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Aid Watch
Community-based activist group campaigning on Australian involvement in overseas aid and development projects, programs and policies.
ASEED Action for Solidarity, Equality, Environment and Development
International network linking youth groups and individuals committed to social and environmental justice, focusing on the structural causes of the environment and development crisis such as international financial institutions and "free" trade agreements.
Both Ends
Supports environmental organisations in the so-called South (developing countries) and Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries, making connections between South and North, environment and development, and between different sectors of society.
Bretton Woods Project
Monitoring the World Bank and IMF.
Campaign Against Arms Trade
Broad coalition of groups and individuals opposed to all arms exports.
Carbon Trade Watch
Carbon Trade Watch aims to provide a durable body of research to ensure that a holistic and justice-based analysis of climate change and climate policy is not forgotten or compromised. It centres its work on bottom-up, community-led projects and campaigns, gathering and translating the work of others in this field to facilitate broader co-operation and understanding.
CEE BankWatch
Network of groups in Central and Eastern Europe which works to prevent environmentally and socially harmful impacts of international development finance, and to promote alternative solutions and public participation.
Centre for Science and Environment
A leading environmental NGO in India focusing on sustainable natural resource management.
Committee on Women, Population and the Environment
Multi-racial alliance of feminist activists, health practitioners and scholars promoting the social and economic empowerment of women in a context of global peace and justice and working to eliminate poverty, inequality, racism and environmental degradation.
Corporate Observatory Europe (CEO)
Exposes threats to democracy, equity and the environment posed by transnational corporations and their lobby groups.
Corporate Watch UK
Radical research and publishing group supporting grassroots and direct activism against the structures which support large corporations, particularly multinationals.
Dag Hammarskjold Foundation
The Dag Hammarskjold Foundation searches for and examines workable alternatives and perspectives for a socially and economically just, ecologically sustainable, peaceful and secure world. By organising seminars and dialogues in close collaboration with a wide and constantly expanding international network, the Foundation plays a catalysing role in the identification of new issues and the formulation of new concepts, policy proposals, strategies and work plans towards solutions.
DifferenTakes
DifferenTakes is a series of occassional papers (produced by the Population and Development Program of Hampshire College, Massachusetts, USA) that is designed to bring alternative feminist analysis to the media, policymakers, advocacy organizations and activists.
Durban Group for Climate Justice
The Durban Group for Climate Justice is an international network of independent organisations, individuals and people's movements who reject the free market approach to climate change. We are committed to help build a global grassroots movement for climate justice, mobilize communities around the world and pledge our solidarity with people opposing carbon trading on the ground.
ECA Watch
International NGO campaign on export credit agencies
EcoEquity
Working towards a phased transition to a climate treaty based on equal rights to the atmospheric commons.
ETC action group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration
Dedicated to the conservation and sustainable advancement of cultural and ecological diversity and human rights.
(Formerly RAFI, the Rural Advancement Foundation International.)
Friends of the River Narmada
An international coalition of organisations and individuals working as a solidarity network for the Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save the Narmada Movement) and other similar grassroots struggles in India.
Global Commons Institute
An independent group of people whose aim is the protection of the global commons, focusing on its Contraction and Convergence solution to climate change.
HealthMatters
Independent quarterly magazine about health politics and policy, supports the UK's public National Health Service and a reduction in health inequality both nationally and internationally.
Ilisu Dam Campaign
Works to stop British involvement in the proposed Ilisu dam in South-East Turkey and to highlight the dam's wider policy implications for Britain's ethical foreign policy, sustainable development, and peace and security in the region.
International Rivers Network
Supports local communities working to protect their rivers and watersheds, to halt destructive river development projects, and to encourage equitable and sustainable methods of meeting needs for water, energy and flood management.
Kurdish Human Rights Project (KHRP)
Works to protect and promote the human rights of all persons living throughout the Kurdish regions of Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey and the former Soviet Union.
Lawyers Environmental Action Team (LEAT)
Public interest environmental law organization working to ensure sound natural resource management and environmental protection in Tanzania.
Mineral Policy Institute
Undertakes research and advocacy for better social and environmental practice in the minerals industry, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region and particularly of Australian-based mining companies.
Oilwatch
A resistance network opposing the activities of oil companies in tropical countries.
Probe International
Exposes the devastating environmental, social, and economic effects of Canada's aid and trade abroad.
Project Underground
Supports the human rights of communities resisting mining and oil exploitation
Public Services International Research Unit (PSIRU)
Researches privatization and restructuring of public services around the world, with special focus on water, energy, waste management and healthcare.
Rising Tide
Coalition of groups and individuals committed to a grassroots approach to fighting climate change and to achieving climate justice.
SinksWatch
SinksWatch is an initiative of the World Rainforest Movement to track and scrutinize carbon sequestration or 'sink' projects related to the Kyoto Protocol. It aims to highlight the threats these projects pose to forests and other ecosystems, to forest peoples as well as to the climate. Its focus is on tree plantation sinks projects, particularly in areas where land tenure and land use rights are in dispute. SinksWatch advocates addressing the links between forests and climate change in a way that honours forests as a safeguard against the impacts of extreme weather events.
Tebtebba
Committed to the recognition, protection and promotion of indigenous peoples' rights worldwide.
Transnational Institute (TNI) Drugs and Democracy Project
Aims to achieve a reassessment of repressive drug policies and their replacement with policies commited to harm reduction, fair trade, development, democracy, human rights and conflict prevention.
Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights
Worldwide autonomous network of groups and individuals aspiring to the recognition and protection of reproductive rights for women.
World Rainforest Movement
International network of citizens' groups in North and South defending the world's rainforests.