Actors

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• 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 ...
• Congress of South African Trade Unions
  COSATU was launched in December 1985 after four years of unity talks between unions opposed to apartheid and committed to a non-racial, non-sexist and democratic South Africa. Their main broad strategic objectives have always been to improve material condi ...
• Coordinadora Regional de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales
  Founded in 1982 in Managua, is a network of research centers, NGOs, professional associations and foundations. CRIES promotes social and economic research in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean based on the participation of civil society. Its ...
• 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 ...
• Foster, John
  John Foster works in The North-South Institute in the examination of the relations of NGOs and other civil society organizations with multilateral bodies, such as the United Nations, the World Bank, the World Trade Organization.
• Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
  The FES has representation in 70 countries of Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. It also has 33 offices in Western Europe, Japan, USA, CIS countries and Central and South-East Europe. In developing countires they seek to promote peace, democr ...
• George, Susan
  Susan George, the author of a dozen of books, was born in the United States, lives in/near Paris and acquired French citizenship in 1994. She is Associate Director of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam, a decentralised fellowship of scholars living t ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 Confederation of Free Trade Unions
  The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), was set up in 1949 and has 233 affiliated organisations in 154 countries and territories on all five continents, with a membership of 145 million, 40% of who are women. The main ICFTU prioritie ...
• 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 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Solidar
  Solidar was formally set up in Germany in 1951 with the name International Workers Aid, it was renamed Solidar in 1995 and moved to Brussels. It is an international alliance of social and economic justice NGO's working in development and humanitarian aid, ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Tax Justice Netherlands
  Tax Justice NL is a network of Dutch civil society organisations. The purpose of Tax Justice NL is to promote a just and fair tax system that is supportive to international development. The network hopes to influence Dutch politics, so that Dutch tax polic ...
• Third World 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Via Campesina
  Via Campesina is an international movement which coordinates peasant organizations of small and medium sized producers, agricultural workers, rural women, and indigenous communities from Asia, America, and Europe. It is an autonomous, pluralistic movement, ...
• World Confederation of Labour
  The World Confederation of Labour (WCL) is an international trade union confederation uniting 144 autonomous and democratic trade unions from 116 countries (October 2001) all over the world. Its head office is located in Brussels, Belgium, and it has over ...

Meetings

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• 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 ...
• 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 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, 1st
  This was the first Ministerial Conference after the WTO creation in 1995. Its main issues were the famous "Singapore issues", refering to four working groups: investment protection, competition policy, transparency in government procurement and trade facil ...
• WTO Ministerial Conference, 2nd
  This was the second Ministerial Conference after the Uruguay Round.
• WTO Ministerial Conference, 3rd
  The Seattle Ministerial Confference wanted to launch a new round of trade negotiations, but it had to be postponed becuse of the street protests. The main issues were agriculture, services and how entry into the WTO the new members.
• WTO Ministerial Conference, 4th
  Also known as The Development Round. It was held after September 11th attacks. Main Issues: agriculture and services, related aspects of intellectual property rights, electronic comerce, least-developed countries, trade and environment, aid for trade and ...
• WTO Ministerial Conference, 5th
  The Cancún meeting’s special task was to take stock of progress in the [Doha Development Agenda] negotiations, provide any necessary political guidance and take decisions as necessary. It failed because of the opposition of the least developed countries t ...
• WTO Ministerial Conference, 6th
  The Sixth WTO Ministerial Conference held in Hong Kong, should have been the last Ministerial Conference of the Doha Round, held in 2001. It was, after the failure of the Cancun Conference, the last chance to relaunch the Development Round, but it failed a ...

Documents

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• Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization
  Agreement for which it is established the World Trade Organization. It contains articles dealing with WTO's scope, functions, structure and budget among other issues.
• 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 ...
• 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.
• 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 ...
• Reforming the IMF: Back to the Drawing Board
  A genuine reform of the IMF would require as much a redirection of its activities as improvements in its policies and operational modalities. There is no sound rationale for the Fund to be involved in development and trade policy, or in bail-out operation ...
• Social Watch Report 2006: Impossible Architecture
  Social Watch is an international coalition comprising 400 non-governmental organizations in some 60 countries. Its annual report is the world's most highly recognized independent study on social development. The Social Watch Report 2006 explains the probl ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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, ...

Campaigns

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• ATTAC
  The creation of the "international movement for democratic control of financial markets and their institutions" wants to respond to that dynamic. Referring to the platform, it forms a network, with neither "hierarchical" structures nor a geographical "cent ...
• 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 ...
• 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.
• Control Arms
  The Control Arms campaign is calling for an international, legally-binding Arms Trade Treaty to ease the suffering caused by irresponsible weapons transfers. The existing mechanisms for the control of conventional weapons are not mandatory and are riddled ...
• Junk WTO!
  Blog of the movement of opposition to the WTO 6th Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong (2005). It includes calendar of activities, list of resources, spaces of opinion, links and gallery of photos
• Make Trade Fair
  The Big Noise represents the voices of people around the world who are calling for key decision-makers to make trade fair. With your help, we want to make it the biggest petition ever, make leaders listen, and to make trade fair.
• 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 ...
• Rethinking Bretton Woods Project
  The Rethinking Bretton Woods project promotes reforms within the international financial institutions (IFIs) to democratize economic policy-making and achieve sustainable development. The RBW Project began in 1994 under the leadership of Jo Marie Griesgra ...
• 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 ...
• 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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