- 2008 Japan G8 Summit NGO Forum
“2008 Japan G8 Summit NGO Forum” was formed in 31 January 2007, as a civil platform organized by Japanese NGOs’ broad coalition for 2008 G8 Summit in Toyako, Hokkaido.
As of 31 July 2007, 101 NGOs are affiliated with the forum. These NGOs are working on th ...
- Action Canada for Population and Development
ACPD is a human rights advocacy organization that seeks to enhance the quality of life of women, men and children by promoting progressive policies in the field of international development with a primary focus on reproductive and sexual rights and health ...
- Action for UN Renewal
Although the United Nations has achieved much since its creation in 1945, changes are necessary to meet the needs of a changed world.
Action for UN Renewal exists to promote an effective United Nations, with the authority and resources required to realise ...
- African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies
The Africa Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies was created due to the excesses of some African governments in the violation of Human Rights. Its main objective is is to give meaning to Article 25 of the African Charter, which requires States Part ...
- African Women's Development and Communication Network
The African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) was set up in 1988 to share information, experiences, ideas and strategies among African women's non-governmental organisations (NGOs) through communications, networking, training and advoc ...
- AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa
The AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA) is a regional alliance of fourteen non-governmental organisations working together to promote and build capacity around a human rights based response to HIV/AIDS in the Southern African Development C ...
- Amnesty International
Amnesty International (AI) is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights.
AI's vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights an ...
- An-Na'im, Abdullahi
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im (from Sudan) is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory Law School. An internationally recognized scholar of Islam and human rights, and human rights in cross-cultural perspectives.
- Annan, Kofi
Kofi Annan of Ghana is the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations. The first Secretary-General to be elected from the ranks of United Nations staff, he began his first term on 1 January 1997. On 29 June 2001, acting on a recommendation by the Secu ...
- Arab Organisation of Human Rights
The AOHR calls for respect of human rights and freedoms of all residents and citizens of the Arab world and seeks to defend any individual whose human rights are subjected to violations which are contrary to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the I ...
- Arias Sánchez, Óscar
Óscar Arias Sánchez was born in Heredia Costa Rica in 1941.He is the current President of Costa Rica and the first Nobel Laureate to be elected as a Latin American nation's president after winning the award. In 1987 he received the Nobel Peace Prize for hi ...
- Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development
FORUM-ASIA is a regional human rights organization in Asia and presently, it has 40 member organizations in 15 countries in Asia. It seeks to facilitate dialogue, capacity-building and networking among human rights defenders, civil society actors and organ ...
- Asociación Naciones Unidas España/América Latina
ANUE was born in 1962 and its main objectives are the defence, promotion and spreading of human rights and basic freedom. It also wants to disclose principles and objectives of UN. It has been recognised by UN as the unique main link between UN and civil s ...
- Association for Progressive Communications
The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) is an international network of civil society organisations dedicated to empowering and supporting groups and individuals working for peace, human rights, development and protection of the environment, th ...
- Association for the Prevention of Torture
The Association for the Prevention of Torture is an independent NGO based in Geneva, operating globally to prevent torture and other ill-treatment. It was founded by a Swiss banker and lawyer, Jean-Jacques Gautier, in 1977. Its primary objective is to prev ...
- Association Internationale des Universités
IAU, founded in 1950, is the UNESCO-based worldwide association of universities. It brings together institutions and organisations from some 150 countries for reflection and action on common concerns and collaborates with various international, regional an ...
- Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi is a Myanmar's pro-democracy leader. She has won several human rights awards.
- Austrian EU-Platform of Non-Governmental Development Organisations
The Austrian EU-platform of non-governmental development is a democratic and pluralistic association of organisations active in development cooperation, humanitarian aid as well as development education and awareness raising.
The Austrian Platform represen ...
- Brutus, Dennis
Dennis Brutus is a South African poet who was an activist against the apartheid government of South Africa in the 1960s. He was forbidden to teach, write and publish in South Africa. In 1983, Brutus won the right to stay in the United States as a political ...
- CARE International
CARE is a united force dedicated to helping the world's poorest communities solve their most threatening problems. CARE is the humanitarian organization fighting global poverty.
- Caritas Internationalis
Caritas Internationalis is a confederation of 162 Catholic relief, development and social service organisations working to build a better world, especially for the poor and oppressed, in over 200 countries and territories.
