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----- Original Message ----- From: "MINELRES moderator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 4:57 PM Subject: MINELRES: Clearing House Review - the end of the story Original sender: Tanya Oculy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It is with regret that we write to inform you that at the Governing Board meeting of the International Institute for Democracy held on the 6 October 2004 it was decided to suspend the activities of the Institute indefinitely due to a lack of financial support. As a consequence of this decision, our bimonthly newsletter the 'Clearing House Review' will no longer be published. The main reason why the Institute was set up at the end of the 1980s, was that international activities became more and more widespread through the establishment of an increasing number of NGOs. According to its Statute, the Institute's main task was to collect and disseminate information on the work of governmental and non-governmental organisations, both national and international. The aim was to help avoiding duplication and the waste of resources, and to contribute to creating links between organisations by spreading information on their activities. The first issue of the "Clearing House Review", a very modest 4-page list of events in the field of democracy and human rights, was published in March 1992. Now, more than ten years later, the Clearing House Review has reached issue n� 64. It has grown gradually to an average of 20 pages which is published six times a year and distributed free of charge. The last edition of the 'Clearing House Review', n� 64, was published in September 2004. So far this year, the review has contained information on 685 events; conferences, seminars, round tables, training programmes, summer institutes and online courses organised in 93 different countries worldwide. It has also included information and calls for applications for 8 specialised Master courses and 41 calls for papers, applications for fellowships, sponsored training courses, awards and grants. Contact information on over 300 different organisations (NGOs, parliaments, institutions, publishers, associations and networks has been provided. The review, published in an English and a French version, has been sent to readers not only throughout Europe, but also on all continents. It represents the specific characteristic of the Institute, for as far as we know, no other NGO produces such a comprehensive list of forthcoming events and recent publications of so many different organisations and publishers in the field of democracy and human rights. At the Institute we learned often only afterwards what use was made of the Review and how useful it had been to a wide variety of people. We would like to thank our readers, the individuals and organisations, who have supported this publication over the years by contributing information. Enie Wesseldijk Tanya Oculy Editor in Chief Design International Institute for Democracy Institut international de la democratie Bureau 5019 Palais de l'Europe F-67075 Strasbourg Cedex tel: +33 388 41 32 47 fax: +33 388 41 37 75 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.iidemocracy.coe.int ########################################### This message has been scanned by F-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange. For more information, connect to http://www.F-Secure.com/ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/RR.olB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> EuroAtlantic Club: http://www.europe.org.ro/euroatlantic_club/ *** Birou de traduceri autorizate. Oana Gheorghiu - tel/fax: 252.8681 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romania_eu_list/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
