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Business and Human Rights: a resource website |
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AccountAbility: Institute of Social and Ethical Accountability
ACERCA (Action for Community and Ecology in the Regions of Central America)
Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA)
AIDS Law Project - South Africa
Amnesty International: Economic Relations and Human Rights website (Amnesty International, International Secretariat)
Amnesty International UK Business Group
Amnesty International USA: Business & Economic Relations
Amnesty International USA, "Human Rights: A Corporate Responsibility"
Amnesty International USA, "Just Earth! Defending Those Who Give the Earth a Voice"
APOSHO: Asia-Pacific Occupational Safety and Health Organization
Arab Organization for Human Rights
Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD)
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund: "Economic Justice"
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates [California]
Asian Workers Institute for Occupational Health, Safety and Environment (OHSE Institute)
Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID)
Attac {···français} {···english} {···español} {···deutsch}
Australian Human Rights Centre
AWARE - Association of Women for Action and Research (Singapore)
Banana Link: Working for sustainable production and trade in bananas
Bretton Woods Project [monitoring the World Bank and IMF]
Burma Project: Broadening the Debate on Burma
California Global Corporate Accountability Project
Canadian Alliance on Trade and Environment
CEDHA (Center for Human Rights and the Environment / Centro de Derechos Humanos y Medio Ambiente)
CEE Bankwatch Network (Network's mission is to prevent environmentally & socially harmful impacts of international development finance)
Center for Bioethics (University of Pennsylvania)
Center for Economic and Policy Research
Center for Economic and Social Rights
Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL)
The Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment
Centre for Corporate Accountability: Promoting worker and public safety (UK)
Centre for Innovation in Corporate Responsibility (CICR)
Centre for Social Markets: Entrepreneurship for people, planet & profit (India/UK)
Centre for Transport and Energy (NGO based in Czech Republic)
Centro Nuovo Modello di Sviluppa: Dignity in Labour in the South of the world {···english···español···français···italiano}
Changemakers.net: The Site for Social Entrepreneurship Worldwide (Ashoka)
Child Labor Coalition (USA)
Child Labor Education and Action Project (SIT - School for International Training)
Child Labour News Service (Global March Against Child Labour)
Child Rights Information Network (CRIN)
Children in the Fields Campaign [child labour in agriculture] (Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and National Consumers League)
Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT) [Canada]
CokeWatch.org: a website designed to keep an eye on The Coca-Cola Company
Committee on Labor Standards and Human Rights [addressing labor issues in the production of University of Michigan goods] (University of Michigan)
Committee on the Political Economy of the Good Society (University of Maryland)
Community Aid Abroad (Oxfam Australia)
Community Aid Abroad: "The Mining Campaign"
Community Aid Abroad: "Nike Watch"
Community Law & Rural Development Centre (South Africa)
Consumer Project on Technology
Conventional Arms Transfer Project (Council for a Livable World Education Fund)
Co-op America's Sweatshops.org
Corporate Agribusiness Research Project (CARP)
Corporate Engagement Project - Collaborative for Development Action
CSRWorld (based in India, covers South Asia)
Danish Centre for Human Rights - Human Rights & Business project
Defence for Children International
The Development Group for Alternative Policies (The Development GAP)
ECLT Foundation: Addressing the challenge of child labour in tobacco growing
Eldis: the gateway to development information (Eldis: the gateway to development information, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex)
Ethical Globalization Initiative: A Human-Rights Based Approach to Globalization (directed by Mary Robinson, former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights)
European Centre for Occupational Health, Safety and the Environment (University of Glasgow)
European Forum for Child Welfare (EFCW) / Forum Européen pour le Bien-être de l'Enfance
Fair Wear: Stopping exploitation of homebased outworkers in the clothing, textile & footwear industries (Australia)
Federation of American Scientists: Arms Sales Monitoring Project
FIDH: Fédération internationale des ligues des droits de l'Homme
Fields of Hope [child labour in agriculture]
50 Year Is Enough: U.S. Network for Global Economic Justice
Focus on the Global South (Bangkok)
FoodFirst: Institute for Food and Development Policy
Forum-Asia (Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development)
François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights (Harvard School of Public Health)
Future Harvest [promotes awareness about the importance of food production and the role of agricultural science in meeting the human and environmental challenges of today and tomorrow]
Genetically Engineered Food Alert
GAIN: Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
Global Dimensions: Developing the political response to globalization [at the London School of Economics' Centre for the Study of Global Governance]
Global Forum for Health Research
Global March Against Child Labour
Global Treatment Access Campaign: Campaign for Affordable AIDS Drugs and Essential Medicines
GRESEA (Groupe de Recherche pour une Stratégie Economique Alternative)
Health Care Without Harm: The Campaign for Environmentally Responsible Health Care
Health Gap Coalition: Bridging the Gap in Access to Medicines
Hong Kong Christian Industrial Committee
Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor
