In less than two months a crucial UN summit on global
poverty
takes place in Mexico, and already US officials are trying
to
neuter the draft declaration which calls for rich countries
to raise the amount they spend on helping the 2.8bn people
who live on less than $2 a day.
The Public Affairs Division of the UN sees the six weeks
from
now until mid-March as presenting a unique time in which to
direct public attention to the Monterrey Conference.
The UN Financing for Development website: www.un.org/esa/ffd
provides a press kit and other helpful material.
The DebtChannel discussion list:
http://forum.oneworld.net:8080/~debtchannel
provides a discussion list covering the issues that will
matter by those who know.
****IN THIS ISSUE****
OneWorld is now 7 years old 4 online campaigns,
reconditioned
computers, a prize for your success stories as well as
events, funding, resources and publications.
****HAPPY ANNIVERSARY ONEWORLD!****
OneWorld is now 7 years old. On 24 January 1995, OneWorld
was
publicly launched at the Foreign Press Association in
London.
Seventy-five invited guests came from development agencies,
broadcast and print journalism, government and the world of
education, to see and discuss this new "meeting place for
the
one world community".
Herbert Girardet, distinguished environmentalist and
filmmaker,
declared that he "felt present at an historic moment".
He was right!
****SOCIAL FORUM****
OneWorld is reporting from Porto Alegre on the OneWorld news
service www.oneworld.net/news and on OneWorld on Yahoo! News
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/wl/oneworld/?u, the first-ever
non-profit world news syndication to a corporate web portal.
To Learn about the World Social Forum, its importance and
how you and your organization can participate and create
greater awareness about the meeting in your community.
http://www.grassrootsonline.org/wsf/your_wsf.html
****INDIA-PAKISTAN****
Kashmir is once again at the heart of a standoff between
India and Pakistan, as relations between the two countries
dip following an attack by gunmen on the Parliament
building in New Delhi. OneWorld Special Report Kashmir
Flashpoint
www.oneworld.net/specialreports/kashmirflashpoint/
edited Daniel Nelson, OneWorld UK.
Join Muhammad Ali, Coretta Scott King, Harrison Ford, Queen
Noor, Jimmy Carter and 36 Nobel Laureates in signing this
appeal to the leaders of nuclear weapons states. We must
make these leaders understand that continuing to run the
risk of nuclear annihilation is unacceptable and unworthy
of the human spirit.
https://www.sbwh.com/wagingpeace/signtheappeal.asp
****ONLINE ACTIONS****
ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY
http://www.whrnet.org/news/headline_news/jan_22_02/n3.htm
Write to the Sudanese authorities urging them to guarantee
a fair and prompt appeal for Abok Alfau Akok. Abok Alfau
Akok, 18, has been sentenced to death by stoning for the
crime of adultery.
SUPPORT THE AFGHAN MINISTRY OF WOMEN'S AFFAIRS
http://capwiz.com/fmf1/issues/alert/?alertid=73281
Email President Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell
to urge US support for the Afghan Ministry for Women's
Affairs. The newly created Women's Ministry needs immediate
and significant funds to begin its mission to help Afghan
women and girls in post-Taliban Afghanistan.
STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST MINORITIES IN BANGLADESH
http://www.hrcbm.org/NEWLOOK/petition1.html
Sign the online petition to stop all atrocities against
minorities in Bangladesh. The Human Rights Congress for
Bangladesh Minorities aims to bring offenders to justice
and rehabilitate the victims of past and present atrocities.
****CAMPAIGNS ON ONEWORLD.NET****
* Trade : http://www.oneworld.net/campaigns/trade
* Climate Change:
http://www.oneworld.net/campaigns/climatechange
* Digital Divide:
http://www.oneworld.net/campaigns/digitaldivide/
(UK Campaigns)
* Transport: http://www.oneworld.net/uk/campaigns/transport
* Asylum Seekers:
http://www.oneworld.net/uk/campaigns/asylum-seekers/
* Food: http://www.oneworld.net/uk/campaigns/food/
* Consumption:
http://www.oneworld.net/uk/campaigns/consumption/
Please send details of all news, background material,
images,
quotes, opinion pieces or especially actions people can take
on these topics to the OneWorld campaigns editor Helena
Earnshaw
at [email protected]
*****ONLINE EVENTS****
AN INVITATION TO PRACTICAL DREAMERS
http://www.idealist.org/play.html
February 5 - March 19,2002, location worldwide. An exciting
Grassroots initiative through Idealist.org using the
Internet
to get people and organizations that act locally and think
globally.
ALTERNATIVES TO ECONOMIC GLOBALISATION
http://www.ru.org/conferencepage.htm
From February 11-15, 2002,
Online conference on Alternatives to Economic Globalisation.
****SITE SPOTLIGHT****
SUCCESS STORIES WANTED
http://www.iicd.org/stories
Write your ICT story and win a trip to Washington D.C. to
attend the INET 2002 Conference in June 2002. Four winners
will be selected to travel. The competition is open to
anybody
with experience from an active or completed project.
