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Medical Aid and Relief for the Children of Chechnya MARCCH

Linked with Donald Rayfield  – England.

Welcome to Marcch.org: In Chechnya the children are the most vulnerable and innocent victims of the recent Chechen wars. Medical Aid and Relief for Children of Chechnya (MARCCH) is there to help countless children, many orphaned, who receive little or no medical aid and have no one to care about their plight. Years of living in cramped and inadequate conditions or refugee camps, coupled with poor nutrition, have caused the health of many children to deteriorate still further with dire consequences to this day. Diseases such as TB have consequently taken a greater hold on the Chechen population … (Homepage).

Third SOAS Conference Nov. 27, 2008 (where??);
Chechnya;
News;
Events;
Volunteers;
Pictures;
Videos;
Donations;
Links;
Contact.

About: Our Mission is to bring relief to children who have been injured as a result of the conflicts in Chechnya.

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The first step in Waging Peace is to educate oneself and stay informed. In the Issues section, one will find research and information on subjects including: the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons; Peace; Missile Defense; International Law and Security; Nuclear Energy and Waste; Peace Education. Staying informed about these issues will empower individuals to take action and educate others … (full text Issues).

Homepage;
2008 Presidential Candidate Quotes;
Sign the Appeal today;
The Challenge of Abolishing Nuclear Weapons;
Programs;
NAPF Affilates;
Media Center;
Download our 2008 Annual Report, 32 pdf-pages;
Resources;
Newsletter;
Contact.

About: The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation initiates and supports worldwide efforts to abolish nuclear weapons, to strengthen international law and institutions, and to inspire and empower a new generation of peace leaders. Founded in 1982, the Foundation is comprised of individuals and organizations worldwide who realize the imperative for peace in the Nuclear Age. The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation is a non-profit, non-partisan international education and advocacy organization. It has consultative status to the United Nations Economic and Social Council and is recognized by the UN as a Peace Messenger Organization.

Linked with Alice Ophelia Hyman Lynch – USA.

Be Safe… Help is just a phone call away … 1 866-6BE-SAFE. The Domestic Abuse and Sexual Assault Crisis Center ‘s mission is twofold:

• 1. To support and empower those affected by domestic violence and sexual assault;
• 2. To develop a community where there is no acceptance of or tolerance for either.

The agency provides services to all who identify themselves as victims of domestic violence and/or sexual assault regardless of race, color, national origin, gender, sexual preference, religion, age or disabilities. Our services include 24 hour emergency hotline and shelter, Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Response Teams, individual counseling (in both Spanish and English), support groups, youth programs for children and teens, support for significant others, transitional housing, case management, outreach program, legal advocacy, safety planning, information and referrals, and community education. (Homepage).

Community Education;
Services;
What is Sexual Assault;
What is Domestic Violence;
Human Trafficking;
Safety Planing;
Red Flags;
Volunteers;
Links and Resources;
Domestic Abuse & Sexual Assault Crisis Center, PO Box 423, Belvidere, NJ 07823, USA;
Contact.

About:
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(also in Hindi)

Linked on this our NGO blog with Mahila Samakhya in Uttar Pradesh, and with Janaki – India.

Mahila Samakhya was launched as a pilot project in Karnataka, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh in 1989 with Dutch assistance. The project was extended to Andhra Pradesh at the end of 1992 and in two districts in Kerala in 1998. The effectiveness of the MS strategy in mobilising women for education has resulted in it being adopted by other basic education projects in Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Assam … (full text Expansion and Coverage).

Homepage;
Department of School Education and Literacy;
Initiatives;
Who is who;
Genesis;
Women’s Mobilisation And Programme Agendas;
The Mahila Samakhya (Education for Women’s Equality) Programme;
The ROLE OF THE NATIONAL RESOURCE GROUP OF MAHILA SAMAKHYA;
List of NRG members;
Find the regional Mahila Samakhya (State) on this site (scroll down) – for Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal;
Right to Information Act;
Publications;
Annual reports;
Contact.

Mahila Samakhya: Pursuant to the objectives of the NPE, 1986, the Mahila Samakhya Scheme was started in 1989 to translate the goals enshrined in the NPE into a concrete programme for the education and empowerment of women in rural areas particularly those from socially and economically marginalized groups.

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US network for Global Economic Justice

50 Years Is Enough: U.S. Network for Global Economic Justice is a coalition of over 200 U.S. grassroots, women’s, solidarity, faith-based, policy, social- and economic-justice, youth, labor and development organizations dedicated to the profound transformation of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The Network works in solidarity with over 185 international partner organizations in more than 65 countries … (full text about 1/2).

