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Alliance for Responsible Trade (ART)
ART is a U.S. coalition for just and sustainable trade. ART’s site contains letters written about the FTAA to key FTAA officials. Plus, it contains a page that identifies the major points of the Alternatives for Americas.

Amnesty International
Amnesty International is a worldwide campaigning movement that works to promote all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards. Amnesty International has a program that promotes women’s rights issues worldwide.

American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
AFSC is a Quaker organization that includes people of various faiths who are committed to social justice, peace and humanitarian service. It has programs that specifically focus on workers’ rights in the global economy.

Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID)
AWID is an international membership organization connecting, informing and mobilizing people and organizations committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable development and women's human rights. Its goal is to cause policy, institutional and individual change that will improve the lives of women and girls everywhere.

BehindTheLabel.org
BehindTheLabel.org is a multimedia news magazine and online community covering the stories and people of the global clothing industry and the hidden stories of the millions of workers around the world who make our clothes, the people who care how their clothes are made and the multinational corporations behind the labels.

Center of Concern
The Center of Concern's Global Women's Project approaches questions of women's human rights and equity through a long tradition of research, theological reflection, advocacy, outreach, popular education and coalition building. In all its programs, the project uses the lenses of gender, race and class to analyze the effects of political, economic and social policies on women and to advocate for change.

The Center for Women’s Global Leadership (Global Center)
The Global Center's programs promote the leadership of women and advance feminist perspectives in policymaking processes in local, national and international arenas. Since 1990, the Global Center has fostered women's leadership in the area of human rights through women's global leadership institutes, strategic planning activities, international mobilization campaigns, U.N. monitoring, global education endeavors, publications and a resource center.

Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF)
FMF is a cutting-edge organization dedicated to women's equality, reproductive health and nonviolence. In all spheres, FMF utilizes research and action to empower women economically, socially and politically. The organization believes that feminists—women and men, girls and boys—are the majority, but this majority must be empowered.

Human Rights Watch (HRW)
HRW is the largest human rights organization based in the United States. HRW researchers conduct fact-finding investigations into human rights abuses in all regions of the world and publish the findings in dozens of books and reports every year, generating extensive coverage in local and international media. HRW has programs focusing on women’s rights and the protection of human rights in labor and trade policies.

International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
ICRW's mission is to improve the lives of women in poverty, advance women's equality and human rights and contribute to the broader economic and social well-being. ICRW accomplishes this, in partnership with others, through research, capacity building and advocacy on issues affecting women's economic, health and social status in low- and middle-income countries.

The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU)
The ICFTU is a confederation of 225 national trade union centers in 148 countries and territories on five continents, with a membership of 157 million. The equality program specifically addresses issues of gender discrimination in the workplace and in trade unions.

International Gender & Trade Network (IGTN)
The IGTN is an international network of gender advocates working to promote equitable, social and sustainable trade. The network utilizes research, advocacy and economic literacy to address the specific trade issues of its seven regions: Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, North America and Pacific.

International Labor Organization (ILO)
The ILO formulates international labor standards in the form of conventions and recommendations setting minimum standards of basic labor rights: freedom of association, the right to organize, collective bargaining, abolition of forced labor, equality of opportunity and treatment and other standards regulating conditions across the entire spectrum of work-related issues.

International Labor Rights Fund (ILRF)
The ILRF is an advocacy organization dedicated to achieving just and humane treatment for workers worldwide. ILRF serves a unique role among human rights organizations as an advocate for and with working poor around the world.

Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras (CJM)
CJM is a San Antonio-based coalition promoting solidarity with groups in Mexico and Central America organizing in maquila factories and export processing zones to improve conditions and win a living wage. In a global economy it is essential that groups in the North and South work together for employment with dignity, fair wages and working conditions and healthy workplaces and communities.

The National Labor Committee (NLC)
The NLC is a human rights advocacy group, dedicated to promoting and defending the rights of workers. Through establishing long-standing working relationships with nongovernmental, human rights, labor and religious organizations, primarily in Latin America, the NLC puts a human face on the global economy. The NLC educates and involves the public in actions aimed at ending labor abuses, improving living conditions for workers and their families and promoting the concept of a living wage and true independent monitoring.

National Organization for Women (NOW)
NOW is dedicated to making legal, political, social and economic change in our society in order to eliminate sexism and end all oppression.

Public Services International (PSI)
PSI unites public-sector workers in more than 600 trade unions in more than 140 countries. PSI is committed to gender equality in the workplace and the trade union movement.

STITCH
STITCH is a network of U.S. women working to support women's organizing for a just wage and fair treatment on the job in Central America. Members include union organizers, union members, community organizers, social workers, teachers, professors, students and other women and men who believe in international solidarity.

United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
UNIFEM promotes women's empowerment and gender equality. It works to ensure the participation of women in all levels of development planning and practice and acts as a catalyst within the U.N. system, supporting efforts that link the needs and concerns of women to all critical issues on national, regional and global agendas.

United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS)
USAS is an organization of students and community members at more than 200 campuses. USAS is part of a movement that supports the struggles of working people and challenges corporate power. The group works to build power on campuses and develop solidarity with workers.

Women in the Informal Employment Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO)
WIEGO is a worldwide coalition of institutions and individuals concerned with improving the status of women in the economy's informal sector. WIEGO strives to improve the status of the informal sector through compiling better statistics, conducting research and developing programs and policies.

Women’s Edge
Women's Edge is a dynamic coalition of individuals and respected organizations that is giving women and families around the world an economic edge. It mobilizes American women and men through educational activities and provides the latest information on how women's lives in the developing world are being changed by U.S. programs and policies.

Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)
WEDO is an international advocacy organization that seeks to increase the power of women worldwide as policymakers at all levels in governments, institutions and forums to achieve economic and social justice, a healthy and peaceful planet and human rights for all.

Women of Color Resource Center (WCRC)
WCRC is a nonprofit education, community action and resource center working on social justice issues that affect women of color. WCRC develops and distributes education and information resources about women of color that support, sustain and advance social justice movements.

Women’s International Coalition for Economic Justice (WICEJ)
WICEJ is an international coalition representing organizations in all regions of the globe. WICEJ works to link gender with macro-economic policy in international intergovernmental policymaking arenas, from a human rights perspective.

Worker Rights Consortium (WRC)
WRC assists in the enforcement of manufacturing codes of conduct adopted by colleges and universities. These codes are designed to ensure that factories producing items for colleges and universities respect workers’ rights.

 
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