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• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Advocacy for Women in Africa
  Advocacy for Women in Africa (AWA) was founded and incorporated in 1996 in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, as a network for advocacy on women’s issues on the African continent. Ambassador Gertrude Mongella is one of the founder members and its President. The a ...
• 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 ...
• AFRODAD
  AFRODAD is a civil society organisation born of a desire to secure lasting solutions to Africa's mounting debt problem which has impacted negatively on the continent's development process. AFRODAD aspires for an equitable and sustainable development proce ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Both ENDS
  Both ENDS supports the work of environmental organisations, primarily in the so-called South countries and the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. They support organisations through information, research, advocacy, campaigning, networking and cap ...
• 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 ...
• Bridge
  Bridge was set up in 1992 as a specialised gender and development research service within the Institute of Development Studies. It supports gender advocacy and mainstreaming efforts of policymakers and practioners by bridging the gaps between theory, polic ...
• 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 ...
• 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 of Concern
  Since 1971, the Center of Concern has offered moral vision and provided effective leadership in the struggle to end hunger, poverty, environmental decline, and injustice in the United States and around the world. For over thirty years, the Center of Concer ...
• 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 ...
• Christian Aid
  CA works where the need is greatest in nearly 50 countries, regardless of ethnicity, nationality or religion, to meet suffering and stop poverty – whether through providing emergency relief or long-term development.
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Coordinadora Regional de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales
  Founded in 1982 in Managua, is a network of research centers, NGOs, professional associations and foundations. CRIES promotes social and economic research in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean based on the participation of civil society. Its ...
• 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 ...
• Corea, Gamani
  Chairperson of the South Centre Board -- 2002-2005. He was, in 1974, appointed Secretary-General of UNCTAD, a position he held until December 1984.
• Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation
  The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation was established in 1962 in memory of the second Secretary-General of the United Nations. It is based in Uppsala, Sweden. Its purpose is to organise seminars, conferences, work-shops and consultations on development issues an ...
• 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 ...
• Development Alternatives With Women For a New Era
  DAWN is a network of women scholars and activists from the economic South who engage in feminist research and analysis of the global environment and are committed to working for economic justice, gender justice and democracy. DAWN works globally and region ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Economic Policy Institute/Global Policy Network
  EPI is a think tank that seeks to broaden the public debate about the strategies to achieve a prosperous, fair and sustainable economy. It stresses real world analysis and a concern for the living standards for working people, and make its findings accessi ...
• EURALAT
  Euralat is a strategic reflection, exchange and political action space promote by civil society organizations networks and research centers which seeks to strengthen and renew the association, cooperation and exchange relations between Europe and Latin Ame ...
• 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 ...
• Focus on the Global South
  Focus on the Global South is a program of development policy research, analysis and action. Focus engages in research, analysis, advocacy and grassroots capacity building on critical issues. It was founded in 1995 and is currently attached to the Chulalong ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• France Libertés - Fondation Danielle Mitterrand
  Danielle Mitterrand's foundation takes action on the following issues: water access and recognition as a common good, education, social responsibility on economy and democratic practices.
• 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 Global Democracia Desarrollo
  Global Foundation for Democracy and Development is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to promoting collaboration between organizations in the United States and the Dominican Republic with an aim to study, research, enhance public understandi ...
• 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 ...
• Grameen Bank
  GB provides credit to the poorest of the poor in rural Bangladesh, without any collateral. At GB, credit is a cost effective weapon to fight poverty and it serves as a catalyst in the over all development of socio-economic conditions of the poor who have b ...
• 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.
• 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 ...
• Heinrich Böll Stiftung
  The Heinrich Böll Foundation, affiliated with the Green Party and headquartered in the Hackesche Höfe in the heart of Berlin, is a legally independent political foundation working in the spirit of intellectual openness. It was founded in 1997 by uniting th ...
• Institut Interculturel de Montréal
  The Intercultural Institute of Montreal act as : • An interreligious, intercultural and interracial centre of reconciliation, encounter and solidarity among peoples of different cultures, religions, ages and socio-economic backgrounds. • A centre of analys ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Inter Press Service
  Inter Press Service, the world's leading provider of information on global issues, is backed by a network of journalists in more than 100 countries, with satellite communication links to 1,200 outlets. IPS focuses its news coverage on the events and globa ...
