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ADITAL, Friar Tito Information Agency of Latin America, is a news agency that was created to bring the Latin American and Caribbean social agenda to the international media. It wants to encourage ethical and social journalism. It wants to promote integration and solidarity among peoples. It unveils to the world the dignity of those who are building citizenship, it gives visibility to the liberating actions that the God of Life arises in the popular media, it makes known the role of the social actors who are democratizing communication, and who are our sources of information.

The International Association of Technicians, Experts and Researchers (AITEC) is a network of professionals, researchers and citizens committed with social issues. AITEC provides also a citizen-based expertise and alternative proposals on urban public services and financing for development.

The International Movement ATD Fourth Worldis a non-governmental organization with no religious or political affiliation which engages with individuals and institutions to find solutions to eradicate extreme poverty. Working in partnership with people in poverty, ATD Fourth World’s human rights-based approach focuses on supporting families and individuals through its grass-roots presence and involvement in disadvantaged communities, in both urban and rural areas, creating public awareness of extreme poverty and influencing policies to address it.

Building Global Democracy programme (BGD) explores how globalization can be governed in democratic ways. Today’s world faces many global challenges: in economics, environment, politics and culture. To handle global problems effectively and legitimately, they need to be handled democratically.

The Committee for the Cancellation of the Third World Debt (the CADTM - Comité pour l’annulation de la dette du Tiers Monde) is an international network of individuals and local committees from across Europe and Latin America, Africa and Asia. The network acts in close liaison with other movements and organisations fighting for the same ideals. Its main preoccupation, besides the debt issue, is the planning of activities and radical alternatives for the creation of a world respectful of people’s fundamental rights, needs and liberties.

Coredem is a confederation of Web sites for worldwide democracy that gathers partners around a charter, a search engine, and a wiki.

Because sharing experiences, building common references and proposals, is necessary to developing a global citizenship and empowering local actors. DPH provides more than 7,000 articles on exemplary struggles, innovative actions and organisations, collective analyses and proposals - in four languages and from all continents.

Global Voices is an international community of bloggers who report on blogs and citizen media from around the world

Instituto Brasileiro de Análises Sociais e Econômicas (Brazilian Institute of Social and Economic Analyses), Ibase, is a civil society organization founded in 1981 by sociologist Herbert de Souza, called Betinho, and by other members. The goal of Ibase’s work is to consolidate democracy and to promote active citizenship. To meet this goal, the institute deems necessary to reinforce the associative fabric of society, develop public policies and produce a new culture on rights. Ibase’s initiatives are ruled by principles based on freedom, equality, solidarity, participation, diversity and social-environmental justice.

Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage. Indymedia is a democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of truth. Indymedia was founded as an alternative to government and corporate media, and seeks to facilitate people being able to publish their media as directly as possible.

IPS is the world´s leading provider of information on global issues, backed by a network of journalists in more than 100 countries. IPS is a communication institution with a global news agency at its core. IPS raises the voices of the South and civil society. IPS brings a fresh perspective on development and globalization.

At the end of an International Conference which got them together, for the first time, 82 national NGO platforms representatives of 82 countries and NGO regional coalitions from Africa, Latin America, Europe and Oceania, decided to create an International Forum of national NGO platforms, a permanent space of cooperation and initiatives.

The International Labour Organization (ILO) is a United Nations agency dealing with labour issues, particularly international labour standards and decent work for all.[2] Almost all (185 out of 193) UN members are part of the ILO.

Joint is an NGO created in 2007. Its role is to coordinate civil society organisations working together to promote rights and freedom of citizens and the social and economic development of Mozambique. It is a forum created by 20 civil society organisations - 10 national and 10 international organizations - to promote cooperation and exchange of information between its members.

Through the voices of the peoples of Africa and the global South, Pambazuka Press and Pambazuka News disseminate analysis and debate on the struggle for freedom and justice.

The next Earth Summit Rio+20—officially named the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development—will be held from 4 to 6 June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This summit is a new attempt by the United Nations in this new millennium to advance the commitment of States and the world community in the major transitions of the twenty-first century. United Nations invites States, civil society and citizens to “lay the foundations of a world of prosperity, peace and sustainability.” Two questions, closely related, are placed at the heart of the summit: 1. a green economy in the perspective of sustainability and poverty eradication, and 2. the creation of an institutional framework for sustainable development. These issues are also those of all Peoples, of all men and women citizens of the planet.

Rinoceros est le portail d’information de Ritimo sur les initiatives citoyennes pour la construction d’un autre monde. Rinoceros met en avant une diversité géographique et culturelle des points de vue, en français, anglais, espagnol ou portugais. Rinoceros veut favoriser la participation de tous pour : inventer une autre mondialisation, renforcer la démocratie, soutenir un développement durable, défendre les droits fondamentaux, cultiver la paix, défendre la diversité culturelle, favoriser l’accès à l’information, cultuver une science citoyenne, promouvoir une économie au service des hommes

The Tax Justice Network promotes transparency in international finance and opposes secrecy. We support a level playing field on tax and we oppose loopholes and distortions in tax and regulation, and the abuses that flow from them. We promote tax compliance and we oppose tax evasion, tax avoidance, and all the mechanisms that enable owners and controllers of wealth to escape their responsibilities to the societies on which they and their wealth depend. Tax havens, or secrecy jurisdictions as we prefer to call them, lie at the centre of our concerns, and we oppose them.

The World Forum for Alternatives is an international network aimed at supporting the international convergence of social movements and other actors of the Civil Society from below. It creates spaces for reflection and coordination, providing social movements and ONGs, with tools for information and analysis on the globalization of resistances, and contributing to broadcast information about the existing international struggles.

The World Social Forum is an open meeting place where social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organizations opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital or by any form of imperialism come together to pursue their thinking, to debate ideas democratically, for formulate proposals, share their experiences freely and network for effective action. Since the first world encounter in 2001, it has taken the form of a permanent world process seeking and building alternatives to neo-liberal policies. This definition is in its Charter of Principles, the WSF’s guiding document.