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antiwar.com
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research NGOs in the region with the main purpose of exchanging information
on international issues, as well as experiences, technologies, and methods
in research. At present, the APRN has 23 member-organizations from 12
countries.
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Asian-Pacific
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by the public interest use of communications.
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policy, management and governance through the sharing, exchange and transfer
of knowledge, skills and competency for sustainable social, economic and
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and methods, and transfer guides for use by decision-makers, civic and
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Boston
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about health and medical care, especially as they relate to women.
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Center
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The Centre for Science
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environmental NGOs with a deep interest in sustainable natural resource
management. CSE’s strategy of "knowledge based activism"
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numerous rural activists, about the importance of sustainable development,
especially for the daily survival of the country’s poor and its rural
women. CSE has provided advance warnings, perceptive analyses and
intellectual leadership in the field of environmental management. CSE’s
insistence on respect for democracy, people’s participation, traditional
knowledge and modern science make it different even from most
environmental organisations.
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The Center for World Indigenous Studies
(CWIS)
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Citizens'
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Committee
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Communication
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Communication Initiative - Facilitating essential
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the international development community.
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Corporate
Watch
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resources to respond to corporate activity around the globe. We also talk
with people who are directly affected by corporate abuses as well as with
others fighting for corporate accountability, human rights, social and
environmental justice. As part of the independent media, Corporate Watch
is free of corporate sponsorship. Our parent organization is the
Transnational Resource and Action Center (TRAC), based in San Francisco.
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Development
Development (various sites concerned with human development)
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ECuity project
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issues: equity in health care finance; equity in health care delivery and
inequalities in health.
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Exchange
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identify and strengthen effective communication practice.
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Fair
Trade Federation
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retailers, and producers whose members are committed to providing fair wages
and good employment opportunities to economically disadvantaged artisans and
farmers worldwide.
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Fifty
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coalition of 205 grassroots, faith-based, policy, women's, social- and
economic-justice, youth, solidarity, labor, and development organizations
dedicated to the profound transformation of the World Bank and the
International Monetary Fund (IMF). Through education and action the
Network is committed to making international financial institutions
democratic and accountable to those who have to live with the effects of
their policies and practices. We formed on the occasion of the 50th
anniversary of the founding of the World Bank and IMF.
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Focus
on the Global South
Focus on the Global South. FOCUS is a program of progressive
development policy research and practice, dedicated to regional and global
policy analysis, micro-macro linking and advocacy work. FOCUS works with
NGOs and people's organizations in Asia Pacific and other regions. Based
at CUSRI, Wisit Prachuabmoh Building, Chulalongkorn University.
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Global
Development Network (GDN)
Global Development Network (GDN) has the goal of supporting and linking
research and policy institutes involved in the field of development, and
whose work is predicated on the notion that ideas matter. The initiative,
still in its early phase, has proceeded on two fronts: knowledge
generation and knowledge sharing. First, since early 1998, the regional
networks have used World Bank funding to create or strengthen competitive
peer-review grant mechanisms for generating research. Second, starting
with an initial consultative meeting in June 1998, the regional networks
and the World Bank have initiated several knowledge-sharing programs,
including training for researchers, a series of regional workshops
focusing on building the capacity of research and policy institutes, and
planning for future activities.
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Global
Forum for Health Research
Global Forum for Health Research Promoting
research to improve the health of poor people. The Global Forum for
Health Research is an international foundation managed by a Foundation
Council, representing the partners of the Global Forum, assisted by a
Strategic and Technical Advisory Committee. Global spending on health
research by both the public and private sectors amounts to about US$56
billion per year (1992 estimate). However, less than 10% of this is
devoted to diseases or conditions that account for 90% of the global
disease burden. The human and economic costs of such misallocation of
resources are enormous. The central objective of the Global Forum for
Health Research is to help correct the 10/90 gap and focus research
efforts on the health problems of the poor by improving the allocation of
research funds and by facilitating collaboration among partners in both
the public and private sectors.
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Global
Health Network
Global Health Network - an alliance of experts in health and
telecommunications who are actively developing the architecture for a
health information structure for the prevention of disease in the 21st
century. Excellent links.
