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Links & resources
Interviews
Idaho Examiner - Leif Zetterlund, Executive Director of International Aid Services,
gives background on the Sudan, Darfur and the plight of the refugees.
View interview
Research
Eric Reeves - This site links to electronically published analytic briefs and advocacy
writings on Sudan by Eric Reeves. These have been organized chronologically, and include
electronic publications since the signing of the Machakos Protocol (July 2002).
A separate link will offer access to publications in 2005. There is also a separate link
for analyses published from July 2002 to December 2003 and another for earlier pieces,
primarily related to oil development in southern Sudan and pre-July 2002 stages of the peace
process involving the National Islamic Front regime in Khartoum and the Sudan People's
Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A).
www.sudanreeves.org
Media
Alertnet - AlertNet provides global news, communications and logistics services to the
international disaster relief community and the public. Reuters 150 years'
experience reporting from disaster zones around the world allows AlertNet to
give disaster relief organisations reliable information, fast.
Anyone can access the public pages, which have a live news feed from Reuters together
with articles describing how relief agencies are responding to the latest humanitarian crises.
www.alertnet.org
Daily Nation - The Nation Media Group (NMG) is the largest independent media group in East Africa.
NMG has its home base in Nairobi, Kenya, but has bureaux in the major towns across the country.
www.nationaudio.com
East African Standard
www.eastandard.net
The Monitor
www.monitor.co.ug
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Thuraya SAT phones - It is possible to send free SMS to SAT phone numbers in the Thuraya.com network.
www.thuraya.com
Education
Development Education Ireland - has been developed by a group of organisations
involved in development and human rights education.
www.developmenteducationireland.org
Water
Drillers' Club - The Frequent Drillers' Club is an Internet-based community for everyone working
in, or associated with, the worldwide rock drilling industry.
www.drillersclub.com
Water for All - Organisation formed by employees at Atlas Copco in Sweden and the goal is
to help/assist people with clean water.
www.water4all.org
Quality groups
People in Aid - People In Aid is an international network of development and humanitarian
assistance agencies. People In Aid helps organisations whose goal is the relief of poverty and
suffering to enhance the impact they make through better people management and support.
www.peopleinaid.org.uk
The Sphere Project - The Sphere Project was launched in 1997 by a group of humanitarian NGOs
and the Red Cross and Red Crescent movement. Sphere is based on two core beliefs: first, that all
possible steps should be taken to alleviate human suffering arising out of calamity and conflict,
and second, that those affected by disaster have a right to life with dignity and therefore a
right to assistance.
www.sphereproject.org
Non-Government Organisations
EU-CORD - Christian Organisations in Relief and Development, was formed in 1998 with the
goal of serving the poor more effectively and improving the conditions of
disadvantaged people in the developing world. In 1999 a secretariat was set up
in Brussels in order to help the members become more active in the institutions
of the European Union. By 2001 the network had grown to 12 members from 8 EU
Member States with a total annual turnover of 127 million euro.
www.eu-cord.org
CSIS - For four decades, the Center for Strategic and International Studies
(CSIS) has been dedicated to providing world leaders with strategic insights on — and policy
solutions to — current and emerging global issues.
www.csis.org
Oneworld.net - Packed with useful and usable information - news (by issue and
country), theme guides (especially useful - from AIDS to immigration to the
World Trade Organisation), analyses of issues (by world commentators), education
resources, schools linkages, a bookshop etc. Has links to over 200 individual
organisations.
www.oneworld.net
UNJLC - is an inter-agency facility reporting, in the current emergency, to the Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan,
and overall to the Inter-Agency Standing Committee. Its mandate is to coordinate and optimize the logistics
capabilities of humanitarian organizations in large-scale emergencies. UNJLC operates under the custodianship
of WFP who are responsible for the administrative and financial management of the Centre. UNJLC is funded
from voluntary contributions channelled through WFP.
www.unjlc.org
VOICE - is a network of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) throughout Europe
that are active in the field of humanitarian aid, including emergency aid,
rehabilitation, disaster preparedness and conflict prevention. VOICE was created
in 1992, with a Secretariat established in 1993 under the Liaison Committee of
European Development NGOs. In March 2001 VOICE became an independent NGO network
with more than 90 members.
www.ngovoice.org
Adventures & Expeditions
ATMC-World Tour - Andreas Zetterlund and Tommy Larsson, have made two expeditions, the frist one
by driving motorbike from Sweden to Sudan in 1999 and the second one by walking 250 km in 10 days in
Southern Sudan in 2001.
www.atmc.nu
IK Livsnerven - Fundraising for relief projects through skiing activities.
www.livsnerven.nu
Go Africa - On the 26th of October 2005 four guys from Orebro,
Sweden will start off on a journey for life... They will travel across the African continent
by car for about ten weeks. The purpose with this jorney is to inform
the swedish general public that the money and efforts that the they contributes affect peoples’
lives and situations in a positive direction. But despite the support the situation is still
very grave in many parts of the world, in fact many African countries are now suffering
their hardest time in decades. That’s why we wish to encourage the Swedish people to
continue their efforts and to contribute even more.
www.goafrica.se (In Swedish only)
By bicycle from South Africa to Sweden - Follow Eric Ello who is travelling from Cape Town
in South Africa to Kungsbacka in Sweden by bicycle. (Webpage only in Swedish)
www.ericello.se
Search engines
Eniro.se - A search page for looking up telephone numbers to
private persons and companies in Sweden.
www.eniro.se
Factbook 2004 - Do you need facts about countries, economy, geography etc.?
This site will give you many answers to your questions.
www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook
Google.com - Write the word you are searching in the below box and press search,
the search result will appear in a new window.
For more information
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Andreas Zetterlund
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