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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The Papua New Guinea Eco-Forestry Forum
The PNG Eco-Forestry Forum is a not-for-profit incorporated association formed with the goal of promoting integrated rural community development and sustainable resource use through a viable and sustainable eco-forestry industry. Its purpose is to support the activities of its members and other groups involved in eco-forestry and to promote their work to a wider audience.
Trade AID Integrated
They work on rural enterprises around the numerous indigenous livelihoods to generate employment and wealth for the rural poor and Ghana at large.
Tujifunze - Centre for Information Technology
The organization is committed to uplifting and empowering communities, especially disadvantaged groups, such as orphans/children, women and the elderly, through the use of information and communication technologies. "Tujifunze" in Swahili means "learning". Tanzania.
Undugu Society of Kenya
Established to respond to the plight of street children who were roaming about in Nairobi. The society has expanded and diversified its services in response to the children in difficult circumstances and the urban poor, including fundraising through the direct export of handicraft sculptures and gourds.
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.
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.
Take action against Wal-Mart mass firings in the Philippines
The Millennium Campaign
Selected news
Social Development
/Economy and Financial Affairs
- Mon Sep 29 2008
Aid Effectiveness and the Forums in Accra
Three Forums on the issue of aid effectiveness were held in Accra, the capital of Ghana, from August 30 to September 4 2008.
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Choike
Social Development
/Economy and Financial Affairs
- Mon Sep 22 2008
Poverty is not decreasing as the World Bank claims
On the eve of a UN presidential meeting on poverty reduction the mainstream consensus that globalization is reducing poverty around the world was challenged today by Social Watch, a network of 400 civil society organizations in 70 countries. The World Bank latest estimates, announced last August, claim that extreme poverty has been reduced by half in the last 25 years and that therefore the internationally agreed goals for 2015 can be met.
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Social Watch
Within the framework of the European Social Forum 2008, Peter Waterman analyzed the iniciatives put forward by trade unions and the labour agenda. In a special document, he develops critical opinions on the international union hegemons. Furthermore, he submitted his proposal "a global charter movement" to develop a declaration or manifesto on labour, relevant to all working people, under the conditions of a radically transformed and highly aggressive capitalism, neo-liberalised, networked and globalised.
