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Rural Women Development Centre (Gramin Mahila Utthan Kendra) is a well-established NGO with the primary focus on education rights and socio-economic empowerment of marginalized and disadvantaged girls and women. It also aims to minimize various forms of injustice and prejudices by striving for an equal and a just society.
HEKS champions the cause of a more humane and just world and a life in dignity. Internationally, HEKS/EPER focuses on rural community development, humanitarian aid and inter-church cooperation.
Produzir ótimos livros, de qualidade e a preços acessíveis. Mas como atingir este objetivo? Só há um caminho: contar com a solidariedade de sujeitos dos movimentos populares e das universidades. Esse foi o motivo que reuniu, em janeiro de 1999, um conjunto de homens e mulheres das mais diversas faixas etárias, de diferentes profissões, e cujas trajetórias tinham um traço em comum: o compromisso com a construção de um novo mundo. A partir disso iniciamos a organização de centenas de profissionais para colaborar conosco e transformar nossas ideias em realidade.
O marco do início do ensino superior em Itajaí é oficialmente dia 22 de setembro, quando, em 1964, a Sociedade Itajaiense de Ensino Superior (Sies) foi transformada em instituição pública pela lei municipal 599/64. Poucos dias antes, em 16 de setembro, a Sies já tinha o seu estatuto registrado em cartório, mas como instituição privada.
The overall mission of Mountain Research and Development is to foster sustainable development in mountains by supporting peer-reviewed interdisciplinary, disciplinary, and transdisciplinary research on mountains, developing scientific capacity, capitalizing on development experiences, promoting policy dialogue, and strengthening networks within the mountain community. Mountain Research and Development (MRD) is devoted to mountains and their surrounding lowlands – ecoregions of particular global importance, in which communities are often marginalized.
Land and Development Expertise Center, LADEC, is a Burundian social enterprise working to promote sustainable rural development and social justice through good governance of land and landed resources. LADEC started in 2018, capitalizing on the strong experience of its founding members in localized land registration. For the time being, its action focuses mainly on research, capacity building and project administration in land governance, land-related conflict and gender issues analysis and management.
Créée en 1961, Entraide et Fraternité est une ONG catholique belge de coopération au développement et de solidarité internationale, qui vise à réduire les inégalités et lutter contre les injustices sociales.
Entraide et Fraternité soutient dans cet objectif des organisations locales en Afrique, en Amérique latine et Caraïbes et en Asie. Entraide et Fraternité travaille en partenariat avec ces organisations, dans une perspective de long terme et sur base d’un véritable dialogue, sur trois champs d’action majeurs :
A e-cadernos CES é uma publicação semestral com arbitragem científica (double-blind peer review), editada pelo Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra desde 2008, que visa promover a divulgação de investigação avançada produzida no âmbito das ciências sociais e humanas, privilegiando perspetivas críticas e inter/transdisciplinares.
“Global change – local conflicts? Land conflicts in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa in the context of interdependent transformation processes” (GLOCON) is a Junior Research Group working on the correlation between global change and local conflicts over land. The research project explores how global spatial-temporal transformation processes affect local land conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. Its focus lies furthermore on the analysis of systematic similarities and differences between those regions.
Maya America/Revista Maya America is an interdisciplinary and open access journal that publishes in English and Spanish. Academic essays are double-blind peer reviewed while the creative works are peer reviewed. Authors keep full rights over their work. Although the journal takes its name from the contemporary Maya Diaspora, we also welcome essays and commentary that discuss the Americas in additional ways.
Maya America is indexed in EBSCO and the Directory of Open Access Journals.
Natures Sciences Sociétés est une revue de l'association NSS-Dialogues publiée avec le soutien de AgroParisTech, du Cirad, du CNRS (INEE et INSHS), de l'IRD et de l'INRAE.
La revue Natures Sciences Sociétés entend s’adresser à tous ceux qui s’interrogent sur les constructions des problèmes d’environnement et les politiques de recherche autour des changements globaux, de la biodiversité, de la sécurité alimentaire, des dynamiques territoriales et urbaines, des relations santé-environnement.