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.
Regional network on human settlements and urban issues consulted by many UN agencies.
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Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network - PNGO
The Palestinian NGOs' Network is s civil and democratic gathering which strives to support, consolidate, and strengthen Palestinian civil society on the basis of the principles of democracy, social justice, and sustainable development.
Pambazuka News
It is a tool for progressive social change in Africa. Pambazuka News offers a comprehensive weekly round-up of news on human rights, conflict, health, environment, social welfare, development, the internet, literature and arts in Africa.
Por los chicos (For the children)
Independent website committed to improving the standard of living of impoverished children in Argentina. Each time a visitor clicks the donate button, the sponsors provide a ration of food for a needy child.
Proshika
PROSHIKA's objectives are: structural poverty alleviation; environmental protection and regeneration; improvement in women's status; increasing people's participation in public institutions; and increasing people's capacity to gain and exercise democratic and human rights. These objectives are achieved through programmes in education and training leading to income and employment generation, health education, building of health infrastructure, and environmental protection and regeneration. Bangladesh.
Sawt el-Amel: The laborer's voice
Sawt el-Amel was founded by workers and unemployed Palestinians from Nazareth and its surrounding villages in 1999, in order to support low-income and unemployed Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel in their struggle for socio-economic justice and against discrimination in the labour market and welfare system.
The African Platform for Adult Education
Four African networks have united to form this joint platform with a view to prepare for CONFINTEA VI (The International Conference on Adult Education) which took place in Belém Pará, Brazil from 19-22 May 2009.
Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign - AEC
AEC was formed in Cape Town with the aim of fighting evictions, water cut-offs, poor health services, for free electricity and against police brutality. South Africa.
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
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.
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.
The world is still on track to achieve the Millenium Development Goal (MDG) target of cutting the rate of extreme poverty in half by 2015 says a new report by the United Nations a few months before a major General Assembly meeting is to review progress so far. Many countries are moving forward, but unmet commitments, inadequate resources, lack of focus and accountability, and insufficient dedication to sustainable development have created shortfalls in many
areas. Some of these shortfalls were aggravated by the global food and economic and financial crises.
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