Europe

Trade

Pan-European

A SEED Europe

PO Box 92066, 1090 AB Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tel:31 20 6682236
Fax: 31 20 468 2275
aseedeur@antenna.nl

www.aseed.net

A SEED is network that initiates actions and campaigns on environmental and social justice issues. Our current campaigns are centred on issues surrounding the production, distribution and consumption of food (small, local organic farms instead of agribusiness, biotechnology and supermarkets selling genetically modified food); and the coordination of the World Bank Boycott in Europe. Our main activities are promoting discussion, encouraging positive action, distributing publications and coordinating meetings. We hope we can help you to organise your campaign, contact other useful groups, and find out useful information.
Voluntary help needed: see website

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

Public Services International (PSI)

Rue Royale 45, 1st Floor, BE 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium
Tel: 32.2.250.10.80
Fax: 32.2.250.10.99
epsu@epsu.org

http://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

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

Austria

Clean Clothes Kampagne

c/o Südwind Agentur, Laudongasse 40, A1080 Wien, Austria
Tel: +43-1-405-5515
Fax: +43-1-405-5519
cck@oneworld.at, stefan.kerl@oneworld.at

www.cleanclothes.at

Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) works to improve working conditions in
the garment- and sportswear industry worldwide. We work in 4 main areas:
-exchanging information with and supporting partner organisations in production countries
-informing consumers and mobilising them to take action
-putting pressure on companies to improve their policy
-informing (local)governments how to become consious consumers (thus acting as a role model) and encouraging them to pass legislation which incorporates social responsible business practices for companies in their jurisdiction.

Voluntary help needed: CCC has an extensive network of people who write protest letters and cards to company and factory owners who do not respect workers' rights (the urgent appeal system). Also there are volunteers who participate in our (street)actions or who do research for the CCC.

Global 2000

Flurschützstraße 13, Vienna 1120, Austria
Tel: 43 1 81257300
Fax: 43 1 8125728
office@global2000.at

www.global2000.at/index1.htm

As an environmental lobby Global 2000 not only uncovers environmental scandals and the responsibility Austria has in international environmental problems, but also offers ecological approaches for solutions.
Voluntary help needed: see website

Belgium

Les Amis de la Terre

Place de la Vingeanne 1, 5100 Dave (Namur), Belgium
Tel: 32 81 401478
Fax: 32 81 402354
international@amisdelaterre.be

www.amisdelaterre.be

FoE Belgium was formed in 1976 and is made up of about thirty local groups, distributed in the four provinces of Wallonia and the Brussels and German-speaking areas of the country.
The local groups do not act alone: there is also a national and regional network to support them. The links between the different regional areas and the coordination of their actions are facilitated by FoE Belgium.
Voluntary help needed: see website

Schone Kleren Campagne (Flanders)

c/o Wereldsolidariteit, Haachtsesteenweg 579, 1031 Brussel, Belgium
Tel: +32-2-246 36 81
Fax: +32-2-246 38 85
campagne@schonekleren.be

www.schonekleren.be

Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) works to improve working conditions in
the garment- and sportswear industry worldwide. We work in 4 main areas:
-exchanging information with and supporting partner organisations in production countries
-informing consumers and mobilising them to take action
-putting pressure on companies to improve their policy
-informing (local)governments how to become consious consumers (thus acting as a role model) and encouraging them to pass legislation which incorporates social responsible business practices for companies in their jurisdiction.

Voluntary help needed: CCC has an extensive network of people who write protest letters and cards to company and factory owners who do not respect workers' rights (the urgent appeal system). Also there are volunteers who participate in our (street)actions or who do research for the CCC.

