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The 6th Annual Summit of Nigeria NGOs tagged ‘Makurdi 2006’ will hold on February 23 –26, 2006 at Benue Hotels, Makurdi Benue State of Nigeria. Theme: Peace-building in a Democratic Setting: A Collective Responsibility. NGO Guide 2000 and the World Association of Non-Governmental organizations, WANGO Nigeria, will host this year’s event.

‘Makurdi 2006’ is specifically designed to address some contemporary issues affecting the third sector and the nation at large. The three-day event will focus on some key issues in addition to the central theme of the summit: Framework for NGO Legislation in Nigeria, International Code of Ethics & Conduct for NGOs, The Freedom of Information Bill among other capacity-building workshops, plenary and panel sessions.

For further information and to participate, visit NGO guide 2000 and click on ‘Makurdi 2006’. The summit will admit 200 participants and there is no registration fee.

Linked to our presentation of Noelí Pocaterra – Venezuela on January 26, 2006.

The Wayuu Women’s Network and University of Zulia Indigenous Children’s Education Project – Venezuela

In 1985 the Wayuu Women’s Network established a partnership with the University of Zulia to address a growing concern over the acculturation of Wayuu children, loss of language, culture, and religion, and an ensuing breakdown of family and community protection of children.

The project was initiated by Noeli Pocaterra, founder of the Wayuu Women’s Network, and vice-president of the Venezuelan National Assembly. The children’s project’s main focus is to provide Wayuu and neighbouring indigenous children with a high standard of bicultural education to provide them with the tools to thrive in their own and the dominant culture.

Continuer la lecture de « Network of Wayuu Indigenous Women »

Linked to our presentation of Moving politics … to the people on January 25, 2006.

Also linked to our presentation of Wahu Kaara – Kenya on January 25, 2006.

The Network’s first activity was a debt procession in April 2000 in Nairobi. The procession was to raise awareness among citizens, the government and international financial institutions on the impact the heavy debt burden has on the provision of social services and to expose the bad economic governance that exist in the government as well as in the international financial institutions.
The procession was considered a threat by the government and was crushed by the police who later arraigned the network members and their supporters to court.

Continuer la lecture de « THE KENYA DEBT RELIEF NETWORK »

NIGD aims at promoting global democratization by producing and developing emancipatory knowledge for democratic movements, organizations and states. NIGD’s work is based on the conviction that globalization as coming-together-of-humanity must be based on cross-cultural dialogue concerning both philosophical fundamentals and concrete reform proposals. NIGD projects are usually joint endeavours with a number of partners from the global south.

NIGD operates from Helsinki, Finland, and Lima, Peru. NIGD was founded in Helsinki in 1997, according to the Finnish law on public associations. It emerged from the Finnish follow-up process (1995-1997) to the UN Secretary-General’s annual reports on democratization. In 1998 – 2002, NIGD received annual funding from the Nottingham Trent University, UK, which has also been the site for many of NIGD’s activities. In addition, and since 2002, NIGD’s activities have been funded projectwise.

NIGD conducts research, publishes Discussion and Working Papers and organises workshops, seminars, and conferences. Consultancy work is also among NIGD’s activities.

NIGD has been involved in transnational campaigns, for instance for a currency transactions tax and, more generally, for global democratization. NIGD aims at strengthening global civil society and is also a founding member of the International Council of the World Social Forum.

See them at the WSF 2006 in Bamako, Caracas and Karachi.

See the rest on their site by above link.

A conference, entitled where to go from Tunis will be held on February 21-22 2006 in Copenhagen, in the National museum of Denmark. Discussed will be the impact of WSIS Tunis on global development in general, and specially in the future of the information society.

How to insure that ICTs become a real source of development, what will be the role of the Civil Society in the implementation of the Tunis results.

The themes: national ICT stategies; local access to ITC; Human Rights and ICT; International follow-up mechanism to the WSIS-process – with special focus on the Internet Governance Forum and the ECOSOC Commission on Science and Technology.

Participation on the conference is free of charge, lunch and refreshments are included.

Information and register on www.una.dk/wsis, or contact Ms. Jane Johnsen at jane@una.dk.