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fighting poverty through trade

Traidcraft fights poverty through trade, helping people in developing countries to transform their lives.
Established in 1979 as a Christian response to poverty, we are the UK’s leading fair trade organisation. We run development programmes in some of the poorest countries in the world, and campaign in the UK and internationally to bring about trade justice. (Homepage).

Sitemap;
Vision, mission; Principles; Strategy 2006-2011; Pioneering; Buying;
Development; Resources; News, events; FAQs; Get involved;
Address: Traidcraft, Kingsway, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, United Kingdom, NE11 0NE;
Contact.

About /What we do: Our mission is to fight poverty through trade, practising and promoting approaches to trade that help poor people in developing countries transform their lives … we combine a trading company and a development charity.  We build lasting relationships with producers, support people to trade out of poverty and work to bring about trade justice.   Continuer la lecture de « Traidcraft »

also in german

The Ecologic Institute is a private not-for-profit think tank for applied environmental research, policy analysis and consultancy with offices in Berlin, Brussels, Vienna, and Washington DC. An independent, non-partisan body, the Ecologic Institute is dedicated to bringing fresh ideas to environmental policies and sustainable development. The Ecologic Institute’s work programme focuses on obtaining practical results. It covers the entire spectrum of environmental issues, including the integration of environmental concerns into other policy fields. Founded in 1995, the Ecologic Institute is a partner in the network of Institutes for European Environmental Policy. The Ecologic Institute acts in the public interest; donations are tax-deductible. (full text Homepage).

Team; Partners; Employment; Projects; Events; Legal; Donations;
News; Publications; Newsletter; Lectures; Press;
Addresses (1 to 4): Ecologic Institute, Pfalzburger Strasse 43/44, 10717 Berlin, Germany;
Contacts.

About /Profile: Continuer la lecture de « Ecologic Institute »

non-political, NGO

Graduate Council is a non-political and non-governmental organization of graduate people with professional, social, industrial or academic experience, joining together to promote the social activity that focuses on standards, education, social welfare, anti-corruption, human rights and various policy issues. Its member organizations and individual members in all over India represent a veritable who’s who of the Graduate community. (Homepage).

Membership;

Reach us at The Internet E-Business Club, 33, Kasia Road, Shri Ram Tower, Betiahata Chowk, Gorakhpur (U.P.), India;
Contact.

About: Aims and Objecive:

1. The aim of our organization is to unite all the graduates and to bring them on a single platform as a ‘Coherent Force’.

2. It will build graduates’ skill to support the implementation of their actions for social change and to advocate for graduates’ right.  Continuer la lecture de « Graduate Council India »

Making life better for people by inspiring solutions to environmental problems
also in french and spanish

Linked with nature for sale.

We are the world’s largest grassroots environmental network and we campaign on today’s most urgent environmental and social issues. We challenge the current model of economic and corporate globalization, and promote solutions that will help to create environmentally sustainable and socially just societies. We draw enormous strength and knowledge from our work with communities and local people to carry out international campaigns … (about our work 1/2).

english Homepage; Sitemap;
vision and mission; Campaigns; what we do; Who we are;
Blog; Publications; Press; Get involved; Support us;
Address: Friends of the Earth, 26-28 Underwood Street, London, N1 7JQ, England;
Contacts and map.

About our work 2/2: … We’re working as a global network on the most urgent environmental and social issues of our time. We draw enormous strength and knowledge from our work with communities and local people to formulate international programs that create sustainable and socially just societies.  Continuer la lecture de « Friends of the Earth International »

also in french, espanol, portugues

• The “Our World is not for Sale” (OWINFS) network is a loose grouping of organizations, activists and social movements worldwide fighting the current model of corporate globalization embodied in global trading system. OWINFS is committed to a sustainable, socially just, democratic and accountable multilateral trading system.
• OWINFS grew out of the international campaigns against the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) and the World Trade Organization (WTO). Linkages are also made between all the various pieces of the corporate-driven trade agenda, from the WTO to regional and bilateral agreements.
• … (about 1/2).

english Homepage and many links;
Statements; What is the WTO, its Critiques, its Ministerials;
Members; Be an OWINFS member; Donate; Articles; News; Blogs; Archive;
Contac online.

