- 11.11.11- Coalition of the Flemish North-South Movement
11.11.11 combines the efforts of 90 organizations and 375 committees of volunteers who work together to achieve one common goal:a fairer world without poverty.
11.11.11 was born on 11th November 1966 in which thousands of volunteers came out on the streets ...
- 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 ...
- Academic Council on the United Nations System
The Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS), is an international institution with a distinguished membership of nearly a thousand scholars, teachers, practitioners and others active in the work and study of the United Nations System and other ...
- 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 ...
- ActionAid International
ActionAid is an international anti-poverty agency whose aim is to fight poverty worldwide. Formed in 1972, for over 30 years they have been growing and expanding to where they are today - helping over 13 million of the world's poorest and most disadvantage ...
- Alternative Information and Development Centre
AIDC aims to contribute to the development of national, regional and international challenges to the currently dominant global economic system through research, information production and dissemination, popular education, campaigning and coalition building ...
- Amin, Samir
Samir Amin is an Egyptian political author who was born in Cairo in 1931. He is one of the most important neo-marxist intellectual. He developed his political, economical and statistics studies in Paris. In 1957 he presented his thesis, supervised by Franç ...
- 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 ...
- Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives
ARENA aims to contribute to the mobilisation of civil society and popular participation in public life, the empowerment of peoples and the enhancement of people’s capabilities to transform their lives and conditions, the transformation of values and consci ...
- 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 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 ...
- ATTAC
The International ATTAC Movement was created at an international meeting in Paris, on December 11-12, 1998.
The December 1998 meeting permitted the definition of three major objectives:
1. Launching of the international ATTAC movement - “ international mov ...
- 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 ...
- Bank Information Center
BIC is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organization that advocates for the protection of rights, participation, transparency, and public accountability in the governance and operations of the World Bank, regional development banks, and IMF.The ...
- Better World Campaign
Since 1999, BWC has worked to strengthen the relationship between the United States and the United Nations through outreach, communications, and advocacy. We encourage U.S. leadership to enhance the UN’s ability to carry out its invaluable international wo ...
- Bordia, Anil
Anil Bordia was Indian Education Secretary between 1987 and 1992. During his tenure a clear shift of priority was made to basic education. He was responsible for pioneering projects concerning the universalization of primary education. He has dedicated his ...
- 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, i ...
- British Overseas Network for Development
BOND is the network of more than 280 UK based voluntary organisations working in international development and development education.
BOND provides a central point for advocacy on issues on which member organisations have a common view and would benefit fr ...
- 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 ...
- CAUX - Initiatives et Changement
Initiatives of Change is an international movement, active in 60 countries and formally incorporated in 39 countries.
The International Association of Initiatives of Change, was created in 2002, the Swiss foundation Caux – Initiatives of Change was one of ...
- Center for Environmental Economic Development
The Center for Environmental Economic Development (CEED) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit California Corporation formed in 1993. For over ten years CEED has worked as a catalyst for environmentally sustainable community development locally, regionally, nationally ...
- Center for War/Peace Studies
The Center for War/Peace Studies is a US "think tank" located in the UN backyard. Its central objective is to establish an international political and legal system that makes possible the abolition of war. They have developed the Binding Triad System for g ...
- Centre for Global Governance
The Centre for the Study of Global Governance is a leading international institution dedicated to research, analysis and dissemination about global governance. Based at the London School of Economics, the Centre aims to increase understanding and knowledge ...
- 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 for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation - University of Warwick
Inaugurated on 1 October 1997, the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR)--with initial baseline funding of £2.5 million for the first five years by the Economic and Social Research Council of the UK--is the largest research centr ...
- 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 ...
- Ciencias Sociales de América Latina y el Caribe
CLACSO is an international network, non governmental and with no lucrative goals committed to the promotion of investigation, discussion and academical diffusion on a variety of fields within social sciences.
CLASCO was founded for Latin American social s ...
- 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 Athens
The Global Governance Group (or “Triple-G”) is an international initiative which aims to address the challenges of globalisation through innovative approaches to global governance. Its “Triple-G” approach applies not only to its title, but also to its thre ...
- 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 ...
- Committee for a Democratic U.N.
The Committee for a Democratic U.N. (KDUN) is a non-governmental organization registered in Germany. KDUN supports international democracy and the strengthening of the United Nations. The political mandate is laid down in a declaration of principle. KDUN's ...
