CED Bombay Newsletter March 2005

NEWS FROM CEDBOM: MARCH 2005

bye colaba... see you in a while

Due to structural repairs, some of us will be working out of Joseph Cardijn Technical Institute at Parel.
Address:: Joseph Cardijn Technical School, Khashaba Jadhav Marg, ( near Hind Mata, St. Paul’s Church), Naigaum, Dadar, Mumbai 400014 . Contact Number: Jacintha: 9819036976, 9324315284

Our current files are in Dadar. Some old files, the reports and books at still at Colaba. One of us will be there and will give you access to these books, if possible on that day.

Feel like being a winner?

All undergraduate students who have used CED’s reference facilities for their various assignments and projects, during the year 2004, are invited to submit their final product, for the Best Assignments Scholarship. Ten assignments will be selected based on their quality in terms of content and analysis. Those whose assignments are chosen will be entitled to:

Free membership at CED for the next three years
Gift voucher of Rs. 2000/- on photocopying, computer reference and ced publications at CED
Expenses of up to Rs. 5000/ incurred during a visit to any Peoples Movement or NGO in India.
Citation and publication of assignment in CED’s DOCPRINTS.

The last date for the submission of assignments is 20th of April 2005

For further details contact tanvi at tanvi@doccentre.net

Outreach Scholarship

CED invites applications from the graduating students of Social Work Colleges, who on graduating this year wish to spend three months in Documentation, Study and Reflection. Under the scholarship, you will visit three NGOs or Peoples’ Organisation and document their work as well as spend two months at CED doing secondary documentation work.

The Scholarship is for three months from May 2005 to July 2005. The Scholarship provides an honorarium of Rs. 18,000/-. Plus support for simple boarding and lodging while on tour to the NGOs and surface travel expenses on actuals.

For more details click here

Education Dossiers and Docswebs

A dossier and docsweb on Fundamental Right to Education and Free and Compulsory Education is the latest addition to our website. Containing articles from a range of magazines, journals and books, it seeks to provide the researcher with an overview and highlights the various viewpoints and debates to the issue.

Legal Rights

Preparations for the monthly dossier on Law and Rights is underway. The dossiers will be dealing issues such as:
- Human Rights Discourse, perspectives
- Economic Rights, Work, Land Livelihood
- Community Rights, Common Lands, Access to Resources
- Civil Liberties, Freedom of Expression, Police
- Discrimination: Minorities, Dalits, Tribals, Women
- Participation, Panchayats, Public Interest
- Legal Aid, Advocacy, Representation
Available on subscription of Rs. 4000/- per annum. Please write to us for the first FREE copy.

Announcements:

A Secular Re-Think

Citizens for Peace (CFP) is a group committed to fostering peace and understanding between different communities. The Indian model of secularism has clearly left much of the country dissatisfied on various counts. CFP is of the view that it is time to review this area of public life in a fresh and non-reactive manner. Their objective is to introspect and arrive at a new and more relevant understanding about what it means to be a Secular country.
One key criteria for participation will be the participants willingness to present for discussion something specific and more importantly a fresh approach. To read more, click here.

Helping you network

CED has always been a hub for activists and NGOs. We would like to take our reciprocal relationship further by providing a space for you on our newsletter which will serve as an electronic bulletin board for activists and NGOs. If you need volunteers at a rally, want to announce a lecture you are holding or get some information across... get in touch with us and we'll have your request reach a large number of socially concerned individuals. Email Tanvi for further details.

Gift-a-membership

What could be a greater gift than knowledge? CED introduces the Gift-a-membership scheme. Present your friends and relatives, a one year membership to CED. Contact Jacintha to purchase a voucher.