• 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 ...
• Intercultural Resources
  Intercultural Resources is an Indian forum for research and political intervention on issues related to the impacts and alternatives to destructive development. Their efforts draw upon the social, cultural, material and intellectual resources that have bee ...
• 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 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 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 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 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 ...
• 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 ...
• LATINDAD
  LATINDAD is a civil society organisation born of a desire to secure lasting solutions to latin american countries mounting debt problem which has impacted negatively on their development process.
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• MOCASE-Vía Campesina
  MOCASE (Movimiento Campesino de Santiago del Estero) is a social movement born 16 years ago to defence the ownership of the lands. Nowadays they fight against the removal from their lands, soyabean monoculture and the Agrarian Reform.
• Naïr, Sami
  Sami Naïr is a french philosopher and sociologist, he is political science teacher in the Paris III University.
• 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 ...
• NETAID
  Netaid seeks to educate young people to fight global poverty. They want to create a youth movement that understands the root causes of poverty and fights to end it.
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Oikos
  Stichting Oikos is an ecumenical non-governmental organisation. Their main focus is on stimulating processes of change in the Netherlands, and their main target group is Dutch society. Oikos aim to achieve this by making changes in the Western world, which ...
• 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 ...
• Pakistan Institute of Environment Development Action Resource
  The idea of the Pakistan Institute for Environment Development Action Research (PIEDAR) emerged from Pakistan's National Conservation Strategy (PNCS) which identified the need for a policy institution having solid roots in community level participatory act ...
• 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 ...
• Pan-African Treatment Access Movement
  PATAM is a social movement comprised of individuals and organisations dedicated to mobilizing communities, political leaders, and all sectors of society to ensure access to antiretroviral (ARV) treatment, as a fundamental part of comprehensive care for all ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Pérez Esquivel, Adolfo
  Adolfo Pérez Esquivel was born in Buenos Aires in 1931. After training as an architect and sculptor he was appointed Professor of Architecture. In 1974 he relinquished his teaching post in order to devote all his time and energy to the work of co-ordinatin ...
• 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 ...
• Red Latinoamericana de Estudios Ambientales Urbanos
  The Red Latinoamericana de Estudios Ambientales Urbanos is based in a cooperation between universities, local governments, institutions and NGO's all around Colombia, that seeks to develop research activities, teaching, management and evaluation related wi ...
• SEATINI
  SEATINI is an African initiative to strengthen Africa's capacity to take a more effective part in the emerging global trading system and to better manage the process of Globalization. It become an institute through the resolution of the Board of Trustees a ...
• 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 ...
• 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 African Council of Churches
  SACC is the facilitating body for a wide fellowship of churches committed to expressing together, through proclamation and programmes, the united witness of the church in South Africa, especially in matters of national debate and order. The Council is the ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Stamp Out Poverty
  Stamp Out Poverty is a network of development agencies, charities, faith groups and trade unions campaigning for innovative sources of finance to generate additional revenue over and above what will currently be produced through traditional aid, to bridge ...
• 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 ...
• Traoré Dramane, Aminata
  Aminata Traoré is a Malian author, politician, and political activist. She is a prominent critic of Globalization and the economic policies of the most developed nations. Specifically, she has voiced opposition to the western countries subsidizing of their ...
• Treatment Action Campaign
  TAC campaigns for treatment for people with HIV and to reduce new HIV infections. Their efforts have resulted in many life-saving interventions, including the implementation of country-wide mother-to-child transmission prevention and antiretroviral treatme ...
• 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 ...
• 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 Conference
  The purpose of this conference is to enhance and broaden civil society participation in achieving the goals shared by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and the UN system, notably social justice and the well-being of all people. The conference is envisa ...
• 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 Development Movement
  Founded in 1970, WDM is a democratic movement of individual supporters, campaigners and local groups. Much of their work is in partnership with other organisations in the UK and around the world. The World Development Movement tackles the underlying causes ...
• 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 Federetion of UNESCO Clubs, Centres and Associations
  The WFUCA provides general co-ordination services and encourages active co-operation among National Federations through interregional and subregional programes. It is very important in educating citizens and contributes to dialogue between cultures and gen ...
