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CED NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 2005

SCHOLARSHIP WATCH

OUTREACH SCHOLARSHIP -Spend 3 months at the CED Bangalore centre studying & documenting the works of various NGOs & Peoples Movements.

Period Beginning May 2005 to July 2005 .
Who can apply: Fresh Social Work Graduates.

The Scholarship provides an total 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

BEST ASSIGNMENT SCHOLARSHIP-Submit final assignments & avail

Free membership at CED for the next three years
Rebate on all photocopying and computer reference use charges at CED made by the student concerned during the academic year 2004-2005
Expenses of upto Rs. 5000/ incurred during a visit to any Peoples Movement or NGO in India.
Citation and publication of assignment in CED’s DOCPRINTS.

Who can Apply:Undergraduate students who have used CED’s research facilities for their various assignments and projects, during the academic year 2004-5.

Terms: Ten assignments will be selected based on their quality in terms of social relevance and analysis.

The last date for the submission of assignments is 28th February 2005

For further details contact Jacintha at jacintha@doccentre.org

NEWS FROM CED BANGALORE

PLANNING MEETING of a new E-group promoting dialogue between Human Rights Activists & Media Professionals held at CED Bangalore on 11^th February,2005.

To learn more about the E-group ........... To join the E-group .Send an e-mail to hrm-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

FILM SCREENINGS AT CED BANGALORE

Friday ,March 18^th – Ram Ke Naam- a film on communal harmony by Anand Ptwardhan.

Screening Time:

Runtime: 90 Minutes

For update on the Film Screening Schedule at CedBAN ..........

NEWS FROM CED MUMBAI

ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING at CED Mumbai on the 24th of February. Here eminent members and well-wishers of CED will be invited to discuss CED's direction for the future.

CED HOSTS PAKISTANI YOUTH DELEGATION FOR DINNER

Indo-Pak Youth Forum For Peace (IPYFP)an informal group of concerned youth and youth organizations of India and Pakistan striving together for normalization of relations between India and Pakistan. helped bring together a delegation of 12 individuals from Pakistan for a visit to India.

While in Mumbai CED invited the delegates to our Colaba office where we introduced CED and the work done by our organisation .As Pakistan does not have very many documentation centres, the delegates we curious and eager to know how they could access our facility, we therefore have given them free access to the information we have online. Thereafter we took them for dinner to a restaurant nearby.

NEW ADDITTIONS

DEVELOPMENT DIGEST -08

In our latest issue we bring to you articles on

1.Time will tell – The future is an infinite succession of presents, & to live now as we think human beings should live , in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.
2. Global Economics – Time Banking “ we have what we need , if we use what we have.”
3. Bite Back! The Return of the Co-operative
4. Alternatives to Economic Globalisation:
5. Refining Politics
6. Tongue-in-Cheek

MIRROR ON COMMUNALISM

Three issues of '' have been released in the month of February. They are as follows:

MOC3 - Redefining Democracy as a Positive Alternative to Communalism by Rohini Hensman- Rs 10/-

MOC4 - Fear and Fascism- Articles by Rahul Bose and Arundhati Roy - Rs 10/-

MOC5 - The Ghettoisation of the Mind by Sanaiya Dotivala - Rs 10/-

DOSSIER ON LAW & RIGHTS

CED is preparing a monthly dossier on Issues relating to Law and Rights Here the issues covered will be:

Land Rights

Dalit Rights

Rights of Tribal and Nomadic Communities

Violence against Women

Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Police Atrocities

Jat Panchayat

Alternate Dispute Mechanisms like lok adalats, public hearings, etc.

National Human Rights Institutions in India NHRC, NCW, etc

Human Rights investigation, fact finding, etc.

Litigation and Public Interest Litigations- cases filed, judgements of High Court and Supreme Court

Legal Aid

Legal Reforms in India law commission

Advocacy to make the justice delivery system responsive to the marginalised

Please write to us for the first FREE copy. The yearly subscription rate is Rs. 4000/-.

For details on the dossier service at CED check..........

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