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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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Civil Society Building
A network for exchange of knowledge, with mostly unique content provided by network members. The network brings together practitioners and researchers on the theme of civil society and civil society building.
Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Iran and Turkey - ERF
ERF’s mission is to provide an institutional mechanism to initiate and fund policy-relevant economic research, to disseminate the results of research activity to scholars, policymakers, and the business community, and to function as a resource base for researchers through its databank and documentation library.
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.
IFIs Latin American MonitoR
This initiative aims at contributing to the Latin American and global IFI campaigns for reform of the Bretton Woods institutions by translating key information, producing and disseminating analysis and providing a point of access to research results, opinions and campaigning activities, thus promoting dialogue and collaboration between key actors.
International Forum on Globalization
IFG is an alliance of sixty leading activists, scholars, economists, researchers and writers formed to stimulate new thinking, joint activity, and public education in response to economic globalization.
Movimientos.org
Web community of Social Movements. Available also in spanish and portuguese.
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.
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.
Research Foundation for Science,Technology and Ecology
The foundation works on the following issues: biodiversity conservation, food security, globalisation, economic liberalisation, impact of structural adjustment in India, patenting and intellectual property rights, biopiracy, biotechnology, biosafety, toxics and hazardous wastes, aquaculture, plant breeders' rights and farmers' rights over their seed, sustainable agriculture, WTO and GATT. India.
The Third World Institute (ITeM)
ITeM is a citizens' organization that works for civil society. It carries out information, communication and educational activities at national and international levels on issues related to environment, development and globalization. Uruguay
Third World Network (TWN)
International network of organizations and individuals involved in issues relating to development, the Third World and North-South issues.
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