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IBON International is the international division of IBON Foundation, Inc. As an international NGO, IBON Foundation responds to international demand to provide support in research and education to peoples’ movements and grassroots empowerment and advocacy and links these to international initiatives and networks.

IBON International initiates and implements international programs, develops and hosts international networks, initiates and participates in international advocacy campaigns, and establishes regional and country offices where necessary and appropriate.

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Offices

IBON Foundation is a non-stock non-profit development institution committed to serve the Filipino people through various programs in research-education-information.

 

IBON Europe was set up in 2007 as the base for IBON International's program in Europe. It will initially focus on EU member states where it will develop partnerships with grassroots-based movements of marginalized peoples and sectors according to its mandate.

 

IBON South Asia's thrust is the empowerment of grassroots in the sub-region by developing the capacity of people's movements and grassroots organizations through research-education and advocacy support. IBON South Asia provides needed support to movements of marginalized sections of society such as Dalits, Adivasis, women, peasants, agricultural workers, fisherfolk and the toiling masses to empower them in building free democratic societies in the sub-region

 

IBON Africa focuses on building knowledge based capacity for grassroots organizations, social movements and local community based organization (CBOs) and NGO in the Africa region. To attain this objective, IBON Africa provides various services to sectors and organization in the Africa community - access to timely and relevant information through its databank and publications; training and seminars; organizing of international events to tackle such themes as golbalization, food sovereignty, aid and development and governance initiated by IBON in partnership with other international networks.

Networks

The Asia Pacific Research Network (APRN) was established in 1998 as a result of networking including a number of conferences in 1997, where the objective to channel and focus the efforts of NGO research towards supporting the need for information, education and advocacy of grassroots organizations was recognized by a number of key Asian research organizations or non-government organizations with established research departments.

 

The Reality of Aid network is the only major north/south international non-governmental collaboration focusing exclusively on analysis and lobbying for poverty eradication policies and practices in the international aid regime.

Issue Networks

The People's Movement on Climate Change is a global campaign that aims to provide venue for grassroots, especially from the South - who are the worst-affected and yet are the least empowered to adapt to climate change - to participate in the process of drawing up a post-2012 climate change framework.

 

The Water for the People Network (WPN) Water for the People Network (WPN) is a campaign network that supports the various water-related struggles at the grassroots in order for them to achieve national and international projection. It also serves as an information and resource center as well as a coordinating body for joint actions and campaigns on the national and international levels.

 

The International Initiative on Corruption and Governance (IICG) was set up in 2001 to promote interest on corruption and governance issues from a grassroots perspective that takes into account all aspects of corruption, including systemic factors and corruption in the private sector.

Network Participant

The World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) is a global network of communicators committed to communication for social change.

 

The Our World is Not For Sale (OWINFS) is a worldwide network of organizations, activists and social movements committed to challenging trade and investment agreements that advance the interests of the world’s most powerful corporations at the expense of people and the environment.

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Rashida Manjoo is new UNSR VAW!
Written by APWLD   
Friday, 24 July 2009
APWLD and various other women’s human rights organisations welcome the appointment by the United Nations Human Rights Council of Rashida Manjoo as the new UN Special Rapporteur (SR) on violence against women, its causes and consequences.
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We must move forward with no less than a holistic comprehensive policy for effective protection of d
Written by Dr. Irene Fernandez, Director Tenaganita    
Friday, 10 July 2009

The Star Newspaper of Tuesday 7 July 2009, reported that the Senate was informed by the Deputy Home Minister Datuk Wira Abu Seman Yusop that there were only a mere 7 reports made of “maid” abuses this year for the whole country. Tenaganita is shocked in the manner the House (Senate) has been misled.

