Links and Partners

  • Ekta Parishad (“Forum of unity”), is a popular and non-violent Indian movement which is acted since 20 years for landless, marginalized tribals, women and the Intouchables. It includes 380 associations and one million supporters. Under the authority of its founder, Rajagopal P.V.,. organized in October 2007 the walk Janadesh “people’s verdict”of 25,000 landless between Gwalior and New Delhi which led to an agrarian reform project and a law on the rights of forest tribals. To implement these reforms, Ekta Parishad provides October 2012 a new Jansatyagraha Walk (“The strength of the people of truth”) of 100,000 people. http://www.ektaparishad.com

 

  •  Ekta Europe:
    Ekta Parishad Europe is an open network of independent organizations and individuals of European countries.  Members provide moral, political and financial support to Ekta Parishad in its struggle to assist deprived people to achieve control over their means of livelihood such as water, land and forest using non-violence as a means of creating changes for the people.  http://www.ektaparishad.org/europe/index.html

 

  • Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement “The wake of all by the shared work”, founded by the Buddhist gandhian A.T. Ariyaratne, promotes a development centered on humans to improve the quality of life of people and the disadvantaged communities of country. It acts for 15 000 villages in Sri Lanka  which they organised for their food autonomy, their education and vocational training, their financial autonomy through a Solidarity Bank, as well as their health system. http://www.Sarvodaya.org

 

  • SERPAJ (Servicio Paz y Justicia ) is a movement of ecumenical Christian inspiration that promotes the values of peace and non-violence and full recognition of human rights. It is implanted, so very variable way and depending on the country, in 14 countries of Central America and Latin: Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador,. Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay (36 permanent), Colombia, El Salvador,. Uruguay etc. The SERPAJ is the C.O.E. of the United Nations Advisory member and UNESCO. Latin American coordination is located in Buenos Aires, and It is chaired by Adolfo Perez Esquivel, 1980 Peace Nobel Prize. http://www.serpajamericalatina.org/

 

  • The SAPA (South Asian Peace Alliance ) is a collective of several Asian organizations of South (Afghanistan, Bengladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka), in which English Quakers are very involved. Its objectives are: training Nonviolent  action, promoting non violent culture and intercultural dialogue in medias. http://www.southasiapeacealliance.org/

 

  • Shanti Association dedicated to the production and dissemination of documentary films on nonviolence

http://Association-Shanti.org/

  • Octovales, founded and chaired by Gilles Changeon, association wants to promote peace through various means (film week, concerts, conferences and debates, collective actions…) and on different themes (justice and solidarity, non-violence, environment and sustainable peace, interreligious…), during the month of October (“Octovales” means: October festivities), especially around 2 October (day of birth of Gandhi), ruled by U.n. a.u.. “International day of the Non-violence”.

http://www.lesoctovales.org/

  • Agir en paix is a law association 1901 composed of volunteers and volunteer association for that peace itself is the main forum to think otherwise and therefore act otherwise peaceful and consistently. Among the variety of the actions envisaged: peace, consciousness and freedom that will affect both children as adults and peace and business which has the goal to live the values of peace in companies. The project is also to achieve synergies with all those who already work for peace, so you will find links with actors directly invested or not for peace. www.agirenpaix.com

 

  • Jan West 2012 is a collective of activists solidarity international, human rights or to non-violence in the West of France. Many of them are already fully engaged in different associative movements (CCFD – United Earth, Amnesty International, Frères des Hommes, Pax Christi,…). The objective of Jan West esdt awareness actions of Ekta Parishad, including JAN SATYAGRAHA 2012 walking, and also generate a momentum of moral and financial support to our friends here down in India, committed in our country in the
    defence of farmers “landless”, and without a other “voice” of this country.

http://www.Jan-Ouest-2012.fr/

  • Women International broken walls is a platform comprised persons, associations and businesses for common actions around three themes: education, humanitarian and environment. Self-help networks must all develop within the same country as international.
    Women, today real vector action, play a key role in solidarity responsiveness.
    Sensitive, pragmatic and determined, they understand and apply the concept of networks of mutual assistance on the ground, by performing actions that can be done in partnership with male solidarity projects.

http://www.fimb-Asso.org/

  • The collective for the dignity and poverty is a movement and a citizen space that aims to generate the conditions necessary to ensure that everyone can live in dignity without poverty through the Organization of a regional market from 30 June to 3 July 2010 in Rhône-Alpes. It is formed with people in situation of poverty and by any person or association who wants to contribute democratically in its founding principles.
    This collective is born from the experience of nonviolent movement of Janadesh (India) in 2007.

