Actors

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• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Coordinadora Catalana de Fundacions
  The Coordinadora Catalana de Fundacions [Catalan Coordinator of Foundations] was founded in 1978 by virtue of the drive and enthusiasm of civil society. And this selfsame spirit, albeit constantly renewed, has led it to work untiringly to strengthen and pr ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• International Federation of the Red Cross
  The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is the world's largest humanitarian organization, providing assistance without discrimination as to nationality, race, religious beliefs, class or political opinions. Founded in 1919, the ...
• International 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Physicians for Human Rights
  Physicians for Human Rights mobilizes health professionals to advance health, dignity, and justice and promotes the right to health for all. Harnessing the specialized skills, rigor, and passion of doctors, nurses, public health specialists, and scientists ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Women's Environment & Development Organization
  WEDO is an international organization that advocates for women’s equality in global policy. It seeks to empower women as decision makers to achieve economic, social and gender justice, a healthy, peaceful planet and human rights for all.
• World AIDS Campaign
  The goal of the World AIDS Campaign (WAC) is to energize and support an effective and sustained response to the HIV pandemic. By helping partners work together at national and international levels, they will broaden the partnership among those shaping the ...
• World Civil Society Forum
  The project of the World Civil Society Forum was conceived initially during the Millennium Forum on UN reforms (May 2000, New York), which recalled the desire of the United Nations to work closely with civil society in its activities, as well as the reques ...

Meetings

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• CIVICUS World Assembly, 5th
  The 5th CIVICUS World Assembly took place in Gaborone, Botswana at the end of March 2004, introducing the theme ‘Acting Together for a Just World’. Over 700 delegates from 105 countries gathered to discuss the issues of civic, economic, social and politic ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 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 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 ...

Documents

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• 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 ...
• ICPD+5: Key Actions for the Further Implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action
  In 1999, the UN General Assembly convened a special session, ICPD+5, to review progress towards meeting the ICPD goals. The review revealed that greater urgency was needed to achieve the Programme of Action, especially in the areas of education and literac ...
• 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 ...

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 ...
• Funding for AIDS
  The Bush Administration refuses to spend the amount of money needed to fight AIDS in impoverished countries and right here at home. Current funding levels for global and local AIDS treatment programs are shamefully low. The Senate is debating the fiscal ye ...
• Global AIDS Week
  Taking place during the week of 20-26 May 2007, the Week of Action is a chance to raise awareness of the perspectives and priorities of people living with HIV&AIDS in countries across the globe.
• Human Resources for Health
  The critical shortage of health care workers and weak health systems is the key bottleneck to scaling up access to AIDS treatment. Sustained commitment and creative action are necessary to develop and support the health workforce needed to secure the right ...
• Hunger Free
  The ActionAid HungerFREE campaign seeks to push the issue of hunger to the top of the political agenda of all governments. The Right to Food has been sidelined for too long!
• Netaid World Schoolhouse
  Netaid World Schoolhouse is a campaign whose intention is to educate children to fight against global poverty. They give to the communities the tools and opportunities to build healthy prosperous future through education. They put children living in povert ...
• Patents and Medicine
  Health GAP has witnessed and been a part of an enormous mobilization of attention on the impact of patent monopolies on access to affordable HIV/AIDS medicines. While prices for the first-generation of AIDS drugs have gone down for some because of generic ...
• 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 ...
• President's Emergency Plan for AIDS
  The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) contains policies on prevention driven by ideological motivations which completely ignore scientifically proven methods. The Bush administration has tied PEPFAR funding to strict requirements such as ...
• U.S. Free Trade Agreements
  On November 4, 2002, United States Trade Representative Robert B. Zoellick formally notified Congressional leaders of the Administration's intent to initiate negotiations for a free trade agreement with the nations of the South African Customs Union: Botsw ...
• Water for Schools Campaign
  The Water for Schools Campaign aims to bring together a network of organizations and partners that deliver safe water and sanitation to schools and assist in bringing basic water and hygiene education to teachers. Its target is to provide all schools with ...

Agenda

Resources

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