Vetements Propres (Walonia)

285 rue Provinciale, 1301 Wavre, Belgium
Tel: +32.(0)10.43.79.50
T-direct: +32.(0)10.43.79.50
Fax: +32.(0)10.43.79.69
carole.crabbe@mdmoxfam.be

www.vetements-propres.be.tf

Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) works to improve working conditions in
the garment- and sportswear industry worldwide. We work in 4 main areas:
-exchanging information with and supporting partner organisations in production countries
-informing consumers and mobilising them to take action
-putting pressure on companies to improve their policy
-informing (local)governments how to become consious consumers (thus acting as a role model) and encouraging them to pass legislation which incorporates social responsible business practices for companies in their jurisdiction.

Voluntary help needed: CCC has an extensive network of people who write protest letters and cards to company and factory owners who do not respect workers' rights (the urgent appeal system). Also there are volunteers who participate in our (street)actions or who do research for the CCC.

Bulgaria

Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation CCC-programme

Sofia 1000, ul. Han Krum 34, Bulgaria
Tel: +359-2-9804011,
Fax: +359-2-9814375
ccc@mbox.cit.bg

[no web address]

Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) works to improve working conditions in
the garment- and sportswear industry worldwide. We work in 4 main areas:
-exchanging information with and supporting partner organisations in production countries
-informing consumers and mobilising them to take action
-putting pressure on companies to improve their policy
-informing (local)governments how to become consious consumers (thus acting as a role model) and encouraging them to pass legislation which incorporates social responsible business practices for companies in their jurisdiction.

Voluntary help needed: CCC has an extensive network of people who write protest letters and cards to company and factory owners who do not respect workers' rights (the urgent appeal system). Also there are volunteers who participate in our (street)actions or who do research for the CCC.

Czech Republic

Hnuti Duha

Bratislavska 31, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
Tel: 420 5 45214431
Fax: 420 5 45214429
centrum@hnutiduha.cz

www.hnutiduha.cz/home.php

Hnuti DUHA campaigns for environmental solutions on a wide range of issues, with priorities in energy, forests, mining, waste and agriculture, as well as on general environmental policy issues, and exposes bad practice by corporations and helps parties to compile their election manifestos, advises communities and drafts new laws, informs consumers and researches alternatives.
Voluntary help needed: see website

Public Services International (PSI)

PSI Sub-Regional Office, W. Churchill Sq. 2, CZ 113 59 Praha 3, Czech Republic
Tel: 42.2.24463559
Fax: 42.2.24463557
krejbych.josef@cmkos.cz

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

Croatia

Zelena Akcija (Friends of the Earth Croatia)

Ms. Jagoda Munic, Frankopanska 1pp. 952, 1000 Zagreb, Croatia
Tel: 385 1 481 3096
Fax: 385 1 481 3096
zelena-akcija@zg.hinet.hr

www.zelena-akcija.hr

Zelena Akcija, Friends of the Earth Croatia, is a non-governmental, non-profit organization registered in January 1990. Based in Zagreb, Zelena Akcija is actively involved in environmental issues of local, national and international significance. The group is not affiliated with any political party and is based on the efforts of volunteers, supported by a professional team of around 10 people. The organization's main campaigns concern: renewable energies and climate change, Local Agenda 21, a "green phone" line for the public, genetically-modified organisms, nature protection (forests, protected areas).

Voluntary help needed: contact Zelena Akcija

Denmark

Noah

Noerrebrogade 39, 1, Tv 2200 Copenhagen N Denmark

Tel: 45 3536 1212
Fax: 45 3536 1217
foedenmark@noah.dk

www.noah.dk

NOAH is a grassroots organization founded in 1969. We publish a quarterly magazine and 2-3 books in Danish each year. Our main national campaigns concern transportation, dioxins and biotechnology. We are participating in the following FoE campaigns: "European campaign to halt GM pollution" and "New Local Partners for Sustainability". We have and are still working on the Sustainable Europe and Environmental Space concepts.
Voluntary help needed: see website

England

ActionAid

Hamlyn House, Macdonald Road, Archway, London N19 5PG, UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7561 7561
Fax: +44 (0)20 7272 0899
mail@actionaid.org.uk

www.actionaid.org

ActionAid is a unique partnership of people who are fighting for a better world - a world without poverty. As one of the UK’s largest development agencies, we work in more than 40 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, listening to, learning from and working in partnership with over nine million of the world’s poorest people.

