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Cedar International
Forum for the Implementation of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Chemicals Policy Initiative
The Lowell Center for Sustainable Production’s Chemicals Policy Initiative aims to inform and stimulate discussions leading to implementation of long term integrated government and industry chemicals management policy at the local, state, regional, and federal levels in the United States as well as internationally. Such chemicals policies must be viewed in a holistic and integrated context — to protect worker, community, and consumer health, while stimulating development of safer and cleaner production systems, materials, and products.

Choike
Choike is a portal dedicated to improving the visibility of the work done by NGOs from the South. It serves as a platform where NGOs can disseminate their work and at the same time enrich it with information from diverse sources, organized in line with the perspective of Southern civil society.

Dr. Willem Marsman CEO
I would like to draw your attention to my website which is used as a reference pointfor many institutions (see acknowledgments). Please browse through summary of articles and training.

Global Issues in a Changing World
A new series from Zed Books of short, accessible think pieces deals with leading global issues of relevance to humanity.

Global Public Health: Access to Essential Medicines
For millions of HIV-infected people, there is a crying need to make lifesaving drugs more available--and quickly. It is crucial that rich countries provide adequate funding for the new Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. The fund has made an initial round of grants, pledging $1.5 billion in support for projects over a five-year period--the bulk of the $1.9 billion currently at the Global Fund’s disposal for this time period. Yet this amount is puny compared to the need: The Global Fund needs roughly $10 billion a year to address the AIDS pandemic and other infectious diseases wracking Africa and poor countries elsewhere, according to public health experts. Addressing the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa and around the world will require a massively accelerated prevention effort. It will also require revitalizing developing countries’ decimated public health systems and making quality health care much more widely available. This, in turn, will require major new investments in public health and the abandonment of structural adjustment requirements to collect user fees from people seeking health care. It is now time for Washington to bring its foreign policy into full compliance with the accepted notion that public health protection is the most important goal in shaping pharmaceutical patent policy.

International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development
information, analysis, sources and links to empower stakeholders in trade policy to influence the international trade system such that it advnaces the goal of sustainable development

North Carolina Global Trade Site
Importing & Exporting Trade Portal for North Carolina in the United States. Free Membership, Global Marketing, Email alerts, catalogs, and much more.

Social Criticism Review
An outstanding selection of 1,000 online readings on the crisis of modernity: progress, science for sale, megatechnology, third world debt, counterproductive economy, globalization, corporate rule, anti-democratic media, advertising consumerism, environmental destruction, genetic manipulation, sustainable development, human rights, ethics, responsibility, citizenship, community building, arms race, war on terrorism, and much more. A useful resource for a unified protest movement. -- excellent references for SCR: www.socialcritic.org/ref.htm

Third World Network
The Third World Network is an independent non-profit international network of organizations and individuals involved in issues relating to development, the Third World and North- South issues. Its objectives are to conduct research on economic, social and environmental issues pertaining to the South; to publish books and magazines; to organize and participate in seminars; and to provide a platform representing broadly Southern interests and perspectives at international fora such as the UN conferences and processes.