This Network is a group of trade union-linked researchers from all over Africa. It provides information and services to both the public and African Labour researchers.
International network of citizens’ organizations struggling to eradicate poverty and the causes of poverty, to ensure an equitable distribution of wealth and the realization of human rights.
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United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA)
UNFPA helps developing countries find solutions to their population problems. The Fund has three main programme areas: Reproductive Health including Family Planning and Sexual Health, Population and Development Strategies and Advocacy.
Urban Resource Center (URC)
URC monitors and provides information on urban development plans in Karachi. The site includes information by topic, including infrastructure (water supply and sewerage) and solid waste management, and the monthly newsletter Facts & Figures. Pakistan.
Via Campesina
Via Campesina is an international movement which coordinates peasant organizations of small and middle-scale producers, agricultural workers, rural women, and indigenous communities from Asia, Africa, America, and Europe.
Viluthu
Building human and institutional capacities to promote a culture of peace and democracy. Working in the sectors of strengthening civil society, building capacities of teachers within the formal education system, enhancing skills of media personnel. Sri Lanka.
Wada-Na-Todo-Abhiyan
National campaign to hold the government accountable to its promise to end poverty, social exclusion & discrimination. India.
Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action (YUVA)
YUVA's mission is to empower the oppressed and the marginaliZed by facilitating their organiZations and institutions towards building equal partnerships in the development process. India.
Sri Lanka's Reconstruction and Development Agency has since wound down as has the massive reconstruction effort. Still many are without homes they could call their own.
BCI 2009: no progress in the global fight against poverty
The countries and regions of the world are becoming increasingly polarised in spite of their international commitments to fight poverty. This is what emerges from the 2009 Basic Capabilities Index (BCI) published by Social Watch.
G8 countries show total lack of political will to address the global food crisis
The blatant absence of the heads of states of the G8 countries in the World Food Summit, held in Rome from 16 to 18th of November, was one of the key causes of the total failure of this summit.
The food, environmental and economic crises have challenged civil society organizations and the communities they serve. A broad-based survey, financially supported by the UN, measured the impact of the crises on the operating capacity of CSOs around the world and their expectations as they look ahead.
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NGO Committee for Social Development
