Actors

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• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 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.
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Cousteau Society
  Cousteau Society's mission is to educate people to understand, to love and to protect the water systems of the planet, marin and fresh water, for the well-being of future generations.
• Cousteau Triplet, Francine
  Francine Triplet Cousteau is the current President of the non-profit organization Cousteau Society. Francine Cousteau is the widow of the famous oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau, who died in 1997.
• 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 ...
• EarthAction
  The interrelated global problems of environmental degradation, poverty, war and the abuse of human rights threaten the future of everyone on earth. Yet most governments and corporations continue with business as usual, as if they haven't noticed. We have t ...
• 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 Latinoamericano de Ciencias Ambientales
  En 1988 la Fundación CEPA (Centro de Estudios y Proyectación el Ambiente) concibió la idea de desarrollar los lazos científicos y formativos que desde 1980 mantenía con otras ONGs del Cono Sur (TEA de Uruguay, UEA de Brasil, Altervida de Paraguay y Ser de ...
• 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 ...
• Global Witness
  Global Witness exposes the corrupt exploitation of natural resources and the international trade systems, to drive campaigns that end impunity, resource-linked conflict, and human rights and environmental abuses. Natural resources could be the key to endin ...
• Grassroots International
  Grassroots is a human rights and international development organization that supports community-led sustainable development projects. Since 1983 it have worked in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, concentrating their efforts in areas where U ...
• Green Cross International
  Green Cross International was founded by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1993, building on the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and Agenda 21. Green Cross is a non-governmental, non-profit organization. Our mission is to help create a sustainable future by cultiva ...
• Greenpeace
  Greenpeace is a non-profit organisation, with a presence in 40 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific. As a global organisation, Greenpeace focuses on the most crucial worldwide threats to our planet's biodiversity and environment. Gre ...
• Henderson, Hazel
  Hazel Henderson was born in 1933 in Bristol, England. She is a futurist and evolutionary economist. She has been in good part concerned with finding the unexplored areas in standard economics and the "blind spots" of conventional economists. Most of her wo ...
• Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
  The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy promotes resilient family farms, rural communities and ecosystems around the world through research and education, science and technology, and advocacy. In the mid-1980s, family farmers across America were in ...
• Institute for Global Communications
  Beginning in 1987, the Institute for Global Communications (IGC) played a formative role in bringing advanced communications technologies to grassroots organizations worldwide working for peace, human rights, environmental sustainability, women's rights, c ...
• 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 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 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Montreal International Forum
  The Montreal International Forum (FIM) was established in 1998 as an international NGO think tank with the goal of improving the influence of international civil society on the United Nations and the multilateral system. FIM believes that through strengthe ...
• Najam, Adil
  Professor Najam specializes in negotiation analysis to study global cooperation for sustainable development with a particular focus on developing countries and non-state institutions. His research and writing focuses on the links between environment and de ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology
  RFSTE was founded in Dehra Dun, Uttar Pradesh (INDIA) in 1982 by Dr. Vandana Shiva. It works on biodiversity conservation and protecting people's rights from threats to their livelihoods and environment by centralised systems of monoculture in forestry, ag ...
• 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.
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Trade Justice Movement
  The Trade Justice Movement is a fast growing group of organisations including trade unions, aid agencies, environment and human rights campaigns, fairtrade organisations, faith and consumer groups. The movement is supported by more than 80 member organisat ...
• TRANSCEND
  To work for peace is to work against violence; by analyzing its forms and causes, predicting in order to prevent, and then act preventively and curatively since peace relates to violence like health relates to illness. Particularly important is genocide, o ...
• Transnational 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 ...
• Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
  UPC wishes to train good professionals which contribute to society progress as committed citizens with the environment, with the sustainability, with the solidarity amongst villages and to build upon a peace culture.
• Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation
  The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) is a democratic, international membership organization. Its members are indigenous peoples, occupied nations, minorities and independent states or territories who have joined together to protect the ...
• Women's Environment & Development Organization
  WEDO is an international organization that advocates for women’s equality in global policy. It seeks to empower women as decision makers to achieve economic, social and gender justice, a healthy, peaceful planet and human rights for all.
• World Civil Society Forum
  The project of the World Civil Society Forum was conceived initially during the Millennium Forum on UN reforms (May 2000, New York), which recalled the desire of the United Nations to work closely with civil society in its activities, as well as the reques ...
• World Conservation Union
  IUCN builds bridges between governments and NGOs, science and society, local action and global policy. It is truly a world force for environmental governance.IUCN'n mission is to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve th ...
• 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 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 ...
• Worldwatch Institute
  Founded by Lester Brown in 1974, the Worldwatch Institute offers a unique blend of interdisciplinary research, global focus, and accessible writing that has made it a leading source of information on the interactions among key environmental, social, and ec ...

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 ...
• CIVICUS World Assembly, 2nd
  In 1997, the CIVICUS World Assembly moved to Budapest, Hungary, attracting more than 500 people from 76 countries and six continents. Participants reviewed CIVICUS’ activities and immersed themselves in issues around visibility, resource mobilisation and ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Universal Forum of Cultures Monterrey 2007
  The city of Monterrey (Mexico) held the Universal Forum of Cultures on 2007. On this occasion, the Forum promotes thinking and methods of problem solving in order to address global issues such as peace, education, knowledge and ecological conservation, amo ...
• 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 2004
  In 2004, for the very first time the World Social forum took place outside Brazil. The decision was taken by the International Council as part of the process of promoting the WSF actual internationalization. The WSF 2004 counted on the presence of 74.126 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...