About 2/2: … While there are incredibly strong and diverse country-based-campaigns working on these issues around the world, it became clear that in order to contest for power against the multinational corporations and other proponents of the neo-liberal model that have been dictating global trade policy, there is a strong need to better coordinate and link these various initiatives.  Continuer la lecture de « Our world is not for sale »

inovative solutions for global poverty

Unitus, an international nonprofit organization, fights global poverty by accelerating the growth of microfinance—small loans and other financial tools for self-empowerment—where it is needed most. We seek out and partner with young, high-potential microfinance institutions (small banking organizations that serve the poor, often called MFIs), helping them build capacity, attract capital, and unite with our network to achieve rapid, sustainable growth … (Mission 1/2).

Homepage;
Quick facts; a video; FAQs; MFI; Join; Give; Newsletter; latest news; Press;
Addresses: Unitus US Headquarter, 220 W Mercer Street, Suite W-500, Seattle, WA 98119, USA;
Unitus India Office, No. 9/3, Kaiser-E-Hind, 1st Floor, Richmond Road, Bangalore, 560 025, India;
Contact.

About Unitus, download the 9 pdf-pages.  Continuer la lecture de « UNITUS »

Thousands of video lectures from the world’s top scholars

• Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education.
• As more and more high quality educational content becomes available online for free, we ask ourselves, what are the real barriers to achieving a world class education?  At Academic Earth, we are working to identify these barriers and find innovative ways to use technology to increase the ease of learning.
• We are building a user-friendly educational ecosystem that will give internet users around the world the ability to easily find, interact with, and learn from full video courses and lectures from the world’s leading scholars.  Our goal is to bring the best content together in one place and create an environment in which that content is remarkably easy to use and where user contributions make existing content increasingly valuable.
• We invite those who share our passion to explore our website, participate in our online community, and help us continue to find new ways to make learning easier for everyone.
• … (Overview).

Homepage;
Subjects; Universities; Instructors; Playlist (lecutres selected by our editors);
Partners; Team; Media; FAQs;
Address: Academic Earth, Inc., 419 Lafayette St, Fl 2, New York, NY 10003, USA;
Contact.

About /Mission: Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education!  Continuer la lecture de « Academic Earth »

(in many European languages)

• The Autonomous Language Learning (ALL) project, funded by the European Union, is building Blended Learning language courses in four European languages (Turkish, Romanian, Bulgarian, Lithuanian.
• These courses are designed for students who have had an initial introduction in one of the languages and who wish to progress from a basic survival level to a higher competency (A2 of the Common European Framework) The project results are for Language schools and Colleges. more
• The partners in this project are experts in language education and technology in education, from across Europe … (full text Homepage).

Partners; Methodology; Events; Get involved; Newsletter;
Contact online.

About: Overview:  The project has been conceived and funded as part of the European Union Socrates Lingua programme that concerns motivating the learning of all European languages, and the less widely used languages in particular. With a vision to promote plurilingualism and appreciation of the diversity of languages in the European Union and beyond.   Continuer la lecture de « Autonomous Language Learning ALL »

A community website in several European languages

Dokeos is an e-learning and course management web application. It is free software (GNU GPL) and its development is an international, collaborative effort. Dokeos focus points: userfriendliness and consistency, simplicity, flexibility, a tool for good learning, interoperability. (Introduction 1/2).

Homepage;
Documentation; Downloads; worldwide; Groups; Forum; Contribute; Using Dokeos 1.8 course tools;
Contact online.

What is Dokeos and DokeosPlanet /Introduction 2/2: … This website (http://www.dokeosplanet.org/) is the place where the community of Dokeos users, developers and other contributors gather to meet, change stories and discuss the future of the product.  Continuer la lecture de « DOKEOS Planet »

the people, the ideas, the action in the fight for global justice

With over 30 years of publishing under its belt, and more than 60,000 subscribers worldwide, the New Internationalist is renowned for its radical, campaigning stance on a range of world issues, from the cynical marketing of babymilk in the Majority World to human rights in Burma. (About 1/2).

Homepage;
Current Issue; Back Issues; What’s new; Subscriptions;
Features; Columns; Blogs; Radio; Books;
Addresses: Tower House, Lathkill Street, Market Harborough, LE16 9EF, UK;
Contacts.

