau, and the Defense Intelligence Agency DIA.

This group issued a letter before the 2003 invasion of Iraq warning that there would potentially be numerous U.S. casualties if Iraq used chemical weapons during any « offensive aimed at getting rid of Saddam Hussein. »

This letter (on counterpunch, February 8, 2003) noted the various Gulf War-related illnesses which many returning soldiers contracted due to the presence of chemical and biological agents in Desert Storm.

The group was formed in January 2003 as a « coast-to-coast enterprise » to protest the use of faulty intelligence « upon which the US/UK invasion of Iraq was based » … (full text).

Link: Raymond (Ray) McGovern (born 1939) is a retired CIA officer turned political activist. McGovern was a Federal employee under seven U.S. presidents over 27 years, presenting the morning intelligence briefings at the White House for many of them.

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… of the Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies CSDMS

i4d is intended to provide a much-needed platform for exchange of information, ideas, opinions and experiences, both inside and outside the Information and Communication Technology for Development ICT4D sector. While several electronic publications do currently exist, i4d is perhaps the first that addresses the need by utilizing the strength and potential of the print media.

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Links:

• The Information and Communication Technologies for Development, the collective’s homepage;
• United Nations Development Programme UNDP;
• dg Communities, Information and Communication Technologies for Development;
• Information and Communication Technologies for Development on wikipedia.

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Speaking of the Unspoken

Linked with Indrani Sinha – India.

First: all pages of Sanlaap are to be reached by internal links from the Homepage; second: these pages cannot be copied.

• Girls allways have two homes,
• one that of their father’s,
• and the other of their in-laws,
• but none that they can call their own,
• here at SANLAAP I have found my own.

But you have more informations on wikipedia:

Sanlaap is an Indian feminist NGO, established in 1987. Its focus is to make the world a safe place for girl children and women by protecting their rights … Mission Statement: Sanlaap is a developmental organization that works towards correction of social imbalances which present themselves as gender injustice and violence against women and children. The primary work is focused against trafficking of women and children for commercial sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and forced prostitution … Sanlaap and AIDS: More than nineteen percent of the girls rescued from brothel prostitution, living in Sneha Shelters are HIV positive, discarded by their families and the Government Homes. Some have given birth to children at the age of fourteen and fifteen … SUNDAR: Sundar was initiated in 2000 as a support group for Women in Prostitution to address the problems of WIP in the red-light areas. The women are supported to get their identity in the form of voters’ identity card and ration card and are also supported to live a life with dignity without being abused and exploited by local hoodlums, pimps, customers, police and their live in boyfriends or husbands … (full long text).

Guilty Without Trial;

Download the Sanlaap Annual Report 2005-2006, 45 pages;

All Bengal Women’s Union.

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