- | 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 ...
- | Bretton Woods Project
The Bretton Woods Project works as a networker, information-provider, media informant and watchdog to scrutinise and influence the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). Through briefings, reports and the bimonthly digest Bretton Woods Update, i ...
- | 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 ...
- | Development Assistance Research Associates
DARA is an independent, international, non-profit organisation, which works to improve the quality and impact of development and humanitarian interventions. We do this through research, evaluations, promoting learning and knowledge sharing.
- | European Solidarity Towards Equal Participation of People
Eurostep is a network of autonomous European non-governmental development organisations working towards peace, justice and equality in a world free of poverty. Its membership, rooted in their own societies, works together to influence Europe's role in the ...
- | 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 ...
- | Forum for a New World Governance
Today, it is commonplace to say there is a crisis in world governance. As citizens all over the world are fully aware, tensions, conflicts, and wars are persisting, and national, regional, and international institutions are powerless, even when limiting th ...
- | 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.
- | Friends of the Earth International
Friends of the Earth International is a federation of autonomous environmental organizations from all over the world. Their members, in 70 countries, campaign on the most urgent environmental and social issues of our day, while simultaneously catalyzing a ...
- | 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 ...
- | 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 ...
- | 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 ...
- | Grajew, Oded
Oded Grajew is the Initiator and Secretariat Memeber of the World Social Forum. He is the founder and President of the Ethos Institute for Business and Social Responsability.
- | Henderson, Hazel
Hazel Henderson was born in 1933 in Bristol, England. She is a futurist and evolutionary economist. She has been in good part concerned with finding the unexplored areas in standard economics and the "blind spots" of conventional economists. Most of her wo ...
- | 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 Food Policy Research Institute
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) seeks sustainable solutions for ending hunger and poverty. IFPRI is one of 15 centers supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), an alliance of 64 governments ...
- | Jubilee South
Jubilee South is a network of jubilee and debt campaigns, social movements, people's organizations, communities, NGOs and political formations. The Jubilee South network aims to and is in the process of emerging and developing as an international South mov ...
- | LATINDAD
LATINDAD is a civil society organisation born of a desire to secure lasting solutions to latin american countries mounting debt problem which has impacted negatively on their development process.
- | Leading Group on Innovative Financing for Development
The Leading Group’s initial mission was defined at the Paris Conference in 2006:
- Contribute to the emergence and circulation of projects for innovative development financing mechanisms;
- Promote the idea of solidarity levies among our partners and inter ...
- | Make Trade Fair
Reform of world trade is only one of the requirements for ending the deep social injustices that pervade globalisation. Action is also needed to reduce inequalities in health, education, and the distribution of income and opportunity, including those inequ ...
- | 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.
- | 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 ...
- | 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 ...
- | 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 ...
- | Rethinking finance. Alternative voices for a new financial architecture
Rethinking finance puts forward alternative ideas and analyses, provides information about and comments on latest events, and gives an overview of civil society and other peoples' activities. Rethinking finance is a website of several international civil s ...
- | 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.
- | 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 ...
- | 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.
- | Solidar
Solidar was formally set up in Germany in 1948 with the name International Workers Aid, it was renamed Solidar in 1995 and moved to Brussels.
It is an European network of 53 NGOs active in over 90 countries working to advance social justice in Europe and w ...
- | 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 ...
- | Tax Justice Networks
The Tax Justice Network (TJN) is a non-aligned coalition of researchers and activists with a shared concern about the harmful impacts of tax evasion, tax avoidance, tax competition and tax havens.
- | 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 ...
- | 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 former 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 ...