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Global
Trade Watch (GTW)
Global Trade Watch (GTW) was created in 1993 to promote government and
corporate accountability in an area on which few public interest groups
were focused: the international commercial agreements shaping the current
version of globalization. GTW is a division of Public
Citizen, the
national consumer group founded in 1972 by Ralph Nader.
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Health, Development, Information and Policy Institute
Health, Development, Information and Policy Institute, West Bank,
Palestine develops health information services - mapping health and
related services, policy research and development, lobbying and advocacy
with government, coordinating health NGOs and training.
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HealthLink - South
Africa
HealthLink (South Africa) encourages the effective use and
dissemination of information for decision making by various stakeholders
by using electronic, print and other media. It aims to provide a reliable
source of information about health and health policy developments in South
Africa, and to serve as a channel through which health systems research
results and recommendations can be shared. Key areas are:
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Equity
Monitoring the move toward equity in health and health care
in South Africa
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HealthLink project
Promoting the use of electronic information
& communication in health
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South African Health Review
Providing an annual & longer term
review of health policy developments and implementation in South
Africa
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Healthlink Worldwide - UK
Healthlink Worldwide (UK organisation that works to improve the health of poor and
vulnerable communities)
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Health
Priorities
Health Priorities contains information regarding the The Third
International Conference on Priorities in Health Care to be held from 23
to 24 November 2000 in Amsterdam.
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HealthWrights
HealthWrights is a non-profit organization committed to advancing the
health, basic rights, social equality, and self-determination of
disadvantaged persons and groups. We believe that health for all people is
only possible in a global society where the guiding principles are
sharing, mutual assistance, and respect for cultural and individual
differences.
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Healthy Documents
Healthy Documents is a compilation of resolutions, declarations and charters on health made at international meetings and also related UN instruments, such as international covenants, treaties, programmes and platforms of action which support these declarations and which are ratified by various governments. The declarations and UN instruments are in the areas of medical ethics, health rights, public health, health and social development, nutrition, children's health and women's health. It also showcases two
organisations' advocacy work as an inspiring example of implementing a UN instrument and in realizing an international declaration. This publication is a source of useful information and an important action tool for advocacy to promote people's health.
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Horizons
Solutions Site
Horizons Solutions Site, created by HORIZON Communications, provides
readily accessible peer reviewed answers to problems in environment,
health, population and development. The purpose of this site is to provide
a forum for the presentation of solutions to vital concerns in the areas
of health, population, development and the environment. Initiatives are
gathered through a number of different means, including direct user
submissions, the efforts of partner institutions, and HORIZON's own
research activities. The case studies not only encourage the replication
of existing projects and provide information on how to do so, but also
inspire the development of new initiatives. The International Development
Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada, the United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP), Environment Programme (UNEP), Population Fund (UNFPA), UNICEF, and
Yale and Harvard universities are collaborating with HORIZON on the Site,
and numerous other organizations are cooperating by providing case
studies.
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IBON
IBON is a research-education development institution. IBON undertakes
the study of socioeconomic issues that confront Philippine society today
and seeks to bring this knowledge and information to the greatest number
of our people. In this way, they will be able to effectively participate
in building a self-reliant and progressive Philippines, a nation that is
sovereign and democratic.
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Informatics
- On-line
Education
Africa: Education, Communication and Development.
This site is intended for anyone who is involved or interested in education and development in Africa or, more generally, people who are working in developing countries in the areas of development communication or education.
Communicating Culture, Change and Development
This site is intended for anyone who is involved or interested in communication, culture and change, and who would like to contribute to a knowledge database about the relationships between these three very important concepts. Especially in third world countries.
Informatics Development Working Papers. Institute for Development Policy and Management, The University of Manchester
Distance Learning in Developing Countries
This is a discussion list for researchers, teachers and students interested in distance learning or distance education (DE) in developing countries. You can send or post messages to all others on the list, and in this way help to create a "virtual" community of people interested in this area. Any topic which is at all connected with distance learning in developing
countries is valid here. For example: there is an increasing use of DE as a means of creating a mass higher education system without the need for expensive buildings etc in some African countries.
India: National Open School - Goals:
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International Association of Health Policy
IAHP is an international association sharing the same ideas and goals with
PHA movement. The site use could help in information exchange, coordiantion
and cooperation. Note the next Conference in Mallorca, Spain.
