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Linked with George J. Borjas – USA.

UNU, this means 31 years of research, knowledge sharing, and capacity development.

Sitemap;
Programs;
UNU video library;
Internships;
Publications;
Contact: United Nations University Office at the United Nations, New York, 2 UN Plaza, DC2-2060, New York, New York 10017, Tel: 212-963–6387, Fax: 212-371-9454, E-mail.

About:

• UNU is dedicated to the generation and transfer of knowledge, and the strengthening of individual and institutional capacities in furtherance of the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations.
• The mission of UNU is to contribute, through research and capacity building, to efforts to resolve the pressing global problems that are a concern of the United Nations, its Peoples and Member States.
• In fulfilling this mission, UNU fosters intellectual cooperation among scholars, scientists, and practitioners worldwide — especially those in the developing world — and functions as: …
• (full text).

Linked with Vimochana.

SAWNET The South Asian Women’s NETwork, a forum for and about women from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka …

Domestic Violence;
Divorce (laws, stories, therapy, mediation, children, self-help etc.);
News;
Bookshelf;
The Sawnet Discussion List;
How others see SAWNET;
Contact.

About: SAWNET started as a mailing list in Nov 1991, with about 40 subscribers. The mailing list was originally run by its founders by simply emailing the collected posts to all subscribers every day. The number of subscribers grew rapidly, and the logistics of running it manually became too much for us. Darci Chapman and Lata Narayanan got Sawnet its own email address, which eventually moved to its current home at Concordia University in Canada …

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Linked with Madhu Kishwar – India, with Donna Fernandes – India, and with SAWNET.

Vimochana seems not having an english website, but is named (in english) on:

India together – Vimochana has been working for 20 years on women’s issues. Our focus has been domestic violence and sexual harassment at the workplace. Initially, we operated as an office based counselling organisation. But soon enough, we got fed up with arm-chair theorising and decided to personally investigate the cases that came to us. The transition brought many shocks. The first was the sight of burnt bodies of young girls and women. Our initial attempts at investi-gation were not easy … (full text).

Vimochana: A Forum for Women’s Rights: Towards gendered justice and reaffirming the ethic of the feminine.

STREELEKHA, (named on mailman.rice.edu), is a feminist bookstore based in Bangalore, South India. It is a sister concern of Vimochana, an activist organisation based in the same city. The women at Vimochana and Streelekha have been working in and around Karnataka for the last 17 years, mostly to protest and defend the rights of women wherever and whenever they have been violated. (full text).

Disambiguate:

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(a global network of individuals and organizations working for a better world)

About: Our Vision is of a world that works for everybody, where all people have enough to eat, a decent place to live, a good education, clean water and sanitation, access to basic healthcare, right livelihood, and a decent standard of living. This would include a world where we protect and restore our natural environment, live sustainably, treat each other with respect and dignity, protect all people’s basic human rights, can participate equitably in local to global decision making, and resolve our conflicts and differences peaceably.

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Breakthrough;
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Articles;
Contact.

Our Mission is to gather and develop a listing of the most promising proposals and initiatives for solving our primary global problems and challenges and developing an active network of people and organizations that will promote and support these initiatives. It is to develop sufficient support to actually achieve and implement these goals.

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Linked with Another Side to Race and Immigration.

The BLACK CoMMentator is a weekly Internet magazine featuring commentary, analysis and investigations on issues affecting African Americans.

Newsletter;
Cartoons;
past issues;
links;
Contact.

About: http://www.blackcommentator.com/about_us.html
The Black Commentator’s core audience is African Americans and their allies in the struggle for social and economic justice. It is also important to share Black American perspectives with the rest of the world, a mission uniquely suited to the Internet.

Our focus is commentary, analysis and investigation, elements of political dialogue that are absolutely essential to the creation of movements for social change. Without regular forums for advocacy and debate, a people are at the mercy of their adversaries.

With the publication of issue #200 on October 5, 2006 BC announced the creation of a multi-dimensional BC Editorial Board and took a new, more inclusive and broader direction … (full text).

(a home for orphans, not an orphan house, in Pakistan).

Linked with Muhammad Anwar Dar – Pakistan, see also CRIN.
Overview: Roshni Homes has a covered area of 225,000 square feet, play grounds for cricket, hockey, football & badminton, one administration block, and eight homes.

Vision;
Mission;
President’s Message;
What we do;
News & Events;
FAQs;
Donations;
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The Roshni Homes Trust is a volunteer, non-political, non-sectarian and non profitable charity organization established by Founder Trustees. The Roshni Homes Trust provides residency and full modeled family care services for the children without parental care. The main purpose of this trust is better socialization and physical growth of deprived children. The core objective of all these efforts is to make these deprived children highly productive, responsible and integral members of the society through Higher Education and Character Building.

Linked with Muhammad Anwar Dar – Pakistan.

… GIFT is a dynamic, modern university with high standards of education, learning, facilities and a growing reputation in the region. GIFT is a safe, friendly and welcoming place, which attracts students from across Pakistan. The University is committed to ensuring that students get the most out of their time spent with us and enjoy enhanced prospects in their future careers … (full text).

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Goals;
Site Guide;
Study Programs;
Admission;
Student Resources;
Facts;
Location;
Contact.

