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AlterNet
AlterNet.org is a project of the Independent Media Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening and supporting independent and alternative journalism. This part of Alternet's online magazine provides a mix of news, opinion and investigative journalism on subjects relating to globalization. The AlterNet article database includes more than 7,000 stories from over 200 sources.

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
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.

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
CorpWatch counters corporate led globalization with organizing, information and networking. We work to hold corporations acountable on human rights, labor rights and environmental justice.

ECA Watch
Export Credit Agencies (ECAs) are now the world's biggest class of public IFIs (international finance institutions), collectively exceeding in size the World Bank Group. Yet, like the World Bank Group 20 years ago, most ECAs have no social and environmental standards. The International NGO ECA Reform Campaign objectives are to see that all ECAs adopt and upgrade environmental and social policies and to support the advocacy efforts of affected people against specific harmful projects.

Focus on Trade
Focus-on-Trade is a regular electronic bulletin providing updates and analysis of trends in regional and world trade and finance, with an emphasis on analysis of these trends from an integrative, interdisciplinary viewpoint that is sensitive not only to economic issues, but also to ecological, political, gender and social issues.

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 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 Policy Forum
The Global Policy Forum was founded in 1993 to monitor global policy making at the United Nations. GPF has a large web site with dozens of publications on global policy issues, and thousands of pages of documents and data. GPF works in partnership with citizen organizations (NGOs) around the world and has actively sought to broaden citizen voices within the UN system. It works cooperatively with scholars, experts and research institutes in a number of countries, to produce high quality analysis and data.

International Monetary Fund
The official site of the IMF

Jubilee Research @ the New Economics Foundation 
Jubilee Research is an official successor to the UK Jubilee 2000 campaign, and is led by Ann Pettifor, co-founder and director of Jubilee 2000. We are based at the New Economics Foundation, which helped launch Jubilee 2000, and which has promoted new economics for 15 years now. Jubilee Research monitors and evaluates the debt cancellation promised by the G7 during the Jubilee 2000 campaign; but has deepened and extended its work to broader international finance and governance issues. We have played a key role in placing on the global political agenda, the need for a just international insolvency framework for sovereign debtors; and are critiquing the framework (the SDRM) developed by the IMF over the past year. We work with campaigners in Argentina, Indonesia, Pakistan, as well as those in HIPC countries to promote greater justice in international financial governance. We are currently working on a major project: the publication of an annual report, shadowing the IMF's World Economic Outlook. The report will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in September, 2003, and is entitled "The Real World Economic Outlook (RWEO)". Contributors include Joseph Stiglitz, Danni Rodrik, Gita Sen, Zo Randriamo, Jomo K.S., Andrew Simms and Oscar Ocampo, to name but a few. RWEO will measure and include those sectors of the global economy ignored by the IMF and mainstream economists, in particular climate change, the hidden subsidy of women's work etc.; will challenge economic orthodoxy; and present alternatives.

Jubilee+
Jubilee + was designated by the board of Jubilee 2000 UK as one of two official successor organisations at the end of the millennium campaign in December 2000. Jubilee Plus is now a programme of the highly respected, radical think-tank, the New Economics Foundation, London. We will be building on Jubilee 2000's reputation of providing up-to-date, accurate analyses, news and data on international debt and finance; and generating and airing new ideas and debates on debt and globalisation.

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.

OXONIA, The Oxford Institute for Economic Policy
OXONIA, The Oxford Institute for Economic Policy, is a public policy Institute based at Oxford University's Economics Department (UK). OXONIA provides a global forum for engaging a broad consortium of those in the policy community into the analysis, discussion, and dissemination of economic policy issues.

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.

SEEN
The Sustainable Energy and Economy Network, a project of the Institute for Policy Studies (Washington, DC) and the Transnational Institute (Amsterdam), works in partnership with citizens groups nationally and globally on environment, human rights and development issues with a particular focus on energy, climate change, environmental justice, gender equity, and economic issues, particularly as these play out in North/South relations.

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

Structural Adjustment Participatory Review International Network
SAPRIN is a global network established to expand and legitimize the role of civil society in economic policymaking and to strengthen the organized challenge to structural adjustment programs by citizens around the globe.

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.

Whirled Bank
The Whirled Bank is an informative, satirical site which examines the effects of World Bank policy on a range of issues.

World Bank
Official site of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank)