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Alliance 21
Alliance for a responsible, plural and united world", aimed at building another kind of globalization.
Alliance Sud
Swiss Alliance of Development Organisations is the common platform for development policy lobbying by the six leading Swiss development organisations.
Asia Pacific Research Network - APRN
It is a network of leading research NGOs in the region with the main purpose of exchanging information on international issues, as well as experiences, technologies, and methods in research.
Consumer Project on Technology (CPTech)
The Consumer Project on Technology was started by Ralph Nader in 1995. Currently CPTech is focusing on intellectual property rights and health care, electronic commerce and competition policy.
Convergence of Movements of the Peoples of the Americas (COMPA)
COMPA is a broad-based, autonomous movement which spans the Americas. Through COMPA, women and men from different organized sectors struggle together to construct alternatives to neoliberal globalization, towards a new society.
Geneva Peoples Alliance
Coalition of NGOs, unions and social movements that are calling on social movements and civil society organisations to be present during the General Council meetings in Geneva to hold WTO members accountable.
Intellectual Property Watch
Non-profit independent news service, reports on the interests and behind-the-scenes dynamics that influence the design and implementation of international intellectual property policies.
International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net)
ESCR-Net is an emerging coalition of organizations and activists from around the world dedicated to advancing economic, social and cultural rights. This website contains four interactive, searchable databases (or directories) of organizations and individuals, project and activities, regional and domestic case law, and events.
New Rules for Global Finance Coalition
It is a coalition of development, human rights, labor, environmental, and religious organizations and scholars dedicated to the reform of the global financial architecture in order to stabilize the world economy, reduce poverty and inequality, uphold fundamental rights, and protect the environment.
OECD Watch
OECD Watch is an international network of NGO's promoting corporate accountability. Its purpose is to inform the wider NGO community about policies and activities of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) Investment Committee and to test the effectiveness of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises.
Open Democracy
An online global magazine of politics and culture, dedicated to opening up a democratic free-thinking space for the world.
Real world radio
Real World Radio (RWR) is a multilingual radio on the web, functioning in the auspices of the communication area of the environmentalist group Friends of the Earth International (FoEI).
Reform the UN
It is a project dedicated to bringing about a just world order through a strengthened an more democratized United Nations. This web site provides updated information not only on the member states’ positions, but also on the positions of parliamentarians and civil society.
Structural Adjustment Participatory Review International (SAPRIN)
SAPRIN is a global network established to expand and legitimize the role of civil society in economic policymaking and to strengthen the organized challenge to structural adjustment programs by citizens around the globe.
Sustainable Energy and Economy Network (SEEN)
A project of the Institute for Policy Studies (Washington, DC) and the Transnational Institute (Amsterdam), SEEN works in partnership with citizens groups nationally and globally on environment, human rights and development issues with a particular focus on energy, climate change, environmental justice, and economic issues, particularly as these play out in North/South relations.
The Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL)
Organization dedicated to deepening and strengthening Canada's relations with countries in Latin America and the Caribbean through policy discussion and analysis. Canada.
The International Working Group on Gender, Macroeconomics and International Economics GEM-IWG
This international network of economists has the purpose of promoting research, teaching, policy making and advocacy on gender-equitable approaches to macroeconomics, international economics and globalization.
Workgroup on a Solidarity Socio-Economy - WSSE
Global network of debate among grassroots actors, researchers and committed people who collectively generate and promote proposals and strategies for socio-economic transformation.
World Civil Society Forum
The WCSF aims to strengthen cooperation between NGOs and the UN system in policy making and policy implementation.
World Federalist Movement
It is an international citizen's movement working for justice, peace, and sustainable prosperity. They call for an end to the rule of force, through a world governed by law, based on strengthened and democratized world institutions.
World Forum for Alternatives
International action network researching alternatives to the dominant world order. This website is an inventory of worldwide social movements and endeavours to be a tool in the globalisation of resistance and its struggles.
 
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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.
In 2005, a group of scholars and activists, mostly from the global South, created the Copy/South Research Group to analyse, criticise, and confront the oppressive nature of current global copyright regimes, such as those defended by the World Intellectual Property Organisation, and similar ones around the globe.

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Global call to action to demand a new economic system
Stand up and take action against poverty and for the MDGs
Week of global action against debt and IFIs 2008


Selected news
Economy and Financial Affairs - Fri Nov 28 2008
Women's statement on financing for development, Doha
In the final day of the civil society forum in Doha, women’s rights organisations and networks have come up with a new statement to ensure that gender equality and women’s empowerment are at the centre of the FfD process.
Source: GCAP

Economy and Financial Affairs - Wed Nov 26 2008
Financial crisis is the focus of civil society forum in Doha
The Civil Society Forum leading to the Financing for Development Review Conference is addressing the international crises that threaten our climate, development and social justice, developing recommendations for change to carry into the official Conference.
Source: Social Watch

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The global financial crisis: implications for the South Gender in economics The Bank of the South: An alternative to the IFIs? Financing for Development
The war on terror: a war on human rights The war on Lebanon IIRSA: infrastructure for the FTAA? World Social Forum (WSF)
Intellectual Property Rights Disarmament External debt Poverty
The G8 Summit 2005 GATS - trade in services FTAA: a new colonialism? Access to knowledge
UN reform Free Trade Agreements - FTAs Tourism Agriculture and food sovereignty
World Bank International Monetary Fund - IMF Israeli-Palestinian conflict Corporate accountability
Oil fueling conflicts New Partnership for African Development - NEPAD Social security reform International Criminal Court
Software: Patents and copyrights Iraq: the war and occupation Child soldiers The landmine problem
Women for peace World Trade Organization - WTO Millennium Development Goals - MDGs Patents and medicines

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