Caritas works without regard to c ...
- Centre for Global Studies
The mission of the Centre for Global Studies (CFGS) is to advance understanding and action on major global issues by civil society, the private sector, governments, and international institutions. The Centre focuses on issues in the three thematic areas of ...
- Centre On Housing Rights and Evictions
The Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) is an independent, non-governmental, not-for-profit human rights organisation established in 1994 in the Netherlands and now based in Geneva, Switzerland. They are one of the principal agencies focusing on ...
- Chomsky, Noam
Noam Chomsky was born on December 7, 1928 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His undergraduate and graduate years were spent at the University of Pennsylvania where he received his PhD in linguistics in 1955.
Chomsky has written and lectured widely on linguist ...
- CIVICUS
CIVICUS is an international alliance dedicated to strengthening citizen action and civil society throughout the world. Our vision is of a worldwidecommunity of informed, inspired, committed citizens engaged in confronting the challenges facing humanity.
CI ...
- Climate Action Network
The Climate Action Network (CAN) is a worldwide network of over 340 Non- Governmental Organizations (NGOs) working to promote government and individual action to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels.
Diverse environmental o ...
- Club of Rome
The Club of Rome is a global think tank and centre of innovation and initiative.
As a non-profit, non governmental organisation (NGO), it brings together scientists, economists, businessmen, international high civil servants, heads of state and former head ...
- Coalition for the International Criminal Court
The Coalition for the International Criminal Court is a network of well over 1,000 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) advocating for a fair, effective and independent International Criminal Court (ICC).
The ICC is the first permanent international judi ...
- Commitee for the Abolition of Third World Debt
The Committee for the Cancellation of the Third World Debt is an international network of individuals and local committees from across Europe and Latin America, Africa and Asia. It was founded in Belgium on 15th March 1990.
The network acts in close liaiso ...
- Congress of South African Trade Unions
COSATU was launched in December 1985 after four years of unity talks between unions opposed to apartheid and committed to a non-racial, non-sexist and democratic South Africa. Their main broad strategic objectives have always been to improve material condi ...
- Coordination SUD
Founded in 1994, Coordination SUD - Solidarité Urgence Développement - brings together six groups of NGOs (CLONG-Volontariat, CNAJEP, Coordination d’Agen, CRID, FORIM, Groupe initiatives) and more than 130 NGOs French international solidarity.
These NGOs a ...
- Corpwatch
On the ground and on the web, through education and activism, Oakland-based CorpWatch works to hold corporations accountable on issues of human rights, labor rights and environmental justice, locally and globally.
CorpWatch.org website and its campaigns on ...
- Democracy Coalition Project
The Democracy Coalition Project is a nongovernmental organization that conducts research and advocacy relating to democracy promotion policies at the national, regional and global levels. It relies on an international network of civil society organizations ...
- Droits de l'Homme et Dialogue Interculturel
The aim of the working group on Human Rights and Intercultural Dialogue (HRID / DHDI) is to create a forum for meeting, dialogue and research on issues related to Human Rights and Intercultural Dialogue. Its aim is also to broaden our perspective on Law vi ...
- Earth Charter
The Earth Charter is a declaration of fundamental principles for building a just, sustanaible, and peaceful global society. It seeks to inspire in all peoples a sense of global interdependence and shared responsability for the well-being of the human famil ...
- EarthAction
The interrelated global problems of environmental degradation, poverty, war and the abuse of human rights threaten the future of everyone on earth. Yet most governments and corporations continue with business as usual, as if they haven't noticed. We have t ...
- Elsaadawi, Leonel
Nawal El Saadawi is a novelist, a psychiatrist and a writer who is well known both in the Arab countries and in many other parts of the world. Her novels and her books on the situation of women in Egyptian and Arab society have had a deep effect on success ...
- Farhmau
Fahamu has a vision of the world where people organise to emancipate themselves from all forms of oppression, recognise their social responsibilities, respect each other’s differences, and realise their full potential. They focuses primarily on Africa, alt ...
- Fondation Charles Léopold Mayer pour le progrès de l'Homme
The Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation for the Progress of Humankind (FPH) was set up in 1982.
Established under Swiss law, it is managed by a Council comprising between seven and eleven members and by a General Manager who coordinates a staff of about twent ...
