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50 Years Is Enough: U.S. Network for Global Economic Justice
50 Years Is Enough: US Network for Global Economic Justice is a
coalition of over 200 U.S. grassroots, women's, solidarity, faith-based,
policy, social- and economic-justice, youth, labor and development
organizations dedicated to the profound transformation of the World Bank
and the International Monetary Fund.
AHRC Research Centre for Law, Gender, and Sexuality
CentreLGS is a critical, interdisciplinary, international research
center, advancing scholarship that is theoretically informed and
relevant to policy and that explores gender and sexuality in relation to
law, governance, and normativity.
Agencia Latinoamericana de Información
The Latin American Information Agency is a communications
organization committed to the full respect of human rights, gender
equality, and people's participation in development and policy making in
Latin America.
The Association for Women's Rights in Development
The Association for Women's Rights in Development is an international
membership organization connecting, informing, and mobilizing people and
organizations committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable
development, and women's human rights by building the individual and
organizational capacities of those working for women's empowerment and
social justice.
The Campaign for a Convention on Sexual and Reproductive Rights
The Campaign for a Convention on Sexual and Reproductive Rights was
launched in 1999 and was born of an alliance between feminist
organizations, networks, and campaigns in Latin American and the
Caribbean. The convention will, among many things, define and protect
sexual and reproductive rights, begin a public debate around these
issues, and generate reliable information about topics that are plagued
by myths and prejudice.
Center for Global Justice
The Center for Global Justice, based in Guanajuato, Mexico, is an
international educational and research network dedicated to progressive
social movements, analysis of the worldwide effects of corporate
globalization, and exploration of workable and just solutions to the
social and economic problems caused by neoliberal policies.
Center for Popular Economics
The Center for Popular Economics is a nonprofit collective of political
economists based in Amherst, MA, which examines root causes of economic
inequality and injustice, including systems of oppression based on race,
class, gender, nation, and ethnicity, and puts useful economic tools in
the hands of people fighting for social and economic justice.
Center for the Study of Sexualities
The Center for the Study of Sexualities at National Central University
in Taiwan is a research- and information-based collective focusing on
the theme of sexuality in its relation to gender and other social
differences such as class, race, age, and disability.
Coalition for Sexual and Bodily Rights in Muslim Societies
This Coalition includes over 40 organizations of different backgrounds
(women's rights, human rights, LGBT, health, research) from the Middle
East, North Africa, South and South East Asia working on sexuality
issues. It works with a holistic approach and believes that sexual
rights are interlinked with economics, and social justice, as well as
equality.
darkmatter
darkmatter is an open-access online journal committed to
producing contemporary post-colonial critique, including queer
perspectives on race in the twenty-first century. Working within,
outside and beyond the institutions and disciplines of the academy,
darkmatter publishes articles, reviews, commentary, digital and
audio-visual texts.
DAWN: Development Alternatives with Women in a New Era
DAWN is a network of women scholars and activists from the economic
South who engage in feminist research and analysis of the global
environment and are committed to working for economic justice, gender
justice, and democracy.
Focus on the Global South
Focus on the Global South is a nongovernmental organization working in
Thailand, the Philippines, and India, combining policy research,
advocacy, activism and grassroots capacity building in order to generate
critical analysis and encourage debates on national and international
policies related to corporate-led globalization, neoliberalism, and
militarization.
Fórum Social Mundial (World Social Forum)
The World Social Forum is an open meeting place where social movements,
networks, NGOs, and other civil society organizations opposed to
neoliberalism and a world dominated by capitalism or by any form of
imperialism come together to network for effective action.
Gender Action
Gender Action is the only organization dedicated to promoting gender
equality and women's rights in all International Financial Institution
(IFI) investments such as those of the World Bank and the International
Monetary Fund, ensuring that women and men equally participate in and
benefit from all IFI investments.
The Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women
The Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) is an Alliance of
more than 80 nongovernmental organizations from all regions of the world
who work to address the core aspects of trafficking in persons: forced
labor and services in all sectors of the formal and informal economy as
well as the public and private organization of work. GAATW organizations
also promote and defend the rights and safety of all migrants and their
families against the threats of an increasingly globalized and
informalized labor market.
Health Global Access Project
Health Global Access Project is an organization of U.S.-based AIDS and
human-rights activists, people living with HIV/AIDS, public-health
experts, fair-trade advocates, and concerned individuals who campaign
against policies of neglect and avarice that deny treatment to millions
and fuel the spread of HIV.
International Association For Feminist Economics
The International Association for Feminist Economics is a nonprofit
organization that seeks to advance feminist inquiry in economic issues
and to educate economists and others on feminist points of view.
