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    ==International NGOs==
    ==International NGOs==
    * [http://www.worldwatch.org/ Worldwatch Institute] - An independent research organization working for an environmentally sustainable and socially just society. Special: Check out their [http://www.worldwatch.org/topics/consumption/ Consumption portal]
    * [http://www.cleanclothes.org/ Clean Clothes Campaign] - Agenda: Worker's right
    * [http://www.cleanclothes.org/ Clean Clothes Campaign] - Agenda: Worker's right



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    ==International Institutions== (These are the ones most likely used for Reference of Core-data)

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    • United Nations - Agenda: World peace and prosperity by getting heavily armed nation-states to cooperate.
    • United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) - Agenda: Environment and Human Settlements, Transport, Statistics, Economic Analysis, Population Analysis, Industrial Restructuring, Energy and Enterprise Development, Trade, Industry and Enterprise Development, Timber, Agricultural Standards, Coordinating Unit for Operational Activities, Transport, Health and Environment Pan-European Programme. 10 pages of different types of Apples, need I say more. Reference-quality stuff. See also UNECE
    • UN/LOCODE by UNECE UN/LOCODE provides code elements for more than 36.000 names of ports, airports, rail and road terminals, postal exchange offices, border crossing points and other locations used in trade and transport in 234 countries.

    EU institutions/sites

    • OHIM - The Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market
    • Eurodicautom - Official EU jargon terms translated from 12 languages to 12 languages. Useful in checking what is the widely used expression for something in English.

    Consortiums

    • OASIS - Organization for Structured Information Standards, maker of ebXML

    Foundations


    International NGOs

    • Greenpeace - Agenda: Environmentalism, safe trade, oceans, climate, opposing dangerous technology
      • http://act.greenpeace.org - Greenpeace cyber-activist community weblog, has hundreds of thousands of users, searches on almost any topic will yield something (Google searches will only show official documents). Active discussion of features for activist sites, how to integrate email chat and web, whether to use wikis or annotation, etc. Active discussion of many different projects. Probably the most advanced activist network anywhere on Earth - a good place to recruit trolls!

    National NGOs by country

    Africa

    Asia

    Australia

    Europe

    United Kingdom

    • Ethical Consumer - is the website of ECRA - the Ethical Consumer Research Association. Tons of practical advisories, research.

    North America

    US

    South America


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