Homepage;
Celebrating the 10th Year of the 50 Years Is Enough Network: Cover, History, Photos;
Conferences;
Economic Justice News;
Members;
Diversity Statement;
Jobs and Internships;
Resources;
Newsletter /Subscribe;
Address: 50 Years Is Enough Network, 3628 12th St NE, Washington, DC 20017, USA;
Feedback on the website;
Staff and Contact.

About 2/2: … We call for the immediate suspension of the policies and practices of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Group which have caused widespread poverty, inequality, and suffering among the world’s peoples and damage to the world’s environment.

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Linked with Alice Ophelia Hyman Lynch – USA.

WOCN is a project of the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence nrcdv, and the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence PCADV

If you are in danger, please call:

• Emergency services: 911
• National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-SAFE (7233)

All pages run under the same URL:

Partners and Projects /Publications and Links /WOCN Announcements and Public Policy / Membership and also …
Address: WOCN, 6400 Flank Drive, Suite 1300, Harrisburg, PA 17112, USA;
Contact: (phone) 800-537-2238, ext 137; (fax) 717-545-9456; e-mail.

About:
Mission: The mission of the Women of Color Network (WOCN) is to provide and enhance leadership capacity and resources that promote the activities of women of color advocates and activists within the Sovereign Nations, the United States and U.S. Territories to address the elimination of violence against women and families.

History: In 1997, a group of women of color from across the country gathered to establish an entity to address the unique challenges facing women of color advocates and activists within the violence against women movement. Since that time, the Women of Color Network has created a national medium where women of color can dialogue, network, organize, and obtain resources to support their efforts.

WOCN has accomplished this by:

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en francais / en espanol

Linked with Alice Ophelia Hyman Lynch – USA;

Restorative justice is a theory of justice that emphasizes repairing the harm caused or revealed by criminal behaviour. It is best accomplished through cooperative processes that include all stakeholders. Practices and programs reflecting restorative purposes will respond to crime by:

• 1. identifying and taking steps to repair harm;
• 2. involving all stakeholders;
• 3. transforming the traditional relationship between communities and their governments in responding to crime.

Some of the programmes and outcomes typically identified with restorative justice include: … (full text /Introduction).

Homepage:
Conferences;
Resources;
RJ Library News;
Web Tour /Links;
Centre for Justice and Reconciliation;
Prison Fellowship International;
Submit an article for publication on RJ online;
Address: Centre for Justice and Reconciliation, Prison Fellowship International, PO Box 17434, Washington, DC 20041, usa;
Contact: Tel: 1 703 481 0000, Fax:1 703 481 0003, e-mail.

About: Restorative Justice Online is a service of the Centre for Justice & Reconciliation at Prison Fellowship International. Information on PFI can be found on the Prison Fellowship International Website.

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Linked with Alice Ophelia Hyman Lynch – USA.

WAND empowers women. To take political action. To change our culture and our national priorities: Toward peace and real security. Away from militarism and violence. (Frontpage and Newletter).

Homepage and News;
Take Action;
Urge Your Senators to Ban Cluster Bombs;
American Budget pie;
No new nukes!
Our blog: women, power, peace;
Donate Now;
Join Us;
News Bulletin Archive;
The WAND Education Fund;
WiLL, the women’s legislators’ Lobby;
Address: WAND, 322 4th St., NE, Washington, DC 20002;
Contact.

Who we are and what we do: … What we do: WAND’s evolution as an organization
FFor a brief history of WAND, click here.

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a global resource for journalists who cover violence

The Dart Center is a global network of journalists, journalism educators and health professionals dedicated to improving media coverage of trauma, conflict and tragedy. The Center also addresses the consequences of such coverage for those working in journalism. (About).

Homepage;
Sitemap;
The First Dead Body;

Fellowship;
Trauma Research;
Regional Offices (London, Melbourne, Americas);
Mission; 
Staff & Personnel; 
Executive Committee; 
Advisory Council; 
Governance, Funding & Partnerships; 
Contacts.

History: The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma was founded at the University of Washington in 1999. It continues a mission begun nearly a decade earlier.

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(also in french and spanish) – about Migration

Our purpose is to invent, to share, and to practice new forms of collective action, from the local to the global scales, so that together we can exercise more control, together and with Nature, over the future of an increasingly complex and interdependent world.
The challenge of the Alliance is to favor unity within diversity by proclaiming our societies’ capacity to understand and assess the complexity of situations, the interdependence of the issues, and the legitimacy of all the different geocultural, thematic, social, and professional viewpoints, and to encourage them all to act accordingly … (What is the Alliance).

What’s new;
workgroups;
proposals;
participate;
other important moments;
interesting websites;
Contacts (click on the wanted item).

History of the Alliance: Since the end of the 1980s, different actors of society from a broad range of spheres in various regions of the world have taken a large number of initiatives to contribute to and organize a huge world movement capable of participating in the quest for values, proposals, and rules to overcome the new challenges humanity is facing.