President’s Message: GIFT University is a place of academic excellence and our mission is to help students fulfill their career dreams. Whether it is to support your career plans or assist you with your current responsibilities, GIFT University education can play a vital role in your success. We provide our students diverse opportunities to be creative and develop a sense of social responsibility with self-discipline. More importantly, they need to be serious towards their education and increase their knowledge and awareness.

See also: The GIFT College.

(in english, en français).

Linked with Mary Brownell – Liberia.

MARWOPNET’S vision is of a sub-region that is peaceful and prosperous inhabited by citizens who are healthy, educated, live in unity and enjoying all their human rights including equity and equality with women playing an effective role in peace and sustainable development processes within the sub region, Africa and the world.

News;
Documents;
Links;
Contact.

Objectives:

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(named on WANEP.org).

Linked with Mary Brownell – Liberia.

WIPNET was established four years ago to mobilize women, build their capacity and encourage collaboration among them to build lasting peace and promote human security in West Africa. WIPNET’s challenge remains the integration of women’s concerns and their participation in policy formulation and implementation in peace and security issues in the sub-region. To ensure the mainstreaming of gender in peacebuilding, in 2005 the WIPNET program began the process of forging partnerships with policy makers and technocrats using its wide grassroots network to advocate for the mainstreaming of women’s issues in policy formulation in peace and security.

Objectives:

• Develop policy recommendations for mainstreaming women’s issues in peace and security;
• Strengthen the nexus between policy makers, technocrats and women’s groups;
• Sustain women’s participation in formal peacebuilding in West Africa;
• Strengthen capacity of rural/grassroots women in peacebuilding at community and national levels;
• Build strategic partnerships with women’s networks in other regions.

(full text on this WANEP.org-page).

Linked with Mary Brownell – Liberia.

This group has not its own website, but is named on others (some with excerpts):

Ghana Center for Democratic Development CDD-Ghana
Mission Statement of LWI: To engage in educational activities promoting nonviolent conflict resolution and civic education.
A brief statement of Activities:

• Sustained campaign, uniting Liberian women from all sectors of society, to bring an end to the country’s civil war;
• It has directed its activities at major players in the Liberian conflict, including West African political leaders, officials of the United States, and the UN;
• Prior to 1997 democratic elections, it played a major role in bringing about disarmament, and engaged in voter education activities.

Contact Information: 11 Broad Street, PO Box 1063, Monrovia-Liberia, Tel – 231 227 095.

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Linked with Paola Battagliola – Italy.

Home; « We, Salesian Sisters, commit ourselves to the new evangelization of youth. Impelled by our charism, we evangelize by educating. We open up new ways for the education of the young, deepening within them an attitude of respect for the dignity of the human person and an openness to life in all its forms. We commit ourselves to a community lifestyle which is simple, poor, welcoming, and able to create a new educative presence among poor youth ».

Top 10 Things You Should Know About Us;
Our Spirituality;
Newsletter;
Salesian Sisters International Website: Figlie di Maria Ausiliatrice: Global foundation expounds on the vocational services it provides around the planet and relates its background story. In various languages;

Contact.

Linked with Irene Chaluluka – Malawi.

‘Why wait?’ is not a group of the Civil Society, but in Africa (Malawi and others) a program to prevent HIV/AIDS contamination. It is also a new behavior spread by christian communities. However, I have not found a website of their own, but this program, or behavior is named on other sites. Here some of them:

on Probe.org;
on Michael Rota’s believe;
on leadershipU.com;
on anabaptists.org.
and so on …

a book on amazon;
a second book on amazon;

And here a longer excerpt on intervarsity.org:

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The International Association of Educators of World Peace IAEWP
is an NGO, dedicated to UNs Goals of Peace Education, Environmental Protection, Human Rights and Disarmament.

Mission & Objectives;
Events;
Membership;
Contact.

About:
IAEWP) is a not-for-profit, non-political, and a non-governmental organization geared towards the attainment of international understanding and world peace through education. IAEWP operates as an NGO under the mandate of the United Nations. We have more than 100 chapters established throughout the world.

In 1973, the Association became a non-governmental organization of both the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). It also became a part of the United Nations Department of Public Information (UNDPI).

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• Founded in 1961, the Academy for Educational Development is an independent, nonprofit organization committed to solving critical social problems and building the capacity of individuals, communities, and institutions to become more self-sufficient. AED works in all the major areas of human development, with a focus on improving education, health, and economic opportunities for the least advantaged in the United States and developing countries throughout the world.
• AED is a bridge, a link between the problem and the solution, the need and the resource, people and their potential.

Homepage;
Projects; Tools & Publications; Donate; Stories about peoples and programs; About;
Contact.

Education: For more than 40 years, we at AED have approached our work in education as a means of serving society.

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(action for a sustainable world)

Linked with Jonathon Espie Porritt – England.

Finding practical ways private and public organisations can deliver a sustainable future (homepage).

latest news;
publications;
partners;
concerning business;
concerning public sector;
events;
contact.

about: The Forum for the Future – the sustainable development charity – works in partnership with over 120 leading organisations in business and the public sector.  Our vision is of business and communities thriving in a future that’s environmentally sustainable and socially just.    We believe that a sustainable future can be achieved, that it is the only way business and communities will prosper, but that we need bold action now to make it happen …

… In an increasingly competitive business environment our close partnership with Forum for the Future has helped inform new priorities for sustainable business growth, and care for the world and society in which we live and operate. (full text).