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Why Attend The benefits of attending this conference include the opportunity to: Hear Lord Wei, the Government's adviser on Big Society, set out the Government’s approach to the Big Society agenda Listen and learn what your civil society stakeholders need and want to drive this agenda forward with you Understand how to give communities more power over their lives Explore what the centre’s role is in promoting a Big Society Hear from leading thinkers and policy influencers in this field Understand how the changing public service reform agenda affects you and your organisation Network with your peers and counterparts across Government in this unique gathering of civil society and civil servants via bigsocietyconference.co.uk too late folks - lots of meetings that those with voices should be able to attend - but heh you can't know about everything right?

WDM campaigners report from the UN climate talks in Cancun The UN climate change conference - COP 16 - is being held in Cancun, Mexico from 29 November to 10 December 2010. Follow it all here. WDM has sent three campaigners to Cancun. They are working alongside campaigners from the global south to push for climate justice for the world’s poorest people. They will be following what’s happening and reporting back through email, blog posts, videos and photographs. We will be asking you to take urgent action to hold politicians to account. Printer-friendly version Cancun Cancun Watch blog CancunWatch 2: smashing the World Bank ...

Agenda Time Description 09:00 Registration 10:00 Chair’s Welcome & Opening Remarks Cliff Prior , Chief Executive, UnLtd 10:15 How Big is Society? The Citizen Perspective Alex Oliver , Director, The Futures Company 10:45 How can the centre support a Big Society? Ann Watt, Deputy Director - Big Society Policy & Analysis team, Office for Civil Society 11:15 Refreshment break 11:45 The Engagement Ethic – Giving Citizens a greater say in decision making Neil Jameson , Executive Director, London Citizens 12:30 Giving Communities more Power David Tyler , Chief Executive, Community Matters & Member, Big Society Deregulation Taskforce 13:00 Lunch 14:00 Delivering the Big Society Locally...

Why Attend The benefits of attending this conference include the opportunity to: Hear Lord Wei, the Government's adviser on Big Society, set out the Government’s approach to the Big Society agenda Listen and learn what your civil society stakeholders need and want to drive this agenda forward with you Understand how to give communities more power over their lives Explore what the centre’s role is in promoting a Big Society Hear from leading thinkers and policy influencers in this field Understand how the changing public service reform agenda affects you and your organisation Network with your peers and counterparts across Government in this unique gathering of civil society and civil servants   Contact Us To register to attend this conference contact Alex Bond on: 020 7593 5733 or email alex.bond@dods.co.uk To discuss ...

WikiLeaks cables revealed that Gordon Brown asked for computer hacker Gary McKinnon (above) to be allowed to serve any sentence in the UK. Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian Leaked US embassy cables reveal that Gordon Brown unsuccessfully put his reputation as prime minister on the line in a plea to Washington that the computer hacker Gary McKinnon be allowed to serve any sentence in the UK. Brown's face-to-face attempt to strike a deal with the US ambassador was spurned by the Obama administration, in a humiliating diplomatic rebuff. Washington now appears to be just as intransigent with Brown's successor, David Cameron . The Cameron government has failed to announce whether or not it will comply with continued US demands to hand over McKinnon after he hacked into their government computers. The Labour chairman of parliament's home affairs committee, Keith Vaz, said: "A decision still has not been made on t...

A brief history of “kettling” and why The Police Riot. 28 Nov The police tactic of “kettling” was first used at N30, the anti-WTO summit protest at Euston station, London, November 1999. It was introduced after the disastrous policing efforts during J18 (Carnival Against Capital) some months previously where anti-capitalists and anarchist demonstrators roamed free throughout the city of London causing mayhem as part of the global protests against the G8 summit. The process of kettling involves lines of police forcefully corralling people together into a space then surrounding the whole group on all sides preventing them from leaving the cordoned-in area. Any attempt by people to leave the cordon would result in physically being attacked (usually with batons, often riot shields, boots and fists) in order to preserve the kettle. Detention in this manner would last several hours. After people have become bored, tired and cold they would ...

