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Title: Armenian Women for Health and Healthy Environment (AWHHE)

URL: http://www.awhhe.am/

Collection: World Sustainable Development Web Archive (International and Area Studies Library - University of Illinois)

Description: Armenian Women for Health and Healthy Environment (AWHHE) NGO was founded in 1999. The mission of AWHHE is to explore the issue of environment pollution in Armenia, to advocate for the human right to live in a healthy environment, to help decrease environmental risks to human health, and promote a healthy lifestyle, especially for children and women. AWHHE runs education and information campaigns about environmental health threats and social injustice related to environmental pollution; provides independent monitoring and investigations on water supply management and other related issues; lobbies the decision-makers to make sound solutions; contributes to capacity building of rural communities; strengthens the participation of women in decision making at local and national levels; promotes the implementation of Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in Armenia; publishes popular-scientific articles; creates information materials; and organizes and participates in international and national conferences and forums.

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Subject:   Environmental Protection ,  Armenia Non-governmental organizations Women

Title: Sichuan Greenriver Environmental Protection Promotion Association

URL: http://www.green-river.org/

Collection: World Sustainable Development Web Archive (International and Area Studies Library - University of Illinois)

Description: Greenriver, established in 1995, is an environmental protection NGO approved by Sichuan Provincial Environmental Protection Bureau and registered in Sichuan Civil Administration Office. Its mission is to promote the environmental protection of the glaciers and headwaters of China’s rivers in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, to foster public environmental awareness and the ethics of conservation, to encourage citizen participation and to ensure environmentally sustainable economic and social development of the headwaters area. Its focus is the operation of environmental protection stations at the source and upper parts of the Yangtze River; to invite scientists and environmental protection groups from home and abroad to conduct environmental-related research; to offer operable solutions and implementation plans; to publish literature and audio-visual media about environmental protection; promotion of collective involvement in ecological protection and cultural exchanges between environmental organizations at home and abroad.

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Subject:   Sichuan Green River,  Environmental Protection ,  Volunteerism

Title: The Foundation for the Conservation of Turkey's Monuments, Environment and Tourism Assets (TAÇ)

URL: http://www.tacvakfi.org.tr/tr

Collection: World Sustainable Development Web Archive (International and Area Studies Library - University of Illinois)

Description: The Foundation for the Conservation of Turkey's Monuments, Environment and Tourism Assets (TAÇ) was founded in İstanbul on April 19, 1976. TAÇ Foundation’s purpose is to conserve the artistic and cultural assets and architectural heritage and natural, historical, cultural, aesthetic and touristic wealth of both Turkey and the Anatolian Civilization as well as any kind of related documentation; to ensure the continuity of such values as a cultural web connecting the past to the future and to establish the organizational structure required to achieve this; to coordinate the ideas and efforts of concerned persons and institutions; to carry out the necessary documentation and inventory work; to prepare or commission studies and projects; to undertake or encourage others to engage in the required efforts; to attempt to encourage new practices through sampling; to provide the structures or sites to be conserved with a healthy life by utilizing them as part of the tourism function to the extent that their condition allows; to handle all culturally significant structures and sites that must be conserved within the framework of a master work program; engage in public awareness and educational efforts as well as any kind of publication to facilitate these fit-for- purpose activities; help maintain well-trained personnel; to determine the method of the efforts to be undertaken to achieve all these goals; and to implement or encourage the implementation of all such methods.

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Subject:   Environmental Protection ,  Ecotourism

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