INSouth embodies an understanding, from a South perspective, of the new and emerging issues in the international arena, and the challenges and opportunities they pose for the South.
It offers research outputs on issues of international trade in the form of working papers, briefs, and reports.
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Centre for Trade and Development (Centad)
Independent, not-for-profit organisation that carries out policy research and advocacy on issues around trade and development, with a focus on South Asia.
Consumer Unity & Trust Society (CUTS)
CUTS' work is divided into four operational areas: consumer protection; trade and development; sustainable production and consumption; and rural consumers and women empowerment. India.
Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF)
Independent not-for-profit non-governmental research institute for capacity building in economic and social policy analysis. The main objective of ESRF is to build and strengthen human and institutional capabilities in economic and social policy analysis and decision-making and to enhance the understanding of policy options within the Government, public sector, donor community and in the growing national non-governmental sector mainly, but not only in Tanzania.
Focus on the Global South
Focus aims to consciously and consistently articulate, link and develop greater coherence between local community-based and national, regional and global paradigms of change. Thailand.
Hong Kong People's Alliance on WTO - HKPA
The HKPA is a network of grass-root organizations which include trade unions, community labour groups and organisations that represent migrant workers, students, women, church, human rights, research organisations and regional organisations that are based locally in Hong Kong.
India Resource Center
India Resource Center works to support anti-corporate globalization movements in India. They provide information on transnational corporations to Indian movements. They also educate and mobilize key constituencies in the US and other countries to take action in support of campaigns in India.
International South Group Network (ISGN)
Network of community-based organizations, people's movement and academic organizations in the South with 5 regional centers located in South Africa, Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe, Nicaragua and the Philippines. ISGN works promoting human rights and raising and analyzing matters that relate to North-South relations such as trade, debt and development.
Our World Is Not For Sale
Official site of the campaign to stop corporate globalization. Among the supporting organizations are Via Campesina, Third World Network, IBON Foundation, Friends of the Earth Europe, Food First, and Asia Pacific Research Network.
Pacific Network on Globalisation - PANG
PANG is a campaign network of concerned individuals and organisations responding to economic justice issues and the impact of globalisation and free trade on Pacific communities.
South-North Development Monitor (SUNS)
SUNS provides in-depth information and analysis on international development issues with particular focus on North-South and South-South negotiations.
Southern African Development Community Parliamentary Forum - SADC
The SADC Parliamentary Forum is a regional organisation that brings together 12 parliaments of the southern Africa region: Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. They work on economic cooperation and development integration.
The Institute for Global Justice (IGJ)
IGJ is a think-tank NGO working on trade issue i.e. WTO and FTA in terms of research, policy advocacy and campaign in line with the social movement struggle.
Third World Network (TWN)
International network of organizations and individuals involved in issues relating to development, the Third World and North-South issues.
There is clearly a "widespread schizophrenia" among Members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on the issue of "ambition" in the context of the Doha Round of trade negotiations, outgoing Ambassador Ujal Singh Bhatia of India told a meeting of the General Council Thursday.
Towards an International Tribunal on Economic Crimes
During the last 6 years, social movements and organisations from Latin America and Europe, connected through the Europe-Latin America bi-regional network Enlazando Alternativas, have repeatedly exposed how voluntary codes of conduct, which form part of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) approach, have failed to tackle human rights and environmental abuses of Transnational Corporations (TNCs).
Over 15 fair trade lobby organisations have warned the East African Community leaders against signing the Framework Economic Partnerships Agreements (EPAs) with the European Union.
IFI policy-based loans disproportionately harm poor women, who often become “shock absorbers” for neoliberal economic reforms like trade liberalization, privatization of public enterprises, government retrenchment, social spending cutbacks, user fees for essential services and financial sector reforms. A new guide developed by Gender Acion gives tips for submitting a gender discrimination compalint to an IFI accountability mechanism.
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Gender Action
