Central Asia

Trade

Pan-Asian

ATTAC

www.attac.org

ATTAC (Association for the Taxation of financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens) is an international network of independent national and local groups in 33 countries. It promotes the idea of an international tax on currency speculation (the Tobin Tax) and campaigns to outlaw tax havens, replace pension funds with state pensions, cancel Third World debt, reform or abolish the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and, more generally, recapture the democratic space that has been lost to the financial world. ATTAC is independent from all political parties, and brings together labour unions, associations, MPs, academics and citizens from all walks of life, in self-education and peaceful action.

Voluntary help needed: See local links on ATTAC website

Friends of the Earth Middle East

P.O. Box 9341, 11191 Amman, Jordan
Tel: 962 6 5866602 or 5866603
Fax: 962 6 5866604
info@foeme.org

http://www.foeme.org/

Friends of the Earth Middle East’s primary objective is the promotion of cooperative efforts to protect our shared environmental heritage. In so doing, we hope to help achieve both sustainable regional development and the creation of necessary conditions for lasting peace in our region. FoE Middle East promotes its goals through: Serving its member organizations through providing networking, capacity-building, and information sharing services. Projects also cover environmental issues of interest to the whole region, such as renewable energy and environmental impacts related to international trade.

Voluntary help needed: see website

Public Services International (PSI)

25-2, Jalan Telawi Dua, Bangsar Baru, MY 59100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Tel: 60.3.2871782 or 60.3.2871786 (Lakshmi)
Fax: 60.3.2871780
psiap@ppp.nasionet.net OR
psiaplk@pd.jaring.my

www.world-psi.org/psi.nsf

PSI unites public sector workers in more than 600 trade unions in over 140 countries. Twenty million women and men in a variety of public service jobs are members of PSI.
For nearly 100 years, PSI has fought for public services through its activities and campaigns, its regional structure, its association with other international organisations and its work on priority issues. PSI is an officially recognised non-government organisation - NGO - for the public sector within the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and has accreditation with UNESCO, ECOSOC and UNCTAD.

Voluntary help needed: see website

Transnationals Information Exchange-Asia

141 Ananda Rajakaruna Mawatha, Colombo 10, Sri Lanka
Tel / fax: +94 (0)74 617 711
tieasia@tieasia.org

www.tieasia.org/TEXT/text_index.htm

TIE-Asia's vision is to: encourage and support the development of unions and democratic workers' organisations (where it is not possible for unions to exist), new forms of organising and broader social coalitions in the export orientated industries (with a focus on the garment and related industries) of South and South-East Asia; to promote and implement the rights of mainly women workers and to bring about improvements to their livelihoods, their families, communities and society.

Voluntary help needed: see TIE-Asia website

Via Campesina

Secretaría Operativa, Operative Secretariat Tegucigalpa, Apdo. Postal 3628MDC, Honduras, C.A.
Tel: + 504-2394679
Fax: + 504-2359915
viacam@gbm.hn

www.viacampesina.org

Via Campesina is an international movement that coordinates peasant organizations of small and middle-scale producers, agricultural workers, rural women, and indigenous communities from Asia, Africa, America, and Europe. It is an autonomous, pluralistic movement, independent from all political, economic, or other denomination. It is integrated by national and regional organizations whose autonomy is respected.

Voluntary help needed: see Via Campesina website

Specific countries

Georgia

The Greens Movement of Georgia

Agmashenebeli Ave. 182, Mushtaidi Park, Tbilisi 112, Georgia
Tel: 995 32 354751 or 952033
Fax: 995 32 351674
gagreens@access.sanet.ge

[no web address]

The Greens Movement of Georgia is an organization aiming to protect the environment, to promote sustainable development, to discourage technocratic and utilitarian treatment of nature, to establish ecologically safe technologies and to promote solidarity and peace between people.

Voluntary help needed: contact the Greens Movement directly

Association (KAPMA, founded 1988) and Korean Research Institute for Environmental Problems (KRIEP founded 1982).

Voluntary help needed: see website

Ladakh

International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC)

Foxhole, Dartington, Devon TQ9 6EB UK
info@isec.org.uk
Tel: +44 00 1803 868650

www.isec.org.uk

The International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC) promotes locally-based alternatives to the global consumer culture. Through analysis and popular education, ISEC promotes systemic solutions to today's crises - from unemployment to climate change, from ethnic conflict to loss of biodiversity. Our innovative work based on the strategy of 'education for action' seeks to reveal, and raise broad awareness about, the root causes of those crises while promoting grassroots and policy-level strategies for ecological and community renewal.

ISEC is an international organisation with offices in the UK and the US, and programmes also in Ladakh, Northern India.

Voluntary help needed: We require volunteers in Ladakh throughout the summer
(June-September) for help with our education programmes. Volunteers are welcome from any nation, but must be able to speak English and have an interest and understanding of issues relating to globalisation. Longer term volunteers are preferred (at least 4 weeks), but shorter term is also possible.