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International
Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN)
International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) - is a partnership of
over 150 groups working to improving infant health through the protection
of breastfeeding.
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The
Institute for Agriculture and Trade
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy's mission is to create
environmentally and economically sustainable rural communities and regions
through sound agriculture and trade policy. We assist public interest
organizations in coalition building and influencing both domestic and
international policymaking through monitoring, analysis and research,
education and outreach, and information systems management.
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Institute
for Global Communications
Institute for Global Communications (IGC) was officially formed to
manage PeaceNet and the newly acquired EcoNet. EcoNet was the world's
first computer network dedicated to environmental preservation and
sustainability and remains the best-known and most comprehensive online
network of its kind. IGC regards international cooperation and partnership
as essential in addressing problems of 21st century. IGC broadened its
reach in 1988 to include international membership and began to collaborate
with like-minded organizations outside the United States. The first
international link was made with GreenNet in the U.K. In 1989, IGC added
Internet e-mail to its services. In partnership with six international
organizations, IGC co-founded the Association for Progressive
Communications (APC) in 1990. APC is an international coalition of
progressive computer networks and to date includes 25 wholly autonomous
but affiliated members and 40 partners. APC provides effective and
efficient communications and information-sharing tools to non-governmental
organizations (NGOs) and citizen activists working for social change in
more than 130 countries.
The goal of IGC is to advance the work of progressive organizations and
individuals for peace, justice, economic opportunity, human rights,
democracy and environmental sustainability through strategic use of online
technologies.
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Interloq
InterLoQ is offering a program to publish health-related articles, utilizing email and
the World Wide Web. Every effort is being made to keep submission direct and simple.
Because this journal is read by people in many parts of the World, English is the
presentation language. Authors and editors will strive to maintain the highest standards
of research and reporting.
InterLoQ is a web based, electronic health journal. InterLoQ is dedicated to scientists
and health care providers living, and working, in places with limited access to "main
stream" international publishing.
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International
Development Network (IDN)
International Development Network (IDN). Our goal is to promote
sustainable and responsible development initiatives and projects by
providing access to development related information and related resources
to individuals, NGOs, Companies and Government Agencies. Excellent links
to a wide range of other organizations.
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International
Federation for Alternative Trade
International Federation for Alternative Trade, a global network of 143
Fair Trade organizations in 47 countries, which works to improve the
livelihoods and well-being of disadvantaged people in developing countries
and to change the unfair structures of international trade.
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International
Forum on Globalization (IFG)
International Forum on Globalization (IFG) is an alliance of sixty
leading activists, scholars, economists, researchers and writers formed to
stimulate new thinking, joint activity, and public education in response
to economic globalization. It advocates equitable, democratic, and
ecologically sustainable economics. It is formed in response to the
present worldwide drive toward a globalized economic system dominated by
supranational corporate trade and banking institutions that are not
accountable to democratic processes or national governments.
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International
Institute for Communication and Development (IICD)
International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) - The
International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) assists
developing countries to keep up with the latest developments in ICTs.
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International
Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) IISD has
worked to help decision-makers understand the principles of sustainable
development and how to put them into practice. In addition to providing
international leadership on key issues, the institute also works closely
with Canadian government agencies and businesses to interpret sustainable
development in a national context. IISD and the Spinning the Web network
have created the SD Gateway to bring together the knowledge and experience
of some of the premier sustainable development organizations in the world.
It also has resources to help you find jobs, conferences, e-mail
discussion groups, and news services that focus on sustainable
development.
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International
Public Health Watch
International Public Health Watch A group of public health
professionals who believe that the Constitution of the World Health
Organization (WHO) still offers the most comprehensive outlook regarding
public health. - Despite the current policies executed by WHO and many of
its member states. Who are concerned that inequalities in health on local,
regional, national, and international level are still prevailing and it
doesn't seem to be the case that national and international public health
agencies do much to close the gap. Who believe that WHO and all national
governments need support to their activities by an independent watchdog
organization focusing on:
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reviewing public health programs and projects and their impact on
public health on national and international level
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making evaluation reports on those programs and projects available
on this web-site
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offering a list-service on international public health news - the
International Public HealthWatch to which you can subscribe for free
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The
International Society for Equity in Health (ISEqH)
The International Society for Equity in Health (ISEqH) wishes to encourage
advances in knowledge about the importance of equity in the improvement of
the health of all people, and to promote the application of knowledge to
activities directed at this goal.
