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Peace

Animals

general animal rights - other animal

Development and Human Rights
development organisations and campaigns - fair trade/workers' rights - human rights (general) - human rights (specific countries) - women

Environment

campaign groups - information sources - transport - food and genetics - government - green building and sustainable design

Ethical/Anti-consumerism

anti-consumerism - ethical investment/finance - corporate ethics

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activist/training resources
- alternative media - political donations - US government - databases - other


PEACE LINKS
British American Security Information Council (BASIC)
Center for Defense Information
CND
Defense Monitor
European Network Against the Arms Trade
Faslane 365
International Peace Bureau
Red Cross/Red Crescent
SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute)
Soka Gakkai International (Buddhist society for the creation of value)
The Peace Museum, Bradford

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ANIMAL RIGHTS LINKS
ANIMAL RIGHTS - GENERAL

Animal Aid
Animal Concerns
Brute Ethics
Animal Rights Coalition
Animal Rights Community Online
British Union Against Vivisection
Compassion in World Farming
Dr Hadwen Trust for Humane Research
International Fund for Animal Welfare
PETA
Campaign for the Abolition of Angling (formerly Pisces)
Liberation Magazine
Naturewatch
RSPCA
Uncaged
Vegan Society
VIVA

OTHER ANIMAL SITES

Animal Rights Resource Site

Vegan Consumer

Cruelty Free Shop

World Animal Network

Animal Rights Discussion Group (+ links)

Wolf Trust
Reintroduction and education about wolves in Britain

 

 

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DEVELOPMENT, FAIRTRADE & HUMAN RIGHTS LINKS
DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATIONS & CAMPAIGNS

Action Aid
Baby Milk Action
CAFOD (Catholic Fund for Overseas Development)
Christian Aid
Department for International Development (UK Govt.)
Institute of Social and Ethical AccountAbility
IFAT
Jubilee Debt Campaign
New Economics Foundation
New Internationalist
Oxfam
People & Planet
Save the Children
Tourism Concern
Third World Network
UNICEF
World Development Movement 

HUMAN RIGHTS - GENERAL

Amnesty International
European Human Rights Centre Organisation
Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Web
International Federation of Human Rights Leagues
Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
Refugee Council
Survival International

HUMAN RIGHTS - SPECIFIC COUNTRIES

Burma - Links to Burma related sites
Free Burma Coalition
Burma Campaign UK
Free Tibet Campaign
Human Rights in China - Includes links to sites covering China, Tibet, Hong Kong & Taiwan.
Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Chiapaslink - information about the Zapatista struggle in Chiapas, Mexico
Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign
FAIRTRADE/WORKERS RIGHTS

Clean Clothes Campaign
Ethical Trading Initiative
Fairtrade Foundation
Fair Wear
Feminists Against Sweatshops
IFAT
Just World
Labour behind the Label
Sweatshop Watch
Sweatshop-Free America
Tearfund
Traidcraft

WOMEN

The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women
Global Reproductive Health Forum
Women's Environment and Development Organization WomensNet
Women Working Worldwide
Working Women Working Together

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ENVIRONMENT LINKS
CAMPAIGN GROUPS

ASeed - European environment campaign group
Camp for Climate Action
Earth First!
Friends of the Earth International
Friends of the Earth UK
Friends of the Earth (Scotland)
Greenpeace UK
Greenpeace International
Information for Action (Aus)
International Rivers Network
Mammal Society
Pesticides Action Network UK
People's Global Action
Rainforest Action Network
Rising Tide Climate change
Surfers Against Sewage
Soil Association

INFORMATION SOURCES

Action for Sustainable Living (AfSL)
Manchester-based group providing support and info to help people live more sustainably.
Betterworldlinks.org
British Trust for Conservation Volunteers

Centre for Alternative Technology
Centre for Environmental Citizenship
Centre for Sustainable Business
CLEAR (list membership of US anti-environment lobby groups)
Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management
Countryside Agency
Earth's 911  (US & Canada, soon global)  resource for geographically specific environmental and recycling info.
Earth Island Institute (USA)
EcoSustainable Hub Loads of links from Australia
EcoTravel
Envirolink
Environmental Background Information Center Provides free information on corporations involved in environmentally dangerous projects.
Environmental Investigation Agency
Environment Jobs UK environmental jobs and volunteering opportunities
The Environmental Research Foundation   (Founded in 1980 to provide understandable, scientific information about the impacts of toxic substances on human health and the environment. Produces weekly newsletter available online.)
Environmental Working Group (USA) (Money and Environmental Politics)
English Nature
Forest Stewardship Council
Green Choices: Information on green alternatives, arranged as a series of Green Lifestyle Topics
Greenclips (Selected news items from the US)
Green Directory
Green Left Weekly, Australia
Green Links (UK)
Green Guide Online
Green Pages: Co-op America's directory, with thousands of 'green' and socially responsible businesses online
Greenscore - assess the environmental impact of your household and how you can reduce it
Greensolutions
Grown up green
- supporting households to think and act more sustainably
Natural Matters - natural living directory
Squall
TorontotheBetter.net Toronto's socially responsible business directory
Toxics Release Inventory (USA) and others
Waste Watch
Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society
WWF (World Wildlife Fund)

