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World Social Forum
- The World Social Forum will be a new international arena for the creation and exchange of social and economic projects that promote human rights, social justice and sustainable development. It World Social Forum will take place every year in the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil, during the same period as the World Economic Forum, which happens in Davos, Switzerland, at the end of January. The website informs about the structure and functioning of this Forum and provides access to report made on this initiative.
URL:
http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/
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Public Eye on Davos
- "The Public Eye on Davos" is an international conference held over several days at the end of January at the same time as the WEF annual meeting in Davos. This alternative to the WEF is the joint project of a coalition of NGOs from all the continents.
URL:
http://www.evb.ch
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Inter Press Service (IPS)
- Inter Press Service News Agency (IPS), is a leading provider of information on global issues. IPS focuses its news coverage on the events and global processes affecting the economic, social and political development of peoples and nations.
URL:
http://www.ipsnoticias.net
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Amnesty International: World Forums
- In this section of Amnesty International web site, several aspects of the World Economic Forum and the World Social Forum are analyzed.
URL:
http://web.amnesty.org/pages/ec-worldfora-eng
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Le Monde Diplomatique
- Electronic version of this French publication specialized in international issues. The site offers a search engine, by date, country and topic.
URL:
http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/
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Independent Media Center
- Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage. Indymedia was born for the purpose of providing grassroots coverage of the World Trade Organization (WTO) protests in Seattle, November 1999. The site provides news in several mediums (articles, audio, video…) and in several languages, along with a news archive and a calendar of events. The website also provides links to the worldwide Indymedia’s media centers.
URL:
http://www.indymedia.org/
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ATTAC.info
- Press center of the ATTAC Association, which promotes de Tobin Tax. In this web site we can find the press releases, articles and several documents about the main social movements against the neo-liberal globalization.
URL:
http://www.attac.info
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Globalización
- Monthly Magazine about economy, society and culture. Only available in Spanish.
URL:
http://www.rcci.net/globalizacion
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Choike
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Choike is a portal dedicated to improving the visibility of the work done by NGOs from the South. It serves as a platform where NGOs 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.
URL:
http://www.choike.org
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World Economic Forum
- The World Economic Forum is an independent, impartial and non-profit organization that acts in the spirit of entrepreneurship in the global public interest to further economic growth and social progress. The website informs on the history, structure and activities of the Forum and provides access to publications, events management and current projects carried out by the World Economic Forum.
URL:
http://www.weforum.org/
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Banco Mundial: Globalization
- This site provides access to some of the most recent presentations on
globalization and some of the leading papers on this issue.
URL:
http://www1.worldbank.org/economicpolicy/globalization/
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World Trade Organization
- Website of the WTO which presents the organization's activities to promote commercial exchanges of goods, services, intellectual property, commercial policies and general development.
URL:
http://www.wto.org/
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Government of Switzerland
- The official page includes links with the Cabinet, the Federal Chancellery and other ministries.
URL:
http://www.admin.ch/ch/index.en.html
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