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Choike is a portal dedicated to improving the visibility of the work done by NGOs and social movements from the South. It serves as a platform where citizen groups can disseminate their work and at the same time enrich it with information from diverse sources, which is presented from the perspective of Southern civil society.

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--- The Global Governance Project
--- The Global Compact
--- International Forum on Globalization
--- Global Marshall Plan Initiative
--- Biens publics à l’Échelle Mondiale
--- Institute for research and debate on governance
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--- Bretton Woods Project
--- Global Administrative Law Project
--- Inter Press Service (IPS)
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--- The Blog of Chaos International
--- Rinoceros
--- Olivier De Schutter. UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food
--- Democracia Sur
--- ATD Fourth World
--- Peoples Summit. On the road to Rio+20
--- Social Watch
--- Choike
--- International Forum of national NGO platforms (ONG-NGO)
--- Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World
--- Citizens Assemblies
--- Global Governance Institute
--- Pambazuka News
--- Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
--- Adital
--- Forum China?Europe
--- Fondation Charles Léopold Mayer pour le progrès de l’homme
--- World Resources Institute
--- GEG Project
--- World Social Forum
--- Reflections on a Revolution
--- The World Revolution
--- WikiLeaks
--- Al Jazeera English
--- AGTER - Improving the Governance of Land, Water and Natural Ressources
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--- Alliance for Rebuilding Governance in Africa
--- Forum of Ethics & Responsibilities (FER)
--- Fondation Sciences Citoyennes
--- Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
--- IBase
--- Third World Network (TWN)
--- La Via Campesina
--- Network Institute for Global Democratization
--- Foreign Policy In Focus
--- International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect (ICRtoP)
--- International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
--- Tellus Institute
--- EarthAction
--- University of the People
--- Transnational Institute
--- Friends of the Earth International
--- Committee for the Abolition of the Third World Debt (CADTM)
--- World March of Women
--- Global Governance 2020
--- Site web de Ressources pour la Paix
--- Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS)
--- Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG)
--- Comité Catholique contre la Faim et pour le Développement (CCFD - Terre Solidaire)
--- Research and Information Centre for Development (CRID)
--- Tax Justice Network
--- Joint - Liga das ONGs em Moçambique
--- Perkumpulan Prakarsa
--- Praxis - Institute for Participatory Practices
--- Voice - Voices for Interactive Choice and Empowerment
--- Poverty Action Network in Ethiopia (PANE)
--- Global Financial Integrity
--- The Real News
--- Integrated Social Development Centre
--- FIDH : mouvement mondial des droits de l’Homme
--- Forest Peoples Programme
--- Global Witness
--- Green Cross International
--- Climate Change Task Force
--- Greenpeace International
--- Institute for Policy Studies
--- Web site on International Development of the Chaire de Recherche en Développement des Collectivités (CRDC)
--- International Land Coalition
--- Inaise
--- IRED
--- OECD Watch
--- Change.org
--- Common Dreams
--- OneWorld.net
--- Attac International
--- Vigeo
--- Finance Watch
--- AITEC
--- Sud PTT
--- Food First International Action Network (FIAN)
--- Centre Europe - Tiers Monde (CETIM)
--- Observatorio de las Multinacionales en América Latina (OMAL)
--- ITUC-CSI-IGB
--- Corporate Europe Observatory
--- Enlazando Alternativas
--- Groupe de Recherche pour une Stratégie Économique Alternative (GRESEA)
--- Forum for Democratic Global Governance (FIM)
--- Sherpa
--- Peuples Solidaires
--- Planetworkshops
--- Public Citizen
--- Rainforest Action Network
--- International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
--- Ibero American Science and Technology Education Consortium (ISTEC)
--- European Strategic Intelligence and Security Center (ESISC)
--- Coordination SUD
--- Association 4D - Dossiers et Débats pour le Développement Durable
--- Institut du Développement Durable et des Rélations Internationales (IDDRI)
--- Institute for Transnational Arbitration
--- Transnational Institute for Grassroots Research and Action (TIGRA)
--- Dialogues, Proposals, Stories, for a World Citizenship (DPH)
--- NPI Initiative
--- Hong Kong Democratic Development Network
--- ???? China Dialogue
--- ?????? China Development Brief
--- NGOcn.net
--- Social Resources Institute (SRI)
--- ??? (Green TV)
--- Asia Sentinel
--- ?????? China Labour Bulletin
--- Globethics.net
--- The Democratic Society
--- Sustainable Earth Alliance
--- International Alliance of Journalistes
--- REDD+ Social & Environmental Standards
--- World Forum of Fish Harvesters & Fish Workers (WFF)
--- World Learning
--- The Hunger Project
--- World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations (WANGO)
--- Environment Liaison Center International
--- Small Planet Institute
--- Women’s Environment & Development Organization (WE DO)
--- Independent Media Center (Indymedia)
--- United Cities and Local Governments
--- United Cities and Local Governments Asia-Pacific
--- GRAIN
--- Plateforme des acteurs non étatiques
--- International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
--- International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
--- International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)
--- Global Development Learning Network (GDLN)
--- Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)
--- Beyond2015
--- CIDSE
--- Alliance Internationale des Éditeurs Indépendants
--- Third World Forum
--- Confederación de Trabajadores de la Educación de la República Argentina (CTERA)
--- Environment and Development Action in the Third World (ENDA-TM)
--- World Forum for Alternatives
--- Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy
--- Southern Africa Social Forum (SASF)
--- Ushahidi
--- East Asia Forum
--- CMS
--- The Green Belt Movement
--- Local Economic Development Network of Africa (LEDNA)
--- Resource Conflict Institute (Reconcile)
--- The Centre for Internet & Society
--- Research and Information System
--- Toda Institute
--- Global Alliance For Banking on Values
--- Global Issues
--- Globalization Monitor
--- Just Foreign Policy
--- Public Services International
--- Blue Planet Project
--- Good Electronics
--- Fair Labor Association
--- Global Governance Watch
--- Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies (CAPTRANS)
--- Global Footprint Network
--- The Widening Circle
--- The New Economics Foundation
--- Policy Innovations
--- Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs
--- Project Syndicate
--- New Perspectives Quarterly
--- Initiative internationale pour repenser l’économie (IRE)
--- CBD Alliance
--- Program on Democracy and Global Transformation
--- Global Voices
--- International Labour Organization
--- IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
--- World Health Organisation (WHO)
--- UNESCO. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
--- Global Education Magazine
--- Campaign for People’s Goals for Sustainable Development
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Latest publications on this Web site:

