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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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EDM November-December 2009
Written by Administrator   
Wednesday, 25 November 2009
EDM November-December 2009 issueThe EDM November-December 2009 issue is out. It discusses how to strengthen the peoples' movement on climate change. Download here.
 
EDM September-October 2009
Written by Administrator   
Wednesday, 25 November 2009
EDM September-October 2009 coverThe September-October 2009 issue of EDM is out. This issue tackles the globalization of famine. Download here.
 
Declaration from Social Movements/NGOs/CSOs Parallel Forum to the World Food Summit on Food Security
Written by Administrator   
Thursday, 19 November 2009
Rome, November 13-17, 2009 We, 642 persons coming from 93 countries and representing 450 organisations of peasant and family farmers, small scale fisher folk, pastoralists, indigenous peoples, youth, women, the urban people, agricultural workers, local and international NGOs, and other social actors, gathered in Rome from the 13 -17 of November, 2009 united in our determination to work for and demand food sovereignty in a moment in which the growing numbers of the hungry has surpassed the one billion mark. Food sovereignty is the real solution to the tragedy of hunger in our world.
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People's organizations demand food sovereignty on the occasion of the World Summit on Food Security
Written by PAN AP   
Monday, 16 November 2009
An Open Letter signed by 140 organizations was sent to Mr. Jacques Diouf, Director General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), on the occasion of the World Summit on Food Security in Rome to be held from the 16-18 November 2009.
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Conflict Deepens Before Copenhagen
Written by Martin Khor   
Friday, 13 November 2009
Geneva, 9 Nov (Martin Khor) --The United Nations climate talks in Barcelona last week ended disappointingly as there was little progress on the key political issues, and a few dramatic events showed the depth of the impasse. It was the last negotiation session before the Copenhagen conference in December, and it lost the last chance to close the gaps on the many issues still outstanding.
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Corruption conference opens in Doha
Written by UNODC   
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
9 November 2009 - Over 1,000 delegates from 125 countries are meeting this week in Doha, Qatar to review implementation of the United Nations Convention against Corruption. The delegates represent countries that have signed the United Nations anti-corruption treaty. This is the Third Session of the Conference of States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption which came into force in December 2005.
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Statement on the 15th ASEAN Summit 2009
Written by Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants   
Thursday, 29 October 2009
Genuine development and progress for the people of ASEAN
Stop forced migration and commodification of migrant workers!

Grassroots organizations of migrants, advocates and concerned groups under the network Migrants’ Caucus on ASEAN call on to leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) members to work for the genuine development of countries in the region that will put an end to forced migration and the commodification of migrant workers.
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Rural and Indigenous Women’s Statement on Climate Change
Written by Administrator   
Thursday, 29 October 2009
A Submission to the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

We, rural and indigenous women from Asia, the Pacific and other parts of the world, face enormous threats and damage to our lives and rights as a consequence of climate change including the unbridled manner by which measures are being proposed and undertaken to adapt to and mitigate this phenomenon and its impacts. As women farmers, fisherfolk, herders, farm workers, indigenous food producers and natural resource managers, we rely heavily on primary resources, which are being negatively affected and destroyed by climate change.
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Nobel laureate Obama should show commitment to peace by recalling US troops - Bayan
Written by BAYAN   
Monday, 19 October 2009
The umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan today called on Nobel Peace Prize laureate US president Barack Obama to show a genuine commitment to peace by pulling out US troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and Mindanao.
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"Arroyo does more harm than help after Ondoy" - NAFCON
Written by National Alliance for Filipino Concerns (NAFCON)   
Monday, 19 October 2009

September 26 marked the start of another trying period for the Philippine nation as Typhoon Ondoy (international name, Ketsena) left the central part of the country in wreckage. Not only was it one of the most unforgettable disasters causing damage for and killing hundreds of people, it also showed the true bayanihan spirit among Filipinos. In the midst of tragedy, this spirit manifested not only locally, but internationally.

 

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