groupes en action

Linked with Lynnsay Rongokea Francis – Cook Islands, and with Heisoo Shin – South Korea.

APWLD is a network of organisations from all over the Asia-Pacific region. The membership body, composed of individuals and national organisations in the Asia-Pacific region, is represented in the Regional Council (ReC). The Programme and Management Committee supervises and monitors the Secretariat. The Secretariat operates to plan and coordinate the activities of the organisation.

Structure;
Forum, News;
Calendar of Activities;
APWLD was also at the UN HRC Geneva.
Contact.

June 20, 2006: Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development has announced that it has a new regional coordinator, Lynnsay Rongokea Francis, starting 1 July 2006. She takes the place of Titi Soentoro. Prior to her appointment as Regional Coordinator, Ms. Francis was involved with advocacy and lobbying for political reform in the Cook Islands and formed the Group for Political Change (GPC) in 2002. She has also has been a member of APWLD Steering Committee from 2000-2003.

APWLD developed from dialogues among Asia Pacific women lawyers, social scientists and activists, which began at the 1985 Third World Forum on Women, held in Nairobi, Kenya.

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Linked with Sr. Bhikkhuni Dhammananda alias former Dr. Chatsumarn Kabilsingh – Thailand, and with The Chaing Mei Declaration.

Sakyadhita, the name of the International Association of Buddhist Women, means « Daughters of the Buddha. » The objectives of Sakyadhita, as expressed at its founding meeting in 1987 in Bodhgaya, India, are:

• To promote world peace through the practice of the Buddha’s teachings,
• To create a network of communications for Buddhist women throughout the world,
• To promote harmony and understanding among the various Buddhist traditions,
• To encourage and help educate women as teachers of Buddhadharma,
• To provide improved facilities for women to study and practice the teachings,
• To help establish the Bhikshuni Sangha (community of fully-ordained nuns) where it does not currently exist.

Buddhist Women as Teachers.

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Linked with Patricia Gaffney – England.

The Peace Education Network brings together peace education practitioners and others committed to promoting education for peace. The Peace Education Network works to encourage the development of knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for exploring, making informed decisions about and exercising responsibilities and rights in a democratic society. The network organizes an annual peace education conference and coordinates approaches to curriculum development and the effective distribution of existing resources to teachers and others working in the field.

MEMBERS of the peace education network;
All about;
Events;
Resources;
Contact.

Disputes may be inevitable, but violence is not. To prevent continued cycles of violence, education must seek to promote peace and tolerance, not fuel hatred and suspicion. The General Assembly of the United Nations proclaimed the years 2001-1010 the International decade for a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence for the Children of the World. It defines a culture of peace as ‘all the values, attitudes and forms of behaviour that reflect respect for life, for human dignity and for all human rights, the rejection of violence in all its forms and commitment to the principles of freedom, justice, solidarity, tolerance and understanding between people’. Essential for building a culture of peace is peace education. The United Nations has called on every country to ‘ensure that children, from an early age, benefit from education to enable them to resolve any dispute peacefully and in a spirit of respect for human dignity and of tolerance’. (full text).

Published on the Tribune de Genève, April 16, 2007.

Kofi Annan, former secretary general of the United Nations, is spearheading a project to create an international humanitarian forum in Geneva, according to media reports. Annan has already chosen to “retire” to the canton but it appears he will remain busy in his retirement. The forum, to be launched in September, would be similar to the World Economic Forum in Davos, only it would be devoted to advancing humanitarian causes, promoting peace and reducing poverty.

Annan has already expressed his interest in these issues, while head of the UN. The idea of a humanitarian forum has received the strong support of the Swiss federal government. And it is believed to be backed by Swiss president Micheline Calmy-Rey – (see also in the german wikipedia) – who has made the promotion of an international Geneva one of her priorities.

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Linked with Patricia Gaffney – England.

Pax Christi, Peace of Christ, is a gospel-based lay-inspired, peacemaking movement. Founded in the Catholic Church, its membership is open to individuals, groups and organisations of all faiths who are in sympathy with its aims and values. It is affiliated to Pax Christi International. Pax Christi strives to help the Church and the wider community to proclaim and to make peace, through its experience and ideas, and especially through the witness and action of its members.

The three major objectives of Pax Christi are:

• reconciliation;
• the promotion of a culture of peace and nonviolence;
• providing the means to bring about peace, e.g. through peace education resources and training.

Peace Resources;
Peacereporter worldwide;
News & Reports;
links;
Contact (on the Homepage, scroll down).

And: Pax Christi on wikipedia; Pax Christi International.