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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

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.

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.

Department of International Law
Department of International Law, Organization of American States

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.

Human Rights Watch World Report
Human Rights Watch's annual review of human rights practices around the globe--covers developments in seventy countries.

India Resource Center
India Resource Center coordinates the International Campaign to Hold Coca-Cola Accountable for its crimes in India and Colombia

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

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. -- 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.