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Homepage: … The role of ISS is to bring together all parts of a problem, allowing the individuals or families involved to see all options available to them, thus helping them to make the most appropriate choices. The International Social Service (ISS) is an international non-governmental organization dedicated to helping individuals and families with personal or social problems resulting from migration and international movement. ISS’s national branches, affiliated bureaux and correspondents in over 100 countries facilitate communication between social services to resolve these problems. The International Social Service provides help without discrimination of any kind …

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Address: International Social Service ISS, 32 quai du Seujet, 1201 Geneva, Switzerland;
Contact: Tel.: +41 22 906 77 00, Fax: +41 22 906 77 01, E-mail General Secretariat, E-mail International Reference Centre.

About: The organization: The International Social Service (ISS) is an international non-governmental organization dedicated to helping individuals and families with personal or social problems resulting from migration and international movement.

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a village based on ideals of equality.

Linked with Zumra Nuru Mohammad – Ethiopia, and with Zumra’s new lifestyle perception.

In Ethiopia, one man’s model for a just society, Zumra Nuru founded a village based on ideals of equality. It’s now lauded by leaders of all stripes (a community which has no time for religious dogma except to work hard for what he calls the realization of heaven on earth by giving love to all humankind without disregarding ones religion). (full text, August 21, 2007).

Watch this video about Awra Amba, 5.08 min., June 4, 2006, and

this video Anarchy Africansis, 2.33 min, March 2, 2007.

“These people mainly did not want to hear about women’s equality to man and children’s rights,” says, Enaney Kibret, a member of the community engaged in guiding visitors around the community. “They are also upset because we work everyday regardless of holiday and Sundays, which they don’t because of their faith. But, our faith is based on working hard for the betterment of our lives and supporting people who deserve our help,” she says. (full text).

Awra Amba is an Ethiopian community comprises about 400 people residing together 62 kilometres away from Bahir Dar on the way to Debretabor … In the 1980s, Nuru launched the egalitarian society he dreamed of with 19 other people who adopted his vision. Today Awra Amba has some 400 members and is lauded as a model to alleviate poverty and promote gender equality in a country where women generally hold a subservient status to men.

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Human Rights here and now: Simply put, human rights education is all learning that develops the knowledge, skills, and values of human rights.

The United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education (1995-2004) has defined Human Rights Education as « training, dissemination, and information efforts aimed at the building of a universal culture of human rights through the imparting of knowledge and skills and the molding of attitudes which are directed to:

• (a) The strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms;
• (b) The full development of the human personality and the sense of its dignity;
• (c) The promotion of understanding, respect, gender equality, and friendship among all nations, indigenous peoples and racial, national, ethnic, religious and linguistic groups;
• (d) The enabling of all persons to participate effectively in a free society;
• (e) The furtherance of the activities of the United Nations for the Maintenance of Peace. » (Adapted from the Plan of Action of the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education (1995-2004), paragraph 2).

During this Decade, the UN is urging and supporting all member states to make knowledge about human rights available to everyone through both the formal school system and through popular and adult education.

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Address: Human Rights Resource Center, 229 19th Ave. S. Suite N-120, University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA;
Contact: e-mail, or Tel. (612) 626-0041

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ROTA is a charity initiative founded in Quatar in 2005. ROTA envisions an Asia with quality educational opportunities. Our focus is primarily on community development projects in Asia with specific emphasis on promoting global responsibility for basic, quality primary education. It is … under the auspices of the heir apparent, His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and guided by Her Excellency Sheikha Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani.

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About ROTA: Our Objective – In April 2000, more than 1,100 participants from 164 countries gathered in Dakar, Senegal, at the World Education Forum. The result of their debate was the adoption of the Education For All (EFA) initiative, which maintains that education is a fundamental human right and aims to achieve education for children and adults around the world by the year 2015.

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