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  • 11.11.11- Coalition of the Flemish North-South Movement
    11.11.11 combines the efforts of 90 organizations and 375 committees of volunteers who work together to achieve one common goal:a fairer world without poverty. 11.11.11 was born on 11th November 1966 in which thousands of volunteers came out on the streets ...
  • 2008 Japan G8 Summit NGO Forum
    “2008 Japan G8 Summit NGO Forum” was formed in 31 January 2007, as a civil platform organized by Japanese NGOs’ broad coalition for 2008 G8 Summit in Toyako, Hokkaido. As of 31 July 2007, 101 NGOs are affiliated with the forum. These NGOs are working on th ...
  • 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 ...
  • African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies
    The Africa Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies was created due to the excesses of some African governments in the violation of Human Rights. Its main objective is is to give meaning to Article 25 of the African Charter, which requires States Part ...
  • AFRODAD
    AFRODAD is a civil society organisation born of a desire to secure lasting solutions to Africa's mounting debt problem which has impacted negatively on the continent's development process. AFRODAD aspires for an equitable and sustainable development proce ...
  • AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa
    The AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA) is a regional alliance of fourteen non-governmental organisations working together to promote and build capacity around a human rights based response to HIV/AIDS in the Southern African Development C ...
  • An-Na'im, Abdullahi
    Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im (from Sudan) is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory Law School. An internationally recognized scholar of Islam and human rights, and human rights in cross-cultural perspectives.
  • Annan, Kofi
    Kofi Annan of Ghana is the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations. The first Secretary-General to be elected from the ranks of United Nations staff, he began his first term on 1 January 1997. On 29 June 2001, acting on a recommendation by the Secu ...
  • Austrian EU-Platform of Non-Governmental Development Organisations
    The Austrian EU-platform of non-governmental development is a democratic and pluralistic association of organisations active in development cooperation, humanitarian aid as well as development education and awareness raising. The Austrian Platform represen ...
  • CARE International
    CARE is a united force dedicated to helping the world's poorest communities solve their most threatening problems. CARE is the humanitarian organization fighting global poverty.
  • Caritas Internationalis
    Caritas Internationalis is a confederation of 162 Catholic relief, development and social service organisations working to build a better world, especially for the poor and oppressed, in over 200 countries and territories. Caritas works without regard to c ...
  • Center 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 ...
  • 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.
  • Communità di Sant'Egidio
    The Community of Sant'Egidio began in Rome in 1968, in the period following the Second Vatican Council. Today it is a movement of lay people and has more than 50,000 members, dedicated to evangelisation and charity, in Rome, Italy and in more than 70 count ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • EURODAD
    EURODAD is a network of 48 development non-governmental organisations from 15 European countries working for national economic and international financing policies that achieve poverty eradication and the empowerment of the poor. By coordinating their know ...
  • European Anti-Poverty Network
    EAPN is a representative network of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and groups involved in the fight against poverty and social exclusion in the Member States of the European Union.
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • France Libertés - Fondation Danielle Mitterrand
    Danielle Mitterrand's foundation takes action on the following issues: water access and recognition as a common good, education, social responsibility on economy and democratic practices.
  • Franciscans International
    Franciscans International is a NGO with General Consultative status at the UN, uniting the voices of Franciscan brothers and sisters from around the world. We serve all Franciscans and the global community by bringing spiritual, ethical, and Franciscan val ...
  • 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 ...
  • Grameen Bank
    GB provides credit to the poorest of the poor in rural Bangladesh, without any collateral. At GB, credit is a cost effective weapon to fight poverty and it serves as a catalyst in the over all development of socio-economic conditions of the poor who have b ...
  • Grzybowski, Candido
    Candido Grzybowski is a sociologist, director of Instituto Brasileño de Análisis Social y Económico (IBASE) and member of the international secretariat of the World Social Forum.
  • 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 ...
  • InterAction
    InterAction is the largest alliance of U.S.-based international development and humanitarian nongovernmental organizations. With more than 160 members operating in every developing country, we work to overcome poverty, exclusion and suffering by advancing ...
  • 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 Debt Observatory
    The International Debt Observatory is born under the impulse of the Committee for the abolition of the Third World Debt (CADTM) and of the Left-wing Economists (EDI, Argentina) on January 28th, 2005 at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The In ...
  • 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 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 NGO Forum on Indonesian Development
    INFID is an open and pluralistic network of NGOs from Indonesia and various memeber countries of the Consultative Group for Indonesia as well as of international organizations and individuals with an interest in and commitment to Indonesia. INFID endeavors ...
  • International 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 ...
  • Mayor Zaragoza, Federico
    Federico Mayor Zaragoza is a Spanish scholar and politician. He served as Director-General of UNESCO from 1987 to 1999. During his 12 years as head of UNESCO (1987–1999) Mayor gave new life to the organization's mission to "build a bastion of peace in the ...