- Coopération Internationale pour le Développement et la Solidarité
Inspired and guided by the Gospel Word and by the social teachings of the Church, CIDSE works to free societies of poverty and oppression and to enable their transformation into communities of solidarity through socially- and culturally-sensitive developme ...
- 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 ...
- Earth Council
The Earth Council is an international non-governmental organization (NGO) that was created in September 1992 to promote and advance the implementation of the Earth Summit agreements. It is led by a body of 18 Members, drawn from the world's political, busi ...
- Education International
Education International is the federation of organisations representing over 30 milion teachers and other education workers. Thet try to unify all teachers and education workers. EI promotes the rights of every teachere wherever they are, and the rights of ...
- 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 ...
- EURODAD
EURODAD is a network of 48 development non-governmental organisations from 15 European countries working for national economic and international financing policies that achieve poverty eradication and the empowerment of the poor.
By coordinating their know ...
- European Foundation Centre
As an independent international association, the European Foundation Centre (EFC) is the gathering point for independent funders active in and with Europe. Foundations and corporate citizens from all over Europe and the world are members and partners of th ...
- Falk, Richard A.
Professor of International Law and Practise at Princeton University.
- 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 ...
- Foreign Policy in Focus
Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF), established in 1996, seeks to make the U.S. a more responsible global leader and global partner. It is a "think tank without walls" that functions as an international network of more than 650 policy analysts and advocates.
...
- 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 ...
- Forum du Tiers Monde
The Forum of the Third World (FTM), whose african office is in Dakar (Senegal), is an international association with no lucrative purpose that gathers one thousand intellectuals of Africa, Asia and Latin America. FTM aims to animate debates and product cri ...
- Foster, John
John Foster works in The North-South Institute in the examination of the relations of NGOs and other civil society organizations with multilateral bodies, such as the United Nations, the World Bank, the World Trade Organization.
- 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 ...
- Friends of the Earth International
Friends of the Earth International is a federation of autonomous environmental organizations from all over the world. Their members, in 70 countries, campaign on the most urgent environmental and social issues of our day, while simultaneously catalyzing a ...
- García Márquez, Gabriel
Believed by many to be one of the world’s greatest writers, Gabriel García Márquez is a Colombian-born author and journalist, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and a pioneer of the Latin American “Boom.” He first won international fame with his ...
- George, Susan
Susan George, the author of a dozen of books, was born in the United States, lives in/near Paris and acquired French citizenship in 1994. She is Associate Director of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam, a decentralised fellowship of scholars living t ...
- 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 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 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 ...
- Global youth ACTION Network
TakingITGlobal.org is a global online community, providing youth with inspiration to make a difference, a source of information on issues, opportunities to take action, and a bridge to get involved locally, nationally and globally.
TakingITGlobal (TIG) is ...
- Gorbachev, Mikhail
Since 1992, the Honourable Mikhail Gorbachev is President, International Foundation for Socio-Economic and Political Studies (The Gorbachev Foundation) and President, Green Cross International.
He is the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (1990), the Order ...
- 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 ...
- Grzybowski, Candido
Candido Grzybowski is a sociologist, director of Instituto Brasileño de Análisis Social y Económico (IBASE) and member of the international secretariat of the World Social Forum.
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Institut I. Jacques Maritain
The International Jacques Maritian Institute is a non-profit making cultural association and is a recognised legal entity. As an intellectual, international and interdisciplinary laboratory, it promotes research into, and the study of, the subjects of man, ...
- 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 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 ...
- 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 Civil Society Forum on Democracy
The ICSFD is a global network of civil society representatives, which promotes effective democratic governance reforms by strengthening civil society collaboration nationally, regionally and internationally.
- 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 Crisis Group
The International Crisis Group is an independent, non-profit, multinational organisation, with over 100 staff members on five continents, working through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to prevent and resolve deadly conflict.
- 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 Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
Created in 1995, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) is an intergovernmental organization that seeks to nurture and support sustainable democracy world-wide. Global in membership and independent of specific national in ...
- International Institute for Environment and Development
IIED is an independent, non-profit organization promoting sustainable patterns of world development through collaborative research, policy studies, networking and knowledge dissemination. We work to address global issues, for example; mining, the paper ind ...
