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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

http://www.avaaz.org/en/

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

http://www.cwis.org/

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

http://www.foodsecurity.org/

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/

8 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

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

http://www.hope2cope.co.uk/

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

http://www.mdgmonitor.org/

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)

http://www.undp.org/mdg/

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

http://www.odi.org.uk/

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)

http://www.prem-online.org/

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

http://www.wsp.org/wsp/

8 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

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

http://www.wsscc.org/

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

http://www.wedo.org

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

http://www.wdm.org.uk/

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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