 

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Resist the criminalization of undocumented migrant workers in Italy and in the European region
Written by Network on Undocumented Migrant Workers   
Wednesday, 08 July 2009
(Statement of the Network on Undocumented Migrant Workers on the new law on undocumented migrant workers in Italy. Network members are MIGRANTE Europe, INDIES Indonesia; KASAMMAKO – Korea; MIGRANTE Middle East, Institute for Migrant Workers – Indonesia; FIOB (Mexico), USA; MIGRANTE United Arab Emirates; TENAGANITA, Malaysia; Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants (APMM); May 1st Coalition, USA; UMANGAT – Rome; NLO, Nepal; ATIK, The Netherlands, and ; ATIK, Germany)
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Civil society voice unhappiness with proposed solutions for economic crisis at the UN
Written by 10 Days of Action: Countdown to Commitments   
Saturday, 27 June 2009
10 Days of Action: Countdown to Commitments
June 26, 2009 (Part 1: Morning version)
 

After months of negotiations, the United Nations Conference on the Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development closes today, June 26th, 2009. Civil society organizations are seriously disappointed in the result of the Conference and the official outcome document. In no way do the results of the Conference measure up to the actions needed to address the scale and depth of the economic meltdown, most evident in the jobs crisis, particularly in developing countries.

 

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ACTION ALERT: Help End Torture, Cut US Aid to the Philippines!
Written by New York Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines   
Friday, 26 June 2009
  • STAND AGAINST TORTURE ON JUNE 26, THE UN INTERNATIONAL DAY IN SUPPORT OF VICTIMS OF TORTURE 
  • ASK THE US APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE TO CUT US MILITARY AID TO THE PHILIPPINES AND TO REQUIRE THE PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT TO FULLY COMPLY WITH INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE CASE OF MELISSA ROXAS!
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MIGRANTE Netherlands holds 5th year Anniversary and 4th General Assembly
Written by Grace Punongbayan, MIGRANTE-NL   
Friday, 26 June 2009

Delegates and Observers to MIGRANTE- NL 4th General Assembly, 13 June 2009, AmsterdamThe 5th year anniversary of MIGRANTE-NL and its 4th General Assembly was successfully held on 13 June 2009 in Amsterdam. The theme – “Defend the Rights and Welfare of Filipino migrants and uphold the spirit of patriotism” guided the assembly and was elaborated in the many aspects of the program from the motif-décor of the venue, the Prayer-Celebration, the cultural presentation, and the assembly resolutions. The day was both serious and happy, both an assembly and a celebration.

 

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Press Conference in Solidarity with G192 and Protests against meeting of G20
Written by Bail Out People Movement: Solidarity Center   
Thursday, 25 June 2009

The Bail Out the People Movement and the Million Worker March Movement are hosting a news conference on June 26 at the United Nations to coincide with the final day of the U.N. Conference on the Economic Crisis to announce plans for a protest at the next G20 summit scheduled in Pittsburgh on Sept. 24-25. The U.N. Conference—also known as the G192—had earlier been scheduled for June 1-3. Non-cooperation from the world’s most powerful economic countries, especially the U.S., forced its postponement until June 24-26. Called by the President of the General Assembly Miguel D’Escoto Brockman, the conference is aimed at representing all U.N. members in confronting the worldwide economic crisis and not just the restricted elite powers of the G8 or G20.

 

 

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Asian helpers hit exclusion to SMW as unjust, unfair and discriminatory
Written by Asian Migrants' Coordinating Body   
Thursday, 02 July 2009

Photo: AMRC“When they decided to exclude us, they refused to treat us as workers. When they excluded us, they treated us as not part of the HK society. When they excluded us, they unleashed the virus of social exclusion and discrimination that is more virulent and deadly than anything we have faced.”

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10 days of action: a coundown to commitments
Written by Rosa G. Lizarde   
Tuesday, 23 June 2009

16 June – The Global Call to Action Against Poverty is calling on the world to join social movements everywhere as we celebrate the ‘Day of the African Child’ and kick off an important 10-day initiative that will help deliver all of our demands to the world leaders at the United Nations Conference on the Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development on 24-26 June in New York City.

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Workers on the Move: The Global Crisis and Migrant Labor
Written by Administrator   
Tuesday, 09 June 2009
A Forum Sponsored by RESIST!, International Migrants Alliance, Ibon Foundation and the World Council of Churches
22 June 2009, 7-9pm,
Boss Room, 8th Floor, UN Church Center, 777 United Nations Plaza, New York
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