Imported chicken decimates Ghanaian poultry farms
¤ 18 March 2013
The Government of Ghana anounced that it's studying tariff and non-tariff measures to restrict the importation of poultry products, after local analysts warned that those purchases are harming the national economy. "Imported chicken is being sold at below the cost of local chicken, and farmers (...) read more

Civil society claims for an intergovernmental commission on tax cooperation
¤ 18 March 2013
Some 50 civil society organisations from all over the world claimed this week for the creation of an Intergovernmental Commission on International Cooperation on Tax Matters to protect nations from abusive practices, including evasion and the race to the bottom in corporate taxation. The claim (...) read more

Paraguay: Poor people pay much more taxes than the rich
¤ 18 March 2013
One of the ?huge mistakes? defended ?as great truths? in Paraguay is that businesspeople ?pay a lot? to the revenue service while in fact ?direct taxation, which is the most unfair, is the largest? and ?poor people end up paying more than the rich?, according to a report by economist Jos? (...) read more

Argentina: Canadian mining company accused of violating OECD guidelines
¤ 18 March 2013
The non-governmental Citizen Participation Forum for Justice and Human Rights (FOCO) accused the Canadian mining company Barrick Gold of violating in Argentina environmental and human health guidelines set by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (...) read more

Urgent Appeal to Change the Mindset
¤ 18 March 2013
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development - Rio 2012, must change the dominant mindset by: restoring public rights over corporate privileges,Taking equity seriously and rescuing nature. The Rio 1992 Summit adopted legally-binding instruments and embraced Civil Society. The (...) read more

Tourism in Central America, Social conflict in a new setting
¤ 21 August 2011
Tourism in Central America, Social conflict in a new setting Even though the impact of the tourism industry is becoming increasingly well known and local conflicts are breaking out across Central America, the capacity for global mobilization in the face of its expansion is still quite limited. (...) read more

LGBTI rights in Latin America and the Caribbean
¤ 21 August 2011
Throughout 2010, airs of social and political change swept through the Americas from the north to the south. Many activists are aware, though, that the gains to date are small steps towards living and fully enjoying their rights, and they know that they must continue to pressure the States to (...) read more

Argentina: guarantee women?s access to health care
¤ 21 August 2011
A new Human Right Watch?s report entitled "Illusions of Care: Lack of Accountability for Reproductive Rights in Argentina", documents the many obstacles women and girls face in getting the reproductive health care services to which they are entitled, such as contraception, voluntary (...) read more

?Green? energy boom destroys tribes
¤ 21 August 2011
To mark the UN Day of Indigenous People, Survival has released the report "Serious Damage: Tribal peoples and large dams" highlighting the devastating impact on tribal people of a massive boom in dam-building for hydropower. Drawing on examples from Asia, Africa and the Americas, Survival?s (...) read more

Conditionality in World Bank crisis-lending to Ghana
¤ 21 August 2011
A new briefing by Eurodad concludes that many of the World Bank?s conditions impede on Ghana?s sovereign right to decide independently on appropriate measures to recover from the global crisis and to boost long term sustainable development. If the Bank is committed to improving developing (...) read more


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