- 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 ...
- Academic Council on the United Nations System
The Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS), is an international institution with a distinguished membership of nearly a thousand scholars, teachers, practitioners and others active in the work and study of the United Nations System and other ...
- 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 ...
- Action for UN Renewal
Although the United Nations has achieved much since its creation in 1945, changes are necessary to meet the needs of a changed world.
Action for UN Renewal exists to promote an effective United Nations, with the authority and resources required to realise ...
- 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 ...
- African Women's Development and Communication Network
The African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) was set up in 1988 to share information, experiences, ideas and strategies among African women's non-governmental organisations (NGOs) through communications, networking, training and advoc ...
- 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 ...
- Amnesty International
Amnesty International (AI) is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights.
AI's vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights an ...
- 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 ...
- Arab Organisation of Human Rights
The AOHR calls for respect of human rights and freedoms of all residents and citizens of the Arab world and seeks to defend any individual whose human rights are subjected to violations which are contrary to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the I ...
- Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development
FORUM-ASIA is a regional human rights organization in Asia and presently, it has 40 member organizations in 15 countries in Asia. It seeks to facilitate dialogue, capacity-building and networking among human rights defenders, civil society actors and organ ...
- Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives
ARENA aims to contribute to the mobilisation of civil society and popular participation in public life, the empowerment of peoples and the enhancement of people’s capabilities to transform their lives and conditions, the transformation of values and consci ...
- Asociación Naciones Unidas España/América Latina
ANUE was born in 1962 and its main objectives are the defence, promotion and spreading of human rights and basic freedom. It also wants to disclose principles and objectives of UN. It has been recognised by UN as the unique main link between UN and civil s ...
- 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 ...
- Better World Campaign
Since 1999, BWC has worked to strengthen the relationship between the United States and the United Nations through outreach, communications, and advocacy. We encourage U.S. leadership to enhance the UN’s ability to carry out its invaluable international wo ...
- Boff, Leonardo
Boff is the author of more than sixty books in the areas of theology, spirituality, philosophy, anthropology and mysticism. Most of his works have been translated into the main modern languages.
- Bordia, Anil
Anil Bordia was Indian Education Secretary between 1987 and 1992. During his tenure a clear shift of priority was made to basic education. He was responsible for pioneering projects concerning the universalization of primary education. He has dedicated his ...
- Boutros-Ghali, Boutros
Boutros Boutros-Ghali is an Egyptian diplomat who was the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1992 to December 1996.
- Brovetto Cruz, Jorge
Jorge Brovetto is the minister of Education and Culture of Uruguay. He was the executive secretary of the Asociación de Universidades Grupo Montevideo.
- Brutus, Dennis
Dennis Brutus is a South African poet who was an activist against the apartheid government of South Africa in the 1960s. He was forbidden to teach, write and publish in South Africa. In 1983, Brutus won the right to stay in the United States as a political ...
- Center for Economic and Policy Research
The CEPR was established in 1999 to promote democratic debate on the most important economic and social issues that affect people's lives. In order for citizens to effectively exercise their voices in a democracy, they should be informed about the problems ...
- 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 ...
- Centre On Housing Rights and Evictions
The Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) is an independent, non-governmental, not-for-profit human rights organisation established in 1994 in the Netherlands and now based in Geneva, Switzerland. They are one of the principal agencies focusing on ...
- Chomsky, Noam
Noam Chomsky was born on December 7, 1928 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His undergraduate and graduate years were spent at the University of Pennsylvania where he received his PhD in linguistics in 1955.
Chomsky has written and lectured widely on linguist ...
- 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.
- CIVICUS
CIVICUS is an international alliance dedicated to strengthening citizen action and civil society throughout the world. Our vision is of a worldwidecommunity of informed, inspired, committed citizens engaged in confronting the challenges facing humanity.
CI ...
- Committee for a Democratic U.N.