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Viewing cable 07ANKARA1842, TURKISH ELECTIONS: ANALYSTS ASSESS MILITARY If you are new to these pages, please read an introduction on the structure of a cable as well as how to discuss them with others. See also the FAQs Understanding cables Every cable message consists of three parts: The top box shows each cables unique reference number, when and by whom it originally was sent, and what its initial classification was. The middle box contains the header information that is associated with the cable. It includes information about the receiver(s) as well as a general subject. The bottom box presents the body of the cable. The opening can contain a more specific subject, references to other cables ( browse by origin to find them) or additional comment. This is followed by the main contents of the cable: a summary, a collection of specific topics and a comment section. To understand the justification used for the classification of each cable, please use th...

UNODC on human trafficking and migrant smuggling Human trafficking is the acquisition of people by improper means such as force, fraud or deception, with the aim of exploiting them. Smuggling migrants involves the procurement for financial or other material benefit of illegal entry of a person into a State of which that person is not a national or resident. Virtually every country in the world is affected by these crimes. The challenge for all countries, rich and poor, is to target the criminals who exploit desperate people and to protect and assist victims of trafficking and smuggled migrants, many of whom endure unimaginable hardships in their bid for a better life. As the only United Nations entity focusing on the criminal justice element of these crimes, the work that UNODC does to combat human trafficking and the smuggling of migrants is underpinned by the United Nations Convention on Transnational Organized Crime and its protocols on t...

Putting people first: UNODC Executive Director visits drug treatment centre and women's prison in Afghanistan Del.icio.us Digg It Facebook reddit Stumble It! TwitThis Related Stories Putting people first: UNODC Executive Director visits drug treatment centre and women's prison in Afghanistan UNODC: Executive Director underlines continuing support to Afghan government UNODC: Executive Director underlines continuing support to Afghan government 29 November 2010 - On his first visit to Afghanistan since assuming duties as UNODC Executive Director in September, Mr. Yury Fedotov visited Jangalak Treatment Centre, in Kabul, Afghanistan, last week. The centre offers treatment and follow up care for recovering drug users. "Drug use is a health problem, not a crime", said Mr. Fedotov. "Drug users are affected by a disease - addiction - and instead of punishment, what they need is treatment, care and social integration. They should not be stigmatized, repressed or f...

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Home Learn Give Mobilize girleffect.org FOR MEDIA the Girl Effect, n. The unique potential of 600 million adolescent girls to end poverty for themselves and the world. The Girl Effect is quite simply the greatest untapped solution to eradicating poverty and raising standards of living in the developing world. A good place to start You'll find links to Girl Effect information, research and other resources including a detailed media kit here. Girl Effect Fact Sheet Get the numbers behind the girl effect – both their current realities and their potential impact on the health, wealth and wellbeing of their nations. Download Girl Effect Fact Sheet (pdf, 188 KB) The Girl Effect Media Kit The statistics about the girl effect, five girls  who are living the numbers, and the actions required to change girls' lives. Do...

Girl Effect: first we need to shift our mindsets November 29, 2010, 3:02 pm Filed under: Africa , Nike Foundation | Tags: Africa , Girl Effect , Nike Foundation On Friday I paid a visit to the Girl Effect folks at the Department of International Development . My project for the Nike Foundation is pretty much done and delivered, and I wanted to see how they’re doing. One thing is clear: to make a difference for girls in countries like Ethiopia and Rwanda, we need to shift our mindsets. Talking about “girl empowerment” and individual ambition doesn’t connect in such a communitarian culture. But this will be a struggle. Our Western impulse is to tell girls “you can do it” and “stand up for your rights”. But to a girl in rural Ethiopia, this sounds very foreign, and jars with their emotional connections to family and community. Our cultures are massively different. The Hofstede scale measures various cultural dimensions, including individualism, as part ...