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ISWorld
Net
ISWorld Net We provide information management scholars and
practitioners with a single entry point to resources related to
information systems technology and promote the development of an
international information infrastructure that will dramatically improve
the world's ability to use information systems for creating,
disseminating, and applying knowledge. Our vision has been sharpened by
several metaphors which are accessible. Below are our objectives and a
overview of our target community.
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KILEN
KILEN: A Swedish organization applying a consumer perspective to its
work on drug side-effects, dependence and injuries related to medicinal
drugs as well as health care in general. They maintain a consumer database
of experiences with medicines (ELIN).
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Lifeonline
Lifeonline is a multimedia initiative providing audiences around the world with information about the impact of globalization on the poverty and social development agenda of the Johannesburg World Summit.
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Medact
Medact is an organisation of health professionals challenging social and environmental barriers to health worldwide. It highlights the health impacts of violent conflict, poverty and environmental degradation, and acts with others to eradicate them.
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OneWorld
OneWorld is an online community of over 750 organisations, covering the
whole spectrum of development, environmental and human rights activities
and extending from Manhattan to Delhi. We work together to provide the
best, the biggest and the most up-to-date news and information service for
people interested in understanding the real state of the world.
Since its inception six years ago, the gateway to the OneWorld community,
the supersite OneWorld.net, has grown exponentially. It now carries over
1.5 million pages of text, images, video and sound and delivers them to
millions of people around the world. Edited in eight OneWorld centres
across the globe and updated twenty-four hours a day, OneWorld.net also
has the web's premier search engine on global justice allowing users to
find the content they want on the issues that matter most to them.
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One
World Action
One World Action is working for a world free from poverty and
oppression in which strong democracies safeguard the rights of all people.
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The
Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is an international public
health agency working to improve health and living standards of the
countries of the Americas. It serves as the specialized organization for
health of the Inter-American System. It also serves as the Regional Office
for the Americas of the World Health Organization and enjoys international
recognition as part of the United Nations system.
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The
Panos Institute
The Panos Institute works to stimulate debate on global environment and
development issues. We believe information has a crucial role to play in
sustainable development and social change. The subjects we cover are often
complex, controversial and neglected by the mainstream media. Our role is
to ensure these issues are aired through accessible information -
publications, radio and the Internet - so that informed debate can lead to
informed action.
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PATH
PATH. Our mission is to improve health, especially the health of women
and children. An emphasis is placed on improving the quality of
reproductive health services and on preventing and reducing the impact of
widespread communicable diseases. PATH identifies, develops, and applies
appropriate and innovative solutions to public health problems. This is
accomplished by exchanging knowledge, skills, and technologies with
governmental and nongovernmental partners in developing countries and with
groups in need elsewhere.
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Pesticide
Action Network North America (PANNA)
Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA) links over 100
affiliated health, consumer, labor, environment, progressive agriculture
and public interest groups in Canada, Mexico and the U.S. with thousands
of supporters worldwide to promote healthier, more effective pest
management through research, policy development, education, media,
demonstrations of alternatives and international advocacy campaigns.
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Philippine Health Social Science
Association
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Read the publications on gender, ethics, health, environment, and other health social science topics.
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Take a peek at the catalogue of our collection of hss materials available in our physical library
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Try searching for material in phssa online database
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Participate in the discussion
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Physicians and Scientists for
Responsible Application of Science and Technology (PSRAST)
The purpose of PSRAST is stated as follows:
"Science has reached a level where its applications can cause irreparable damage
at a global scale. We, who founded PSRAST, are seriously concerned about conditions
that have been hampering impartial comprehensive, interdisciplinary evaluation of the
safety of new applications of science and technology. We invite every scientist and
physician all over the world, who shares our concerns, to become a member of our network.
With a large number of qualified members we will be able to contribute to responsible
application of science and technology."
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The Positive Deviance Approach has been used in a variety of settings to
address health problems from childhood malnutrition to family planning to
HIV/AIDS. Positive Deviance works on the premise that in every community
certain individuals or entities have unique behaviors/practices that enable
them to find better solutions to pervasive problems than their neighbors with
the same resource base. This is a tool for community mobilization and program
planning. I believe it fits in well with the aims of the People's Health
Movement.