International Forum on Globalization
The International Forum on Globalization is a North-South research and
educational institution composed of leading activists, economists,
scholars, and researchers providing analyses and critiques on the
cultural, social, political, and environmental impacts of economic
globalization.
The International Gender and Trade Network
The International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN) is a network of
feminist specialists who provide technical information on gender and
trade issues. IGTN acts as a political catalyst to enlarge the space for
critical feminist perspectives and action on trade and globalization
issues.
International Union of Sex Workers
The International Union of Sex Workers campaigns for the human, civil,
and labor rights of those who work in the sex industry.
Jobs with Justice
Jobs with Justice is a network of local multi-issue grassroots
coalitions of unions, churches, students, and community organizations
dedicated to workers' rights struggles as part of a larger campaign for
economic and social justice. Using justice campaigns as an organizing
form, Jobs with Justice builds coalitions that expand workplace justice
to include affordable housing, universal health care, and a wide range
of community development issues.
Our World is Not for Sale Coalition
Our World is Not for Sale Coalition is a worldwide network of
organizations, activists, and social movements committed to challenging
trade and investment agreements that advance the interests of the
world's most powerful corporations at the expense of people and the
environment.
Partners In Health
Partners In Health is a nonprofit organization committed to working in
partnership with community-based groups on projects designed to improve
health outcomes in poor communities and alleviate the social and
economic barriers to good health.
Paulo Longo Research Initiative
The PLRI is a collaboration of scholars, policy analysts and sex workers
established in 2008. Its aims are to develop and consolidate ethical,
interdisciplinary scholarship on sex work to encourage policy that helps
improve the lives of men, women and transgender people who sell or buy
sex.
The Pink Space
This Beijing-based organization aims to promote movements for sexual
rights in China and build partnerships with activists, practitioners,
and scholars from the mainland, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Focusing mainly
on sexually oppressed women, a group that it defines as including "sex
workers, the disabled, single mothers, divorced women, elderly women,
HIV positive women, young people, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgender,
etc.", it provides spaces—through a hotline, workshops, and meeting
events—for these people to talk about their sexualities. It also
provides technical support to help these communities meet their
identified needs and realize their sexual rights.
The Pleasure Project
The Pleasure Project is an educational initiative that promotes
sex-positive safer-sex and HIV prevention programs, working with NGOs
and the public-health sector to provide training, consultancy, research,
and publications to sexual-health trainers and counselors who want to
take a more sex-positive approach to their work.
Queers for Economic Justice
Queers for Economic Justice is a progressive nonprofit organization
committed to promoting economic justice in a context of sexual and
gender liberation, and changing the systems that create poverty and
economic injustice in our communities.
Refuse and Resist!
Refuse and Resist! is a nonpartisan, national membership organization
that builds and encourages many forces of resistance: speaking out in
schools, communities, and in the media; organizing forums and meetings;
demonstrating in the streets; and creating and performing cultural
works.
The Sex Workers' Project at the Urban Justice Center
The Sex Workers' Project (SWP) at the Urban Justice Center provides
legal services and legal training, and engages in documentation and
policy advocacy for sex workers. Using documentation-based advocacy,
policy analysis, training and education, and collaboration with
community-based service providers, SWP advances practical, long-term
solutions to the problems faced by this vulnerable and marginalized
population.
The Sexuality and Development Programme
The Sexuality and Development Programme of the Institute of Development
Studies is a research group that supports inquiry and communications
aimed at rethinking the relationship between sexuality, rights, and
development and building stronger links between people in different
contexts working to realize their sexual rights.
Sexuality Policy Watch
Inspired by local and international initiatives, SPW's mission is
twofold: to contribute to sexuality related global policy debates
through strategic policy-oriented research and analysis projects, and to
promote more effective linkages between local, regional and global
initiatives. Issues such as protecting sexual freedoms and enhancing
access to resources that promote sexual health are among SPW's central
concerns.
Sylvia Rivera Law Project
Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) is a collective organization that works
to guarantee that all people are free to self-determine their gender
identity and expression, regardless of income or race, and without
facing harassment, discrimination, or violence. Founded on the
understanding that gender self-determination is inextricably intertwined
with racial, social, and economic justice, SRLP seeks to increase the
political voice and visibility of low-income people of color who are
transgender, intersex, or gender nonconforming and to improve access to
social, legal, and health services for these communities.
United for a Fair Economy
United for a Fair Economy raises awareness that concentrated wealth and
power undermine the economy, corrupt democracy, deepen the racial
divide, and tear communities apart.
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