The Committee for a Democratic U.N. (KDUN) is a non-governmental organization registered in Germany. KDUN supports international democracy and the strengthening of the United Nations. The political mandate is laid down in a declaration of principle. KDUN's ...
- 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 ...
- Diaz-Hochleitner, Ricardo
Ricardo Diaz-Hochleitner was born in Bogotá in 1953. He is the President Emeritus of the Club of Rome.
- 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 ...
- Elsaadawi, Leonel
Nawal El Saadawi is a novelist, a psychiatrist and a writer who is well known both in the Arab countries and in many other parts of the world. Her novels and her books on the situation of women in Egyptian and Arab society have had a deep effect on success ...
- EURALAT
Euralat is a strategic reflection, exchange and political action space promote by civil society organizations networks and research centers which seeks to strengthen and renew the association, cooperation and exchange relations between Europe and Latin Ame ...
- European Centre for Conflict Prevention
The ECCP is a non-governmental organisation that promotes effective conflict prevention and peace-building strategies. It supports and connects people working for peace worldwide.
- Falk, Richard A.
Professor of International Law and Practise at Princeton University.
- 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.
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- 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 ...
- Foro Latinoamericano de Ciencias Ambientales
En 1988 la Fundación CEPA (Centro de Estudios y Proyectación el Ambiente) concibió la idea de desarrollar los lazos científicos y formativos que desde 1980 mantenía con otras ONGs del Cono Sur (TEA de Uruguay, UEA de Brasil, Altervida de Paraguay y Ser de ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Fundación Cultura de Paz
The Culture of Peace is a set of values, attitudes and modes of behavior that reflect respect for life, human beings and human dignity. It gives top priority to human rights, rejection of any form of violence, and adherence to the principles of freedom, ju ...
- 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 ...
- Fundación Rigoberta Menchú Tum
The Fundación is the Rigoberta Menchú's institutional platform that guarantees the accomplishment and execution of the plans, programms and actions on behalf of Human Rights, native village's rights and the contributions to a politic solution of conflicts ...
- García Márquez, Gabriel
Believed by many to be one of the world’s greatest writers, Gabriel García Márquez is a Colombian-born author and journalist, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and a pioneer of the Latin American “Boom.” He first won international fame with his ...
- Giró, Antoni
Antoni Giro is the Rector of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
- 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 ...
- Government Accountability Project
The GAP mission is to protect the public interest by promoting government and corporate accountability through advancing occupational free speech and ethical conduct, defending whistleblowers, and empowering citizen activists. Founded in 1977, GAP is a non ...
- Grassroots International
Grassroots is a human rights and international development organization that supports community-led sustainable development projects. Since 1983 it have worked in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, concentrating their efforts in areas where U ...
- Green Cross International
Green Cross International was founded by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1993, building on the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and Agenda 21. Green Cross is a non-governmental, non-profit organization. Our mission is to help create a sustainable future by cultiva ...
- Group of Friends for the Reform of the United Nations
In April 2004, the President of Mexico invited his counterparts of Germany, Algeria, Australia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Spain, Japan, Kenya, New Zealand, Netherlands, Pakistan, Singapore and Sweden, to form a group of countries that would promote an integ ...
- 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.
- 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 ...
- Held, David
David Held is a British political theorist and specialised in international relations. He is an acclaimed scholar on issues of globalisation. He is currently Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science and co-director of the Centre for the Study of Global ...
- Human Rights First
Human Rights First protects people at risk: refugees who flee persecution, victims of crimes against humanity or other mass human rights violations, victims of discrimination, those whose rights are eroded in the name of national security, and human rights ...
- Independent Working Group on the Future of the United Nations
The Independent Working Group on the Future of the United Nations was convened by the Ford Foundation in late 1993 at the request of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to reassess the role, mission, and function of the United Nations. It met four time ...
- Institut I. Jacques Maritain
The International Jacques Maritian Institute is a non-profit making cultural association and is a recognised legal entity. As an intellectual, international and interdisciplinary laboratory, it promotes research into, and the study of, the subjects of man, ...
