| | Social Changes Human Rights Social Impact Education | Social Impact | | | Center of Concerns - For over thirty years, the Center of Concern has been enabling individuals, organizations and coalitions: 1. to explore and analyze the global issues and social structures from an ethical perspective based on Catholic Social Teaching; and 2. to become involved in strategies and projects that promote the good of the entire global community and the integrity of every individual. Since 1971, the Center of Concern has offered moral vision and provided effective leadership in the struggle to end hunger, poverty, environmental decline, and injustice in the United States and around the world. Its goal is to provide individuals and organizations with basic tools to address these universal questions: What are the root causes of human suffering in the world today? How can we change the system to increase social justice and offer hope? We provide reliable information and analysis on development issues, practical alternatives to current development policies and practical suggestions for personal action, and faith reflections on this work for justice. |
| The SocioSite Project The SocioSite is a project based at the faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam. We present the resources and information that are important for the international sociological scene. It links students of sociology to many interesting, sociologically relevant locations in cyberspace. The SocioSite is a comprehensive information system which is very easy to use. That is why it has become a very popular yellow guide for social scientists from all over the world. The SocioSite is a toolkit for us social scientists. It contains high quality resources and texts that can be used as wheels for the sociological mind.
The Internet is rapidly transforming the production, distribution, and consumption of knowledge and information. Information is made available in electronic formats and through differing network applications. The information is expanding at a very fast growing rate. Much of the latest sociological research finds its way onto the Internet long before it reaches print or other traditional media. Coming to terms with the Internet and its resources is a most pressing and necessary task for all social scientists. | Shared Planet 07 will be held from 17-18 November at Sheffield University
Shared Planet is the UK’s largest student conference on world poverty, human rights and the environment. It brings hundreds of students together for a weekend packed with big-name speakers, skills and issues workshops, debates, discussions, art, and a massive party!
At Shared Planet 07 we will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of Shared Planet which coincided with the renaming of Third World First to People & Planet. | World Refugee Day: Displacement in the 21st Century. A new paradigm
The refugee challenge in the 21st century is changing rapidly. People are forced to flee their homes for increasingly complicated and interlinked reasons. Some 40 million people worldwide are already uprooted by violence and persecution, and it is likely that the future will see more people on the run as a growing number of push factors compound one another to create conditions for further forced displacement. | Camera phone pioneer considers the gadget's cultural impact
SANTA CRUZ, California (AP) -- The chilling sounds of gunfire on the Virginia Tech campus. The hateful taunts from Saddam Hussein's execution.
Those videos, shot with cell phone cameras and seen by millions, are just a couple of recent examples of the power now at the fingertips of the masses. Even the man widely credited with inventing the camera phone in 1997 is awed by the cultural revolution he helped launch.
''It's had a massive impact because it's just so convenient,'' said Philippe Kahn, a tech industry maverick whose other pioneering efforts include the founding of software maker Borland, an early Microsoft Corp. antagonist. | The Clean Clothes Campaign
The CCC is an international campaign, focused on improving working conditions in the global garment and sportswear industries. There is a Clean Clothes Campaign in 9 European countries. These are Austria, Belgium (North and South), France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. | The Mission of the Vishnevskaya-Rostropovich Foundation (VRF) is to improve the health care of children in the Russian Federation and other Newly Independent States (NIS) of the former Soviet Union. The work of the VRF encompasses four major areas:
* Creation of sustainable public health programs that focus on prevention through modern immunization
* Clinical research into common serious infectious diseases of childhood
* HIV/AIDS in children* Social rehabilitation of neglected and disaffected children and youth. The VRF was founded in 1991 by Maestro Rostropovich , the world-renowned Russian cellist, and his wife, the soprano Galina Vishnevskaya , to improve the deplorable state of children's health care in Russia and other Newly Independent States formerly part of the Soviet Union | Freegans are people who employ alternative strategies for living based on limited participation in the conventional economy and minimal consumption of resources. Freegans embrace community, generosity, social concern, freedom, cooperation, and sharing in opposition to a society based on materialism, moral apathy, competition, conformity, and greed. Planet Ark works to show people the many ways they can reduce their day to day impact on the environment - at home, at work and in the community. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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