Voluntary help needed: see <http://www.actionaid.org/takeaction/takeaction.shtml>

Banana Link

38-40 Exchange St. Norwich NR2 1AX England
blink@gn.apc.org

www.bananalink.org.uk

Banana Link aims to alleviate poverty and prevent further environmental degradation in banana exporting communities and to work towards a sustainable banana economy. We aim to achieve this by working co-operatively with partners in Latin America, the Caribbean, West Africa and the Philippines and with a network of European and North American organisations.
Voluntary help needed: contact Banana Link

Corporate Watch

16b Cherwell Street, Oxford OX4 1BG, UK
Tel: + 00 44 1865 791391
mail@corporatewatch.org

www.corporatewatch.org.uk

Corporate Watch is a not-for-profit research group, founded in 1996, dedicated to investigating the social and environmental impact of corporations. We predominantly focus on UK corporations or corporations that operate within the UK. We are based in Oxford and currently employ seven people. Our main work consists of producing in depth research, news and analysis to aid the work of campaigners on corporate issues and contribute to the debates around corporate behaviour. Corporate Watch operates as a Worker's Co-operative.

Voluntary help needed: Corporate Watch welcomes newsletter or 'news updates' articles from activists and researchers on corporate crimes and fighting corporate crime around the world. We would also welcome anyone who could make a long term voluntary commitment to supporting our work from our Oxford office.

Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland

26-28 Underwood Street, London N1 7JQ, UK
Tel: 44 207 490 1555
Fax: 44 207 490 0881
info@foe.co.uk

www.foe.co.uk

Friends of the Earth is the UK's most influential national environmental pressure group and is a unique network of campaigning local groups, working in over 200 communities throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Voluntary help needed: see website

International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC)

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

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.
We can also use outreach/publicity, research, tech, fundraising, and general office support in our Berkeley, CA and Devon, UK offices.

Labour Behind the Label

38 Exchange Street, Norwich, Norfolk, NR2 1AX, UK
Tel: 01603 610 993
lbl@gn.apc.org

www.labourbehindthelabel.org

Labour Behind the Label is a membership organisation which brings together pressure groups, trade unions and individuals in support of garment workers' efforts to improve their working conditions and wages.
It draws attention to the plight of garment workers everywhere, including Britain, and works to facilitate information exchange and international solidarity between workers and consumers.
Voluntary help needed: contact Labour Behind the Label

Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign

129 Seven Sisters Rd, London, N7 7QG, UK
Tel: +020 7272 9619
Fax: +020 7272 5476
nsc@nicaraguasc.org.uk

www.nicaraguasc.org.uk

The Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign (NSC) campaigns to raise political and material support in the UK for progressive organisations in Nicaragua through lobbying, sending study tours and work brigades to Nicaragua, promoting links through town twinning groups and trade unions, organising speaker tours in the UK, running an urgent action network, disseminating information and sales. The current campaign is around Fair Trade and Debt.

Voluntary help needed: volunteers from anywhere in the world can apply although most are from the UK and the preparation weekend is in the UK. This year we had three programmes: a community theatre study tour, a fair trade working visit and study tour and a Globalisation study tour.

People & Planet

51 Union Street, Oxford, OX4 1JP, UK
Tel: +01865 245678
Fax: +01865 791927
people@peopleandplanet.org

www.peopleandplanet.org

People & Planet is the biggest student organisation in the UK campaigning on poverty, human rights and the environment. We have a campaign record of changing the behaviour of governments, corporations and billion-pound investment
funds. We have 28 staff, the largest student network in Europe and tens of thousands of supporters.

Voluntary help needed: volunteer mentors required to support Sixth Formers campaigning on global issues and help set up Campaign groups in schools in the UK.