Documents

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• 2005 World Summit Outcome
  The Heads of State and the Government, reunited in New York from the 14th to the 16th of September 2005, solved to create a more pacific world, more prosperous and democratic and to undertake concrete measures to find ways to execute Millennium Summit and ...
• 60th Annual DPI/NGO Final Declaration. Climate change threats- an NGO Framework for Action
  The 60th Annual DPI/NGO Conference has taken place at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 5 to 7 September 2007. More than 2,000 representatives of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) from over 80 countries have attended roundtables, panels and ...
• Case Against GEO, WEO, or whatever-else-EO
  The premise of this essay is that current debate about global environmental governance with its dominant focus on establishing a super-organization for the environment, represents a serious misdiagnosis of the issues, is patently unfair to the United Natio ...
• Democracy's Edges
  Democracy has been a flawed hegemon since the fall of communism. Its flexibility, its commitment to equality of representation, and its recognition of the legitimacy of opposition politics, are all positive features for political institutions. But democrac ...
• Designing a New Architecture for Global Environmental Governance
  The process of globalisation in the last decade has pointed to the increasing interdependance of the economies of the world and citizens of all nations. It has led to a growing recognition that countries need to find ways to work toghether to tackle shared ...
• Future belongs to all, The
  The Conference on the topic “From Global Warning to Global Policy” was convened by the World Political Forum and the Club of Rome and chaired by President Mikhail Gorbachev in Turin on March 28-29 2008. It gathered representatives from parliaments and othe ...
• Global Governance Initiative : An initiative to improve the state of the world
  The World Economic Forum has launched the Global Governance Initiative to monitor progress in the global effort to implement the ambitious social, economic and environmental goals set forth in the United Nations Millennium Declaration and other documents. ...
• Going public. Southern solutions to the global water crisis
  "Going Public: Southern solutions to the global water crisis" sets out a new vision for public water services. The report features public water experts from Brazil, Cambodia, India and Uganda, describing the successes they have had in connecting the poor t ...
• Kyoto Protocol Status of Ratification
  As of 6 April 2005, 148 states and regional economic integration organizations have deposited instruments of ratifications, accessions, approvals or acceptances. This document contains the latest information concerning dates of signature and ratification r ...
• Message on World Water Day
  Nowadays, about 700 million in 43 countries suffer from waters scarcity, and by 2025 this figure could increase to more than 3 billion people.The state of the world’s waters remains fragile, and the need for an integrated and sustainable approach to water ...
• Misión: La Tierra
  In the application of "Misión, la Tierra," it would constitute a priority accepted by all citizens of the world to refound United Nations so that all could be interlocutors of a new dialogue to establish the necessary "contracts" to appropriately confront ...
• Statement by June Zeitlin, WEDO, at the Informal Thematic Debate: Climate Change as a Global Challenge
  Climate change is indeed a global challenge. I would like to take a moment to put a human face on the impact of climate change—particularly a woman’s face—and highlight how women have been adapting to climate change in their communities before scientists g ...
• Time for Action
  Federico Mayor Zaragoza's article published in El País in December 2007.
• Under the influence. How the International Financial Institutions fund deforestation in Asia Pacific
  In this report Jubilee Australia explores the links between International Financial Instituttions, deforestation and climate change.
• United Nations Millennium Declaration
  In 2000, 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 Millenniu ...
• We the Peoples
  This report provides a "snapshot" of civil society enganging with the United Nations Millenium Declaration. The implementation of the Millenium Declaration and its development Goals provides fertile ground for deeper ongoing collaboration between the UN an ...
• Why we Don't need a new International Environmental Organization
  The premise of this essay is that the current debate about global environmental governance with its dominant focus on establishing a super-organization for the environment, represents a serious misdiagnosis of the issues, is patently unfair to the United N ...

Campaigns

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• Campagna per la Riforma della Banca Mondiale
  The CRBM began its activities in 1996, promoted by the Cracovia International Center of Rome, with the aid of 41 Ong of the development and defense of the human rights, environmental associations and the movements of base of the Italian civil society. The ...
• Climate Change
  For more than a century, people have relied on fossil fuels such as oil, coal and gas for their energy needs. Now, worldwide, people and the environment are experiencing the consequences. Global warming, caused by burning fossil fuels, is the worst environ ...
• Global Transparency Iniciative
  The Global Transparency Initiative (GTI) is a network of civil society organisations promoting openness in the International Financial Institutions (IFIs), such as the World Bank, the IMF, the European Investment Bank and Regional Development Banks. The GT ...
• International Campaign to Ban Landmines
  The International Campaign to Ban Landmines is committed to an international ban on the use, production, stockpiling, and sale, transfer, or export of antipersonnel landmines. The campaign, a global network of organisations working to eradicate antipersonn ...
• Plant a Tree Campaign
  The global campaign "Plant a Tree for Peace," celebrating Nobel Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai and commemorating International Human Rights Day, was launched on November 19, 2004 to make the connection between the environment, peace, human rights and gende ...
• Prou OMC
  Campaign of mobilization against the Ministerial Conference of the WTO in Cancún (2003). The WTO is a key actor in the process of capitalist globalización. The WTO is an organism that groups to 144 states of all the world and that takes care to establish a ...
• Tobin Tax Initiative
  Our goal is to increase a national dialogue on the Tobin Tax proposal by raising awareness and education among grassroots organizations, opinion leaders, and policymakers in the United States. TTI-USA also acts in solidarity and cooperation with internatio ...

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