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Other
campaigns &
useful links
About
face
About-Face is a media literacy organization focused on the impact
mass media has on the physical, mental and emotional well being
of women and girls. Through practical and activist methods challenge
our culture's overemphasis on physical appearance, encouraging
critical thinking about the media, and personal empowerment.
www.anitaroddick.com
Contains an ever-increasing wealth of articles on a vast array
of topics, including globalisation, trade justice, women, war
and peace and many more.
Baby
Milk Action
34 Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1QY T: +44 (0)1223 464420
info@babymilkaction.org
Baby Milk Action is a non-profit organisation which aims to save
lives and to end the avoidable suffering caused by inappropriate
infant feeding. Baby Milk Action works within a global network
to strengthen independent, transparent and effective controls
on the marketing of the baby feeding industry.
Black
Information Link
Suite
12 Winchester House, 9 Cranmer Rd, London SW9 T: 020 7582 1990
blink1990@blink.org.uk
UK
site for ethnic minority issues. An on-line information exchange
for Asian, African and Caribbean community groups and organisations
around the country. Site provides a wide range of information.
Blink helps organisations and community groups to create and update
their own web pages. Links southern hemisphere environmental and
self-help groups with those in the north.
Centre
for Corporate Accountability (CCA)
40 Leverton Street, London NW5 2PG T: 020 7209 9143 info@corporateaccountability.org
The CCA is a new organisation, which through research, advocacy
and advice aims to increase the accountability of companies and
their senior officers whose negligent, reckless or intentional
conduct causes harm. The Centre undertakes research into how the
criminal justice system deals with corporate harm and advocates
changes to law and practice were necessary.
Corporate
Watch UK
A small radical research and publishing group based in Oxford
(UK) producing a range of materials on issues relating to corporate
power including issue based briefings, bi-monthly news updates
and detailed profiles on individual corporations, all available
online.
Free Tibet
Campaign
28
Charles Square London N1 6HT United Kingdom T: 020 7324 4605 mail@freetibet.org
Free Tibet Campaign, based in London, stands for the Tibetans'
right to decide their own future. It campaigns for an end to the
Chinese occupation of Tibet and for the Tibetans' fundamental
human rights to be respected. It is independent of all governments
and is funded solely by its members and supporters.
The Hesperian
Foundation
The Hesperian Foundation is part of a community health movement
which promotes the right to health care for all people. Hesperian's
approach to health recognizes that people in poor communities
can greatly improve their health through local programs that are
practical, creative, and respectful of the knowledge, experience,
and resources already existing in the community.
Jubilee
Debt Campaign
T: +44 (0)20 7922 1111
A coalition of national, regional and local organisations, including
WEN, committed to the cancellation of the unpayable debt of the
poorest countries through fair and transparent means. It is a
successor to Jubilee 2000 UK. The Campaign will:
- maintain
pressure on decision-makers for debt cancellation, to ensure
that it is delivered and that it contributes towards poverty
cancellation;
- promote
its continued commitment to campaign on debt;
- continue
with debt as the primary focus of the Coalition, not least because
this single focus has been what has made the campaign effective.
LabourNet
UK
labournetuk@poptel.org
LabourNet promotes computer communications as a medium for strengthening
and building organised labour. Uses the resources of the internet
to provide communications, news and information for the labour movement
both at a national and international level.
Marches Farm Enterprise
Partnership
MFEP helps farmers who want to diversify their farm business. Website
visitors can access business planning advice and support.
Maquila Solidarity Network (MSN)
info@maquilasolidarity.org
MSN is a Canadian network promoting solidarity with groups in Mexico,
Central America, and Asia organizing in maquiladora factories and
export processing zones to improve conditions and win a living wage.
In a global economy it is essential that groups in the North and
South work together for employment with dignity, fair wages and
working conditions, and healthy workplaces and communities.
The New Economics
Foundation
3 Jonathan Street, London, SE11 5NH T: 020 7820 6300 info@neweconomics.org
NEF works to construct a new economy centred on people and the environment,
a creative and effective independent think tanks, combining research,
advocacy, training and practical action.
Reclaim the Streets
PO Box 9656, London N4 4JY T: 020 7281 4621 rts@gn.apc.org
A direct action network for global and local social-ecological revolution(s)
to transcend hierarchical and authoritarian society, (capitalism
included), and still be home in time for tea...
Smile
and act nice
News and fun - worth a visit.
Reading International
Solidarity Campaign (RISC)
35-39 London Street, Reading RG1 4PS T: 0118 958 6692 risc@risc.org.uk
A development education centre close to the heart of Reading's town
centre. RISC works with schools and community organisations to raise
the profile of international issues and promote action for sustainable
development, equality and social justice.
STITCH
STITCH is a network of U.S. women working to support women's organizing
for a just wage and fair treatment on the job in Central America.
Members are union organizers, unions members, community organizers,
social workers, teachers, professors, students and other women
and men who believe in international solidarity.
Trade
Justice Movement
The
Trade Justice Movement is a fast growing group of organisations
including trade unions, aid agencies, environment and human rights
campaigns, fairtrade organisations, faith and consumer groups.
Together, we are campaigning for trade justice - not free trade
- with the rules weighted to benefit poor people and the environment.
If you would like to link with WEN please e-mail
us.
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