Previous
years entrants are eligible to enter new or updated stories.
Deadline for entry is April 15, 2002.
100 YEARS OF HEALTH
http://www.paho.org/100
The Pan American Health Organization has kicked off its
yearlong celebration for its 100th birthday. The oldest
international public health agency in the world, PAHO
plans a series of events and activities for a wide range
of publics throughout the Western Hemisphere. To keep in
touch or to take part, check out our special centennial
website.
****WEBSITE AND IT TOOLS****
COMPUTER AID: REFURBISHED COMPUTERS
Computer Aid is one of the world's largest non-profit
suppliers of computers to schools and community
organisations
in the developing world. Based in the United Kingdom,
Computer Aid has supplied computers to over 60 countries,
helping to bridge the "digital divide" between rich and
poor.
http://www.computer-aid.org/applicationform.htm
LOOKING FOR ONLINE VOLUNTEERS?
NetAid Online Volunteers share their time and expertise to
help organizations that address issues and conditions in
the developing world. These volunteers help without having
to leave their homes.
****FUNDING*****
EC BUDGET LINE B7-6000 NGOs CO-FINANCING
Deadline: 15 APRIL 2002
Cofinancing will only be granted to operations, which are
based on the initiative of local partners in the developing
countries
http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/tender/data/AOF29360.doc
EC-PREP, CALL FOR PROPOSALS ?50,000 to ?160,000
Deadline: Wednesday 6 March 2002
For research projects and commissioned studies to enhance
collaboration between the European Commission and the UK
Department for International Development (DFID).
http://www.ec-prep.org
*****EVENTS****
EUROPE FROM BELOW (run by ICS - Italian Consortium of
Solidarity)
6 APRIL 2002, SARAJEVO
Meeting to create a network of European civil society
organisations to promote peace, citizenship and cooperation
e-mail: [email protected]
WORLD SUMMIT ON THE INFORMATION SOCIETY (ITU by UN
resolution)
December 10-12, 2003, Geneva UN Summit to address digital
divide, harness development potential of information and
communication technologies
www.geneva2003.org
THE 3RD WORLD SUMMIT ON INTERNET AND MULTIMEDIA (WSIM)
October 8th-11th 2002, Montreux (Switzerland)
One of the themes "Bridging the Digital Divide: the
Multimedia
Industry Speaks Out".
http://www.internetworldsummit.org/
Ethnographies of the Internet:
Grounding regulation in lived experience
March 8, Oxford
http://pcmlp.socleg.ox.ac.uk/conf08022002.htm
Networked Learning in a Global Environment
Virtual education
May 1-4, Berlin
http://www.icsc-naiso.org/conferences/nl2002
DIAC-02 (run by the CPSR)
Shaping the Network Society - patterns for participation,
Action and change
May 16-19, Seattle
http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/diac02
INET 2002 (run by ISOC)
Where technology and policy intersect
June 18-21, Washington
http://www.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/inet/02/call.shtml
Internet Research 3.0 (run by AoIR, the Association of
Internet Researchers)
Net/Work/Theory
October 13-16, Maastricht
http://aoir.org/2002
Ethicomp 2002
The transformation of organisations in the information age:
Social and ethical implications.
Nov 13-15, Lisbon
http://www.ccsr.cse.dmu.ac.uk/conferences/ethicomp2002
****PUBLICATIONS AND RESOURCES*****
GLOBAL EVENTS BY E-MAIL WITH GLOBAL FOCUS
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/global-focus
The One World Trust information bulletin, Global Focus,
provides an overview of global events for parliamentarians,
civil society organisations, decision-makers and activists.
Sent by email every two weeks, Global Focus provides a two
page digest of international events, international
conferences
and treaty negotiations.
email to [email protected]
SRI LANKA PEACE CONFIDENCE INDEX (PCI)
http://www.cpalanka.org/events.html
In order to formulate a Peace Confidence Index (PCI), Social
Indicator (Polling Unit) of the Center for Policy
Alternatives
is conducting an opinion poll to ascertain public perception
and outlook towards the ongoing peace process in SRI LANKA.
This will indicate the extent to which public confidence
fluctuates with the political development of a country over
a period of time. Social Indicator is presently conducting
the 5th wave of the PCI study, first four can be obtained
on request.
EFFECTIVE PRACTICES IN YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
http://www.iyfnet.org/utility.cfm/72
The International Youth Foundation's "What Works in
Youth Development" series examines effective practices
in education, youth employment, street children programming
and engaging business in youth employment.
You can download these publications online or order
them by email, [email protected].
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BOOKS AND TRAINING
http://www.pactpublications.com
WIth its new website, http://www.pactpublications.com, it
is now easier to find the international development
materials
you need with expanded development topics and the ability
to search by title, author, publisher, topic, or language.
****CORRECTIONS****
The Second Know How Conference is being organized by
Isis-WICCE (Women's International Cross-Cultural Exchange)
which is based in Kampala, Uganda. WOUGNET are information
resource for this workshop.
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