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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 ...
• Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World
  The Alliance is an informal network made of people, institutions and movements that are conscious of the complexity of contemporary problems and seek to find the necessary mutations so that we can together act on the future. This network thereby creates a ...
• 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 ...
• 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 the Prevention of Torture
  The Association for the Prevention of Torture is an independent NGO based in Geneva, operating globally to prevent torture and other ill-treatment. It was founded by a Swiss banker and lawyer, Jean-Jacques Gautier, in 1977. Its primary objective is to prev ...
• 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.
• Càtedra UNESCO en Tecnologia Desenvolupament Sostenible, Desequilibris i Canvi Global
  L’objectiu principal d’aquesta Càtedra UNESCO és convertir-se en un espai interdisciplinari, crític, reflexiu i obert que contribueixi a reorientar la tecnologia cap al desenvolupament sostenible, a reduir els desequilibris i a enfortir la diversitat.
• 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 ...
• 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 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Farhmau
  Fahamu has a vision of the world where people organise to emancipate themselves from all forms of oppression, recognise their social responsibilities, respect each other’s differences, and realise their full potential. They focuses primarily on Africa, alt ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Global March Against Child Labour
  Global March Against Child Labour is a movement borne out of hope and the need felt by thousands of people across the globe - the desire to set children free from servitude. Global March movement began with a worldwide march when thousands of people march ...
• Global Movement for Children
  The GMC is a movement of organisations and people who try to build a world fit for children. For them everyone has to play their part, from governments, to organisations and individuals. They are offered to all who stand for the rights of children, as mean ...
• Global Policy Forum
  Global Policy Forum monitors policy making at the United Nations, promotes accountability of global decisions, educates and mobilizes for global citizen participation, and advocates on vital issues of international peace and justice. GPF was founded in 199 ...
• Global Policy Network
  The Global Policy Network (GPN) consists of policy and research institutions connected to the world's trade union movements. GPN's work reflects a concern with the economic, social, and political conditions of working people in both developing and develope ...
• Global Witness
  Global Witness exposes the corrupt exploitation of natural resources and the international trade systems, to drive campaigns that end impunity, resource-linked conflict, and human rights and environmental abuses. Natural resources could be the key to endin ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Hague Appeal for Peace, The
  The Hague Appeal for Peace is an international network of individuals and organizations dedicated to sowing the seeds for the abolition of war through advocacy and training in peace education. HAP started in 1996 with the mission to organize the largest pe ...
• Health Global Access Project
  HGAP is an organization of U.S.-based AIDS and human rights activists, people living with HIV/AIDS, public health experts, fair trade advocates and concerned individuals who campaign against policies of neglect and avarice that deny treatment to millions a ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 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 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 Forum on Globalization
  The International Forum on Globalization (IFG) is an alliance of sixty leading activists, scholars, economists, researchers and writers formed to stimulate new thinking, joint activity, and public education in response to economic globalization. IFG was fo ...
• 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 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 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Khor, Martin
  Martin Khor is a journalist, economist and Director of the Third World Network.
• Küng, Hans
  Professor of Ecumenical Theology, University of Tübingen, President of the Foundation for a Global Ethic (Welethos).
• 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 ...
• 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 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Pugwash Conferences on World Affairs
  The purpose of the Pugwash Conferences is to bring together, from around the world, influential scholars and public figures concerned with reducing the danger of armed conflict and seeking cooperative solutions for global problems. Meeting in private as in ...
• 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 ...
• 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.
• Savio, Roberto
  Roberto Savio is the co-founder and general secretary of Media Watch Global. He is memeber of Inter Press Service.
• 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 ...
• 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.
• 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 ...
• 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 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 ...
• State of the World Forum
  State of the World Forum was founded in 1995 with the purpose of working with partners worldwide to gather together the creative genius on the planet in a search for solutions to critical global challenges. What has emerged is a community of committed indi ...
• 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 ...
• Strategy Group
  Just as clear was the recognition that no longer could military power alone deliver peace. Urgently needed were radically new approaches to peacebuilding – approaches which relied first on the peacebuilding capacities of citizens in local communities. The ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 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 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 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 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 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...

Meetings

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• 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, 3rd
  The following CIVICUS World Assembly took place in Manila in 1999, with the theme “Towards a New Civil Society: The Changing Roles of Civil Society Organisations, Business and Government”. Over 600 delegates from all sectors of society discussed the varied ...
• CIVICUS World Assembly, 4th
  In 2001, shortly after the “anti-globalisation” protests in Seattle, Genoa and Quebec City, the 4th CIVICUS World Assembly. This brought together over 730 people from 87 countries to reflect on “putting people at the centre,” and “the role of voluntary ac ...
• CIVICUS World Assembly, 6th
  Over 800 delegates from over 100 countries came to Glasgow to discuss the overarching theme "Acting Together for a Just World", with four sub-themes of political, social, economic and civic justice. 2006 marked the beginning of our new approach to the CIVI ...
• 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 ...
• 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, ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 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 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 ...