• 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 ...
• Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action
  YUVA is a development organisation that aims to work with and in the interest of the oppressed majority, empowering them, individually and collectively to defend, promote, restore, and create, civil, political, social, economic and cultural rights to which ...
• Yunus, Muhammad
  Dr. Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi banker and economist. He is famous for his successful application of the concept of microcredit, the extension of small loans to entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans. Yunus is also the founder of ...

Meetings

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• 2005 World Summit
  The 2005 World Summit represented an oportunity to take decisions in the areas of development, security, human rights and the reform of the United Nations. The agenda was based on a attainable system of skirted suppliers in march by Secretary General Kofi ...
• 2006 Spring Meetings International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group
  Each Spring, the IMF's International Monetary and Financial Committee and the joint World Bank-IMF Development Committee hold meetings to discuss progress on the work of the Fund and Bank. Plenary sessions of the IMF. The subjects treated in this meeting w ...
• 2006 Annual Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group.
  The Annual Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Group are the largest and most comprehensive gathering of global financial representatives in the world, and are held outside their Washington, D.C. base ...
• CIVICUS World Assembly, 7th
  The 2007 CIVICUS World Assembly, which was the second of the Glasgow series, was held from 23-27 May, 2007. Some 745 delegates attended from over 119 countries around the world. This was a definite increase from the number of countries recorded at the 2006 ...
• GCAP Beirut Global Meeting 2006
  The global GCAP meeting in Beirut was celebrated with about 175 representatives from all over the world. Various evaluation work was commissioned of GCAP’s external impacts, websites, finances and a questionnaire survey about the future of GCAP was condu ...
• GCAP Montevideo Global Meeting 2007
  The Global Call to Action Against Poverty reached at Montevideo's commitment to extend its campaign until 2015 and to focus on reasons why more than 1,000 million people live as destitute on the planet. The decision by the 150 leaders gathered at the Urugu ...
• ICPD at 10
  The 10th Anniversary of the ICPD, in 2004, marked the mid-point of its 20-year Programme of Action. This offered an opportunity to reflect on progress to date and take stock of challenges ahead. Towards this end, UNFPA conducted an in-depth, country-by-co ...
• ICPD+5
  Progress and challenges in the first five years of implementing the Cairo agreement were the focus of a series of meetings leading up to special session of the United Nations General Assembly (ICPD+5) in June 1999. The session identified four key actions: ...
• International Conference on Population and Development (ICDP)
  At the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, 179 countries agreed that population and development are inextricably linked, and that empowering women and meeting people's needs for education and health, including repro ...
• International conference on “Solidarity and Globalization: innovative financing for development and against pandemics”
  The purpose of this meeting is to strengthen the consensus on the need to implement new development financing mechanisms(particularly international solidarity contributions), to enrich ongoing projects (especially the air-ticket solidarity levy), to start ...
• International People's Forum vs the World Bank and IMF
  In September 2006, the IMF and the World Bank organised their Annual Meeting in Singapore on September 19-20. In the spirit of resistance to neoliberal policies and in keeping with the history of people's struggles worldwide against economic domination, ...
• Kyoto Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC, third
  Kyoto Protocol was adopted at COP 3 in Kyoto, Japan, on 11 December 1997. The complexity of the negotiations, however, meant that considerable “unfinished business” remained even after the Kyoto Protocol itself was adopted. The Protocol sketched out the ba ...
• Mediterranean Social Forum
  The Social Forum of Mediterranean was born in Barcelona, inspired by the Charter of Principles of the WSF. Its aim is to become a workspace plural cross, open to the different sensitivities, cultures, religions and peoples, to become an area of regional co ...
• Millenium Summit
  189 Member States agreed to help the world's poorest countries significantly progress towards a better life for their people by the year 2015. A framework for progress consisting of eight Millennium Development Goals was derived from the Millennium 2005 Wo ...
• Social Summit +5
  United Nations member countries made a new commitment to eradicate poverty, address unemployment and promote social integration. They also agreed on a range of new initiatives for social development. Besides the measures being taken by Governments at the n ...
