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  • 11.11.11- Coalition of the Flemish North-South Movement
    11.11.11 combines the efforts of 90 organizations and 375 committees of volunteers who work together to achieve one common goal:a fairer world without poverty. 11.11.11 was born on 11th November 1966 in which thousands of volunteers came out on the streets ...
  • 2008 Japan G8 Summit NGO Forum
    “2008 Japan G8 Summit NGO Forum” was formed in 31 January 2007, as a civil platform organized by Japanese NGOs’ broad coalition for 2008 G8 Summit in Toyako, Hokkaido. As of 31 July 2007, 101 NGOs are affiliated with the forum. These NGOs are working on th ...
  • Academic Council on the United Nations System
    The Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS), is an international institution with a distinguished membership of nearly a thousand scholars, teachers, practitioners and others active in the work and study of the United Nations System and other ...
  • Action Canada for Population and Development
    ACPD is a human rights advocacy organization that seeks to enhance the quality of life of women, men and children by promoting progressive policies in the field of international development with a primary focus on reproductive and sexual rights and health ...
  • Action for UN Renewal
    Although the United Nations has achieved much since its creation in 1945, changes are necessary to meet the needs of a changed world. Action for UN Renewal exists to promote an effective United Nations, with the authority and resources required to realise ...
  • ActionAid International
    ActionAid is an international anti-poverty agency whose aim is to fight poverty worldwide. Formed in 1972, for over 30 years they have been growing and expanding to where they are today - helping over 13 million of the world's poorest and most disadvantage ...
  • Advocacy for Women in Africa
    Advocacy for Women in Africa (AWA) was founded and incorporated in 1996 in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, as a network for advocacy on women’s issues on the African continent. Ambassador Gertrude Mongella is one of the founder members and its President. The a ...
  • African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies
    The Africa Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies was created due to the excesses of some African governments in the violation of Human Rights. Its main objective is is to give meaning to Article 25 of the African Charter, which requires States Part ...
  • African Women's Development and Communication Network
    The African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) was set up in 1988 to share information, experiences, ideas and strategies among African women's non-governmental organisations (NGOs) through communications, networking, training and advoc ...
  • AFRODAD
    AFRODAD is a civil society organisation born of a desire to secure lasting solutions to Africa's mounting debt problem which has impacted negatively on the continent's development process. AFRODAD aspires for an equitable and sustainable development proce ...
  • AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa
    The AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA) is a regional alliance of fourteen non-governmental organisations working together to promote and build capacity around a human rights based response to HIV/AIDS in the Southern African Development C ...
  • Allende, Isabel
    Isabel Allende is born in 1942 in Lima (Perú) where her father Tomás Allende is a diplomatic official of Chile, cousin of Salvador Allende. Isabel Allende is a famous writter, commited herself with Chile's people for witch Salvador Allende died for.
  • Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World
    The Alliance is an informal network made of people, institutions and movements that are conscious of the complexity of contemporary problems and seek to find the necessary mutations so that we can together act on the future. This network thereby creates a ...
  • Alternative Information and Development Centre
    AIDC aims to contribute to the development of national, regional and international challenges to the currently dominant global economic system through research, information production and dissemination, popular education, campaigning and coalition building ...
  • Amin, Samir
    Samir Amin is an Egyptian political author who was born in Cairo in 1931. He is one of the most important neo-marxist intellectual. He developed his political, economical and statistics studies in Paris. In 1957 he presented his thesis, supervised by Franç ...
  • Amnesty International
    Amnesty International (AI) is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights. AI's vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights an ...
  • An-Na'im, Abdullahi
    Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im (from Sudan) is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory Law School. An internationally recognized scholar of Islam and human rights, and human rights in cross-cultural perspectives.
  • Annan, Kofi
    Kofi Annan of Ghana is the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations. The first Secretary-General to be elected from the ranks of United Nations staff, he began his first term on 1 January 1997. On 29 June 2001, acting on a recommendation by the Secu ...
  • Arab Organisation of Human Rights
    The AOHR calls for respect of human rights and freedoms of all residents and citizens of the Arab world and seeks to defend any individual whose human rights are subjected to violations which are contrary to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the I ...
  • Arias Sánchez, Óscar
    Óscar Arias Sánchez was born in Heredia Costa Rica in 1941.He is the current President of Costa Rica and the first Nobel Laureate to be elected as a Latin American nation's president after winning the award. In 1987 he received the Nobel Peace Prize for hi ...
  • Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development
    FORUM-ASIA is a regional human rights organization in Asia and presently, it has 40 member organizations in 15 countries in Asia. It seeks to facilitate dialogue, capacity-building and networking among human rights defenders, civil society actors and organ ...
  • Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives
    ARENA aims to contribute to the mobilisation of civil society and popular participation in public life, the empowerment of peoples and the enhancement of people’s capabilities to transform their lives and conditions, the transformation of values and consci ...
  • Asociación de Universidades Grupo Montevideo
    Actually, Grupo Montevideo is a Virtual University with a supportive distribution of high qualified academic staff, academic material resources, installations, equipment, teams, laboratories, and libraries; it is a common broaded academic space where barri ...