About /a communications co-operative 2/2:
… Independent: Publications from the New Internationalist are produced by an independent trust working as a not-for-profit cooperative. Originally the group was sponsored by Oxfam, Christian Aid and the Cadbury and Rowntree Trusts, but since the early 1980s sponsorship has no longer been needed. Continuer la lecture de « New Internationalist »

• Our vision is of a world in which justice and sustainable development are at the heart of trade structures and practices so that everyone, through their work, can maintain a decent and dignified livelihood and develop their full potential.
  To achieve this vision, Fairtrade seeks to transform trading structures and practices in favour of the poor and disadvantaged. By facilitating trading partnerships based on equity and transparency, Fairtrade contributes to sustainable development for marginalised producers, workers and their communities. Through demonstration of alternatives to conventional trade and other forms of advocacy, the Fairtrade movement empowers citizens to campaign for an international trade system based on justice and fairness. (about /our Vision).

Homepage;
Fairtrade certification and the FAIRTRADE Mark; History; Press; Reports;
Producers; Products; Resources; Business Services; Get involved; FAQs;
Address: The Fairtrade Foundation, 3rd Floor, Ibex House, 42-47 Minories, London, EC3N 1DY, UK;
Contact.

About /who we are: The Fairtrade Foundation is the independent non-profit organisation that licenses use of the FAIRTRADE Mark on products in the UK in accordance with internationally agreed Fairtrade standards.  Continuer la lecture de « The Fairtrade Foundation – Fairtrade »

on the ETH Zurich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich / Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich)

The ISN is committed to enabling greater dialog and collaboration among IR and security policy professionals. To this end, we host and support a number of online communities on behalf of our parent organization, the Center for Security Studies, and our global network of partners and stakeholders … (full text Communities and Partners).

Homepage; Sitemap;
Current affairs; Digital Library; History; FAQs; Links;
Information Technology Training for the Security Sector; e-Learning;
Address: International Relations and Security Network ISN, ETH Zurich, Leonhardshalde 21, LEH, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland;
Contact.

About /who we are: The International Relations and Security Network (ISN) is the world’s leading open access information service for international relations and security professionals.  Continuer la lecture de « International Relations and Security Network ISN »

The Agroforestry Research Trust is a non-profit making charity, registered in England, which researches into temperate agroforestry and into all aspects of plant cropping and uses, with a focus on tree, shrub and perennial crops … (full text Homepage).

Agroforestry; Plant-list; Trust’s plant-list; Seed-list; News; Publications;
Courses; Consultancy; Links; Forest Garden Network;
Address: ART, 46 Hunters Moon, Dartington, Totnes, TQ9 6JT, UK;
Contact.

About /Agroforestry: what is it?  The simplest definition of agroforestry is that it is the integration of trees and agriculture/horticulture to create a more diverse growing system. In agroforestry the aim is to promote more use of perennial crops, notably tree and shrub crops, for several reasons:   Continuer la lecture de « Agroforestry Research Trust ART »

Rainforest Action Network campaigns for the forests, their inhabitants and the natural systems that sustain life by transforming the global marketplace through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action. (Our Mission).

Homepage;
Campaigns; Issues; Get involved; Jobs; Donate; History; Statement; Principles; Media Center;
Address: Rainforest Action Network, 221 Pine Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA;
Contact.

About: watch the video: RAN in 90 seconds.   Continuer la lecture de « Rainforest Action Network RAN »

(There exist an old website and a new website, here I have mixed both🙂

WAFA works to protect the remaining forests and woodlands of south-west Western Australia. Many people wrongly believe that the logging of native forests is not still happening in WA. The WA Forest Alliance was formed in 1990 to provide an umbrella body for the many community environment organisations in Perth and throughout the South West that are concerned with forest conservation. Currently WAFA has 25 member organisations, most of them from the South West. (Homepage).

Latest news; Archive; Coming evetns; Photos and infos; Get involved; Resources;
Address: WAFA, City West Lotteries House, 2 Delhi St, West Perth 6005, Australia;
Contact.

About (old website): The WA Forest Alliance (WAFA) was formed in 1990 to provide an umbrella body for the many community environment organisations in Perth and throughout the South West that are concerned with forest conservation.   Continuer la lecture de « West Australian Forest Alliance WAFA »