• UN Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II)
  The purpose of the second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) is to address two themes of equal global importance: "Adequate shelter for all" and "Sustainable human settlements development in an urbanizing world". Human beings are a ...
• United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED)
  The main issues were the ernviroment and sustainable development. Follow-up mechanisms:Commission on Sustainable Development; Inter-agency Committee on Sustainable Development; High-level Advisory Board on Sustainable Development
• Universal Forum of Cultures Barcelona 2004
  The Forum was an event that brought together the various agents that comprise civil society. The Forum promoted dialogue with the aim of building a legacy at both local and international level. Three main themes defined the Forum: Cultural diversity, susta ...
• Women 2000: Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the 21st century, Special Session of the General Assembly
  The main issues were: peace, gender equality and development.
• World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance
  Main issues: Racism, Intolerance, refuges, protection of minorities, migrants, ethnic conflicts Follow-up mechanisms:Working Group on the effective implementation of the Durban Declaration
• World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace, the 4th
  Main issues: The advancement and empowerment of women in relation to women's human rights, women and poverty, women and decision-making, the girl-child, violence againts women and other ares of concern. Follow-up mechanisms: Beinjing+5
• World Social Forum 2001
  The World Social Forum is an open meeting place where social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organizations opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital or by any form of imperialism come together to pursue their thinking, to ...
• World Social Forum 2002
  The second edition of the World Social Forum exceeded many respects expectations both by the number of attendees for the plurality of discussions and the large number of initiatives to implement alternatives to neoliberal globalization model imposed today ...
• World Social Forum 2003
  The WSF 2003 brought together about 100 thousand people from all over the world. About 20 thousand delegates from 123 countries participated on the event. The core of the activities organized were included an amount of 10 conferences, 22 testimonials, 4 di ...
• World Social Forum 2005
  In 2005 the world edition of WSF came back to Porto Alegre. It was formed a Brazilian Organizing Committee comprised by 23 organizations, subdivided into eight open WGs (Work Groups). The new methodology approved by the International Council in April 2004 ...
• World Social Forum 2006
  The WSF 6th edition was decentralized. It was held in different places around the world : Bamako (Mali), Caracas (Venezuela) and Karachi (Pakistan). The Bamako event took place from January 19th to 23rd, 2006. The event in Caracas took place from January 2 ...
• World Social Forum 2007
  The first WSF world on the African continent was conducted in Nairobi, Kenya. About 75 thousand participants attended the WSF 2007 and it held 1.300 different kind of activities: self-organised, co-organised, cultural, film and youth. The methodology of c ...
• World Summit for Children
  Goals for the year 2000 for children's health, nutrition, education, and access to safe water and sanitation Mid-decade review, with Secretary-General's progress report presented at the 1996 General Assembly session on the anniversary of the Children's Sum ...
• World Summit for Social Development (WSSD)
  Social development with three core issues: eradication of poverty, expansion of productive employment and reduction of unemployment, and social integration Since the Summit in 1995, the General Assembly has annually considered the issue of implementation o ...
• World Summit on Sustainable Development
  Also known as RIO+10. It focus the world's attention and direct action toward meeting difficult challenges, including improving people's lives and conserving our natural resources in a world that is growing in population, with ever-increasing demands for f ...
• WTO Ministerial Conference, 1st
  This was the first Ministerial Conference after the WTO creation in 1995. Its main issues were the famous "Singapore issues", refering to four working groups: investment protection, competition policy, transparency in government procurement and trade facil ...
• WTO Ministerial Conference, 3rd
  The Seattle Ministerial Confference wanted to launch a new round of trade negotiations, but it had to be postponed becuse of the street protests. The main issues were agriculture, services and how entry into the WTO the new members.
• WTO Ministerial Conference, 4th
  Also known as The Development Round. It was held after September 11th attacks. Main Issues: agriculture and services, related aspects of intellectual property rights, electronic comerce, least-developed countries, trade and environment, aid for trade and ...
• WTO Ministerial Conference, 5th
  The Cancún meeting’s special task was to take stock of progress in the [Doha Development Agenda] negotiations, provide any necessary political guidance and take decisions as necessary. It failed because of the opposition of the least developed countries t ...