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 3D -> Trade - Human Rights - Equitable Economy promotes collaboration amongst trade, development and human rights professionals, to ensure that trade rules are developed and applied in ways that promote an equitable economy.
 Fifty Years is Enough U.S. 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 [IMF]
Action for Solidarity, Equality, Empowerment and Diversity A SEED Europe A SEED was established by young people in 1991 in response to the UNCED Earth Summit proceedings in Rio and aimed to forge alliances among young people committed to social and environmental justice.
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Advocacy for Alternative Rural Policies Based in El Salvador.
Appleton Foundation We have three primary program areas: limiting and controlling human genetic engineering, supporting economic justice and community economic development in the US, promoting justice and peacebuilding in Latin America.
Blacksmith Institute They were formed in 1999 to address the most dangerously polluted sites throughout the developing and transitioning world.
C.S Mott Foundation/Reform of International Finance and Trade
The goal of Mott's international finance and trade reform program is to promote environmentally sustainable development and greater public participation in economic decisionmaking processes through reform of the core policies and practices of international financial and trade institutions.
Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation We are devoted to supporting the emergence of a world civil society community and believe that an increasingly interlinked world can only be changed through a deep transformation of the prevailing systems of thought and regulation
New World Foundation (Environmental Justice) Our grant making has supported organizations working to strengthen and expand the environment and ecosystems
health, civil rights and the active participation of citizens in American democracy.
Ford Foundation The portfolio on Strengthening Global Civil Society seeks to promote the three democratic principles of transparency, accountability and participation both within global civil society and global governance regimes.
Foundation for Deep Ecology [FDE] Public education, organization and capacity building focused on growth and resistance to macroeconomic trends and technological systems that drive these trends (int'l. free trade agmts. which work to detriment of Third World peoples and the natural world), education, organization and capacity building focused on viable local economic systems that serve as counterpoint to globalization
French American Charitable Trust FACT We support non-profit organizations in the United States and in France working on root causes of poverty and inequality with an emphasis on the active participation of the grassroots – the people who are directly affected.
Fund for Nonviolence We support social movements and networks in Latin America whose work for systemic change represents voices of impacted communities challenging concentrated economic and political power and creating alternatives.
Funding Exchange We're a national network of community foundations that work together as a network and as individuals. We work towards the re-distribution of wealth and institutionalized power.
General Service Foundation The Directors believe that the Foundation can make its best contribution at this point in time by addressing some of the world's basic long-term problems in these areas: Human Rights and Democracy and Reproductive Health and Rights.
Global Citizenship Our goal is to increase opportunities for Canadians to seek innovative and constructive ways to impact the most pressing global challenges. We have two streams of funding available under this program: 1) Youth Engagement and, 2) Diaspora and Transnational Communities.
Global Greengrants Fund We are an international environmental donors collaborative that makes small grants to grassroots environmental groups in developing countries.
Global Workplace Portal (Verité) We have over a decade of experience providing practical tools with which workers in the globalized supply chain can improve their income, health and working conditions.
Tanzania Christian Volunteer Service Organization We are based in Kigoma region. Our areas of funding include HIV/AIDS & monitoring of good governance.
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R.I.P. Trade Promotion Authority
May 31, 2007 - Thomas I. Palley, Economics for Democratic & Open Societies Project
Trade promotion authority (TPA) - formerly known as fast-track negotiating authority - is set to expire on June 30, 2007. As a result, the Bush Administration and business interests are now lobbying Congress for its renewal. However, there are strong reasons to not just let TPA temporarily lapse, but also to permanently bury it. . . . More
Unfulfilled Trade Policy
May 21, 2007 - Daniel J. Ikenson, Cato Institute
As congressional Democrats and Bush administration officials were congratulating themselves last week for agreeing to include tough, enforceable labor and environmental standards in trade agreements, U.S. trade policy quietly crawled into a corner and died. . . . More
Are These Trade Agreements Free or Fair?
May 15, 2007 - Carl Pope, Sierra Club Executive Director
Late last week Washington was buzzing about a trade "deal" between the Congressional Democratic leadership and the White House. The deal is based on a "concept paper" and has been commonly described as an agreement to include labor and environmental rights in future trade agreements. The business community has been singing the praises of this document while environmentalists and labor groups have been expressing reactions ranging from the skeptical to the downright hostile. . . . More
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