- 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 Federation of ACAT
FIACAT campaigns on behalf of people who are tortured, detained in inhuman conditions, sentenced to death or "disappeared", whatever their origins, political opinions or religious beliefs.
FIACAT seeks to increase awareness in the Churches and amongst Chri ...
- 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 Peace Bureau
The International Peace Bureau is the world´s oldest and most comprehensive international peace federation, bringing together people working for peace in many different sectors: not only pacifists but also women´s, youth, labour, religious and professional ...
- 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 Service for Human Rights
The International Service for Human Rights is an international NGO serving human rights defenders. Its vision is the development, strengthening, effective use and implementation of international and regional standards and mechanisms for the protection and ...
- 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 ...
- Jahangir, Asma
Asma Jahangir is a Pakistani lawyer and human rights activist. She has been the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief of the Commission on Human Rights since 2004. She is also law partner and co-founder with her sister Hina Jil ...
- Jauregui, Gurutz
Gurutz Jauregui is professor of constitutional law in the Universidad del País Vasco.
- 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 ...
- Küng, Hans
Professor of Ecumenical Theology, University of Tübingen, President of the Foundation for a Global Ethic (Welethos).
- Linguapax Institute
The Linguapax Institute is a non-governmental organisation located in Barcelona that was created to give continuity to a series of meetings organized by UNESCO within the framework of the Linguapax project sprung from the Kiev experts meeting in 1987.
Prom ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Menchú Tum, Rigoberta
Rigoberta Menchú Tum is an indigenous Guatemalan, of the Quiché-Maya ethnic group. She was the recipient of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize and Prince of Asturias Award in 1998. Menchú is a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador. On Monday, February 12, 2007, Menchú announ ...
- Mendes, Candido
Candido Mendes is the vice-chancellor of the Candido Mendes University.
- Miterrand, Danielle
Danielle Miterrand is the widow of François Mitterrand and president of the foundation France Libertés Fondation Danielle Mitterrand.She founded her foundation in 1986 with the fusion of three smaller associations started in 1981. Her support for Fidel Cas ...
- Mongella, Gertrude Ibengwe
Gertrude Ibengwe Mongella is the president of the Pan-African Parliament. In 1998 she became a member of the OAU sitting on the Women Committee for Peace and Development, In 1999 she was a member of the "Council of the Future", UNESCO, Paris, France, in 20 ...
- 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 ...
- Morin, Edgar
Edgar Morin's research focuses on topics such as civilization, complexity, identity, method, politics and society.
- Mushakoji, Kinhide
Kinhide Mushakoji is a Japanese authority on international affairs, is the Vice-rector of the regional and Global Studies Division of the United Nations University.
- Naïr, Sami
Sami Naïr is a french philosopher and sociologist, he is political science teacher in the Paris III University.
- 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 ...
- Network Institute for Global Democratization
NIGD is a think-tank that aims at promoting global democratization by producing and developing emancipatory knowledge for democratic movements, organizations and states. NIGD's work is based on the conviction that globalization as coming-together-of-humani ...
- Networking Human Rights Defenders
FIDH’ s mandate is to contribute to the respect of all the rights defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. FIDH aims at obtaining effective improvements in the protection of victims, the prevention of Human Rights violations and the sanction o ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- PAX Romana ICMICA/MIIC
Pax Romana ICMICA/MIIC is an international Association of Catholic professionals and intellectuals composed of local federations, groups and individuals. It works like a forum for intellectual sharing and dialogue among different cultures, generations and ...
- Penal Reform International
Penal Reform International is an international non-governmental organisation working on penal and criminal justice reform worldwide. It works with penal reform activists, NGOs and governments, as well as inter-governmental organisations such as the United ...
- 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 ...
- Ramentol, Santiago
Santiago Ramentol is a journalist and PhD in Comunication Science.
- Ramos Horta, José
The Nobel Peace Prize 1996. Born December 26th, 1949 in Dili, East Timor. Single with one son. Catholic. Living in Lisbon and Sydney.
