Corporate Power/accountability LinksAlterNet
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Cedar International
Forum for the Implementation of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Center for Economic and Policy Research
CEPR was established to promote democratic debate on the most important economic and
social issues that affect people’s lives. CEPR's professional research is oriented towards filling
important gaps in the understanding of particular economic and social
problems, or the impact of specific policies. It's public education
mission is to present the findings of professional
research, both by CEPR and others, in a manner that allows broad
segments of the public to know exactly what is at stake in major policy
debates.
Choike at the World Social Forum
The fifth edition of the World Social Forum took place once again in Porto Alegre, Brazil, from January 26 to 31, 2005.
It was opened to organisations and individuals and a new perspective and methodological approach was adopted to increase collaboration and dialogue during the event. The goal was to avoid repetitive activities on similar issues that were developed independently of each other. This initiative started from the premise that it is not possible to build another world without combining efforts, building alternatives and interlinking common actions and campaigns.
Those who participated in the previous WSFs have contributed to create a new type of organisation, which is more a process than an institution. While being extraordinarily ambitious in its diversity, in the wide range of topics it deals with and in the activities it holds, the Forum is also consciously modest with regard to its role: its Charter of Principles clearly specifies that it is not the only space of convergence.
This is just one more space within a broader process of global struggles and its function is to offer a way by means of which people who share common concerns and believe that "another world is possible" could jump over geographic, cultural and political differences and could freely develop new plans, strategies, initiatives and organisations.
It is a space for democratic debate of ideas, reflective thinking, formulation of proposals, exchange of experiences and interlinking of social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organisations. After the first world meeting held in 2001, it became a permanent process of seeking and building alternatives to neoliberal policies.
The International Council of the Forum has decided that next year's editon will be realized in a spread out manner, in different places in the world. With this, the WSF ensures it's commitment with it's Letter of Priciples, seeking for a permanet process of searching and building new alternatives, which are not limited to the events proposed.
In [the reports at this link] we offer articles, discussions from previous regional forums, news, debates and background information on the World Social Forum 2005. Coverage was also provided during the development of this event.
Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)
CEO is an Amsterdam-based research and campaign group targeting the threats to democracy, equity, social justice and the environment posed by the economic and political power of corporations and their lobby groups.
CorpWatch
CorpWatch.org provides news, analysis, research tools and action alerts to respond to corporate activity around the globe. We also talk with people who are directly affected by corporate-led globalization as well as with others fighting for corporate accountability, human rights, social and environmental justice.
CorpWatch
CorpWatch
CorpWatch counters corporate led globalization with organizing, information and networking. We work to hold corporations acountable on human rights, labor rights and environmental justice.
FAIR: Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
FAIR, the national media watch group, has been offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986. We
work to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media practices that
marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints. As an anti-censorship organization, we expose neglected news stories
and defend working journalists when they are muzzled. As a progressive group, FAIR believes that structural reform is ultimately
needed to break up the dominant media conglomerates, establish independent public broadcasting and promote strong non-profit
sources of information.
Friends of the Earth International
Friends of the Earth is the largest grassroots environmental federation in the world aiming to protect the environment and to create sustainable societies.
Global Accountability Project
The 21st Century is crammed with organisations that boast a global reach. Powerful actors from three key groups, Intergovernmental Organisations, Transnational Corporations and Non-Governmental Organisations, think nothing of working across national borders and delivering to an international constituency. Global organisations regularly take decisions that have an impact on all of our lives. A key issue is whether we have the power to hold them to account for their actions.
The Global Accountability Project aims to assess how open and receptive global organisations are to the internal demands of their members and the external demands of individuals and groups who are affected by the organisations' daily operations.
The One World Trust established an informal accountability forum for Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs). The forum aims to provide a space for NGOs to collectively share learning and resources on accountability and begin to articulate a common vision of the type of accountability the NGO sector requires.
India Resource Center
India Resource Center coordinates the International Campaign to Hold Coca-Cola Accountable for its crimes in India and Colombia
Maquila Solidarity Network (MSN)
MSN is a Canadian-based labour rights advocacy group dedicated to promo9ting and defening the rights of workers in maquiladora factories and export processing zones.
Oxfam's Make Trade Fair site
A site on Oxfam International's campaign on global trade governance.
Rethinking Globalization
This comprehensive new book from Rethinking Schools -- more than 400 pages -- helps teachers raise critical issues with students in grades 4 - 12 about the increasing globalization of the world's economies and infrastructures, and the many different impacts this trend has on our planet and those who live here.
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.
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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.
WorldTradeLaw.net
The Online Source for World Trade Law
WorldTradeLaw.net's Dispute Settlement Commentary (DSC) is an annual subscription service providing detailed summaries and
analysis of all WTO Panel and Appellate Body Reports.
WTO WATCH
The Trade Observatory on WTO, Globalization, Trade and Sustainable Development - The premier web portal for trade and WTO news and information.
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