  • MOCASE-Vía Campesina
    MOCASE (Movimiento Campesino de Santiago del Estero) is a social movement born 16 years ago to defence the ownership of the lands. Nowadays they fight against the removal from their lands, soyabean monoculture and the Agrarian Reform.
  • 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 ...
  • NETAID
    Netaid seeks to educate young people to fight global poverty. They want to create a youth movement that understands the root causes of poverty and fights to end it.
  • New Rules for Global Finance Coalition
    New Rules for Global Finance is a coalition of development, human rights, labour, environmental, and religious organizations and scholars dedicated to the reform of the global financial architecture in order to stabilize the world economy, reduce poverty a ...
  • North-South Institute
    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 ...
  • Norwegian Church Aid
    Norwegian Church Aid is a non-governmental and ecumenical organisation that works to ensure the individual's basic rights. Anchored in the Christian faith, NCA supports the poorest of the poor, regardless of gender, political conviction, religious affiliat ...
  • Oikos
    Stichting Oikos is an ecumenical non-governmental organisation. Their main focus is on stimulating processes of change in the Netherlands, and their main target group is Dutch society. Oikos aim to achieve this by making changes in the Western world, which ...
  • One World Trust
    The One World Trust is an NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. The Trust was founded in 1951 by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for World Government. The One World Trust promotes education and re ...
  • Our World Is Not For Sale
    The “Our World is not for Sale” network is a loose grouping of organizations, activists and social movements worldwide fighting the current model of corporate globalization embodied in global trading system. OWINFS is committed to a sustainable, socially j ...
  • Overseas Development Institute
    ODI is Britain's leading independent think-tank on international development and humanitarian issues. ODI's mission is to inspire and inform policy and practice which lead to the reduction of poverty, the alleviation of suffering and the achievement of sus ...
  • Oxfam International
    Oxfam International is a confederation of 12 organizations working together with over 3000 partners in more than 100 countries to find lasting solutions to poverty, suffering and injustice. With many of the causes of poverty global in nature, the 12 affili ...
  • Pan-African Treatment Access Movement
    PATAM is a social movement comprised of individuals and organisations dedicated to mobilizing communities, political leaders, and all sectors of society to ensure access to antiretroviral (ARV) treatment, as a fundamental part of comprehensive care for all ...
  • Partners In Health
    Partners In Health was formally founded in 1987. PIH co-founders had been working in the area for years. The Clinic Bon Sauveur was just the first project designed to address the health care needs of the residents of the poorest area in Haiti. Since the ...
  • People's Food Sovereignty
    Food and agriculture are fundamental to all peoples, in terms of both production and availability of sufficient quantities of safe and healthy food, and as foundations of healthy communities, cultures and environments. All of these are being undermined by ...
  • Pérez Esquivel, Adolfo
    Adolfo Pérez Esquivel was born in Buenos Aires in 1931. After training as an architect and sculptor he was appointed Professor of Architecture. In 1974 he relinquished his teaching post in order to devote all his time and energy to the work of co-ordinatin ...
  • Reality of aid network
    The Reality of Aid project is the only major north/south international non-governmental initiative focusing exclusively on analysis and lobbying for poverty eradication policies and practices in the international aid regime.
  • Social Watch
    Social Watch is an international network informed by national citizens' groups aiming at following up the fulfillment of the internationally agreed commitments on poverty eradication and equality.
  • 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 ...
  • Southern African Regional Poverty Network
    In February 2001, the Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria (HSRC) was commissioned by the Department for International Development of the British Government (DFID) to establish the Southern African Regional Poverty Network (SARPN). Rationale for est ...
  • Stamp Out Poverty
    Stamp Out Poverty is a network of development agencies, charities, faith groups and trade unions campaigning for innovative sources of finance to generate additional revenue over and above what will currently be produced through traditional aid, to bridge ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • World Development Movement
    Founded in 1970, WDM is a democratic movement of individual supporters, campaigners and local groups. Much of their work is in partnership with other organisations in the UK and around the world. The World Development Movement tackles the underlying causes ...
  • World Economy, Ecology & Development
    WEED is an independent non-governmental organisation and it was founded in 1990. Their purpose is more awareness of the causes of global poverty and environmental problems. WEED involved in national and international networks, and organizations and initiat ...
  • World Faiths Development Dialogue
    The World Faiths Development Dialogue was set up in 1998 as an initiative of James D. Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank and Lord Carey, then Archbishop of Canterbury. Its aim is to facilitate a dialogue on poverty and development among people from di ...
  • World Federalist Movement
    The World Federalist Movement (WFM) is an international citizen's movement working for justice, peace, and sustainable prosperity. We call for an end to the rule of force, through a world governed by law, based on strengthened and democratized world inst ...