- Reaching Critical Will
The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) created the Reaching Critical Will project in 1999, in order to increase the quality and quantity of civil society at international disarmament fora, such as those that take place at the United ...
- Red Latinoamericana de Estudios Ambientales Urbanos
The Red Latinoamericana de Estudios Ambientales Urbanos is based in a cooperation between universities, local governments, institutions and NGO's all around Colombia, that seeks to develop research activities, teaching, management and evaluation related wi ...
- Requejo, Ferran
Ferran Requejo is a Political Science Professor in the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). His main work camps are democracy teories, liberalism, social democracy and federalism.
- Salgado, Sebastião
Born in 1944 in Aimorés, Minas Gerais, Brazil, the sixth child and only boy in a family of eight children, the son of a cattle rancher, Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado studied economics in Brazil (1964-1967) and earned his M.A. in economics in 1968 from the Univ ...
- Saramago, José
Nobel Literature Prize 1998.
- 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.
- 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 ...
- Soares, Mario
Mario Soares is a portuguese politician. He has been portuguese Prime Minister and portuguese President. He is currently the president of the Mario Soares Fundation.
- Social Alert
Social Alert is an international coalition of social, human rights and workers organizations bornt in 1997. It was created to connect the programs of action of several international organizations and to struggle against social injustice worldwide.
Its mai ...
- 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.
- 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 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 ...
- Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
SIPRI seeks to conduct research on questions of conflict and cooperation of importance for international peace and security, with the aim of contributing to an understanding of the conditions for peaceful solutions of international conflicts and for a stab ...
- Strauss, Andrew L.
Andrew Strauss is a professor of international law at Widener University School of Law. He specializes in public international law, international economic law, international transactions and international organizations. He has been consultant to Human Righ ...
- Tavola della Pace
La Tavola della Pace is an italian coordination experience to promote peace, human rights and solidarity.
The Tavola is not only pretending to enforce politic actions but also stresses on peace movement trying to approach public opinion.
- Touraine, Alain
Alain Touraine is a French sociologist, he is research director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, where he founded the Centre d'étude des mouvements sociaux. He is best known for being the originator of the term "post-industrial society. ...
- TRANSCEND
To work for peace is to work against violence; by analyzing its forms and causes, predicting in order to prevent, and then act preventively and curatively since peace relates to violence like health relates to illness. Particularly important is genocide, o ...
- Transnational Foundation for Peace and Futur Research
Founded in 1986 TFF is a networking organization who help people learn to handle conflicts with ever less violence against other human beings, other cultures and Nature.
TFF constantly develops its intellectual resource base. Learning is the pillar of his ...
- Trent, John
John Trent is a professor of political science in the University of Ottawa
- Tünnermann Bernheim, Carlos
Carlos Tünnermann is memeber of the Instituto Latinoamericano de Educación para el Desarrollo, and he is expert in latinoamerican education issues.
- 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 ...
- Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation
The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) is a democratic, international membership organization. Its members are indigenous peoples, occupied nations, minorities and independent states or territories who have joined together to protect the ...
- Vidal-Beneyto, José
José Vidal-Beneyto is general secretary of the European Culture Agency and he is member of Amis du Monde Diplomatique.
- Weiss, Cora
Cora Weiss President of the Hague Appeal for Peace, has been well known as a peace activist since the early ‘60’s, when she was a co-founder of Women Strike for Peace. She is President of the International Peace Bureau. As President of the Hague Appeal for ...
- 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 Institute for Development Economics Research - United Nations University
WIDER is the first research and training centre established in 1984 in Helsinki by the United Nations University (UNU). UNU is an international academic organization which promotes the UN's aims of peace and progress by providing a framework for bringing t ...
- 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 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 Organisation Against Torture
The World Organisation Against Torture is a coalition of international non-governmental organisations (NGO) fighting against torture, summary executions, enforced disappearances and all other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