- Ford Foundation
Founded in 1936, the foundation operated as a local philanthropy in the state of Michigan until 1950, when it expanded to become a national and international foundation. Since its inception it has been an independent, nonprofit, non-governmental organizati ...
- Foro Ciudadano de Participación por la Justicia y los Derechos Humanos
FOCO was created in 1999 as an initiative of SAPRIN (Structural Adjustment Participatory Review International Network) . It was designed as a space for the convergence of many social organisations, with the purpose of promoting citizen participation in th ...
- Franciscans International
Franciscans International is a NGO with General Consultative status at the UN, uniting the voices of Franciscan brothers and sisters from around the world. We serve all Franciscans and the global community by bringing spiritual, ethical, and Franciscan val ...
- Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
The FES has representation in 70 countries of Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. It also has 33 offices in Western Europe, Japan, USA, CIS countries and Central and South-East Europe.
In developing countires they seek to promote peace, democr ...
- Fundación Arias para la Paz y el Progreso Humano
The Arias Foundation is a private, non-profit organization registered in Costa Rica.
Born in the transition toward peace in Central America, it is focused primarily on this region.
It promotes dialogue as the best means of solving conflicts and differences ...
- Fundación Cultura de Paz
The Culture of Peace is a set of values, attitudes and modes of behavior that reflect respect for life, human beings and human dignity. It gives top priority to human rights, rejection of any form of violence, and adherence to the principles of freedom, ju ...
- Fundación Rigoberta Menchú Tum
The Fundación is the Rigoberta Menchú's institutional platform that guarantees the accomplishment and execution of the plans, programms and actions on behalf of Human Rights, native village's rights and the contributions to a politic solution of conflicts ...
- Global March Against Child Labour
Global March Against Child Labour is a movement borne out of hope and the need felt by thousands of people across the globe - the desire to set children free from servitude.
Global March movement began with a worldwide march when thousands of people march ...
- Global Movement for Children
The GMC is a movement of organisations and people who try to build a world fit for children. For them everyone has to play their part, from governments, to organisations and individuals. They are offered to all who stand for the rights of children, as mean ...
- Global Policy Forum
Global Policy Forum monitors policy making at the United Nations, promotes accountability of global decisions, educates and mobilizes for global citizen participation, and advocates on vital issues of international peace and justice.
GPF was founded in 199 ...
- Global Policy Network
The Global Policy Network (GPN) consists of policy and research institutions connected to the world's trade union movements. GPN's work reflects a concern with the economic, social, and political conditions of working people in both developing and develope ...
- Global Witness
Global Witness exposes the corrupt exploitation of natural resources and the international trade systems, to drive campaigns that end impunity, resource-linked conflict, and human rights and environmental abuses. Natural resources could be the key to endin ...
- Grassroots International
Grassroots is a human rights and international development organization that supports community-led sustainable development projects. Since 1983 it have worked in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, concentrating their efforts in areas where U ...
- Green Cross International
Green Cross International was founded by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1993, building on the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and Agenda 21. Green Cross is a non-governmental, non-profit organization. Our mission is to help create a sustainable future by cultiva ...
- Hague Appeal for Peace, The
The Hague Appeal for Peace is an international network of individuals and organizations dedicated to sowing the seeds for the abolition of war through advocacy and training in peace education.
HAP started in 1996 with the mission to organize the largest pe ...
- Health Global Access Project
HGAP is an organization of U.S.-based AIDS and human rights activists, people living with HIV/AIDS, public health experts, fair trade advocates and concerned individuals who campaign against policies of neglect and avarice that deny treatment to millions a ...
- Human Rights First
Human Rights First protects people at risk: refugees who flee persecution, victims of crimes against humanity or other mass human rights violations, victims of discrimination, those whose rights are eroded in the name of national security, and human rights ...
- Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world.
Human Rights Watch is an independent, nongovernmental organization, supported by contributions from private individuals and foundations worldwide.
It challenges gove ...
- Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy promotes resilient family farms, rural communities and ecosystems around the world through research and education, science and technology, and advocacy.
In the mid-1980s, family farmers across America were in ...
- Institute for Global Communications
Beginning in 1987, the Institute for Global Communications (IGC) played a formative role in bringing advanced communications technologies to grassroots organizations worldwide working for peace, human rights, environmental sustainability, women's rights, c ...
- Institute for Human Rights
The Institute for Human Rights was founded in 1987. It forms part of the Department of Public Law of the Faculty of Law of the University of Leuven.