  • Asociación Española de Fundaciones
    Among the goals of the Spanish Association of Foundations are the promotion of the communication among spanish non lucrative entities, representing a permanent channel of negotiation with the Government for the solving of any matter which may be raised reg ...
  • Asociación Mundial de Radios Comunitarias América Latina y el Caribe
    La Asociación Mundial de Radios Comunitarias (AMARC) es el referente organizacional, político y comunicacional de un movimiento internacional constituido en torno a las radios comunitarias, ciudadanas y populares. AMARC está reconocida como organismo no gu ...
  • Asociación Naciones Unidas España/América Latina
    ANUE was born in 1962 and its main objectives are the defence, promotion and spreading of human rights and basic freedom. It also wants to disclose principles and objectives of UN. It has been recognised by UN as the unique main link between UN and civil s ...
  • Association for Progressive Communications
    The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) is an international network of civil society organisations dedicated to empowering and supporting groups and individuals working for peace, human rights, development and protection of the environment, th ...
  • Association for the Prevention of Torture
    The Association for the Prevention of Torture is an independent NGO based in Geneva, operating globally to prevent torture and other ill-treatment. It was founded by a Swiss banker and lawyer, Jean-Jacques Gautier, in 1977. Its primary objective is to prev ...
  • Association Internationale des Universités
    IAU, founded in 1950, is the UNESCO-based worldwide association of universities. It brings together institutions and organisations from some 150 countries for reflection and action on common concerns and collaborates with various international, regional an ...
  • ATTAC
    The International ATTAC Movement was created at an international meeting in Paris, on December 11-12, 1998. The December 1998 meeting permitted the definition of three major objectives: 1. Launching of the international ATTAC movement - “ international mov ...
  • Aung San Suu Kyi
    Aung San Suu Kyi is a Myanmar's pro-democracy leader. She has won several human rights awards.
  • Austrian EU-Platform of Non-Governmental Development Organisations
    The Austrian EU-platform of non-governmental development is a democratic and pluralistic association of organisations active in development cooperation, humanitarian aid as well as development education and awareness raising. The Austrian Platform represen ...
  • Bank Information Center
    BIC is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organization that advocates for the protection of rights, participation, transparency, and public accountability in the governance and operations of the World Bank, regional development banks, and IMF.The ...
  • Beck, Ulrich
    Ulrich Beck is professor for Sociology at the University of Munich, and the British Journal of Sociology professor at the London School of Economics and Sciences. His interests focus on 'risk society', 'individualization' and 'reflexive modernization'
  • Ben Ami, Shlomo
    Former Israel Foreign Affairs minister.
  • Better World Campaign
    Since 1999, BWC has worked to strengthen the relationship between the United States and the United Nations through outreach, communications, and advocacy. We encourage U.S. leadership to enhance the UN’s ability to carry out its invaluable international wo ...
  • Boff, Leonardo
    Boff is the author of more than sixty books in the areas of theology, spirituality, philosophy, anthropology and mysticism. Most of his works have been translated into the main modern languages.
  • Bordia, Anil
    Anil Bordia was Indian Education Secretary between 1987 and 1992. During his tenure a clear shift of priority was made to basic education. He was responsible for pioneering projects concerning the universalization of primary education. He has dedicated his ...
  • Both ENDS
    Both ENDS supports the work of environmental organisations, primarily in the so-called South countries and the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. They support organisations through information, research, advocacy, campaigning, networking and cap ...
  • Bretton Woods Project
    The Bretton Woods Project works as a networker, information-provider, media informant and watchdog to scrutinise and influence the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). Through briefings, reports and the bimonthly digest Bretton Woods Update, i ...
  • Bridge
    Bridge was set up in 1992 as a specialised gender and development research service within the Institute of Development Studies. It supports gender advocacy and mainstreaming efforts of policymakers and practioners by bridging the gaps between theory, polic ...
  • British Overseas Network for Development
    BOND is the network of more than 280 UK based voluntary organisations working in international development and development education. BOND provides a central point for advocacy on issues on which member organisations have a common view and would benefit fr ...
  • Brutus, Dennis
    Dennis Brutus is a South African poet who was an activist against the apartheid government of South Africa in the 1960s. He was forbidden to teach, write and publish in South Africa. In 1983, Brutus won the right to stay in the United States as a political ...
  • CADIS
    Founded in 1981, CADIS is a sociological research laboratory that combines research in a wide range of areas with an integrated intellectual approach to research. At its inception, the Center was structured around three major programmatic objectives—histor ...
  • California State University
    California State University, Sacramento is dedicated to the life-altering potential of learning that balances a liberal arts education with depth of knowledge in a discipline. CSUS is committed to providing an excellent education to all eligible applicants ...
  • CARE International
    CARE is a united force dedicated to helping the world's poorest communities solve their most threatening problems. CARE is the humanitarian organization fighting global poverty.