Trade Justice Movement

c/o The Fairtrade Foundation, Suite 204, 16 Baldwin's Gardens, London, EC1N 7RJ, UK
Tel: +00 44 20 7404 0530
mail@tjm.org.uk

www.tjm.org.uk

The Trade Justice Movement is a fast growing coalition of over 50 UK organisations including aid agencies, environment and human rights campaigns, fairtrade organisations, trade unions, faith and consumer groups. The movement campaigns for trade justice - not free trade - with the rules weighted to benefit poor people and the environment.
Voluntary help needed: see 'Take action' section of the Trade Justice Movement website: <http://www.tjm.org.uk/action.shtml>

War on Want

37-39 Great Guildford Street, London SE1 0ES, UK
Phone: + 00 44 207 620 1111
mailroom@waronwant.org

www.waronwant.org

War on Want fights poverty in developing countries in partnership and solidarity with people affected by globalisation. We campaign for workers' rights and against the root causes of global poverty, inequality and injustice.
Voluntary help needed: UK volunteers only for office and outreach.

World Development Movement

25 Beehive Place, London, SW9 7QR, UK
Tel: 0800 328 2153
wdm@wdm.org.uk

www.wdm.org.uk

The World Development Movement tackles the underlying causes of poverty. We lobby decision-makers to change the policies that keep people poor. We research and promote alternative approaches. We mobilise consumers, shareholders and governments to hold multinational companies accountable for their actions. We are lobbying for the reform of the World Trade Organisation and we support people in the developing world who are standing up against injustices of the world.

Voluntary help needed: WDM does receive a high number of requests for volunteering experience but as there are more requests than available positions we advertise specific volunteer positions on our website.

Estonia

Eesti Roheline Liikumine/
Estonian Green Movement (EGM)

PO Box 318, Tartu 50002, Estonia

Tel: 372 7 422532
Fax: 372 7 422084
info@roheline.ee

www.roheline.ee/index.php3

EGM's mission is to respond to regional environmental problems brought by political and social changes, and to protect Estonian natural resources at the grassroots, national, and international levels. Estonian Green Movement is active in lobbying and policy work, especially in national level. ERL is specialising in many environment and development related issues (monitoring foreign investments, promoting fair trade, etc) that other environmental NGOs usually don't tackle in Estonia. Its activities are carried out in framework of 7 permanent working groups that are dealing with following issues: Energy and atmosphere, Forestry, Planning monitoring, Sustainable Consumption, Transport, Water, Youth. In addition to permanent working groups there are few specific projects.
Voluntary help needed: see website

Finland

Friends of the Earth Finland

Kirkkotie 6-10, 20540 Turku, Finland
Tel: 358 2 2310321
Fax: 358 2 2371670
toimisto@maanystavat.fi

www.maanystavat.fi

Friends of the Earth Finland is a membership organization and a coalition of individual members, action groups, local FoE organizations and like-minded Finnish NGOs. It was founded in June 1996 in Turku. The objective of the organization is to promote
Voluntary help needed: see website

Network Institute for Global Democratization (NIGD)

Otavantie 14 B 27, 00200 Helsinki, Finland
Tel: + 358-(0)40-5084026
info@nigd.u-net.com

www.nigd.org

NIGD is an international think-tank that aims at promoting global democratization by producing and developing emancipatory knowledge for democratic movements, organizations and governments. We see democracy not as a model but as a process of democratization. NIGD's work is based on the conviction that globalization as coming-together-of-humanity must be based on cross-cultural dialogue concerning both philosophical fundamentals and concrete reform proposals. NIGD projects are usually joint endeavours with a number of partners from the global south.

NIGD has been involved in transnational campaigns, for instance for a currency transactions tax and, more generally, for global democratization.
NIGD aims at strengthening global civil society and is also a founding member of the International Council of the World Social Forum.
Please consult our website for a list of our concrete projects.

Voluntary help needed: we would warmly welcome voluntary assistance in organising discussion sessions in various forums around the world on strategies towards global democratization. We also welcome specific skills - fund-raisers; help with developing our website; and volunteers to assist us with membership e-mailings and newsletters and recruitment of new members (particularly from the global south).

