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[Euro Bangla] An excellent guide for exiled journalists by Reporters Without ...: Phone: (604) 254-9626 OPTIONS Multilingual Help Line 100 - 6846 King George Highway Surrey, BC V3W 4Z9 Phone: (604) 572-4060 Storefront Orientation Services (SOS) 360 Jackson Avenue Vancouver, BC V6A 3B4 Phone: (604) 255-4611 (Spanish) or (604) 253-8859 (Chinese) E-mail: director@sosrefugee.org SUCCESS (United Chinese Community Enrichment Services) Phone: (604) 684-1628 (Downtown Vancouver office) (604) 468-6100 (Tri-city office) (604) 270-0077 (Airport Reception Centre) Surrey-Delta Immigrant Services Society 1107 - 7330 137th Street Surrey, BC V3W 1A3 Phone: (604) 597-0205 Vancouver Association for Survivors ofTorture (VAST) 2618 East Hastings Street Vancouver, BC V5K 1Z6 Phone: (604) 299-3539

[The Nepaldalitinfo International] The Nepaldalitinfo International » A Book, Dalits of Nepal ...: A recent report on the current state of political change in Nepal by the International Crisis Group, titled “Nepal’s Political Rites of Passage” (Kathmandu/Brussels, 29 September 2010) concludes that although Nepal’s political situation is neither chaotic nor anarchic but rather is stuck in a self-reinforcing cultural system of elitism and corruption, nonetheless threats of instability potentially come from “groups pressing ethnic and regional agendas.” The report astutely notes that “Nepal’s revolution is proceeding in accordance with longstanding political rites” contributing to a state that is “dysfunctional by demand.”

[SACSIS.org.za | News] SACSIS.org.za » News » Human Rights » On Migrants and Movement: Instead of embracing these new constructs of citizenship, identity and culture, host communities jostle to protect and close off their interests, their religions, their cultures and schools. For example, in the 1980s, many public schools in ... A more useful appraisal might consider the manner in which these countries have taken partisan positions, which undermine social development and sustainable economic expansion. The sort of upheavals seen in the last 15 years in ...

[Business & Finance News and Press Releases] Inspired by Crowdsourcing, Imagine Cup Solve This Enables Students ...: In the spirit of crowdsourcing, intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and nonprofits now will be able to seek the help of the brilliant and passionate students competing in Microsofts Imagine Cup, the worlds premier student technology competition, to develop innovative solutions to real-world problems. Global IGOs and NGOs including NetHope, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), the United Nations Programme on Youth, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO), the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and local New York City nonprofit the Robin Hood Foundation are among the first organizations to participate.

[caring labor: an archive] Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez, “The 'Hidden Side' of the New ...: This discussion draws on a comparative study done with colleagues in Spain, Germany, Austria, and the United Kingdom (UK) on migration, gender, and domestic work in Western Europe.6 In our project we opted for a Participatory Action Research (PAR) method.7 We conducted “openended interviews” and conversations.8 As we drew from Maria Mies’s work,9 we saw our method as a generator of knowledge enriched by diverse points of view.10 This knowledge arose in an educational process empowering all those involved to change themselves, their relationships with each other, and their society.11 However, as I have observed elsewhere, academic and political work with “undocumented migrants”

[Critical Legal Thinking] Critical Legal Thinking Ӽ The Europe to come: Dissatisfaction with nation, state and European institutions comes from a bond between singularities, which cannot be turned either into community, state or Union and cannot be contained in traditional concepts of community or cosmos or of polis or state. The Mediterranean to come is a bond between singularities, the world of each unique one, of whoever and anyone, those infinite encounters of singular worlds creating a cosmos.13 But each world is penetrated by the world of the other, the other in me, myself in the other

[Irish Left Review] Irish Left Review · LGBT Mental Health in Ireland: The establishment of an LGBT Health subcommittee and launch of the new Patient Safety First Charter in September that commits to ensuring lesbian and gay people are treated with respect and dignity when accessing health and social services are important steps forward. The HSE’s NOSP also supports research into LGBT mental health issues and funds a number of programmes addressing LGBT mental health promotion and suicide prevention.