  • Caritas Internationalis
    Caritas Internationalis is a confederation of 162 Catholic relief, development and social service organisations working to build a better world, especially for the poor and oppressed, in over 200 countries and territories. Caritas works without regard to c ...
  • Càtedra UNESCO en Tecnologia Desenvolupament Sostenible, Desequilibris i Canvi Global
    L’objectiu principal d’aquesta Càtedra UNESCO és convertir-se en un espai interdisciplinari, crític, reflexiu i obert que contribueixi a reorientar la tecnologia cap al desenvolupament sostenible, a reduir els desequilibris i a enfortir la diversitat.
  • CAUX - Initiatives et Changement
    Initiatives of Change is an international movement, active in 60 countries and formally incorporated in 39 countries. The International Association of Initiatives of Change, was created in 2002, the Swiss foundation Caux – Initiatives of Change was one of ...
  • Center for Environmental Economic Development
    The Center for Environmental Economic Development (CEED) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit California Corporation formed in 1993. For over ten years CEED has worked as a catalyst for environmentally sustainable community development locally, regionally, nationally ...
  • Center for War/Peace Studies
    The Center for War/Peace Studies is a US "think tank" located in the UN backyard. Its central objective is to establish an international political and legal system that makes possible the abolition of war. They have developed the Binding Triad System for g ...
  • Center of Concern
    Since 1971, the Center of Concern has offered moral vision and provided effective leadership in the struggle to end hunger, poverty, environmental decline, and injustice in the United States and around the world. For over thirty years, the Center of Concer ...
  • Centre for Global Governance
    The Centre for the Study of Global Governance is a leading international institution dedicated to research, analysis and dissemination about global governance. Based at the London School of Economics, the Centre aims to increase understanding and knowledge ...
  • Centre for Global Studies
    The mission of the Centre for Global Studies (CFGS) is to advance understanding and action on major global issues by civil society, the private sector, governments, and international institutions. The Centre focuses on issues in the three thematic areas of ...
  • Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation - University of Warwick
    Inaugurated on 1 October 1997, the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR)--with initial baseline funding of £2.5 million for the first five years by the Economic and Social Research Council of the UK--is the largest research centr ...
  • Centre On Housing Rights and Evictions
    The Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) is an independent, non-governmental, not-for-profit human rights organisation established in 1994 in the Netherlands and now based in Geneva, Switzerland. They are one of the principal agencies focusing on ...
  • Centre UNESCO de Catalunya
    The organizations of the United Nations system are based on the states and, therefore, they don't recognize subestatals organizations. However, in 1984 the Centre Unesco de Catalunya was constituted so as to assure an official presence of the catalan cult ...
  • Chomsky, Noam
    Noam Chomsky was born on December 7, 1928 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His undergraduate and graduate years were spent at the University of Pennsylvania where he received his PhD in linguistics in 1955. Chomsky has written and lectured widely on linguist ...
  • Christian Aid
    CA works where the need is greatest in nearly 50 countries, regardless of ethnicity, nationality or religion, to meet suffering and stop poverty – whether through providing emergency relief or long-term development.
  • Ciencias Sociales de América Latina y el Caribe
    CLACSO is an international network, non governmental and with no lucrative goals committed to the promotion of investigation, discussion and academical diffusion on a variety of fields within social sciences. CLASCO was founded for Latin American social s ...
  • CIVICUS
    CIVICUS is an international alliance dedicated to strengthening citizen action and civil society throughout the world. Our vision is of a worldwidecommunity of informed, inspired, committed citizens engaged in confronting the challenges facing humanity. CI ...
  • Climate Action Network
    The Climate Action Network (CAN) is a worldwide network of over 340 Non- Governmental Organizations (NGOs) working to promote government and individual action to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels. Diverse environmental o ...
  • Club of Athens
    The Global Governance Group (or “Triple-G”) is an international initiative which aims to address the challenges of globalisation through innovative approaches to global governance. Its “Triple-G” approach applies not only to its title, but also to its thre ...
  • Club of Rome
    The Club of Rome is a global think tank and centre of innovation and initiative. As a non-profit, non governmental organisation (NGO), it brings together scientists, economists, businessmen, international high civil servants, heads of state and former head ...
  • Coalition for the International Criminal Court
    The Coalition for the International Criminal Court is a network of well over 1,000 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) advocating for a fair, effective and independent International Criminal Court (ICC). The ICC is the first permanent international judi ...
  • Coalition of women for peace
    The Coalition of Women for Peace has become one of the leading voices in Israel advocating for a just and viable peace between Israel and Palestine ever since its founding in November 2000, just six weeks after the current Intifada began. The Coalition bri ...
  • Commission mondiale de l’éthique des connaissances scientifiques
    In 1998 UNESCO set up the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology. COMEST is an advisory body and forum of reflection composed of 18 independent experts. The Commission is mandated to formulate ethical principles that could pr ...
  • Commitee for the Abolition of Third World Debt
    The Committee for the Cancellation of the Third World Debt is an international network of individuals and local committees from across Europe and Latin America, Africa and Asia. It was founded in Belgium on 15th March 1990. The network acts in close liaiso ...