TRANSPORT

Critical Mass (London) PLUS international links to lots of other bike - related sites
Cycling in Hackney PLUS links to other cycling & transport groups
Easy Climate Change
Ecotourism in Poland
Plane Stupid
Ryan Air Pollution
Sustrans
Virgin Climate

FOOD & GENETICS

Baby Milk Action
Campaign for Food Safety & Organic Consumer Assn. (USA)
Chew on this an educational site for 11-14 year olds and inquisitive adults
FOE Europe Biotechnology Programme
Food Commission campaigning for healthier, safer food in the UK
Friends of the Earth (Genetics Campaign)
Genewatch a not-for-profit group that monitors developments in genetic technologies
Greenpeace (UK) Consumers guide to GM, with boycott list
Manchester Real Food Guide
different ways of producing, purchasing and finding real food in and around Manchester
Monsanto Watch
Primal Seeds (excellant agricultural resource)
Pesticide Action Network, (USA) with info on Monsanto etc
Pesticides Action Network, (UK)
Physicians and Scientists against genetically engineered food 
True Food Now
Vegan Society

GOVERNMENT

Energy Efficiency
- RECOMMENDED, UK Gov't initiative to save energy in the home, & save you money.
Global Action Plan Government initiative with advice on greener living
THOMAS: Links to federal, state and local U.S. Government sites including full text access to current bills under consideration
UK Department of Environment, Transport & Regions
UK Department for the environment, food and rural affairs
US Department of Energy
US Environment Protection Agency

GREEN BUILDING & SUSTAINABLE DESIGN

Association of Environment Conscious Builders
Centre for Alternative Technology
Centre for Sustainable Design
Ecology Building Society
Energy Efficient Home Articles
Article directory focused on energy efficient homes
Energy Efficiency - RECOMMENDED, UK Gov't initiative to save energy in the home, & save you money.
Environmental Building News
Green Building Digest
Sherwood Energy Village


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ETHICAL/ANTI CONSUMERISM & MULTINATIONALS LINKS
ANTI-CONSUMERISM

Adbusters - Produce spoof adverts and   other challenges to consumer culture
Overcoming Consumerism
Consumption Research Network - Australian research into Western consumerism
Seeds of Simplicity - voluntary simplicity website

ETHICAL INVESTMENT/FINANCE

CEP - Council on Economic Priorities
Ecology Building Society
Ethical Incvestment Association
Gaeia Ethical investment
Good Money - Information resources for socially and environmentally concerned investors, consumers, and businesses.
Industrial Common Ownership Fund (icof)
Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC)
Naturesave Policies Ltd Insurance Company
UK Social Investment Forum
PIRC- Pensions & Investment Research Consultancy (Research into Corporate Governance)
Triodos

 

 

CORPORATE ETHICS

Internet Resources for Business Ethics
ACTION Center Activism Training Materials, Resources and Research Tools (USA)
Article13 Specialist advisors in corporate social responsibility, governance and sustainable development
Baby Milk Action (Nestle boycott)
Business Ethics Magazine
Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
CokeWatch
Co-op America
Council for Ethics in Economics (USA)
Corporate Criminals - Exposes some of the worst offenders...
Guerilla News Network - more investigations into corporations and capitalism
Corporate Watch (UK)
Corporate Watch (USA)
The Corporate Agribusiness Research Project  (CARP)
The Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) - Monitor and report on the activities of European corporations and their lobby groups.
Corporate Register - Online directory of corporate non-financial reports, including CSR, sustainability, environmental and social reports
The Data Center 
EthicScan Canada
Freedom to Care Organisation for whistleblowers
The International Corporate Environmental Reporter
McSpotlight Campaign against McDonalds
The Multinationals Resource Center (MRC)   A project of Multinational Monitor designed to help activists, journalists, academics and others who need information on the activities of corporations operating in their communities.
Pesticide Action Network,  (includes info on Monsanto & other biotech multinationals).
PR Watch (complete with corporate 'Spin of the Day' section!)
Project Underground Exposes corporate environmental and human rights abuses by the mining and oil industries.
Social Accountability International

 

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OTHER INTERESTING LINKS
ACTIVIST TRAINING/RESOURCES
Networking Newsletter (Manchester, UK)
Seeds for Change

ALTERNATIVE MEDIA
Adbusters
Direct Action Anarcho-syndicalist magazine
Earth Island Journal
Ecologist Magazine
Free Radical
Freshties blog site promoting community groups etc
Guerilla News Network
Green Left Weekly, Australia
Hopedance Pathways to sustainable living
New Internationalist
Red Pepper
Independent magazine of the green and radical left
Resurgence
Schnews
Squall
Statewatch Civil Liberties information
Undercurrents
Zmag Amazing international magazine

OTHER
Ethical Jobs
'Muckrakers' Centre for Investigative Reporting
Green Travel
Noam Chomsky archive
UHC Collective political graphics and design

 

POLITICAL DONATIONS
Federal Election Commission's campaign contribution data
Mother Jones The Coin-Operated Congress. Articles & searchable index of the 400 largest US political donors.
Granny D

US GOVERNMENT
CIA World Fact Book
Environmental Protection Agency
THOMAS: Links to federal, state and local U.S. Government sites including full text access to current bills under consideration
US Department of Energy
US Library of Congress

DATABASES
Agriculture Network Information Center (database)
Corporate Critic Online
Ethiscore
Right-to-Know Network Toxics Release Inventory and others
Trade & Environment Database
United Nations Databases

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