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| Central and eastern Europe |
www.bankwatch.org |
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CEE Bankwatch Network is a network of environmental organizations working in eastern Europe and countries of the former Soviet Union, with 14 members operating in 11 countries. The aim of the network is to monitor IFI investments across a number of sectors - like transport, energy and mining - from lenders like the European Investment Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the European Union’s Structural and Cohesion Funds and to propose constructive alternatives to their policies and projects in the region.
Contact details:
In Brussels:
Mundo-B Building
Rue D'Edimbourg 26
1050 Bruxelles
Belgium
tel. + 32(0)2 893 08 61
+ 32(0)2 893 08 60
fax: +32(0)2 893 1035
In Prague:
CEE Bankwatch Network
Na Rozcesti 6 190 00 Praha 9
Czech Republic
tel. (+420) 274 816 571
(+420) 274 822 150
fax: (+420) 274 782 208 |
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| France |
www.amisdelaterre.org
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Les Amis de la Terre (Friends of the Earth France) has been working for nearly 40 years to protect human beings and their environment. Les Amis de la Terre works to provide constructive and efficient alternatives combining environmental and social concerns through various campaigns including climate change, GMOs and agriculture, energy, sustainable production and consumption models, forest protection and access to water. Les Amis de la Terre is an active member of the first worldwide environmental grassroots network, Friends of the Earth, lcoated in 70 countries globally.
Contact details:
2B rue Jules Ferry
93100 Montreuil
France
tel. +33 148 51 18 98
fax. +33 148 51 95 12
Email at: as@amisdelaterre.org |
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| Germany |
www.urgewald.de |
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urgewald is an environment and human rights organization, founded in 1992 to address the environmental and social impacts of German consumption, companies and banks abroad. urgewald works closely with NGOs in the South and East to counter projects and investments that destroy ecosystems and impoverish local communities. Urgewald's main activities are environmental education, research, media outreach and advocacy.
Contact details:
urgewald
Marienstrasse 19-20
10117 Berlin
Germany
Email at: regine@urgewald.de |
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www.weed-online.org |
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WEED - Weltwirtschaft, Ökologie & Entwicklung (World Economy, Ecology and Development) was founded in 1990 to boost lobby and advocacy activities in Germany on issues surrounding global poverty alleviation and international environmental problems. WEED campaigns for a broad correction in international economic and development policies that would put social justice and economic sustainability in the centre of international policy-making. The organisation's aim is to create more awareness in this respect and develop and implement concrete political alternatives.
Contact details:
WEED - Weltwirtschaft, Ökologie & Entwicklung
Eldenaer Str. 60
10247 Berlin
Germany
Email at: weed@weed-online.org
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| Italy |
www.crbm.org |
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Campagna per la Riforma della Banca Mondiale (CRBM) started its activities in 1996 with support from 41 Italian development, environment, human rights and grassroots associations. CRBM works in solidarity with local communities affected by projects and investment worldwide for a democratic and radical reform of IFIs, which are among the most responsible for the unjust globalisation process of this era. Special attention is given to the impacts of public and private investments from the North to the South regarding environment, development and social and human rights. Since April 2002 CRBM is a specific programme of ManiTese, an Italian development NGO accredited at the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
Contact details:
Via Tommaso da Celano 15
00179 Roma – Italy
Tel: +39 06 7826855
Fax: +39 06 7858100
E-mail at: info@crbm.org |
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| Netherlands |
www.bothends.org |
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Both ENDS strives for a socially just and sustainable world, and to this end Both ENDS supports organisations in developing countries that are active in areas of poverty alleviation and environmental management. These local organisations have in-depth knowledge of what problems are on the ground and often come up with inspiring, sustainable solutions. Both ENDS supports such groups by providing information and mediating fundraising, lobbying and networking.
Contact details:
Nieuwe Keizersgracht 45
1018 VC Amsterdam
Tel.: +31-20-530 6600
Fax: +31-20-620 8049
Email at: info@bothends.org |
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| United Kingdom |
www.brettonwoodsproject.org |
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The Bretton Woods Project works as a networker, information-provider, media informant and watchdog to scrutinise and influence the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). Through briefings, reports and the bimonthly digest Bretton Woods Update, it monitors projects, policy reforms and the overall management of the Bretton Woods institutions with special emphasis on environmental and social concerns.
Created as an independent initiative by a group of British non-governmental organisations (NGOs), it works with an extensive network to press for increased transparency and civil society participation in World Bank and IMF policies and interventions. This includes over 7000 non-governmental organisations, policy-makers, journalists, researchers and parliamentarians worldwide. By encouraging information exchange and debate, it seeks to move the Bretton Woods institutions (World Bank and IMF) away from simplistic approaches to development.
Contact details:
Hamlyn House
Macdonald Road
London N19 5PG
United Kingdom
tel: +44 (0)20 7561 7610
fax: +44 (0)20 7272 0899
Email at: anders@bankwatch.org |
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