- 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 NGO Forum on Indonesian Development
INFID is an open and pluralistic network of NGOs from Indonesia and various memeber countries of the Consultative Group for Indonesia as well as of international organizations and individuals with an interest in and commitment to Indonesia. INFID endeavors ...
- International Peace Bureau
The International Peace Bureau is the world´s oldest and most comprehensive international peace federation, bringing together people working for peace in many different sectors: not only pacifists but also women´s, youth, labour, religious and professional ...
- 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 ...
- Japan Center for International Exchange
Founded in 1970, the Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE) is an independent, nonprofit, and nonpartisan organization dedicated to strengthening Japan's role in international networks of dialogue and cooperation.
JCIE aims to promote policy dialog ...
- Jubilee South
Jubilee South is a network of jubilee and debt campaigns, social movements, people's organizations, communities, NGOs and political formations. The Jubilee South network aims to and is in the process of emerging and developing as an international South mov ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- New Economics Foundation
The New Economics Foundation is the radical think tank. It is unique in bringing together the ideas, people, resources and influence to challenge business-as-usual. We create practical and enterprising solutions to the social, environmental and economic ch ...
- 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 ...
- Nieto Montesinos, Jorge
Jorge Nieto is a governance expert, he was representing Peru in the UNESCO, and now he is president of the Center Internacional for the Democratic Culture. He participates in the World-wide Forum of the Civil Society, where it shares folder with the Spanis ...
- North-South Institute
For more than 20 years, the North-South Institute (NSI) has built a reputation for sound research and analysis of Canadian foreign policy, offered an independent voice on the urgent importance of world development issues, and brought those issues before th ...
- North-South Institute
The North-South Institute (NSI) is dedicated to eradicating global poverty and enhancing social justice through research which promotes international cooperation, democratic governance, and conflict prevention.
It is Canada’s first independent, non-governm ...
- One World Trust
The One World Trust is an NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. The Trust was founded in 1951 by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for World Government.
The One World Trust promotes education and re ...
- 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 ...
- Oxfam International
Oxfam International is a confederation of 12 organizations working together with over 3000 partners in more than 100 countries to find lasting solutions to poverty, suffering and injustice.
With many of the causes of poverty global in nature, the 12 affili ...
- PAX Romana ICMICA/MIIC
Pax Romana ICMICA/MIIC is an international Association of Catholic professionals and intellectuals composed of local federations, groups and individuals. It works like a forum for intellectual sharing and dialogue among different cultures, generations and ...
- 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 ...
- People's Food Sovereignty
Food and agriculture are fundamental to all peoples, in terms of both production and availability of sufficient quantities of safe and healthy food, and as foundations of healthy communities, cultures and environments. All of these are being undermined by ...
- Ramphal, Shridath
Shridath Ramphal, former Secretary-General of the British Commonwealth, is Co-Chair of the Commission on Global Governance, President of the World Conservation Union (IUCN) and Chair of the International Steering Committee of the Rockefeller Foundation's L ...
- Reaching Critical Will
The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) created the Reaching Critical Will project in 1999, in order to increase the quality and quantity of civil society at international disarmament fora, such as those that take place at the United ...
- Reality of aid network
The Reality of Aid project is the only major north/south international non-governmental initiative focusing exclusively on analysis and lobbying for poverty eradication policies and practices in the international aid regime.
- Salgado, Sebastião
Born in 1944 in Aimorés, Minas Gerais, Brazil, the sixth child and only boy in a family of eight children, the son of a cattle rancher, Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado studied economics in Brazil (1964-1967) and earned his M.A. in economics in 1968 from the Univ ...
- Sassen, Saskia
Saskia Sassen is an American sociologist and economist relevant for her analyses of globalization and international global migration. She currently is professor of sociology at the University of Chicago and at the London School of Economics.
- 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 ...
- Shiva, Vandana
Vandana Shiva is a physicist, ecofeminist, environmental activist and author. She is one of the leaders of the International Forum on Globalization, and a figure of the global solidarity movement known as the anti-globalization movement.
- 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 ...
- Smith, Gordon
Gordon Smith is Director of the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria and a Senior Fellow in the Liu Centre at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is Chairman of the Board of Governors of Canada's International Development Rese ...
- 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 ...
- 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.
- Society for International Development
The Society for International Development (SID) is an international non-governmental network of individuals and organizations founded in 1957 to promote social justice and foster democratic participation. Through locally driven international programmes and ...