  • Committee for a Democratic U.N.
    The Committee for a Democratic U.N. (KDUN) is a non-governmental organization registered in Germany. KDUN supports international democracy and the strengthening of the United Nations. The political mandate is laid down in a declaration of principle. KDUN's ...
  • Commonwealth Foundation
    The Commonwealth Foundation is an independent, non-profit research and educational institute that develops and advances public policies based on the nation’s founding principles of limited constitutional government, economic freedom, and personal responsib ...
  • Communità di Sant'Egidio
    The Community of Sant'Egidio began in Rome in 1968, in the period following the Second Vatican Council. Today it is a movement of lay people and has more than 50,000 members, dedicated to evangelisation and charity, in Rome, Italy and in more than 70 count ...
  • Congress of South African Trade Unions
    COSATU was launched in December 1985 after four years of unity talks between unions opposed to apartheid and committed to a non-racial, non-sexist and democratic South Africa. Their main broad strategic objectives have always been to improve material condi ...
  • Coopération Internationale pour le Développement et la Solidarité
    Inspired and guided by the Gospel Word and by the social teachings of the Church, CIDSE works to free societies of poverty and oppression and to enable their transformation into communities of solidarity through socially- and culturally-sensitive developme ...
  • Coordinadora Catalana de Fundacions
    The Coordinadora Catalana de Fundacions [Catalan Coordinator of Foundations] was founded in 1978 by virtue of the drive and enthusiasm of civil society. And this selfsame spirit, albeit constantly renewed, has led it to work untiringly to strengthen and pr ...
  • Coordination SUD
    Founded in 1994, Coordination SUD - Solidarité Urgence Développement - brings together six groups of NGOs (CLONG-Volontariat, CNAJEP, Coordination d’Agen, CRID, FORIM, Groupe initiatives) and more than 130 NGOs French international solidarity. These NGOs a ...
  • Corea, Gamani
    Chairperson of the South Centre Board -- 2002-2005. He was, in 1974, appointed Secretary-General of UNCTAD, a position he held until December 1984.
  • Corpwatch
    On the ground and on the web, through education and activism, Oakland-based CorpWatch works to hold corporations accountable on issues of human rights, labor rights and environmental justice, locally and globally. CorpWatch.org website and its campaigns on ...
  • Cousteau Society
    Cousteau Society's mission is to educate people to understand, to love and to protect the water systems of the planet, marin and fresh water, for the well-being of future generations.
  • Cousteau Triplet, Francine
    Francine Triplet Cousteau is the current President of the non-profit organization Cousteau Society. Francine Cousteau is the widow of the famous oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau, who died in 1997.
  • Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation
    The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation was established in 1962 in memory of the second Secretary-General of the United Nations. It is based in Uppsala, Sweden. Its purpose is to organise seminars, conferences, work-shops and consultations on development issues an ...
  • Delors, Jacques
    Known as the architect of the Single European Act, the first modification of the Treaty of Rome, and of the ambitious reform of funding for the European Community, the Hon. Jacques Delors is one of the most influential politicians in the formation of the E ...
  • Democracy Coalition Project
    The Democracy Coalition Project is a nongovernmental organization that conducts research and advocacy relating to democracy promotion policies at the national, regional and global levels. It relies on an international network of civil society organizations ...
  • Development Alternatives With Women For a New Era
    DAWN is a network of women scholars and activists from the economic South who engage in feminist research and analysis of the global environment and are committed to working for economic justice, gender justice and democracy. DAWN works globally and region ...
  • Diaz-Hochleitner, Ricardo
    Ricardo Diaz-Hochleitner was born in Bogotá in 1953. He is the President Emeritus of the Club of Rome.
  • Droits de l'Homme et Dialogue Interculturel
    The aim of the working group on Human Rights and Intercultural Dialogue (HRID / DHDI) is to create a forum for meeting, dialogue and research on issues related to Human Rights and Intercultural Dialogue. Its aim is also to broaden our perspective on Law vi ...
  • Dupas, Gilberto
    Gilberto Dupas is the president of the Instituto de Estudios Económicos e Internacionales.
  • Earth Charter
    The Earth Charter is a declaration of fundamental principles for building a just, sustanaible, and peaceful global society. It seeks to inspire in all peoples a sense of global interdependence and shared responsability for the well-being of the human famil ...
  • Earth Council
    The Earth Council is an international non-governmental organization (NGO) that was created in September 1992 to promote and advance the implementation of the Earth Summit agreements. It is led by a body of 18 Members, drawn from the world's political, busi ...
  • EarthAction
    The interrelated global problems of environmental degradation, poverty, war and the abuse of human rights threaten the future of everyone on earth. Yet most governments and corporations continue with business as usual, as if they haven't noticed. We have t ...
  • Economic Policy Institute/Global Policy Network
    EPI is a think tank that seeks to broaden the public debate about the strategies to achieve a prosperous, fair and sustainable economy. It stresses real world analysis and a concern for the living standards for working people, and make its findings accessi ...
