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FrontLine
Front Line is the International Foundation for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders that seeks to provide rapid and practical support to at-risk human rights defenders.
Justice Studies Center of the Americas
Intergovernmental entity whose mission is to support the countries of the region in their judicial reform processes. Its members include every nation of the OAS. Chile.
UN and Partners on Development Cooperation
UN and Partners on Volunteerism
UN guide to population information
Resource page of the United Nations Population Network (POPIN). Access to different sources of population information produced by the UN (data, publications, organizations, conferences).
UN Millenium Development Goals
By the year 2015 all 189 United Nations Member States have pledged to meet goals on: extreme poverty and hunger; universal primary education; gender equality and empower women; child mortality; HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases; environmental sustainability; and global partnership for development. This link contains information about the declaration.
UN Statistics Division
The Division publishes statistics and statistical methods in the fields of international merchandise trade, national accounts, demography and population, social indicators, gender, industry, energy, environment, human settlements and disability.
 
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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.
Its aim is to work for a society that is peaceful, free, equal, just and sustainable by a process of empowering people and building a mass movement to uphold human rights. Malaysia.
The Sonke Gender Justice project tries to address the social aspects of the HIV epidemic, with a particular focus on gender issues. South Africa.
SWAA is a pan-African women's organization dedicated to women and their families in the fight against HIV/AIDS. It has 39 branch offices in Africa.
Regional network on human settlements and urban issues consulted by many UN agencies.

Right to health and health care campaign
Support the women in India brutally attacked by the police
NEWS
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Dakar launches a public consultation on the thematic axes for the 2011 edition
Thu Aug 12 2010 - Source: FSM
The International Council of the World Social Forum and the African Social Forum and the Senegalese Organizing Committee launch a public consultation until September 10th to finalize the thematic axes of the centralized edition of the WSF, to be held in Dakar, Senegal, on February 06-11 2011.
Technology transforms election monitoring in Kenya
Thu Aug 05 2010 - Source: uchaguzi
Civil society organizations in Kenya have helped build an online platform that has actively monitored Kenya's constitutional referendum on August 4, 2010 via sms, titter and mail. This is a key step towards the consolidation of democracy in the country.
Is global poverty reduction a political myth?
Tue Jul 13 2010 - Source: IPS
When the United Nations hosts a summit meeting of world leaders next September to assess the current state of its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), it is expected to single out one of the major "success stories" of the day: a reduction in global poverty.
Children's rights Financing for Development The war on terror: a war on human rights World Social Forum (WSF)
Poverty Global labour rights Agriculture and food sovereignty Civil and political rights
Economic, social and cultural rights - ESCR Making literacy a priority Education on the market Social security reform
International Criminal Court The gender gap in education The right to adequate housing Health and health services, goods for sale
Child soldiers Millennium Development Goals - MDGs Patents and medicines  

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