The Institute is in charge of the courses on international human rights law (in Englisch and Dutch) within ...
- Integrated Social Development Centre
ISODEC describes its mission as promoting social justice and fundamental human rights, especially of the poor and those without organized voice and influence. ISODEC currently provides basic needs services(health, education and micro-finance) and is also a ...
- InterAction
InterAction is the largest alliance of U.S.-based international development and humanitarian nongovernmental organizations. With more than 160 members operating in every developing country, we work to overcome poverty, exclusion and suffering by advancing ...
- INTERIGHTS
INTERIGHTS, the International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights works to promote respect for human rights through the use of law. We do so by providing legal expertise to lawyers, judges, human rights defenders and other partners concerning i ...
- Intermón - Oxfam
Oxfam International is an international group of independent non-governmental organizations dedicated to fighting poverty and related injustice around the world. The Oxfams work together internationally to achieve greater impact by their collective efforts ...
- International Action Network on Small Arms
IANSA is the global movement against gun violence - a network of 700 civil society organisations working in 100 countries to stop the proliferation and misuse of small arms and light weapons (SALW). IANSA seeks to make people safer from gun violence by sec ...
- International Campaign to Ban Landmines
Both the causes and the effects of the landmine crisis need to be addressed.
The ICBL is committed to an international ban on the use, production, stockpiling, and sale, transfer, or export of antipersonnel landmines. ICBL calls for increased resources for ...
- International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development
Rights & Democracy (International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development) is a non-partisan organization with an international mandate. It was created by Canada's Parliament in 1988 to encourage and support the universal values of human rights ...
- International Commission of Jurists
The International Commission of Jurists is dedicated to the primacy, coherence and implementation of international law and principles that advance human rights.
What distinguishes the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) is its impartial, objective an ...
- International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), was set up in 1949 and has 233 affiliated organisations in 154 countries and territories on all five continents, with a membership of 145 million, 40% of who are women.
The main ICFTU prioritie ...
- International Council of Voluntary Agencies
The International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA), founded in 1962, is a global network of human rights, humanitarian, and development NGOs, which focuses its information exchange and advocacy efforts primarily on humanitarian affairs and refugee issu ...
- International Federation of ACAT
FIACAT campaigns on behalf of people who are tortured, detained in inhuman conditions, sentenced to death or "disappeared", whatever their origins, political opinions or religious beliefs.
FIACAT seeks to increase awareness in the Churches and amongst Chri ...
- International Federation of the Red Cross
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is the world's largest humanitarian organization, providing assistance without discrimination as to nationality, race, religious beliefs, class or political opinions.
Founded in 1919, the ...
- International Fund for Animal Welfare
The founders of the International Fund for Animal Welfare, or IFAW, rejected the notion that the interests of humans and animals were separate. Instead they embraced the understanding that the fate and future of harp seals-and all other animals on Earth-ar ...
- International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights
The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights is a self-governing group of non-governmental, not-for-profit organizations that act to protect human rights throughout Europe, North America and Central Asia. A primary specific goal is to monitor com ...
- International Network for Economic, Social & Cultural Rights
ESCR-Net seeks to strengthen economic, social and cultural rights by working with organizations and activists worldwide to facilitate mutual learning and strategy sharing, develop new tools and resources, engage in advocacy, and provide information-sharing ...
- International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
IPPNW is a non-partisan, global federation of national medical organizations in 58 countries dedicated to research, education, and advocacy relevant to the prevention of nuclear war. To this end, IPPNW seeks to prevent all wars, to promote non-violent conf ...
- International Save the Children Alliance
All children are equal, and have human rights such as the right to food, shelter, health care, education and freedom from violence, neglect and exploitation. In all its work, both long-term development and emergency relief, Save the Children helps children ...
- International Service for Human Rights
The International Service for Human Rights is an international NGO serving human rights defenders. Its vision is the development, strengthening, effective use and implementation of international and regional standards and mechanisms for the protection and ...
- International Women's Tribune Centre
The International Women's Tribune Centre (IWTC) is an international non-governmental organization established in l976 following the United Nations International Women's Year World Conference in Mexico City. With a commitment to empowering people and buildi ...
- Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions
CAHD is a non-violent, direct-action group originally established to oppose and resist Israeli demolition of Palestinian houses in the Occupied Territories. As our activists gained direct knowledge of the brutalities of the Occupation, we expanded our resi ...