  • Education International
    Education International is the federation of organisations representing over 30 milion teachers and other education workers. Thet try to unify all teachers and education workers. EI promotes the rights of every teachere wherever they are, and the rights of ...
  • EHESS
    L'École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), est un grand établissement relevant du ministère chargé de l’Éducation nationale, de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche. Elle a pour mission la formation à la recherche par la recherche.
  • Elsaadawi, Leonel
    Nawal El Saadawi is a novelist, a psychiatrist and a writer who is well known both in the Arab countries and in many other parts of the world. Her novels and her books on the situation of women in Egyptian and Arab society have had a deep effect on success ...
  • Emory University
    American university
  • EURALAT
    Euralat is a strategic reflection, exchange and political action space promote by civil society organizations networks and research centers which seeks to strengthen and renew the association, cooperation and exchange relations between Europe and Latin Ame ...
  • EURODAD
    EURODAD is a network of 48 development non-governmental organisations from 15 European countries working for national economic and international financing policies that achieve poverty eradication and the empowerment of the poor. By coordinating their know ...
  • European Anti-Poverty Network
    EAPN is a representative network of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and groups involved in the fight against poverty and social exclusion in the Member States of the European Union.
  • European Centre for Conflict Prevention
    The ECCP is a non-governmental organisation that promotes effective conflict prevention and peace-building strategies. It supports and connects people working for peace worldwide.
  • European Foundation Centre
    As an independent international association, the European Foundation Centre (EFC) is the gathering point for independent funders active in and with Europe. Foundations and corporate citizens from all over Europe and the world are members and partners of th ...
  • Falk, Richard A.
    Professor of International Law and Practise at Princeton University.
  • Farhmau
    Fahamu has a vision of the world where people organise to emancipate themselves from all forms of oppression, recognise their social responsibilities, respect each other’s differences, and realise their full potential. They focuses primarily on Africa, alt ...
  • Ferraté, Gabriel
    Gabriel Ferraté is the vice-chancellor of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, President of the Caixa de Catalunya and vicepresident of the board of directors of the Internartional Council for Open and Distance Education.
  • Ferrer, Josep
    Josep Ferrer is the former vice-chancellor of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
  • Focus on the Global South
    Focus on the Global South is a program of development policy research, analysis and action. Focus engages in research, analysis, advocacy and grassroots capacity building on critical issues. It was founded in 1995 and is currently attached to the Chulalong ...
  • Fondation Charles Léopold Mayer pour le progrès de l'Homme
    The Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation for the Progress of Humankind (FPH) was set up in 1982. Established under Swiss law, it is managed by a Council comprising between seven and eleven members and by a General Manager who coordinates a staff of about twent ...
  • Ford Foundation
    Founded in 1936, the foundation operated as a local philanthropy in the state of Michigan until 1950, when it expanded to become a national and international foundation. Since its inception it has been an independent, nonprofit, non-governmental organizati ...
  • Foreign Policy in Focus
    Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF), established in 1996, seeks to make the U.S. a more responsible global leader and global partner. It is a "think tank without walls" that functions as an international network of more than 650 policy analysts and advocates. ...
  • Foro Latinoamericano de Ciencias Ambientales
    En 1988 la Fundación CEPA (Centro de Estudios y Proyectación el Ambiente) concibió la idea de desarrollar los lazos científicos y formativos que desde 1980 mantenía con otras ONGs del Cono Sur (TEA de Uruguay, UEA de Brasil, Altervida de Paraguay y Ser de ...
  • Forum du Tiers Monde
    The Forum of the Third World (FTM), whose african office is in Dakar (Senegal), is an international association with no lucrative purpose that gathers one thousand intellectuals of Africa, Asia and Latin America. FTM aims to animate debates and product cri ...
  • Foster, John
    John Foster works in The North-South Institute in the examination of the relations of NGOs and other civil society organizations with multilateral bodies, such as the United Nations, the World Bank, the World Trade Organization.
  • France Libertés - Fondation Danielle Mitterrand
    Danielle Mitterrand's foundation takes action on the following issues: water access and recognition as a common good, education, social responsibility on economy and democratic practices.
  • Franciscans International
    Franciscans International is a NGO with General Consultative status at the UN, uniting the voices of Franciscan brothers and sisters from around the world. We serve all Franciscans and the global community by bringing spiritual, ethical, and Franciscan val ...
  • Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
    The FES has representation in 70 countries of Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. It also has 33 offices in Western Europe, Japan, USA, CIS countries and Central and South-East Europe. In developing countires they seek to promote peace, democr ...
  • Friends of the Earth International
    Friends of the Earth International is a federation of autonomous environmental organizations from all over the world. Their members, in 70 countries, campaign on the most urgent environmental and social issues of our day, while simultaneously catalyzing a ...
  • Fundação Mario Soares
    Constituted in 1991, the Fundação Mario Soares is an institution of private law and public use with no lucrative ends thanks to the ex-President of the Portuguese Republic, Mário Soares. Having as first the personality and the life of Dr. Mário Soares, th ...