http://lyonzero.blogspot.com/2009/11/pour-la-dignite-et-contre-la-pauvrete.html

  • The French Coordination for the Decade is a 1901 law association created to promote the International Decade for the promotion of a culture of non-violence and peace in France. Includes associations who wish to coordinate to help promote the culture of peace and non-violence, including Gandhi International.

http://www.decennie.org/

  • Non-violent Generation is an implementation in Ziguinchor, Senegal Casamance city association.It was created by the (then responsible for the apostolate of the laity in the Diocese of Ziguinchor) Abbé Camille Joseph GOMIS, due to:                     * the situation of peace or war, but violence persists in Casamance for more than a quarter of a century,                     * the appeal launched by Pope John Paul II Youth, at the dawn of the third millennium to be “builders of a civilization of peace”, in a world that has both need.

http://www.generationnonviolente.org/

  • In 1937 Lanza del Vasto, poet, philosopher, discovered India and met Gandhi. Back in Europe, inspired by the gandhien movement and its ashrams, it brings together with his wife Chanterelle, men and women to train in 1948 would become the community of the Ark; rehabilitation of manual labour, meditation, civic action are the order of the day.
    After over 50 years of experience, the l’arche community still evolves with willingness to participate in a constructive change at the local and international society.

http://www.Arche-nonviolence.EU/
http://www.Arche-de-St-Antoine.com/Arche/courtepresent.htm

  • Hummingbirds, movement for the Earth and humanism, is a meeting and Exchange platform for all those who want to act, seek practical solutions or develop alternatives. The movement was initiated in 2006 by Pierre Rabhi and some relatives, in the form of a law 1901 association

http://www.colibris-lemouvement.org/

  • The International Catholic peace movement

http://paxchristi.CEF.fr/

  • Review Alternatives Non-Violentes, founded in 1973, treats each quarter a specific theme, where the mechanisms of violence are scanned and in-depth political violence, psychological and cultural dimensions. The review done activists for the rights of man, academics and researchers collaborate: philosophers, theologians, political scientists, historians, psychologists, economists, etc.
    No violent alternatives review is associated with the Research Institute on nonviolent resolution of conflicts (IRNC: http://www.irnc.org/).

http://www.irnc.org/ANV/

  • Earth heaven knowledge and sagesses World University organizes many internships, seminars, training, and forums, and publishes sources and Alliance reviews.

http://www.terre-du-ciel.fr/

As indicated in the motion passed to Bhopal for objective October 2012, men are not only rights, but also responsibilities, such as defined for example in the Charter of human responsibilities. GI adheres to this Charter and invites you to know.
http://www.Charte-responsabilites-humaines.NET/SPIP.php?rubrique187&lang=fr

  • The International Movement ATD Fourth World is a non-governmental organization with no religious or political affiliation which engages with individuals and institutions to find solutions to eradicate extreme poverty. Working in partnership with people in poverty, ATD Fourth World’s human rights-based approach focuses on supporting families and individuals through its grass-roots presence and involvement in disadvantaged communities, in both urban and rural areas, creating public awareness of extreme poverty and influencing policies to address it. 

http://www.atd-quartmonde.asso.fr

 

  • Ekta Europe: 

 Ekta Parishad Europe is an open network of independent organizations and individuals of European countries.  Members provide moral, political and financial support to Ekta Parishad in its struggle to assist deprived people to achieve control over their means of livelihood such as water, land and forest using non-violence as a means of creating changes for the people.  Please visit their website for more information.

http://www.ektaparishad.org/europe/index.html

  • Founded in 1946, Secours Catholique/ Caritas France is a service of the Catholic Church, a member of Caritas Internationalis Confederation and an approved public utility association. A non profit organisation as defined by the Law of July 1, 1901, itmanages an annual budget of 130MEuros and is supported by a network of some 65,000 volunteers for “bringing help either direct or indirect, moral or material aid wherever there is a need for it, with the exception of any distinctive national or confessional religious identity, irrespective of the philosophical or religious opinions of the beneficiaries.” (Extract of the statutes, art. 1)