Documents

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• A Fair Deal for the World
  Publsihed at : The New York Review of Books. VOl. 49, number 9, may 23,2002 The author of Globalization and Its Discontents makes a review of the book "On Globalization" by George Soros.
• A Fair Globalization: Creating Opportunities for All
  The Report of the World Commission is a positive but critical message for changing the current path of globalization. It says that the potentials of globalization, in terms of growing connectivity and productive capacity, are immense. However, current syst ...
• A More Democratic UN... and a Stronger UN!
  The first Track of the Global Governance 2002 (G02) conference examinated issues related to the evolving role of the UN in global governance and policy options and strategies to strengthen collaboration beween the UN and civil society in democratizing glob ...
• Another Africa is possible: World Social Forum
  Tens of thousands of activists and advocates from around the globe gathered in Nairobi, Kenya for the seventh World Social Forum (WSF) in January. The rallying cry, “Another world is possible,” served as a catalyst for debate and mobilization: what might t ...
• Barack Obama's historic victory
  Richard Falk's article analizing the challenges that Barack Obama will face during his term.
• 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 ...
• Club of Athens Global Governance Group, The
  Is globalisation the best thing that has happened to humankind or a major threat to society? Why is the antiglobalisation movement growing both in density and intensity? Is the contemporary system of international governance up to the challenge of globalis ...
• Commission on Global Governance
  It focuses on global governance. It concludes by urging the international community to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations by beginning a determined process of rethinking and reform.
• Currency Transaction Tax, The. A bold idea for financing development
  Global problems require bold solutions and the Currency Transaction Tax (CTT) is one such innovative idea. It proposes a small levy on foreign exchange transactions, using the money raised to finance development projects for the global public good.
• Democratizing Global Governance
  Is globalization beyond human control? In this thought-provoking text, the myths and mantras of this apparently irresistible force are challenged and dissembled. By examining a number of fundamental questions, the contributors put forward a radical reform ...
• 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 ...
• Después de Porto Alegre
  Porto Alegre meeting and the movement against globalisation.
• En tiempos de crisis soluciones para la gente
  In times of crisis, global solutions are required in order to mitigate the effects that it has over the people.
• From a Global Market Place to Political Spaces
  This book is an outcome of the second phase of the process "A North-South Dialogue on Democracy and Globalization". The First part explains the background for the selection of initiatives and evaluators ; the second part constitutes of the four evaluation ...
• 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 democratic governance and the reform of International Institutions
  Paper centered on the Reform of the International Institutions, UN, IFI's and WTO.
• Global Governance and the Changing Face of International Law
  Adaptation, flexibility and change are not words that many seem to associate with international law. As a result, the preposition that international law is a factor for change in international affairs appears unrealistic. For the author international law i ...
• 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. ...
• Globalisation and Its Discontents
  Review of this powerful, unsettling book which gives us a rare glimpse behind the closed doors of global financial institutions by the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics. When it was first published, this national bestseller quickly became a touc ...
• Globalization and Governance
  The following remarks were made by Gordon Smith to the 2001 annual meeting of the Trilateral Commission in London. Gordon Smith is Director of the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria and former Canadian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affair ...
• 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 ...
• Initiatives for Global Democratization
  NIGD and the Finnish Ministry for Foreing Affairs launched the North-South Dialogues- process in spring 2001. The process was set to develop new ideas about democratizing globalization and to evaluate these ideas and a number of other prominent political i ...
• Israel,... no oprimas a tu hermano, estas sembrando vientos y tempestades
  ¿Israel, hasta cuándo continuarás oprimiendo a tus hermanos? ¿Hasta cuándo continuarás sembrando la muerte, torturas y justificando lo injustificable para destruir al pueblo palestino? ¿Tienes la respuesta, o sólo escuchas la sordera de tu propia voz? Lo ...
• Logic of Globalisation: Tensions and Governability
  After two decades of implementation of deep economic reforms such as the opening of the economy and the economic integration within a "global economy", a significant group of nations - specially those at the periphery of capitalism - has shown poor per cap ...
• New capitalism?
  Article written by Federico Mayor Zaragoza, José Saramago, Roberto Savio, Francisco Altemir, Jose Vidal-Beneyto y Mario Soares about the financial crisis and the solutions that have been presented.
• New Global Brahmanism and the Meaning of the WTO
  Dr. Vandana Shiva explains to Rebecca Gordon and Bob Wing why globalisation and free trade are new forms of colonialism and how it affects people of color around the world. The interview was conducted on March 4, 2000.
• Nou capitalisme?
  Article written by Federico Mayor Zaragoza, José Saramago, Roberto Savio, Francisco Altemir, Jose Vidal-Beneyto y Mario Soares about the financial crisis and the solutions that have been presented.