  • Fundación Arias para la Paz y el Progreso Humano
    The Arias Foundation is a private, non-profit organization registered in Costa Rica. Born in the transition toward peace in Central America, it is focused primarily on this region. It promotes dialogue as the best means of solving conflicts and differences ...
  • Fundación Cultura de Paz
    The Culture of Peace is a set of values, attitudes and modes of behavior that reflect respect for life, human beings and human dignity. It gives top priority to human rights, rejection of any form of violence, and adherence to the principles of freedom, ju ...
  • Fundación Global Democracia Desarrollo
    Global Foundation for Democracy and Development is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to promoting collaboration between organizations in the United States and the Dominican Republic with an aim to study, research, enhance public understandi ...
  • Fundación Rigoberta Menchú Tum
    The Fundación is the Rigoberta Menchú's institutional platform that guarantees the accomplishment and execution of the plans, programms and actions on behalf of Human Rights, native village's rights and the contributions to a politic solution of conflicts ...
  • García Márquez, Gabriel
    Believed by many to be one of the world’s greatest writers, Gabriel García Márquez is a Colombian-born author and journalist, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and a pioneer of the Latin American “Boom.” He first won international fame with his ...
  • George, Susan
    Susan George, the author of a dozen of books, was born in the United States, lives in/near Paris and acquired French citizenship in 1994. She is Associate Director of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam, a decentralised fellowship of scholars living t ...
  • Gerth, Donald
    Born on 4 December 1928, Dr. Donald Gerth's career in education spans 50 years. President of California State University, Sacramento, in his 14th year since taking office in July 1984, he came to Sacramento from California State University, Dominguez Hills ...
  • Global March Against Child Labour
    Global March Against Child Labour is a movement borne out of hope and the need felt by thousands of people across the globe - the desire to set children free from servitude. Global March movement began with a worldwide march when thousands of people march ...
  • Global Movement for Children
    The GMC is a movement of organisations and people who try to build a world fit for children. For them everyone has to play their part, from governments, to organisations and individuals. They are offered to all who stand for the rights of children, as mean ...
  • Global Policy Forum
    Global Policy Forum monitors policy making at the United Nations, promotes accountability of global decisions, educates and mobilizes for global citizen participation, and advocates on vital issues of international peace and justice. GPF was founded in 199 ...
  • Global Policy Network
    The Global Policy Network (GPN) consists of policy and research institutions connected to the world's trade union movements. GPN's work reflects a concern with the economic, social, and political conditions of working people in both developing and develope ...
  • Global Witness
    Global Witness exposes the corrupt exploitation of natural resources and the international trade systems, to drive campaigns that end impunity, resource-linked conflict, and human rights and environmental abuses. Natural resources could be the key to endin ...
  • Global youth ACTION Network
    TakingITGlobal.org is a global online community, providing youth with inspiration to make a difference, a source of information on issues, opportunities to take action, and a bridge to get involved locally, nationally and globally. TakingITGlobal (TIG) is ...
  • Globenet
    Created in 1995, on the initiative of associative structures and actors wishing to integrate into their projects the use of new technologies, GlobeNet gradually developed as a structure of methodological and technical support on the projects of use of the ...
  • Gorbachev, Mikhail
    Since 1992, the Honourable Mikhail Gorbachev is President, International Foundation for Socio-Economic and Political Studies (The Gorbachev Foundation) and President, Green Cross International. He is the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (1990), the Order ...
  • Grajew, Oded
    Oded Grajew is the Initiator and Secretariat Memeber of the World Social Forum. He is the founder and President of the Ethos Institute for Business and Social Responsability.
  • Grameen Bank
    GB provides credit to the poorest of the poor in rural Bangladesh, without any collateral. At GB, credit is a cost effective weapon to fight poverty and it serves as a catalyst in the over all development of socio-economic conditions of the poor who have b ...
  • Green Cross International
    Green Cross International was founded by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1993, building on the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and Agenda 21. Green Cross is a non-governmental, non-profit organization. Our mission is to help create a sustainable future by cultiva ...
  • Greenpeace
    Greenpeace is a non-profit organisation, with a presence in 40 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific. As a global organisation, Greenpeace focuses on the most crucial worldwide threats to our planet's biodiversity and environment. Gre ...
  • Groupement d'études et de recherches "Notre Europe"
    Notre Europe organises seminars and conferences, directs studies, consultations, and publications, launches information campaigns, and carries out other types of work of European interest in collaboration with other institutions and with press organisation ...
  • Grzybowski, Candido
    Candido Grzybowski is a sociologist, director of Instituto Brasileño de Análisis Social y Económico (IBASE) and member of the international secretariat of the World Social Forum.
  • Hague Appeal for Peace, The
    The Hague Appeal for Peace is an international network of individuals and organizations dedicated to sowing the seeds for the abolition of war through advocacy and training in peace education. HAP started in 1996 with the mission to organize the largest pe ...
  • Halliday, Denis
    After a 34-year career with the UN (rising to the Assisstant Secretary-General level) he resigned in October 1998 to enable how to speak out publicly about the terrible impact of UN economic sanctions on the people of Iraq, gree from the constraints impose ...