- Solagral
Dans un contexte de mondialisation croissante des économies agricoles et alimentaires, SOLAGRAL se veut un lieu permettant aux acteurs de confronter leurs analyses et d'élaborer les réponses, qui du niveau local au niveau international, permettront de rele ...
- 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 Centre
The South Centre came formally into being as an intergovernmental body of developing countries on 31 July 1995, when the Intergovernmental Agreement to establish the Centre came into force.
Currently, 46 countries are members of the South Centre. The Centr ...
- 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 ...
- Stiglitz, Joseph
Recognized around the world as a leading economic educator, he has written textbooks that have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He founded one of the leading economics journals, The Journal of Economic Perspectives. His book Globalization ...
- Stockholm Initiative
Public social protection is crucial to the well-being of individuals and families and to economy and society as a whole. Now, however, social security is alleged to be a major cause of the current unsatisfactory economic performance in many countries. The ...
- Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
SIPRI seeks to conduct research on questions of conflict and cooperation of importance for international peace and security, with the aim of contributing to an understanding of the conditions for peaceful solutions of international conflicts and for a stab ...
- 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 ...
- Tax Justice Netherlands
Tax Justice NL is a network of Dutch civil society organisations. The purpose of Tax Justice NL is to promote a just and fair tax system that is supportive to international development. The network hopes to influence Dutch politics, so that Dutch tax polic ...
- Third World Institute
The Third World Institute performs information, communication and education activities on an international level, concerning development and environment-related activities. It is a civil society organization, working for civil society, which encourages cit ...
- Third World Network
The Third World Network is an independent non-profit international network of organizations and individuals involved in issues relating to development, the Third World and North- South issues.
Its objectives are to conduct research on economic, social and ...
- Transnational Institute
The Transnational Institute was founded in 1974 as a worldwide fellowship of committed scholar-activists. It was one of the first research institutes established to be transnational in name, composition, orientation and focus.
In the spirit of public schol ...
- Transparency International
Transparency International is the only international non-governmental organisation devoted to combating corruption, brings civil society, business, and governments together in a powerful global coalition.
TI, through its International Secretariat and more ...
- 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 ...
- United Way International
United Way is a global network of nonprofit organizations operating in 45 countries. UWI is run by people from your community; the important decisions are made at home by people who understand circumstances where they live and work. The Network brings tog ...
- 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 ...
- Via Campesina
Via Campesina is an international movement which coordinates peasant organizations of small and medium sized producers, agricultural workers, rural women, and indigenous communities from Asia, America, and Europe. It is an autonomous, pluralistic movement, ...
- 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 AIDS Campaign
The goal of the World AIDS Campaign (WAC) is to energize and support an effective and sustained response to the HIV pandemic. By helping partners work together at national and international levels, they will broaden the partnership among those shaping the ...
- 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 Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization
The World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization was established by the International Labour Organization (ILO) in February 2002.
The Commission was an independent body. It was initiated to respond to the needs of people as they cope with the ...
- 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 Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world.
The Forum provides a collaborative framework for the world's leaders to address global issues, engaging particularly its corporate members ...
- World Economy, Ecology & Development
WEED is an independent non-governmental organisation and it was founded in 1990. Their purpose is more awareness of the causes of global poverty and environmental problems.
WEED involved in national and international networks, and organizations and initiat ...
- World Faiths Development Dialogue
The World Faiths Development Dialogue was set up in 1998 as an initiative of James D. Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank and Lord Carey, then Archbishop of Canterbury. Its aim is to facilitate a dialogue on poverty and development among people from di ...
- World Federalist Movement
The World Federalist Movement (WFM) is an international citizen's movement working for
justice, peace, and sustainable prosperity. We call for an end to the rule of force, through
a world governed by law, based on strengthened and democratized world inst ...
- World Federation of the United Nations Associations
The mission of the World Federation of United Nations Associations is to inform, sustain and energize a global network of United Nations Associations to support the principles and programs of the United Nations and to help shape its agenda.
- 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 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 ...
- World Wild Fund International
WWF's ultimate goal is to stop and eventually reverse environmental degradation and to build a future where people live in harmony with nature.
In just over four decades, WWF has become one of the world's largest and most respected independent conservation ...
- 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 ...