• Other axis of evil, The
  We need to be aware that neo-liberal globalisation is attacking the social order on three fronts. The economic front is the most important since it affects all humanity. It is presided over by the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World T ...
• Our Global Neighbourhood
  As we approach tne next century, a new world is taking shape. This world presents new dangers, new problems, and new challenges. BUt it also offers the real hope of creating a safer and more equitable era. The future is now in our hands. This bool points ...
• Political Initiatives to Democratize Globalization
  The Department for International Development Cooperation, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Finland proposed to hold this workshop on North- South Dialogue on Democracy and Globalization in Helsinki on 19-20 June 2001. The implementing agency for the works ...
• Proposal to reform the system of international institutions. Future scenarios
  Paper drafted by the Ubuntu forum ad hoc secretariat and John Foster on the occasion of the Seminar on future scenarios for the reform of the System of International Institutions which took place in Barcelona on 12 and 13 March 2004, under the framework of ...
• Reform of International institutions, The
  Federico Mayor Zaragoza's article. "We must dare to seek alternative solutions and new ways of managing and responding to the challenges that face the world. Being different is our wealth, acting together our strength".
• Reinventing UNCTAD
  The paper highlights the role and influence of UNCTAD in global economy governance and stresses its continuing relevance and the importance of revitalizing UNCTAD's work so as to bring it once again to the forefront of multilateral efforts to deal with the ...
• Some Issues and Priorities in Building Democratic Global Governance and Institutions
  The world is getting more and more "globalised". The integration is taking place economically, as more countries are getting more "integrated" in the world economy through finance, investment and trade. Culturally, global integration is also taking place t ...
• 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 ...
• Summary of proposals to Reform the System of International Institutions
  The aim of this paper, which gathers some of the most important proposals made to reform the system of international isntitutions, is to form a starting point for reflection on these issues.
• Toward Understanding Global Governance
  Since 1991, The Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) and the American SOciety of International Law (ASIL) have annually co-sponsored a two-week workshop on international organizations for scholars and practicioners, which purposes are : to ...
• Towards a new International Financial Architecture
  Statement submitted by the European Network on Finance and Development, presenting some proposals to disminish the impact of the financial crises.
• Un nouveau capitalisme?
  Article written by Federico Mayor Zaragoza, José Saramago, Roberto Savio, Francisco Altemir, Jose Vidal-Beneyto y Mario Soares about the financial crisis and the solutions that have been presented.
• 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 ...
• What is the role of transnational civil society in the creation of a cosmopolitan democracy?
  Globalization has rendered the Westphalian model of diplomacy and politics obsolete. Governments are increasingly losing its sovereignity in the sense that other actors are consistently bypassing their authority in itnernational transactions. As a result, ...
• 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 ...
• Winners and Losers: Impact of the Doha Round on Developing Countries
  Winners and Losers: Impact of the Doha Round on Developing Countries presents a new, path breaking model of global trade as a tool to analyze the potential impacts of the negotiations and underlying economic interests of the WTO’s diverse members. This ne ...
• World Democratic Governance
  Almost 20 years after the "Washington Consensus", and nearly 10 years after the fall of the "Berlin Wall", the system of international instituttions has become polarised, split into two branches. On the one hand there is UN, on the other are the economic, ...
• ¿Nuevo capitalismo?
  Article written by Federico Mayor Zaragoza, José Saramago, Roberto Savio, Francisco Altemir, Jose Vidal-Beneyto y Mario Soares about the financial crisis and the solutions that have been presented.

Campaigns

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• Acces to Essential Medicines
  The MSF Access to Essential Medicines Campaign is pushing to increase access to specific medicines. As a medical humanitarian organization, it is fundamentally unacceptable to MSF that access to essential medicines is increasingly impossible, particularly ...
• Act for Special Procedures: A Global Petition
  Act for Special Procedures: A Global Petition is launched for several organizations in support to the system of independent experts of the UN Human Rights Council, known as the Special Procedures. These are the special rapporteurs and representatives, inde ...
• Beijing + 10
  The ten-year global review, dubbed Beijing +10, will be held during the 49th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women in March 2005. The session will assess governments’ efforts to implement the original action plan as well as the Beijing +5 Pol ...
• Binding Triad System for Global Decision Making
  The CW/PS has developed the Binding Triad because the present international decision-making system is obsolete. With the Binding Triad concept the UN General Assembly would be transformed into a genuine global legislature. Its decisions would require major ...
• 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 ...
• Debtchannel.org Campaigns
  DebtChannel.org is a portal with global content for a global audience. It brings together stories and information from around the world in the most comprehensive collection of material on debt on the entire web. It is a single way-in to the issue, cutting ...