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Essential
Web Sites
• Center for Youth and
Social Development (CYSD)
The Center for Youth and Social Development (CYSD) is a non-government,
non-profit civil society organization working for the development
of the deprived and marginalized sector in Orissa, one of
the most backward states of India
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Corporate Watch India
Corporate Watch India works to support movements against corporate
globalization in India. It provides timely information on
transnational corporations to Indian movements, and also educate
and mobilize key constituencies in the US and other countries
to take action in support of campaigns in India
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Grameen Bank
rameen Bank was founded in 1976 by Mohammed Yunus. It provides
microcredit to the poorest of the poor in rural Bangladesh.
Its organizational model is replicated all around the world
by Grameen Trust
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NGOs working for the restoration of democracy in Burma
A collection of links to NGOs working to protect human and
democratic rights in Burma, edited by Earth Rights International
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One World South Asia
The South Asian section of One World project, which aims to
foster the diffusion of informations on topics related to
human rights, democracy and peace, sustainable development
and environment protection
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Other Web
Sites
• Arab NGO Network for
Development
The Arab NGO Network for Development is a-religious organization
consisting of Arab NGOs and national networks active in the
fields of social development, human rights, gender, and the
environment.
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Asia-Japan Women Resource Center
Japanese NGO aiming to foster women's quality of life in the
Asia-Pacific region
•
Asian Pacific Workers Solidarity Links (APWSL)
APWSL is an independent network of trade unionists and labor
activists in the Asia-Pacific region. Its purpose is to facilitate
and promote genunine trade unionism in the countries of the
region and international links between them
• Cambodia Development
Resource Institute (CDRI)
CDRI is a source of independent information on social and
economic development in Cambodia
• Center for
Policy Dialogue (CPD)
Organizzazione non governativa impegnata nella promozione
della partecipazione civica in Bangladesh. Promuove attività
di ricerca e di informazione su temi collegati a povertà,
politiche pubbliche e sviluppo
• Citizen
Coalition for Economic Justice
The Citizens' Coalition for Economic Justice was formed in
response to the extremely unjust structure of Korean economic
life today
• Earth Rights
Internationa (ERI)
ERI is a nonprofit group of activists, organizers, and lawyers
with expertise in human rights, the environment, and corporate
and government accountability. ERI has offices in the U.S.
and Southeast Asia
• Iraqi al-amal
association
A non-political association of volunteers actively engaged
in projects for the benefit and well-being of the Iraqi population
regardless of race or political and religious belief
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Japan Network on Debt and Poverty
Japanese NGO interested in the reduction of Third World Countries'
debt and in poverty eradication
• Kurdish
Human Rights Project
Non governative organization based in the United Kingdom.
It works to protect and promote the human rights of all persons
living throughout the Kurdish regions of Iran, Iraq, Syria,
Turkey and the former Soviet Union
• Mongolian Development
Research Center (MDRC)
MDRC is a non governmental organization. Its main objective
is to promote the knowledge of development economics in Mongolia
• Pacific Asia
Resource Centre (PARC)
PARC is a non-profit Japanese organization committed in international
social and economic justice
• Palli Karma-Sahayak
Foundation
Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF) was set up by the government
in May 1990 as a non-profit organization for alleviation of
poverty through employment and income generating activities.
It funds Microcredit Programs of NGOs and other Organizations
in Bangladesh
• Philantropy
and the Third Sector in Asia and the Pacific
Web site of information on the third sector in the area of
the Pacific. It contains many links to NGOs of Oriental Asia
and Oceania
• Public Affairs Centre
N on-profit organisation dedicated to the cause of improving
the quality of governance in India
• Rural Reconstruction
Nepal
Non governative organization promoting social and economic
development of poorest rural communities
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