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Essential
Web Sites
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Amnesty International
Amnesty International (AI) is a worldwide
movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized
human rights.
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ATTAC (Association for the Taxation of financial Transactions
for the Aid of Citizens)
International movement for democratic
control of financial markets and their institutions. It promotes
practical economic reforms meant to tame the devastating power
of the financial markets, and to favour democratic, transparent
economic structures that serve the needs of ordinary people.
It looks for alternatives to the dogmatic ideology of neoliberalism
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Greenpeace
Greenpeace is a non-profit organisation,
with a presence in 40 countries across Europe, the Americas,
Asia and the Pacific. To maintain its independence, Greenpeace
does not accept donations from governments or corporations
but relies on contributions from individual supporters and
foundation grants. As a global organisation, Greenpeace focuses
on the the most crucial worldwide threats to our planet's
biodiversity and environment
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Médecins Sans Frontieres
Médecins Sans Frontières
(MSF) is an international humanitarian aid organisation that
provides emergency medical assistance to populations in danger
in more than 80 countries
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Social Watch
Social Watch is an international network informed by national
citizens' groups aiming at following up the fulfillment of
the internationally agreed commitments on poverty eradication
and equality. These national groups report, through the national
Social
Watch report, on the progress - or regression - towards
these commitments and goals.
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World Social Forum
The World Social Forum is an open meeting
place where groups and movements of civil society opposed
to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital or by any
form of imperialism, but engaged in building a planetary society
centred on the human person, come together to pursue their
thinking, and to debate ideas democratically
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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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Bretton Woods Project
The Bretton Woods Project works as a networker, information-provider,
media informant and watchdog to scrutinise and influence the
World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). Through
briefings, reports and the bimonthly digest Bretton
Woods Update, it monitors projects, policy reforms
and the overall management of the Bretton Woods institutions
with special emphasis on environmental and social concerns
• Charities Aid Foundation
(CAF)
CAF is an international non-governmental organisation which
provides specialist financial services to other charities
and their supporters
• Citizen
Network on Essential Services
The Citizens' Network on Essential Services (CNES) works to
democratize national and global governance by supporting citizens'
groups that are engaged in influencing policy decisions about
basic services: water, power, education, and health care
• Civicus -
World Alliance for Citizen Participation
US-based international alliance dedicated to strengthening
citizen action and civil society throughout the world
• EUROSTEP (European
Solidarity Towards Equal Participation of People)
Eurostep is a network of 19 major NGDOs from 13 European countries.
Its two principal aims are first to influence official development
co-operation policies of multilateral institution, and in
particular those of the European Union; and secondly to improve
the quality and effectiveness of initiatives taken by NGOs
in support of people centred development
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Forum
International Forum on Development Service. Its aim is to
enhance co-operation between a wide range of agencies, including
non-governmental (NGO) and state organisations
• Friends of the Earth
International
Friends of the Earth International is a federation of autonomous
environmental organizations from all over the world. Its members,
in 68 countries, campaign on the most urgent environmental
and social issues
• Human Rights
Watch
Human Rights Watch stands with victims and activists to prevent
discrimination, to uphold political freedom, to protect people
from inhumane conduct in wartime, and to bring offenders to
justice
• Indymedia
Indymedia is an international network of collectively managed
means of information. Triggered by discontent with the mainstream
media and supported by the widespread availability of media
technologies, groups all over the world are creating their
own channels of information and distribution in order to bypass
the (mainstream) corporate media
• International Civil
Society Consortium
The mission of the Consortium is to enhance international
cooperation in promoting responsible, democratic, and widely
participatory deliberation over public issues around the world.
The ICSC member list includes non-governmental organizations,
university departments, foundations, journals from different
countries
• Oilwatch
Oilwatch is a network of NGOs based in Ecuador. It is inspired
by the necessity to develop global strategies for communities
affected by oil activities and to support the resistance processes
of coummunities that do not want to see their territories
affected, to work for sustainability and collective rights
• Participatory Development
Forum
Participatory Development Forum is a network of development
practitioners, non-governmental organisations, academics/action
researchers, private sector representatives, and policy makers.
It is dedicated to promoting a philosophy of participation
that advocates for people's capacity and right to define and
control their own development in order to achieve social justice
and equality
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SAPRI (Structural Adjustment Participatory Review Initiative)
In order to analyse the impacts that structural adjustment
has had in many developing countries, certain NGOs challanged
the World Bank to undertake a review of structural adjustment
programmes and to explore new adjustment options in conjunction
with CSOs.
Thus, in 1996 SAPRI was developed through consultations between
World Bank country teams and a global network of CSOs formed
for the exercise
• Save the
children
Save the Children was founded in the United States in 1932
as a nonprofit child-assistance organization to make lasting
positive change in the lives of children in need. Today it
works in 47 other countries in the developing world to help
children and families improve their health, education and
economic opportunities
• Third World Network
Africa
TWN Africa is a Non Governmental Organisation which carries
out Research and Advocacy on issues of social and economic
policy that advances the needs and interests of peoples of
African and other third world countries (especially marginalized
social groups), a fair distribution of world's resources,
and forms of development which are sustainable and fulfil
human needs
• Transparency
International
Transparency International (TI) is a non governmental organization
that builds national, regional and global coalitions, embracing
the state, civil society and the private sector, in order
to fight domestic and international corruption. TI elaborates
the Corruption Index, sometimes used as a proxy for social
capital at a macro level
• World Economic Forum
The Forum is an independent international organization incorporated
as a Swiss not-for-profit foundation and has NGO consultative
status with the Economic and Social Council of the United
Nations. Every year the Forum publishes the Global
Competitiveness Report, a valuable tool for shaping economic
policy and guiding investment decisions. It is one of the
leading monitors of the competitive condition of economies
worldwide.
• World Rainforest Movement
The World Rainforest Movement is an international network
of citizens' groups of North and South involved in efforts
to defend the world's rainforests. Its offices are located
in the United Kingdom and Uruguay
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