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International and Regional Organizations
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
Selected news
Kadhafi says Libya no place for 'civil society'
Fri Jan 29 2010 - Source: Google News / AFP
In a televised address to the General People's Congress (GPC), Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi said the idea of a civil society "is a bourgeois culture and an imitation of the West that has no place here."
New NGLS publication on the UN engagement with people's movements
Thu Dec 03 2009 - Source: UN NGLS
Civil society interaction with the United Nations (UN) system has increased significantly over the past 15 years. So far, the majority of these relations have been with non-governmental organizations of various kinds, including humanitarian and development NGOs, advocacy groups and faith-based organizations.
Colombian teachers face highest rates of political violence
Thu Oct 08 2009 - Source: Education International
A study by Education International highlights the atrocious scale of human rights violations against Colombian teacher trade unionists.
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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