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Progress
Project
Progress Project is an effort to engage citizens, scholars, leaders and
policymakers in the public and private sectors in a vital debate on
progress. The debate centers on such questions as:
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What represents economic, social, technological and environmental
progress?
What is it we seek, and what systems of measurement can help us to
understand the extent to which broadly held goals are being reached?
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Would better understanding of the elements of progress alter the
choices of citizens, governments and enterprises?
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Most importantly, The
Progress Project seeks to develop and promote better understanding of the
relationship between our definitions of progress (destination -
determining what society seeks to do), the incentives we develop to
encourage progress (direction - charting the path to reach that end), and
the real impact of our choices on our overall quality of life (calibration
- using measurement to make certain the destination is being reached).
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Rachel's
Environment & Health Weekly Newsletter
Rachel's Environment & Health Weekly Newsletter, From the Environmental
Research Foundation, P.O. Box 5036, Annapolis, MD 21403, USA. excellent
articles on a broad range of issues.
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Resilient
Communities
Resilient Communities
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Rockefeller
Foundation Health Equity Program
Rockefeller Foundation Health Equity Program Goal: To advance global
health equity by pursuing the reduction of avoidable and unfair
differences in the health status of populations.
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Rural
Advancement Foundation International (RAFI)
Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI) is an international
non-governmental organization dedicated to the conservation and
sustainable improvement of agricultural biodiversity, and to the socially
responsible development of technologies useful to rural societies.
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SatelLife
SatelLife - International not-for-profit organization employing
satellite, telephone and radio networking technology to serve the health
communication and information needs of countries in the developing world.
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Social
Watch
Social Watch The Social Watch reports on the ten commitments of the
World Summit for Social Development: enabling environment, poverty
eradication, full employment, social integration, gender equality and
equity, universal access to education and health care, development of
Africa and LDC, structural adjustment, resources for social development,
international cooperation and the critical areas of concern of the Beijing
Platform for Action. The site has social development indicators, country
and thematic reports.
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Society for Community
Health, Awareness Research and Action - SOCHARA
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The Taiping Peace Initiative
The town of Taiping (which means ‘everlasting peace’) was born out of desire for peace and harmony.
Taiping is located in the state of Perak in Malaysia. The citizens of
Taiping, through the Taiping Tourist Association, have decided that Taiping should contribute to peace and harmony in the country and the world by launching
The Taiping Peace Initiative. The Initiative was conceived in the year 2000 which was the United Nations Year for a Culture of Peace.
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Third
World Network
Third World Network; an independent non-profit international network of
organizations and individuals involved in issues relating to development,
the Third World and North-South issues. Excellent articles, reports and
analysis.
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University
of Texas Inequality Project (UTIP)
The UTIP web-site is now a very substantial source of original information about the evolution of inequality
in the world economy, country by country and year by year, and it raises important
questions about the quality of the information on inequality on which the World Bank has
been relying (for instance, is Spain really the most equal country in Europe?).
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WABA
WABA is a global network of organizations and individuals who believe
breastfeeding is the right of all children and mothers and who dedicate
themselves to protect, promote and support this right.
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Web
Guide to Inequality
Web Guide to Inequality
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Whirled
Bank
Whirled Bank: A site of satire, cynicism, and realism.
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Women
and the Internet / Technology
Women and the Internet / Technology: Women's Learning Partnership
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Women's
Global Network for Reproductive Rights WGNRR
Red Mundial de Mujeres por los Derechos Reproductivos
RMMDR
Réseau Mondial des Femmes pour les Droits sur la Reproduction RMFDR
Women's
Global Network for Reproductive Rights is an autonomous network of groups
and individuals in every continent who aim to achieve and support
reproductive rights for women.
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World
Bank Development Indicators
World Bank Development Indicators
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World
Bank
World Bank: their views on globalization
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World
Health Organization
World Health Organization
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Worldwatch
Institute
Worldwatch Institute is dedicated to fostering the evolution of an
environmentally sustainable society--one in which human needs are met in
ways that do not threaten the health of the natural environment or the
prospects of future generations. The Institute seeks to achieve this goal
through the conduct of inter-disciplinary non-partisan research on
emerging global environmental issues, the results of which are widely
disseminated throughout the world.
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