The mission of Secours Catholique is to spread Christian Charity by creating a solid unity between everyone, whether in France or throughout the world. Secours Catholique considers that men, women and children living in situations of poverty play a major part in their own development. It makes a commitment to fight side by side with them against the causes of pover ty and exclusion, and promote the development of the human person in all its aspects. It seeks an active partnership with organisations that share its objectives in order to promote social justice in local, national and international policies. In accordance with Christianity, it invites each person to go and meet the poorest people, listen to them, support them and associate with them so that together we can build a fairer and more fraternal society.

http://www.secours-catholique.org/en

  • Publish What You Pay (PWYP) is a global civil society coalition that helps citizens of resource-rich developing countries hold their governments accountable for the management of revenues from the oil, gas and mining industries. Natural resource revenues are an important source of income for governments of over 50 developing countries. When properly managed these revenues should serve as a basis for poverty reduction, economic growth and development rather than exacerbating corruption, conflict and social divisiveness.

http://www.publishwhatyoupay.org/en

  • Founded in 1976 by 8 associations research and development information center (CRID) was aimed at producing a reflection on development and international cooperation. It gathers today 54 international solidarity associations (ASI) French who:

1.           share same design of solidarity and sustainable human development through the strengthening of civil, corporate

2            working in partnership with a network of 1,500 partners in the South and the East, engaged in the development of their community, country

3       promote civic campaigns, and educational development in France actions implemented

4.      participate in the construction of a "global movement for international solidarity" and seek to deploy it in France. http://www.crid.asso.fr

  • The World Social Forum is a not-for-profit association which helps other world forums (unions, associations, non‑governmental organizations ‑ NGOs) throughout the world by providing  research,  practical orientation and strategies for helping resolve the social crises. Indeed, mass debates, working sessions and demonstrations alone are not enough to create a platform for mutual understanding between governments and NGOs. The WSF acts rationally with aim‑oriented and practical approaches to the struggle against poverty, ignorance, and unemployment.  The WSF offers new practical approaches, publications, legal measures, and directives for the effective use of the WSF proposals and projects, studies, and materials for analyzing and humanizing the negative impacts of globalization and creating a better market economy and an improved democratic political system.

The WSF bases its activities on conventions, recommendations and approaches of the ILO for human basic life needs for every human being.

, without political or ethnic tensions, with only one objective : to ensure happiness for each family and human being in the world. http://www.forumsocialmondial.org/

  • Dignity international's vision is of a world in which everyone enjoys human rights and lives in dignity, free from fear, poverty and discrimination.

Dignity International advocates with, connects and supports the empowerment of deprived and struggling communities in claiming their human rights, and creating social justice around the world.

The primary constituency consists of organised deprived communities struggling for human rights and dignity in different parts of the world. The secondary constituency consists of civil society organisations including youth movements who have a democratic track record in working with communities in struggle in a principled way. http://www.dignityinternational.org/

  • Voix Libres is an international humanitarian association, which operates in Bolivia to offer alternatives to child labour in the mines, fields, garbage dumps and streets. Once trained and educated, the young people direct their own projects. Their commitment ensureslong-term development. http://www.voixlibres.org
  • Centre for Experiencing Socio-Cultural Interaction (CESCI)
    CESCI is a training and education centre that provides Ekta Parishad activists with a place to gain further training and reflect on their work. It provides a serene space for Ekta Parishad activists to hold meetings and discuss their work and plans for future actions.  http://www.cesci.ch/
  • ActionAid is an international anti-poverty agency whose aim is to fight poverty worldwide. Formed in 1972, for over 30 years we have been growing and expanding to where we are today - helping over 13 million of the world's poorest and most disadvantaged people in 42 countries worldwide.

In all of our country programmes we work with local partners to make the most of their knowledge and experience.

In December 2003 we established a new head office in Johannesburg, South Africa, and began the process of making all our country programmes equal partners with an equal say on how we operate. http://www.actionaid.org

  • · Peoples soldaires:

1. Status: Association law 1901

2 Field of intervention: international solidarity

3. Date of birth : 1983

4 Genealogy: born of the merger between the 1% third world movement (1974) and the committees for the development of peoples Union (1972)

5 International network: ActionAid International (present in 50 countries)

6 Slogan: action for the rights. Overcoming poverty.

7 Missions: supporting those who mobilize for their rights. Tackling the causes of poverty in the world.

8 Actions: inform the public. Mobilize citizens. Strengthen the organizations of the South.

9 Priorities: the food sovereignty. Decent work for all.

10 Members: 9,000 signatories. 70 groups premises.

http://www.peuples-solidaires.orgtp:

 
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