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Our World is Not For Sale

“Our World Is Not for Sale” 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, and to a sustainable, socially just, democratic and accountable multilateral trading system.
Its website proposes documents and news related to Hong Kong, Agriculture, GATS, Investments, NAMA, TRIPS, Regional Trades, War & Terrorism, and WTO.

Choike

Choike, a project of the Third World Institute is a portal dedicated to improving the visibility of the work done by NGOs and social movements from the South. The website holds a vast NGO directory, searchable by issue, a selection of materials produced by these NGOs and a number of in-depth reports/dossiers on key issues.

OneWorld

Launched in 1995 to give a voice to people and organisations involved in development and human rights, OneWorld id today the leading civil society network online, supporting people’s media to help build a more just global society.
Recollecting information from more than 1.600 organisations around the world, its website provides news and analyses.

Globalizacija

Globalizacija is a journal for political theory and research on Globalisation, Development and Gender Issues. It is produced by Women’s Centre for Democracy and Human Rights, based in Subotica, Serbia and Montenegro and founded in 2000. The centre is a nongovernmental, not-for-profit organisation and its mission is to develop democratic society, rule of law and respect for human rights through education, advocacy and research.
The online journal holds online books and publications to download, and articles organised by theme, on topics such as privatisation, ICT, or Security and Militarism. The website is also available in Serbian.

Znet

For those interested in radical politics, Znet (a site maintained by Zmagazine) is a useful portal and guiding tool for accessing information on the net. There are also introductory sources for those just becoming interested in this field. Znet is also a space to exchange ideas, engage in online activism and learn new technologies.
Among the many sources that can be accessed from this site, you will find ‘instructionals’ to key topics, ‘watch sites’ dedicated to specific issues, all by topic, sections dedicated to analysing terrorism and globalisation, and an interactive section which allows you to post or view reports, analyses, reviews, photos, lyrics, links, quotes, and cartoons. There are also links to blogs from well known writers such as Noam Chomsky. Much of the site has been translated into Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Sweedish and Turkish/Kurdish.

FSE-ESF.org

The European Social Forum began in 2002 with its first forum held in Florence. The forums are an open space for civil society groups and movements to pursue and debate ideas, formulate proposals, share experiences and create networks.
As well as details of the next ESF events, the website is home to ongoing memory projects aimed at cataloguing the discussions and proposals made at previous forums. The website available in German, Greek, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Ukranian