  • Health Global Access Project
    HGAP is an organization of U.S.-based AIDS and human rights activists, people living with HIV/AIDS, public health experts, fair trade advocates and concerned individuals who campaign against policies of neglect and avarice that deny treatment to millions a ...
  • Heinrich Böll Stiftung
    The Heinrich Böll Foundation, affiliated with the Green Party and headquartered in the Hackesche Höfe in the heart of Berlin, is a legally independent political foundation working in the spirit of intellectual openness. It was founded in 1997 by uniting th ...
  • Henderson, Hazel
    Hazel Henderson was born in 1933 in Bristol, England. She is a futurist and evolutionary economist. She has been in good part concerned with finding the unexplored areas in standard economics and the "blind spots" of conventional economists. Most of her wo ...
  • Human Rights First
    Human Rights First protects people at risk: refugees who flee persecution, victims of crimes against humanity or other mass human rights violations, victims of discrimination, those whose rights are eroded in the name of national security, and human rights ...
  • Human Rights Watch
    Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world. Human Rights Watch is an independent, nongovernmental organization, supported by contributions from private individuals and foundations worldwide. It challenges gove ...
  • Independent Sector
    Independent Sector is committed to strengthening, empowering, and partnering with nonprofit and philanthropic organizations in their work on behalf of the public good. Its membership of nonprofit organizations, foundations, and corporate philanthropy progr ...
  • Institut I. Jacques Maritain
    The International Jacques Maritian Institute is a non-profit making cultural association and is a recognised legal entity. As an intellectual, international and interdisciplinary laboratory, it promotes research into, and the study of, the subjects of man, ...
  • Institut Interculturel de Montréal
    The Intercultural Institute of Montreal act as : • An interreligious, intercultural and interracial centre of reconciliation, encounter and solidarity among peoples of different cultures, religions, ages and socio-economic backgrounds. • A centre of analys ...
  • Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
    The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy promotes resilient family farms, rural communities and ecosystems around the world through research and education, science and technology, and advocacy. In the mid-1980s, family farmers across America were in ...
  • Institute for Global Communications
    Beginning in 1987, the Institute for Global Communications (IGC) played a formative role in bringing advanced communications technologies to grassroots organizations worldwide working for peace, human rights, environmental sustainability, women's rights, c ...
  • Institute for Human Rights
    The Institute for Human Rights was founded in 1987. It forms part of the Department of Public Law of the Faculty of Law of the University of Leuven. The Institute is in charge of the courses on international human rights law (in Englisch and Dutch) within ...
  • Instituto Brasileño de Análisis Sociales y Económicos
    The Brazilian Institute of Social and Economic Analyses (IBASE) was founded in 1981. It has the status of a federal nonprofit charitable organization, with no links to any religious institution or political party. Its mission is to build democracy by fight ...
  • Integrated Social Development Centre
    ISODEC describes its mission as promoting social justice and fundamental human rights, especially of the poor and those without organized voice and influence. ISODEC currently provides basic needs services(health, education and micro-finance) and is also a ...
  • Inter Press Service
    Inter Press Service, the world's leading provider of information on global issues, is backed by a network of journalists in more than 100 countries, with satellite communication links to 1,200 outlets. IPS focuses its news coverage on the events and globa ...
  • InterAction
    InterAction is the largest alliance of U.S.-based international development and humanitarian nongovernmental organizations. With more than 160 members operating in every developing country, we work to overcome poverty, exclusion and suffering by advancing ...
  • Intercultural Resources
    Intercultural Resources is an Indian forum for research and political intervention on issues related to the impacts and alternatives to destructive development. Their efforts draw upon the social, cultural, material and intellectual resources that have bee ...
  • INTERIGHTS
    INTERIGHTS, the International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights works to promote respect for human rights through the use of law. We do so by providing legal expertise to lawyers, judges, human rights defenders and other partners concerning i ...
  • Intermón - Oxfam
    Oxfam International is an international group of independent non-governmental organizations dedicated to fighting poverty and related injustice around the world. The Oxfams work together internationally to achieve greater impact by their collective efforts ...
  • International Action Network on Small Arms
    IANSA is the global movement against gun violence - a network of 700 civil society organisations working in 100 countries to stop the proliferation and misuse of small arms and light weapons (SALW). IANSA seeks to make people safer from gun violence by sec ...
  • International Campaign to Ban Landmines
    Both the causes and the effects of the landmine crisis need to be addressed. The ICBL is committed to an international ban on the use, production, stockpiling, and sale, transfer, or export of antipersonnel landmines. ICBL calls for increased resources for ...
  • International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development
    Rights & Democracy (International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development) is a non-partisan organization with an international mandate. It was created by Canada's Parliament in 1988 to encourage and support the universal values of human rights ...
  • International Civil Society Forum on Democracy
    The ICSFD is a global network of civil society representatives, which promotes effective democratic governance reforms by strengthening civil society collaboration nationally, regionally and internationally.