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(in eight languages)

Linked with Binda Pandey – Nepal, August 7th, 2008;

Uniting the world’s workers: How can workers face up to the might of the global corporations? By organising globally. That is why more than 20 million workers worldwide are already members of the ICEM, the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers’ Unions. The ICEM is a rapidly growing industry-based world labour federation dedicated to practical solidarity. It unites trade unions in its sectors on all continents. Its aim is to become a truly global trade union … (about 1/2).

ICEM affiliates: by November 2007, the ICEM represented 467 industrial trade unions in 132 countries.

Homepage;
Gender Issues;
ICEM regions;
Federations;
Staff;
Statutes, 19 pdf-pages;
Weekly newsletter;
Address: ICEM, 54bis route des Acacias, 1227 Geneva, Switzerland;
Contact.

About 2/2: ICEM’s main focuses are negotiating and monitoring global agreements …

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Linked with Betty Burkes – USA, and with the International Bureau of Education IBE.

Peace education is a participatory holistic process that includes teaching for and about democracy and human rights, nonviolence, social and economic justice, gender equality, environmental sustainability, disarmament, traditional peace practices, international law, and human security. (Homepage). 

Peace Lessons from around the world (to reach peace we need to teach peace); 
History; Conference of ‘99;
Publications /HAP resources;
Network;
Newsletter Archive;
Peace Boat US;
The Tirana Call for peace education;
Contact: Tel: 212-687-7214, Fax: 212-661-2704, e-Mail.

About: The Hague Appeal for Peace is an international network of organizations and individuals dedicated to the abolition of war and making peace a human right. The Global Campaign for Peace Education GCPE was launched at the Hague Appeal for Peace conference in May 1999. After the conference, Hague Appeal for Peace took the responsibility of coordinating the Campaign.

in all 6 UN languages

Mission: The IBE’s main mission is to act as UNESCO’s centre specialized in contents, methods and structure of education. It builds networks to share expertise on curriculum development in all regions of the world and aims to introduce modern approaches in curriculum design and implementation, improve practical skills and promote informed policy dialogue at national, regional and international levels … (full text).

Homepage;
Sitemap;
Curriculum Development;
Policy Dialogue;
Conflict and social cohesion;
HIV & AIDS;
Poverty Alleviation;
Learn to live together;
Inclusive Education;
IBE Databases;
Official information sources on education;
Databases on education systems;
UNESCO-IBE Contacts.

About: The International Bureau of Education (IBE): a global centre in the area of curriculum development and a field-oriented institute supporting UNESCO action aimed at attaining quality Education for All.

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Linked with Chris Norwood – USA.

Health People is unique in the United States as a groundbreaking peer organization which helps people from low-income communities become leaders to effectively fight chronic ill health. Started in 1990 as a women’s AIDS prevention and support program, Health People has grown to provide a full range of AIDS services for men, women and families, as well as to start a large community asthma program, New York’s first diabetes peer educators program and a community smoking cessation program … and: The Health People Pledge: I promise to be responsible to myself, my family, and my community. I promise to fight AIDS-asthma-diabetes-smoking with compassion, determination and love. (Homepage).

Prevention and Support that helps;
Groups and Programs;
Workshops and Services;
Events and News;
Health People Team;
How You Can Help;
Gift Donations;
Address: Health People: Community, Preventive Health Institute, 552 Southern Blvd., 2nd Floor, Bronx, New York 10455, USA;
Contact, map and how to go there.

About: « The mission of Health People: Community Preventive Institute, a peer-based organization, is to empower and train residents of communities overwhelmed by chronic disease to become leaders and educators in effectively preventing ill health, hospitalization and unnecessary death »

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Buddhist Association for Peace, Culture and Education

Linked with Chris Norwood – USA.

The origins of the SGI-USA worldview can be traced to the teachings of the historical Buddha Shakyamuni, who lived some 2,500 years ago in what is modern-day Nepal. Born Gautama Siddhartha, he abandoned his sheltered, princely life and sought instead to understand the inescapable sufferings of every human being — birth, aging, sickness and death — and the means by which these sufferings could be overcome … (full text).

Homepage with Highlights and search;
News and Events;
Community Support;
The three founding presidents;
Exhibitions and Resources;
Member Resources and Tools;
Women’s activities;
Men’s activities;
Study and Publications;
Newsletter /subscribe online;
Links to SGI Organizations and Affiliates;
Find us /search SGI-USA locations;

About SGI-USA:  The SGI is based on the teachings and philosophy of Nichiren Buddhism, which places the highest emphasis on the sanctity of life. Members seek, through their practice of Buddhism, to develop the ability to live with confidence, to create value in any circumstance and to contribute to the well-being of friends, family and community.

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