Human Rights and Business Roundtable (The Fund for Peace)
Human Rights Education Associates
Human Rights Watch website on "Corporations and Human Rights"
Human Security and the International Diamond Trade in Africa program
Indigenous Environmental Network
Indigenous Peoples Program of the Earth Council
Infact: Challenging Corporate Abuse
Institute of Development Studies (University of Sussex, UK)
Institute for OneWorld Health: The mission of the Institute for OneWorld Health is to develop new, essential and affordable medicines for neglected diseases (Institute for OneWorld Health)
Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR)
Intermediate Technology Development Group: Practical Answers to Poverty
International Campaign to Ban Landmines
International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development (ICHRDD)
International Commission of Jurists
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU)
International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO)
International Council on Human Rights Policy
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
International Forum on Globalization
International Human Rights Law Group
International Institute for Environment & Development
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
International Labor Rights Fund
International League for Human Rights
International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
International Peace Forum (includes "Business & Peace")
International Rivers Network (IRN)
International Women's Tribune Centre
Kav La'oved: organisation protecting the rights of disadvantaged workers in Israel
Labor and Global Change Research Network (University of Michigan)
Labor Watch (Harvard Trade Union Program and the Mid-West Center for Labor Research)
Labour and Society International
Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
Lawyers for Human Rights (South Africa)
Maquila Solidarity Network / Solidaridad de la Maquila
Maquiladora Health & Safety Support Network
McSpotlight [alternative site commenting on the policies & practices of McDonald's Corporation]
Mining Watch Canada / Mines Alerte {···english···español···français}
Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights
National Councils for Sustainable Development
National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice
National Policy Association [USA]
Network for Accountability of Tobacco Transnationals (NATT)
NGO Taskforce on Business & Industry
Nike Watch (Oxfam - Community Aid Abroad)
NikeWages.Org: Olympic Living Wage Project
North-South Institute {···english···français: L'Institut Nord-Sud}
Norwegian Forum for Environment and Development
Oilwatch (Ecuador) {···english···español}
Overseas Development Council (USA)
Overseas Development Institute (UK)
Partners in Health (charity affiliated with the Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change at Harvard Medical School)
Partnership for Indigenous Peoples Environment
People-Centered Development Forum
Physicians for Human Rights - Israel
Physicians for Human Rights - UK
Physicians for Human Rights - USA
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Environment and Health (Physicians for Social Responsibility)
{···français} pipelinewatch.org: Nous vous proposons ici un éclairage critique sur le projet pétrolier Tchad-Cameroun
Population and Community Development Association (PDA) (Thailand)
{···español} Programa Empresa Responsable (CEDHA - Centro de Derechos Humanos y Medio Ambiente)
Project Underground: Supporting the human rights of communities resisting mining and oil exploration
Public Citizen / Global Trade Watch
READIT - Rapid Environment And Development International Timetable - READIT covers 100s of sustainable development events and links - from the local to the global level. (Environment & Development Resource Centre)
{···español} Red Fronteriza de Salud y Ambiente, A.C. (Mexico)
Research Foundation for Science,Technology and Ecology (India)
SAPRIN: Standing Up To Structural Adjusment
Social Accountability International (administering SA8000 global standards on human rights; formerly Council on Economic Priorities Accreditation Agency)
Society for Threatened Peoples
SOMO: Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations
Soros Foundations Network / Open Society Institute
SOS Faim {···français···english: SOS Hunger}
State PIRGs [Public Interest Research Groups, USA] Working Together
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
Survival International {···english···español···français···italiano}
Sustainable Development Policy Institute
Swiss Coalition of Development Organizations
Taskforce on the Churches and Corporate Responsibility (TCCR)
Terre des hommes:
Tobacco Scam: How Big Tobacco uses and abuses the restaurant industry (a project of Stanton A. Glantz, PhD, professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco)
Traidcraft: Fighting poverty through trade
Transparency International: the global coalition against corruption {···english···español···français···deutsch}
Treatment Action Campaign: Fighting for affordable treatment for people with HIV (South Africa)
UNITE! Stop Sweatshops Campaign
United Students Against Sweatshops
Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation
US/LEAP (U.S. Labor Education in the Americas Project)
Verité (Verification in Trade and Export)
WAL-MARTyrs: Sharing the Wal-Mart Experience Worker to Worker
WEED (Weltwirtschaft, Ökologie & Entwicklung / World Economy, Ecology & Development) {···deutsch}
Women Against Sexual Harassment
Women in Informal Employment Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO)
Women's Environment and Development Organization
Women's Human Rights Resources (Bora Laskin Library, University of Toronto)
WRAP (Worldwide Responsible Apparel Production)
www.floodwallstreet.org / The Three Gorges Action Coalition [human rights and environmental groups working to halt the flow of foreign capital to the Three Gorges Dam in China]