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Subcategories for UN, international organizations & NGOs

Sites for UN, international organizations & NGOs

Engineers Without Borders (EWB) - www.ewb.ca/en/index.html
For the 800 million people who go hungry each day and the one billion who lack access to clean water, poverty is an absence of opportunity. Engineers Without Borders responds to this need, helping people in developing communities gain access to technologies that will improve their lives. We believe that technology, when appropriately incorporated into each community's social, cultural, economic and political context, can drive extraordinary change.

International Centre for Trade & Development - www.ictsd.org/
International resource centre to advance the understanding of links between trade and sustainable development

MDG Monitor - www.mdgmonitor.org/
The MDG Monitor shows how countries are progressing in their efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The MDG Monitor is designed as a tool for policymakers, development practitioners, journalists, students and others to: TRACK progress through interactive maps and country-specific profiles LEARN about countries' challenges and achievements and get the latest news SUPPORT organizations working on the MDGs around the world

World Economic Forum (WEF - Davos) - www.weforum.org/en/index.htm
An independent, international organization incorporated as a Swiss not-for-profit foundation. We are striving towards a world-class corporate governance system where values are as important a basis as rules. Our motto is ‘entrepreneurship in the global public interest’. We believe that economic progress without social development is not sustainable, while social development without economic progress is not feasible.

World Social Forum (WSF- Porto Alegre) - www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/index.php?cd_language=2
The World Social Forum is an open meeting place where social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organizations opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital or by any form of imperialism come together to pursue their thinking, to debate ideas democratically, for formulate proposals, share their experiences freely and network for effective action.