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Business and Human Rights: a resource website

 

  Links: Environmental NGOs  

Action Resource Center: In Defense of Earth, Human Rights & Social Justice

Alliance to Save Energy

Alternatives for Community & Environment (ACE)

Amazon Watch

Bellerive Foundation

BHOPAL.ORG 

Biowatch South Africa

Businesses and Environmentalists Allied for Recycling (BEAR)

Business Environmental Leadership Council

Canadian Alliance on Trade and Environment

Canadian Environmental Law Association

CEDARENA (Centro de Derecho Ambiental de los Recursos Naturales / Environmental and Natural Resources Law Center) {···english···español}

CEDHA (Centro de Derechos Humanos y Medio Ambiente / Center for Human Rights and the Environment)  {···english···español}

CEE Bankwatch Network (Network's mission is to prevent environmentally & socially harmful impacts of international development finance)

Center for Energy & Climate Solutions

Center for Health and the Global Environment (Harvard Medical School)

Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL)

The Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment

Centre for Agriculture and Environment

Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), India

Centre for Transport and Energy (NGO based in Czech Republic)

Centro Latino Americano de Ecologia Social (CLAES) (Latin American Center Social Ecology) 

CERES (Coalition for Environmentally Responsive Economies) 

Chemical Industry Archives - a project of Environmental Working Group

Children's Environmental Health Network

Choose Positive Energy campaign [joint campaign by Greenpeace & The Body Shop]: Greenpeace and The Body Shop have joined forces to challenge world governments to provide access to renewable energy for all - in particular the two billion people who live without any power, within ten years

CIPFE (Centro Franciscano del Uruguay): "Derechos Humanos y Ecología en Uruguay y América Latina" {···español}

Citizens Network for Sustainable Development (USA)

Clean Farms, Clean Water: The Clean Farms Clean Water Campaign was created by a coalition of environmental and community groups to address the serious pollution problem caused by agriculture throughout California's Central Valley and across the state

Climate Technology Initiative

Communities for a Better Environment: Environmental Health and Justice for California's Urban Communities

Container Recycling Institute

Down to Earth: International Campaign for Ecological Justice in Indonesia

The Earth Council

The Earth Council / Earth Network for Sustainable Development 

Earth-Info.Net

The Earth Times

Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund (formerly Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund)

EarthRights International 

The Ecologist

Edie: The online community for water, waste & environment professionals

Envirodev: Environnement et Développement Durable {···français}

Environment and Human Rights Project (Science and Human Rights Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science)

Environmental Defense

Environmental Investigation Agency

Environmental Justice Foundation

Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University

Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide

Environmental Law Institute

Environmental Law Service: Legal Protection of Environment and Human Rights (Czech Republic)

Environmental Mining Council of British Columbia [Canada]

Environmental News Network

Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC) (California)

Environmental Rights Action (Port Harcourt, Nigeria)

Environmental Working Group: Cutting-edge research on Health and the Environment

European Partners for the Environment: Engineering Multi-stakeholder Partnerships for Sustainability - Towards a fully inclusive and equitable Globalisation

Forest Peoples Programme

Forest Stewardship Council {···english···español}

Friends of the Earth International 

Friends of the Earth (England, Wales and Northern Ireland) 

Friends of the Earth (USA)

Fundação Vitória Amazônica [Brazil] {···português}

Fundación Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (FARN) (Argentina) {···español}

Future Harvest [promotes awareness about the importance of food production and the role of agricultural science in meeting the human and environmental challenges of today and tomorrow]

Global Forest Watch {···english···español···français}

Global Mining Initiative

Global Reporting Initiative

Global Sports Alliance [a non-profit international organization, supported by the United Nations Environment Programme, to promote awareness and actions on global environmental problems for athletes and sports fans]

Goldman Environmental Prize: The international prize program for grassroots environmentalists

GrassRoots Recycling Network

Green Scissors: Cutting Wasteful and Environmentally Harmful Spending [USA]

GreenBiz.com

Greenpeace International

Greenpeace USA

Health Care Without Harm: The Campaign for Environmentally Responsible Health Care

HRH The Prince of Wales's Business & the Environment Programme, developed and run by the University of Cambridge Programme for Industry

Indigenous Environmental Network

INFORM: Strategies for a better environment

{···english···português} Instituto Socioambiental (Socio-Environmental Institute, Brazil)

International Institute for Environment & Development (IIED) 

International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

International Rivers Network (IRN)

International Society for Ecology and Culture

International Society for Environmental Ethics

IUCN (World Conservation Union)

IUCN-Environmental Law Centre

JATAM -Jaringan Advokasi Tambang/Mining Advocacy Network: Supporting Indonesian communities against the dehumanization and environmental destruction caused by the invasion of the mining, oil and gas industries

Mercury Work Group (MASCO - Medical Academic & Scientific Community Organization) 

Mercury-Free Dentists: A Campaign of RiverSides Stewardship Alliance (Canada)

Mineral Policy Institute: research and advocacy for better social and environmental practice in the minerals industry

Mines & Communities Website

MiningWatch Canada / Mines Alerte {···english···español···français}

National Councils for Sustainable Development

Natural Heritage Institute

Natural Resources Defense Council

Nautilus Institute

Nordic Partnership: The Nordic Partnership gathers a network of Nordic corporate players, WWF World Wide Fund for Nature and House of Mandag Morgen, working together to develop a fundamentally new business model for sustainable development

Norwegian Forum for Environment and Development

Oilwatch (Ecuador) {···english···español}

Partnership Brokers Forum: Building Partnerships for Sustainable Development

Partnership for Indigenous Peoples Environment

Probe International: "Probe International exposes the devastating environmental, social, and economic effects of Canada's aid and trade abroad"

Programa Empresa Responsable (CEDHA - Centro de Derechos Humanos y Medio Ambiente) {···español}

Project Underground: Supporting the human rights of communities resisting mining and oil exploration

Rainforest Action Network

READIT - Rapid Environment And Development International Timetable - READIT covers 100s of sustainable development events and links - from the local to the global level. (Environment & Development Resource Centre)

Research Foundation for Science,Technology and Ecology (India)

Resources for Promoting Global Business Principles and Best Practices - complete list of organisations [extensive directory of contact details and links to organisations promoting corporate social responsibility]  

Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment

SafeClimate for Business: A joint project of the World Resources Institute and the Center for Environmental Leadership in Business, dedicated to helping business of all sizes understand and take action on climate change.

Scorecard (an information service provided by Environmental Defense)

SD Gateway (Sustainable Development Gateway)

Sierra Club

Sierra Club: "Human Rights and the Environment"

Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition

Thailand Environment Institute

Tomorrow

Towards Earth Summit 2002

Uneterre.net {···français}

Union of Concerned Scientists: Citizens and Scientists for Environmental Solutions

U.S. Green Building Council

Women's Environment and Development Organization 

Working Group on Environmental Justice (Harvard University)

World Business Council for Sustainable Development

World Environment

World Rainforest Movement 

World Resources Institute {···english···español}

World Wildlife Fund

Worldwatch Institute

WWW.BHOPAL.NET

www.floodwallstreet.org / The Three Gorges Action Coalition [human rights and environmental groups working to halt the flow of foreign capital to the Three Gorges Dam in China]

Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies