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Specialist producers of appeal letters based on Amnesty International cases. Their aim is to enable more people to get involved in letter writing campaigns on behalf of human rights victims.
We've got topics covering fertility, pregnancy, parenting and child's development. Connecting with others who are going through the same thing can make a world of difference.
Link | www.fertilityzone.co.uk
Samaritans is available 24 hours a day to provide confidential emotional support for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which may lead to suicide. Use the Internet to email the Samaritans in the UK (also on jo@samaritans.org or tel 08457 909090). The service follows a successful email test service run in the summer of 1994.
If you're left-handed, you're probably already feeling persecuted - problems with scissors, being called the devil's spawn etc., but among the really useful lists of where to get all things sinister and other-way-rounded, it might interest you to know that Ringo Starr, Leslie Crowther, Bernie Clifton, Michael Crawford, Michael Stipe, Ross Perot, Jack the Ripper, Napoleon, O J Simpson and The Boston Strangler are, or were, all left-handed too. Or not as the case may be.
The main body of information on this site is a series of articles from The Standard-Times of New Bedford, Massachusetts, which were researched over a period of six months and published in the paper every day for two weeks. They cover the reality and experience of domestic violence from a variety of perspectives. The material on the perpetrators, the courts, coping mechanisms and the cultural context of abuse do not necessarily provide solutions (although there is a section on this and links to resources elsewhere), what they do is provide an attempt at understanding what exactly goes on.
Empowering young people is what the Site of Oxford Association for Young People is about. With over 100 clubs it keeps those youngsters off the streets by providing sports clubs and training, and also feeds their impressionable minds with an info-on-wheels van dispensing advice on subjects of interest, such as drug abuse and how to claim benefits. Fundraising wheezes include a chance to bid in an online charity auction for goodies such as a trip on the Orient Express, flying lessons, a box at the opera and Ronnie Barker's script from Porridge. Also there's details of celebrity cricket match at Blenheim Palace, with players including that squeaky-clean mentor Gary Lineker and, er, Bill Wyman.
This is an advert plain and simple for a gay telephone dating agency. There's nothing much on the site, with the exception of how the phone dating works, but essentially the Web site is a way of circumnavigating the bigoted newspapers that won't take their ads in the first place.
NAAFA has become a powerful lobby in the States, working to eliminate discrimination based on body size and to provide fat people with information and support. These pages contain some interesting stuff about the group's philosophy and campaigning. But, essentially what it has to offer long distance is more like moral support.
This has the potential to get really good, providing a fully comprehensive no-nonsense resource for people with disabilities, and their carers too. At the moment, copies of Disability Now news are available, as are factsheets on a number of subjects, for example computer technology for the disabled, government benefits etc, but the growing list of Q&As may ultimately prove to be some of the most useful information there.
Forget the blind dates and the singles bars, match up with a potential mate via American-based match.com. There's more room to elaborate than in the penny-pinching personal columns and actually some of the people seem quite nice.
Lest we forget.
This database will assist research into the US Government documents pertaining to US Military personnel killed, missing or imprisoned in South East Asia around the time of the Vietnam conflict. There is also a similar database of the attempts to locate Americans thought to be held in the former Soviet Union.
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