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Globalization and Health
Peoples Health Movement
Peoples Health Movement USA
The People's Health Movement is a coalition of grassroots groups, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), women's groups, international organization, and activists from around the world, who are dedicated to challenging the prevailing system of health care delivery that is failing to serve most of the poor worldwide.
Global Health Watch
The Global Health Watch is a broad collaboration of public health experts, non-governmental organizations, civil society activists, community groups, health workers and academics, who promote human rights as the basis for health policy, and focus on shifting the health policy agenda to recognize the political, social and economic barriers to better health.
Center for Policy Analysis on Trade and Health
CPATH conducts research, policy analysis and advocacy in the interest of protecting and improving the health of individuals, communities and populations; expanding access to health-related services; and advancing global economic policies that are democratic, sustainable, and socially just.
Disability
Mobility International USA (MIUSA)
Empowers people with disabilities through international exchange, technical assistance and training.
Handicap International
Supports people in situations of disability or vulnerability, whatever may be the cause and the environment underlying that situation: extreme poverty, exclusion, deficient social and health systems, serious violation or denial of basic rights, natural disasters, and/or violence and armed conflict.
Disabled Peoples International (DPI)
Promotes human rights of people with disabilities and includes member organizations in the developing world.
Enabling Education Network (EENET)
This information-sharing network promotes inclusion of marginalized groups in education.
Youth with Disabilities
International Deaf Children's Society (IDCS)
An organization of families and caregivers of deaf children, as well as the organizations and professionals who work with them.
Christian Blind Mission International
Christian Blind Mission's aim is to serve persons with visual impairment as well as people with other disabilities in developing countries — regardless of their nationality, sex, or religion.
Gallaudet University
Gallaudet University is the only liberal arts university in the world designed exclusively for deaf and hard-of-hearing students.
Council for Exceptional Children
The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) is an international, professional organization dedicated to improving educational outcomes for individuals with exceptionalities, students with disabilities, and/or the gifted.
Early Assistance for Vulnerable Children
Zero to Three
ZERO TO THREE's mission is to promote the healthy development of infants and toddlers by supporting and strengthening families, communities, and those who work on their behalf.
Plan International
Plan aims to achieve lasting improvements in the quality of life of deprived children in developing countries.
Regional Psychosocial Support Initiative for Children Affected by AIDS
A five-year project aimed at improving psychosocial assistance for children affected by HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa
International Child Development Programmes
The ethos of ICDP is to provide for human care by activating empathy and education of both caregivers and their children, while understanding pressures caused by poverty, migration, catastrophes, wars, as well as cultural changes due to pressures of modern life.
Bernard van Leer Foundation
Improves opportunities for children between the ages of 0 and 8 who live in circumstances of social and economic disadvantage.
HIV
HIV InSite
A university-based, global Internet resource on HIV/AIDS that incorporates comprehensive, multidisciplinary information on basic science, treatment, prevention, and policy, and is one of the world's most visited HIV/AIDS Web sites.
International HIV/AIDS Alliance
An initiative of people, organisations and communities working towards a shared vision by supporting effective community responses to HIV and AIDS, with believe that those at the forefront of the HIV/AIDS response need to have the resources to take on the challenges that the epidemic presents.
Global Strategies for HIV Prevention
Implements international strategies to prevent HIV infection by means of strategic alliances with those who share in a compassion for alleviating the suffering of women and children.
Partners in Health
By establishing long-term relationships with sister organizations based in settings of poverty, PIH brings the benefits of modern medical science to those most in need of them.
Environmental Health
Health Care Without Harm
Aims to transform the health care industry so it is not a source of environmental harm, by eliminating pollution in health care practices without compromising safety or care.
GAIA
An expanding international alliance of individuals, non-governmental organization, community-based organizations, academics and others working to end the incineration of all forms of waste and to promote sustainable waste prevention and discard management practices.
International Rivers Network
IRN supports local communities working to protect their rivers and watersheds. We work to halt destructive river development projects, and to encourage equitable and sustainable methods of meeting needs for water, energy and flood management.
Institute for Children's Environmental Health
Working to ensure a healthy and sustainable future for children and the planet.
Pesticides Action Network International
Works to replace pesticide use with ecologically sound and socially just alternatives.
Worker Health and Safety
STITCH
STITCH is a network of women unionists, organizers, and activists that builds connections between Central American and US women organizing for economic justice.
Clean Clothes Campaign
The CCC is an international campaign, focused on improving working conditions in the global garment and sportswear industries.
Labour Behind the Label
LBL is a UK network of organizations supporting garment workers' efforts to defend their rights and improve their wages and conditions.
Migrant Clinician's Network
The mission of the Migrant Clinicians Network is to positively impact the physical, mental, and environmental health of Migrants and other mobile, underserved populations.
Maquila Solidarity Network
The Maquila Solidarity Network (MSN) is a labour and women's rights advocacy organization promoting solidarity with grassroots groups in Mexico, Central America, and Asia working to improve conditions in maquiladora factories and export processing zones.
Midwifery and Obstetrics
International Confederation of Midwives
ICM's mission is to advance worldwide the aims and aspirations of midwives in the attainment of improved outcomes for women, their newborns and families during the childbearing cycle.
Midwives for Midwives/Women's Health Int'l
Midwives for Midwives and Women's Health International (MFM) is working to strengthen the capacity of traditional midwives to identify and meet the needs of the communities they serve by identifying and preserving safe and traditional methods of birthing and healthcare.
American College of Nurse-Midwives
ACNM promotes the health and well-being of women and infants within their families and communities through the development and support of the profession of midwifery as practiced by certified nurse-midwives, and certified midwives.
Midwives Alliance of North America
MANA is an organization of North American midwives and their advocates, which provides a nurturing forum for support and cooperation.
Women's Health
Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights
The Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights is an autonomous network of groups and individuals in every continent who aim to achieve and support reproductive rights for women.
International Planned Parenthood Federation
One of the strongest global voice safeguarding sexual and reproductive health and rights for people everywhere, with special focus on adolescents, HIV/AIDS, abortion, access, and advocacy.
Center for Health and Gender Equity
CHANGE is a U.S.-based non-governmental organization focused on the effects of U.S. international policies on the health and rights of women, girls, and other vulnerable populations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
AMANITARE
The African partnership for Sexual and reproductive Health and Rights of Women and Girls' goal is to build an influential social movement to institutionalize the recognition of African women's and girls' sexual and reproductive health rights as fundamental to their civil and human rights.
ISIS international
Isis International is a feminist NGO committed to creating spaces within information and communications structures and systems, that promote the many voices of women, particularly those from the South.
Our Bodies, Ourselves
A nonprofit, public interest women's health education, advocacy, and consulting organization.
Health and Human Rights
International Indian Treaty Council
An organization of Indigenous Peoples from North, Central, South America and the Pacific working for the Sovereignty and Self-Determination of Indigenous Peoples and the recognition and protection of Indigenous Rights, Traditional Cultures and Sacred Lands.
Association for Women's Rights in Development
AWID's mission is to connect, inform and mobilize people and organizations committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable development and women's human rights.
Physicians for Human Rights
Believes that human rights are essential preconditions for the health and well-being of all people, and works to investigate, expose, and stop violations of human rights worldwide.
Doctors for Global Health
A private, not-for-profit organization promoting health, education, art and other human rights throughout the world.
Health Action Information Network
HAIN contributes to the empowerment of people and communities by making available and accessible objective, accurate and timely information on health and health-related issues.