- Jahangir, Asma
Asma Jahangir is a Pakistani lawyer and human rights activist. She has been the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief of the Commission on Human Rights since 2004. She is also law partner and co-founder with her sister Hina Jil ...
- Justiça Global
Global Justice is a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of human rights in Brazil through rigorous factfinding, documentation and reporting, as well as the use of international mechanisms for the protection of human rights.
Global Justice (J ...
- Justice and Peace-Europe
The European Justice and Peace Commissions form an international network. Their objective is to exchange information and to maintain contacts with Church organizations in Europe and at the global level as well as with public institutions. They have working ...
- Mandat International
Mandat International and its welcome centre provide information, documentation, support and accommodation for international conferences and meetings in Geneva. It also works on issues such as NGO - UN cooperation, development, human rights, peace, humanita ...
- Mandela, Nelson
Former South African president, and the first one to be choosen by democatical means. He was one of the most important activists against the apartheid, and because of this he was sent to prision during 27 years.
- Mayor Zaragoza, Federico
Federico Mayor Zaragoza is a Spanish scholar and politician. He served as Director-General of UNESCO from 1987 to 1999. During his 12 years as head of UNESCO (1987–1999) Mayor gave new life to the organization's mission to "build a bastion of peace in the ...
- Medécins du Monde International
Médecins du Monde is an international humanitarian association which relies on the voluntary commitment of its members (healthcare professionals) to bring relief to the most vulnerable populations, in France and throughout the world.The international netwo ...
- Medécins Sans Frontières International
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international humanitarian aid organisation that provides emergency medical assistance to populations in danger in more than 80 countries. In countries where health structures are insufficient or even non-existant, MSF ...
- Menchú Tum, Rigoberta
Rigoberta Menchú Tum is an indigenous Guatemalan, of the Quiché-Maya ethnic group. She was the recipient of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize and Prince of Asturias Award in 1998. Menchú is a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador. On Monday, February 12, 2007, Menchú announ ...
- Montreal International Forum
The Montreal International Forum (FIM) was established in 1998 as an international NGO think tank with the goal of improving the influence of international civil society on the United Nations and the multilateral system. FIM believes that through strengthe ...
- Najam, Adil
Professor Najam specializes in negotiation analysis to study global cooperation for sustainable development with a particular focus on developing countries and non-state institutions. His research and writing focuses on the links between environment and de ...
- Networking Human Rights Defenders
FIDH’ s mandate is to contribute to the respect of all the rights defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. FIDH aims at obtaining effective improvements in the protection of victims, the prevention of Human Rights violations and the sanction o ...
- New Rules for Global Finance Coalition
New Rules for Global Finance is a coalition of development, human rights, labour, environmental, and religious organizations and scholars dedicated to the reform of the global financial architecture in order to stabilize the world economy, reduce poverty a ...
- Our World Is Not For Sale
The “Our World is not for Sale” network is a loose grouping of organizations, activists and social movements worldwide fighting the current model of corporate globalization embodied in global trading system. OWINFS is committed to a sustainable, socially j ...
- Overseas Development Institute
ODI is Britain's leading independent think-tank on international development and humanitarian issues. ODI's mission is to inspire and inform policy and practice which lead to the reduction of poverty, the alleviation of suffering and the achievement of sus ...
- Pambazuka News
Pambazuka news is a tool for progressive social change in Africa. It offers a comprehensive weekly round-up of news on human rights, conflict, health, environment, social welfare, development, the internet, literature and arts in Africa.
Pambazuka News is ...
- Penal Reform International
Penal Reform International is an international non-governmental organisation working on penal and criminal justice reform worldwide. It works with penal reform activists, NGOs and governments, as well as inter-governmental organisations such as the United ...
- Physicians for Human Rights
Physicians for Human Rights mobilizes health professionals to advance health, dignity, and justice and promotes the right to health for all. Harnessing the specialized skills, rigor, and passion of doctors, nurses, public health specialists, and scientists ...
- School of Law. Emory University
At Emory Law School, we develop lawyers who are leaders - those who are recognized by their peers for excellence in the practice of law and who perform prominent community and governmental service, from sitting on the boards of well-known charities to serv ...
