Non-Governmental Organizations and Social Welfare

Organization

Amnesty International

Amnesty International works to protect human rights worldwide.

  1. How can businesses avoid being indirect accomplices to corrupt governments?
  2. How can the forces of industry serve as a force for peace?

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Amnesty International

Business and Human Rights Resource Centre

The Business and Human Rights Resource Centre website is updated hourly with news and reports about companies’ human rights impacts worldwide.

  1. How can companies have a positive impact on human rights?
  2. What should be done about companies having a negative impact on human rights?

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Business and Human Rights Resource Centre

Carter Center

The Carter Center “is committed to advancing human rights and alleviating unnecessary human suffering.”

  1. How can democracies be peacefully strengthened through economic trade?
  2. How can the spread of parasitic diseases such as Guinea worm be eliminated in such countries as Nigeria through entrepreneurial means?

Carter Center
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Center for Women’s Global Leadership (Global Center)

The CWGL “develops and facilitates women’s leadership for women’s human rights and social justice worldwide.”

  1. How can the Institute for Women’s Leadership (IWL) be further supported?
  2. How can the feministic perspective in policy-making further promote human rights?

Center for Women’s Global Leadership
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Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

This Inter-American Human Rights Digest contains documents in English and Spanish adopted by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights since 1960.

  1. How can this database be further utilized?
  2. What is the most predominant human rights issue(s) confronting the Americas?

Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
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Children’s Watch International

Children’s Watch is “a nongovernmental organization devoted to monitoring international compliance with children’s human rights and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.”

  1. How can the trafficking of women and children be eliminated?
  2. Do you believe in the concept of an international minimum wage? Why or why not?

Children’s Watch International
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Disabled Peoples’ International

The DPI works to ensure the right of every person with a disability to share in the social life of the community they live in while enjoying living conditions equal to those of other citizens.

  1. How can the rights of persons with disabilities be protected with the assistance of entrepreneurship and employment opportunities?
  2. How can the DPI improve its services?

Disabled Peoples’ International
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Electronic Resource Centre for Human Rights Education

The HREA is an international nongovernmental organization that supports human rights learning.

  1. How should the subject of human rights be addressed in a business curriculum?
  2. How can nongovernmental agencies protect human rights in ways that government agencies can not?

Electronic Resource Centre for Human Rights Education
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Genetic Resources Action International

GRAIN is an international nongovernmental organization which promotes the sustainable management and use of agricultural biodiversity.

  1. What is the greatest challenge to safeguarding the sustainable management of agricultural biodiversity?
  2. How can low-income entrepreneurs profitably promote agricultural biodiversity?

Genetic Resources Action International
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Human Rights Watch

HRW defends human rights worldwide through news releases and publications.

  1. What can businesses do to discourage war crimes?
  2. How can community clinics in war-torn areas be protected?

Human Rights Watch
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Native American Rights Fund

NARF is dedicated to preserving tribal existence, protection of tribal natural resources, promoting Native American human rights, the accountability of governments to Native Americans, and educating the public about Indian rights, laws, and issues

  1. How can Native American entrepreneurs be encouraged, developed, and promoted?
  2. What are the greatest challenges facing Native American entrepreneurs?

Native American Rights Fund
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Rotary Club International

The Rotary Club International is involved in a number of socially entrepreneurial efforts including promoting efforts to eradicate Polio on a worldwide basis.

  1. How can you become a Rotarian Club member or founder?
  2. How can you help Rotary Club International eradicate Polio worldwide?

Rotary Club International
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