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UN Millennium Development Goals editor's pick
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/
a blueprint to meet the needs of the world's poorest that has been agreed to by all the world’s countries and leading development institutions
Added: May. 16, 2008 | Rate It
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples editor's pick
http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/en/drip.html
a UN General Assembly Resolution concerning indigenous peoples that sets out the standards of achievement to be pursued in a spirit of partnership and mutual respect
Added: Nov. 09, 2009 | Rate It
Avaaz.org
global web movement whose purpose is to close the gap between the world we have, and the world most people everywhere want: stronger protections for the environment, greater respect for human rights, and concerted efforts to end poverty, corruption and war
Added: Feb. 19, 2009 | Rate It
Center For World Indigenous Studies
a research and education organization dedicated to wider understanding and appreciation of the ideas and knowledge of indigenous peoples and the social, economic and political realities of indigenous nations
Added: Nov. 08, 2004 | Rate It
Climate Change, Environment and Forests Programme -- Overseas Development Institute
http://www.odi.org.uk/work/programmes/climate-environment-forests/default.asp
seeks policy change in tropical forestry in ways which improve the livelihoods and well-being of the forest-dependent poor, while preserving sustainability
Added: Mar. 21, 2008 | Rate It
Community Food Security Coalition
dedicated to building strong, sustainable, local and regional food systems that ensure access to affordable, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food to all people at all times
Added: May. 11, 2009 | Rate It
Development Gateway
http://www.developmentgateway.org/
an interactive portal for information and knowledge sharing on sustainable development and poverty reduction
Added: Jul. 08, 2002 | Rate It
Environment Times, The
http://www.grida.no/publications/et/
this publication by the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) covers a wide range of articles and graphics related to environment, achieving the millennium development goals (MDGs) and poverty reduction
Added: Sep. 20, 2005 | Rate It
Get #Hope2Cope
an effort by Be That Change to enlist help in eliminating poverty and saving the environment
Added: Nov. 13, 2009 | Rate It
International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
http://www.iwgia.org/sw617.asp
goal is to endorse and promote indigenous peoples' right to self-determination, their cultural integrity and their right to development under their own conditions
Added: May. 30, 2009 | Rate It
Make Poverty History
http://www.makepovertyhistory.org/takeaction/
a mostly U.K. based campaign and coalition working to end poverty
Added: Dec. 23, 2005 | Rate It
MDG Monitor
uses interactive maps to show how countries are progressing in their efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)to relieve extreme poverty
Added: May. 16, 2008 | Rate It
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
the UN Development Programme outlines the ways these internatinally agreed upon goals to reduce extreme poverty may be achieved
Added: May. 16, 2008 | Rate It
Millennium Project
http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/
a United Nations program to identify methods to reduce poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and discrimination against women by 2015
Added: Oct. 04, 2004 | Rate It
Overseas Development Institute
British independent think-tank on international development and humanitarian issues, working for poverty alleviation and sustainable livelihoods in developing countries
Added: Apr. 16, 2006 | Rate It
Poverty Reduction and Environmental Management (PREM)
aims to deepen and broaden the exposure of economic researchers and policy advisors in developing countries to the theory and methods of natural resource management and environmental economics
Added: Feb. 12, 2006 | Rate It
Poverty, Environment, and Growth (Working Papers Archive)
http://www.worldbank.org/html/prddr/prdhome/peg/
an archive of World Bank working papers addressing policies related to growth, poverty alleviation, and environmental improvement
Added: Jan. 03, 2001 | Rate It
Water and Sanitation Program
an international partnership that aims to to alleviate poverty by helping the poor gain sustained access to improved water and sanitation services
Added: Jan. 03, 2001 | Rate It
Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council
enhances collaboration in the water supply and sanitation sector - focusing on people- centered approaches to ensure poverty alleviation and sustainable development
Added: Jan. 03, 2001 | Rate It
Women's Environment and Development Organization
international organization that advocates for women’s equality in global policy. It seeks to empower women as decision makers to achieve economic, social and gender justice, a healthy, peaceful planet and human rights for all
Added: Apr. 06, 2005 | Rate It
World Bank Environmental Economics and Indicators
http://go.worldbank.org/8PNA0NWT80
the Bank's mission includes a requirement for sustainable development; this unit analyzes poverty and environmental linkages and develops environmental indicators to measure progress
Added: Jan. 03, 2001 | Rate It
World Development Movement
works on the underlying causes of poverty by lobbying decision makers to change the policies that keep people poor, researching and promoting positive alternatives and working alongside people in the developing world who are standing up to injustice
Added: May. 11, 2009 | Rate It



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