  • World March of Women
    World March of Women was the initiative of the Fédération des femmes du Québec (Québec Federation of Women) and was quickly joined by some 6000 women's groups in 161 countries across the planet. The March representatives delivered 5,084,568 signatures coll ...
  • Yunus, Muhammad
    Dr. Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi banker and economist. He is famous for his successful application of the concept of microcredit, the extension of small loans to entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans. Yunus is also the founder of ...

Meetings

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  • 2005 World Summit
    The 2005 World Summit represented an oportunity to take decisions in the areas of development, security, human rights and the reform of the United Nations. The agenda was based on a attainable system of skirted suppliers in march by Secretary General Kofi ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 Population and Development (ICDP)
    At the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, 179 countries agreed that population and development are inextricably linked, and that empowering women and meeting people's needs for education and health, including repro ...
  • International 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, ...
  • Social Summit +5
    United Nations member countries made a new commitment to eradicate poverty, address unemployment and promote social integration. They also agreed on a range of new initiatives for social development. Besides the measures being taken by Governments at the n ...
  • World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace, the 4th
    Main issues: The advancement and empowerment of women in relation to women's human rights, women and poverty, women and decision-making, the girl-child, violence againts women and other ares of concern. Follow-up mechanisms: Beinjing+5
  • World Social Forum 2001
    The World Social Forum is an open meeting place where social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organizations opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital or by any form of imperialism come together to pursue their thinking, to ...
  • World Social Forum 2002
    The second edition of the World Social Forum exceeded many respects expectations both by the number of attendees for the plurality of discussions and the large number of initiatives to implement alternatives to neoliberal globalization model imposed today ...
  • World Social Forum 2003
    The WSF 2003 brought together about 100 thousand people from all over the world. About 20 thousand delegates from 123 countries participated on the event. The core of the activities organized were included an amount of 10 conferences, 22 testimonials, 4 di ...
  • World Social Forum 2005
    In 2005 the world edition of WSF came back to Porto Alegre. It was formed a Brazilian Organizing Committee comprised by 23 organizations, subdivided into eight open WGs (Work Groups). The new methodology approved by the International Council in April 2004 ...
  • World Social Forum 2006
    The WSF 6th edition was decentralized. It was held in different places around the world : Bamako (Mali), Caracas (Venezuela) and Karachi (Pakistan). The Bamako event took place from January 19th to 23rd, 2006. The event in Caracas took place from January 2 ...
  • World Social Forum 2007
    The first WSF world on the African continent was conducted in Nairobi, Kenya. About 75 thousand participants attended the WSF 2007 and it held 1.300 different kind of activities: self-organised, co-organised, cultural, film and youth. The methodology of c ...
  • World Summit for Children
    Goals for the year 2000 for children's health, nutrition, education, and access to safe water and sanitation Mid-decade review, with Secretary-General's progress report presented at the 1996 General Assembly session on the anniversary of the Children's Sum ...
  • World Summit for Social Development (WSSD)
    Social development with three core issues: eradication of poverty, expansion of productive employment and reduction of unemployment, and social integration Since the Summit in 1995, the General Assembly has annually considered the issue of implementation o ...
  • World Summit on Sustainable Development
    Also known as RIO+10. It focus the world's attention and direct action toward meeting difficult challenges, including improving people's lives and conserving our natural resources in a world that is growing in population, with ever-increasing demands for f ...

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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 ...
  • Campaign to Eliminate Conflict Diamonds
    The Campaign to Eliminate Conflict Diamonds is a coalition of human rights, religious, humanitarian, peace, and development groups committed to ending the trade in "conflict diamonds" and supporting human rights in diamond-producing countries in Africa.
  • 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 ...
  • 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 Call Against Poverty
    The Global Call to Action against Poverty is a world-wide alliance committed to forcing world leaders to live up to their promises, and to make a breakthrough on poverty in 2005.
  • 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!
  • Millennium Campaign
    The Millennium Campaign informs, inspires and encourages people’s involvement and action for the realization of the Millennium Development Goals. An initiative of the United Nations, the Campaign supports citizens’ efforts to hold their government to accou ...
  • 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 ...
  • Pan-African campaign of solidarity for Zimbabwe
    On Saturday 12 July 2008, following a call by CIVICUS: World Alliance For Citizen Participation, Amnesty International and the Global Call for Action Against Poverty (GCAP), citizens of Africa will unite to express their solidarity with the people of Zimba ...
  • Stop EPA
    Stop EPA aims to facilitate a large coalition of ACP and EU civil society organisations aiming at stopping the EU’s current approach in negotiating free trade agreements with the countries of the ACP. This coalition draws its support ACP and EU wide and fo ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

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