  • International Commission of Jurists
    The International Commission of Jurists is dedicated to the primacy, coherence and implementation of international law and principles that advance human rights. What distinguishes the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) is its impartial, objective an ...
  • International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
    The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), was set up in 1949 and has 233 affiliated organisations in 154 countries and territories on all five continents, with a membership of 145 million, 40% of who are women. The main ICFTU prioritie ...
  • International Council of Voluntary Agencies
    The International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA), founded in 1962, is a global network of human rights, humanitarian, and development NGOs, which focuses its information exchange and advocacy efforts primarily on humanitarian affairs and refugee issu ...
  • International Crisis Group
    The International Crisis Group is an independent, non-profit, multinational organisation, with over 100 staff members on five continents, working through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to prevent and resolve deadly conflict.
  • International Federation of ACAT
    FIACAT campaigns on behalf of people who are tortured, detained in inhuman conditions, sentenced to death or "disappeared", whatever their origins, political opinions or religious beliefs. FIACAT seeks to increase awareness in the Churches and amongst Chri ...
  • International Federation of the Red Cross
    The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is the world's largest humanitarian organization, providing assistance without discrimination as to nationality, race, religious beliefs, class or political opinions. Founded in 1919, the ...
  • International Fund for Animal Welfare
    The founders of the International Fund for Animal Welfare, or IFAW, rejected the notion that the interests of humans and animals were separate. Instead they embraced the understanding that the fate and future of harp seals-and all other animals on Earth-ar ...
  • International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights
    The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights is a self-governing group of non-governmental, not-for-profit organizations that act to protect human rights throughout Europe, North America and Central Asia. A primary specific goal is to monitor com ...
  • International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
    Created in 1995, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) is an intergovernmental organization that seeks to nurture and support sustainable democracy world-wide. Global in membership and independent of specific national in ...
  • International Institute for Environment and Development
    IIED is an independent, non-profit organization promoting sustainable patterns of world development through collaborative research, policy studies, networking and knowledge dissemination. We work to address global issues, for example; mining, the paper ind ...
  • International Network for Economic, Social & Cultural Rights
    ESCR-Net seeks to strengthen economic, social and cultural rights by working with organizations and activists worldwide to facilitate mutual learning and strategy sharing, develop new tools and resources, engage in advocacy, and provide information-sharing ...
  • International NGO Forum on Indonesian Development
    INFID is an open and pluralistic network of NGOs from Indonesia and various memeber countries of the Consultative Group for Indonesia as well as of international organizations and individuals with an interest in and commitment to Indonesia. INFID endeavors ...
  • International Peace Bureau
    The International Peace Bureau is the world´s oldest and most comprehensive international peace federation, bringing together people working for peace in many different sectors: not only pacifists but also women´s, youth, labour, religious and professional ...
  • International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
    IPPNW is a non-partisan, global federation of national medical organizations in 58 countries dedicated to research, education, and advocacy relevant to the prevention of nuclear war. To this end, IPPNW seeks to prevent all wars, to promote non-violent conf ...
  • International Save the Children Alliance
    All children are equal, and have human rights such as the right to food, shelter, health care, education and freedom from violence, neglect and exploitation. In all its work, both long-term development and emergency relief, Save the Children helps children ...
  • International Service for Human Rights
    The International Service for Human Rights is an international NGO serving human rights defenders. Its vision is the development, strengthening, effective use and implementation of international and regional standards and mechanisms for the protection and ...
  • International Women's Tribune Centre
    The International Women's Tribune Centre (IWTC) is an international non-governmental organization established in l976 following the United Nations International Women's Year World Conference in Mexico City. With a commitment to empowering people and buildi ...
  • Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions
    CAHD is a non-violent, direct-action group originally established to oppose and resist Israeli demolition of Palestinian houses in the Occupied Territories. As our activists gained direct knowledge of the brutalities of the Occupation, we expanded our resi ...
  • Jahangir, Asma
    Asma Jahangir is a Pakistani lawyer and human rights activist. She has been the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief of the Commission on Human Rights since 2004. She is also law partner and co-founder with her sister Hina Jil ...
  • Japan Center for International Exchange
    Founded in 1970, the Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE) is an independent, nonprofit, and nonpartisan organization dedicated to strengthening Japan's role in international networks of dialogue and cooperation. JCIE aims to promote policy dialog ...
  • Jauregui, Gurutz
    Gurutz Jauregui is professor of constitutional law in the Universidad del País Vasco.
  • Jubilee South
    Jubilee South is a network of jubilee and debt campaigns, social movements, people's organizations, communities, NGOs and political formations. The Jubilee South network aims to and is in the process of emerging and developing as an international South mov ...
  • Justiça Global
    Global Justice is a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of human rights in Brazil through rigorous factfinding, documentation and reporting, as well as the use of international mechanisms for the protection of human rights. Global Justice (J ...
  • Justice and Peace-Europe
    The European Justice and Peace Commissions form an international network. Their objective is to exchange information and to maintain contacts with Church organizations in Europe and at the global level as well as with public institutions. They have working ...