[Don Anton] Anton's Weekly Digest of International Law Scholarship, Vol. 1, No ...: The paper provides a historical context for recent changes in global and national governance in terms of the various models of social citizenship or what I call social constitutionalism. Using Hobsbawm’s notion of the ”˜short twentieth century’ we argue that the twentieth century was not so much a struggle between different state forms but rather needs to be understood in the way these state forms reflect differing responses to the underlying social conflicts stemming from the development of capitalism and the emergence of working class and socialist movements.

[Harvard Magazine - Your independent source for Harvard news since 1898] Grace Ryan films a documentary on mental-health care in Ghana ...: This second film, which follows the process of making the NGO film, will be her final project for a course on ethnographic filmmaking, as well as an “addendum” to her senior thesis, tentatively titled “Struck Mad: Structural Violence and Mental Health in Accra, Ghana.” Structural violence, a favorite term of Presley professor of global health and social medicine Paul Farmer, refers to indirect ways that governments and other institutions harm people. In the case of Ryan’s project, the Ghanaian government’s failure to provide adequate mental-health care to its citizens””and to the poor in particular””can be seen as depriving people of mental health and, in some cases, of their very lives.

[Jewlicious THE Jewish Blog] A Response to the Jewish Voice for Peace Activist who Disrupted ...: there are nicer ways to do it, but the nice ways always fail…it’s not nice, no it’s not nice, you told us once, you told us twice, but if that’s freedom price, we don’t mind.” The young Jews have followed this legacy of disrupting the status quo to stand for a just, equal and democratic future in Israel/Palestine, to represent Jewishness as an opposition to Israeli policy. Finally, I wonder where themiddle gets his information to state, “in their society they have no democracy, no liberal values to speak of, no freedom of expression, effective rules that discriminate heavily against minorities such as homosexuals and Christians and a heavy propaganda push that educates their young toward war and non-settlement of the conflict despite nearly two decades of a peace process.”

[Beth's Blog » Search Results » make money online] Microsoft's Networked Approach To Accelerating Social Change ...: Microsoft has predictable  strategies for encouraging employees to give back.  They encourage volunteerism by giving a cash donation of $17/hr to the  nonprofit for every hour they volunteer and of course, matching donations up to $12,000 per employee.   They also have an executive loan program where an employee can do a longer stint of volunteering for a local nonprofit as Tom Moran, Director of Customer and Partner Experience for Microsoft did for the United Way King County.

[Mondoweiss] Rabbis say don't rent to Arabs, Israeli forces surround mosque ...: Also, the wife of a man holding dual British-Iraqi citizenship and held in Iraq without charges for the last year has renewed her pleas for help in releasing the man.

[La communication électronique en situations mono et plurilingues] Elisabetta COSTA (University of Milano-Bicocca) | La communication ...: “Social media for social change: how we can use it to empower ourselves and our community” is the workshop’s title organised by a Lebanese USAID funded NGO. I will argue that the so called “second generation internet” or “web 2.0” platforms and technologies provide a new space for western policies in the Middle East.

[Connect 123] The Best 50 Volunteer Blogs from Around the World | Connect 123: According to their blog, British citizens Alison and Paul Durrant are still adjusting to Cambodian life but thoroughly enjoying the volunteering experience. They regularly update the site with pictures and their accounts of their adventures in Phnom Penh.

[Don Anton] Anton's Weekly Digest of International Law Scholarship, Vol. 1, No ...: The power of exclusion and especially of deportation has again grown more important (as it was during the Red Scares of the post-WWI and Cold War periods), making citizenship more important. As the government seeks to undermine constitutional protections in three ways ”” making it irrelevant who you are, where you are, or whose custody you are in ”” the benefits of the legal status of “citizen” seem to be in play.

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