- Small Arms Survey
The Small Arms Survey is an independent research project located at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland established in 1999. The project comes at root of the proliferation of small arms and light weapons constitutes a thr ...
- Social Alert
Social Alert is an international coalition of social, human rights and workers organizations bornt in 1997. It was created to connect the programs of action of several international organizations and to struggle against social injustice worldwide.
Its mai ...
- Solidar
Solidar was formally set up in Germany in 1951 with the name International Workers Aid, it was renamed Solidar in 1995 and moved to Brussels.
It is an international alliance of social and economic justice NGO's working in development and humanitarian aid, ...
- South African NGO Coalition
The South African National NGO Coalition, (SANGOCO), emerged in 1995 to coordinate NGO input into the Government policy and ensure that the rich traditions of civil society - forged in the resistance to apartheid - continue to serve the people of South Afr ...
- Southern African Regional Poverty Network
In February 2001, the Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria (HSRC) was commissioned by the Department for International Development of the British Government (DFID) to establish the Southern African Regional Poverty Network (SARPN).
Rationale for est ...
- State of the World Forum
State of the World Forum was founded in 1995 with the purpose of working with partners worldwide to gather together the creative genius on the planet in a search for solutions to critical global challenges. What has emerged is a community of committed indi ...
- Strauss, Andrew L.
Andrew Strauss is a professor of international law at Widener University School of Law. He specializes in public international law, international economic law, international transactions and international organizations. He has been consultant to Human Righ ...
- Tavola della Pace
La Tavola della Pace is an italian coordination experience to promote peace, human rights and solidarity.
The Tavola is not only pretending to enforce politic actions but also stresses on peace movement trying to approach public opinion.
- Trade Justice Movement
The Trade Justice Movement is a fast growing group of organisations including trade unions, aid agencies, environment and human rights campaigns, fairtrade organisations, faith and consumer groups.
The movement is supported by more than 80 member organisat ...
- TRANSCEND
To work for peace is to work against violence; by analyzing its forms and causes, predicting in order to prevent, and then act preventively and curatively since peace relates to violence like health relates to illness. Particularly important is genocide, o ...
- Transnational Foundation for Peace and Futur Research
Founded in 1986 TFF is a networking organization who help people learn to handle conflicts with ever less violence against other human beings, other cultures and Nature.
TFF constantly develops its intellectual resource base. Learning is the pillar of his ...
- UBUNTU World Forum of Civil Society Networks
UBUNTU's main objective is to unite and federate efforts, to build bridges of dialogue and communication amongst national and international institutions which are focused on promoting peace, endogenous development, dignity and human rights. NGO's, together ...
- Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation
The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) is a democratic, international membership organization. Its members are indigenous peoples, occupied nations, minorities and independent states or territories who have joined together to protect the ...
- Women's Environment & Development Organization
WEDO is an international organization that advocates for women’s equality in global policy. It seeks to empower women as decision makers to achieve economic, social and gender justice, a healthy, peaceful planet and human rights for all.
- World Civil Society Forum
The project of the World Civil Society Forum was conceived initially during the Millennium Forum on UN reforms (May 2000, New York), which recalled the desire of the United Nations to work closely with civil society in its activities, as well as the reques ...
- World Confederation of Labour
The World Confederation of Labour (WCL) is an international trade union confederation uniting 144 autonomous and democratic trade unions from 116 countries (October 2001) all over the world. Its head office is located in Brussels, Belgium, and it has over ...
- World Organisation Against Torture
The World Organisation Against Torture is a coalition of international non-governmental organisations (NGO) fighting against torture, summary executions, enforced disappearances and all other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.
- World Peace Centre
World Peace Centre of MAEER's MIT, Pune, India was established formally on 1st December, 1996 and is a non-governmental, voluntary and non-profit organization devoted to the cause of protection of Human Rights, promotion of Culture of Peace and Democratic ...
- World Political Forum
The World Political Forum was the original idea of the Nobel Prize Laureate Mikhail Gorbachev, with a specific mission: to foster contacts between politicians, scientists, high level personalities in the cultural and religious life of different continents, ...
- 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, c ...
- Xercavins Valls, Josep
Josep Xercavins is a permanent lecturer at the UPC, PhD in Science and coordinator of the Ad-hoc Secretariat of UBUNTU World Forum of Civil Society Networks.
He was the first academic director of the Master’s degree in Sustainability at the UPC, and also c ...