France

Collectif 'De l'Ethique sur l'Etiquette'

53, Boulevard de Strasbourg, 75010 Paris, France
Tel: +33-156-03-9354
Fax: +33- 147-70-9635
info@ethique-sur-etiquette.org

www.ethique-sur-etiquette.org

Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) works to improve working conditions in
the garment- and sportswear industry worldwide. We work in 4 main areas:
-exchanging information with and supporting partner organisations in production countries
-informing consumers and mobilising them to take action
-putting pressure on companies to improve their policy
-informing (local)governments how to become consious consumers (thus acting as a role model) and encouraging them to pass legislation which incorporates social responsible business practices for companies in their jurisdiction.

Voluntary help needed: CCC has an extensive network of people who write protest letters and cards to company and factory owners who do not respect workers' rights (the urgent appeal system). Also there are volunteers who participate in our (street)actions or who do research for the CCC.

Germany

BUND

Am Köllnischen Park 1, D-10179 Berlin, Germany
Tel: 49 30 275 864 0
Fax: 49 30 275 864 40
info@bund.net

www.bundjugend.de

BUND campaigns for workable alternatives to the current process of economic globalisation and has been at the forefront of the sustainable development debate. In 1996, BUND published its national blueprint for a sustainable economy.
Voluntary help needed: see website

Kampagne fur Saubere Kleidung

c/o Vereinte Evangelische Mission, Christiane Schnura, Rudolfstr. 131, 42285 Wuppertal
Tel: +49-202-89004-316
Fax: +49-202-89004-79
ccc-d@vemission.org

www.ci-romero.de

Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) works to improve working conditions in
the garment- and sportswear industry worldwide. We work in 4 main areas:
-exchanging information with and supporting partner organisations in production countries
-informing consumers and mobilising them to take action
-putting pressure on companies to improve their policy
-informing (local)governments how to become consious consumers (thus acting as a role model) and encouraging them to pass legislation which incorporates social responsible business practices for companies in their jurisdiction.

Voluntary help needed: CCC has an extensive network of people who write protest letters and cards to company and factory owners who do not respect workers' rights (the urgent appeal system). Also there are volunteers who participate in our (street) actions or who do research for the CCC.

Greece

Nea Ecologia

Mavromihali 39, 106 80 Athens, Greece
Tel: +3010 3624323 or +3010 3625335
Fax: +3010 3619837
ecologia@hol.gr

www.ecologia.gr

Nea Ecologia is a non-profit, non-governmental organization founded in 1984 by a group of Greek environmentalists, green activists, academic people and journalists. It has 50 full members and 2500 supporters. The organization among others activities, edits a monthly magazine, since 1984, which is called Nea Ecologia. Nea Ecologia acts for the environment protection in local, national and international level.
Voluntary help needed: contact Nea Ecologia

Hungary

Magyar Természetvédok Szövetsége

1091 Budapest, Ülloi út 91/b. 1450 Budapest, Pf.: 123.
Tel: (1) 216-7297
Tel: (1) 216-7295
mtvsz@elender.hu

www.mtvsz.hu

The overall objective of our activities is to contribute actively to the conservation of nature as a whole. It is the only way to achieve sustainable development and our Society Is committed to raising public awareness on this subject, to planning and fulfilling actions in this regard, and to co-operating with all like-minded organisations and citizens towards the realisation of our overall objective.
Voluntary help needed: see website

Ireland

Earthwatch (Friends of the Earth Ireland)

7 Upper Camden Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
Tel: 01- 478 5100 01- 478 5101
Fax: 01- 497 3773
foeeire@iol.ie

www.iol.ie/~foeeire/home.htm

www.walhi.or.id

Earthwatch is united with other Friends of the Earth member groups by the conviction that the success of our goals demand a strong ground base of local activism as well as effective national and international campaigning and co-ordination, and we pursue our aims through research, education and advocacy.
Voluntary help needed: contact Earthwatch

Italy

Amici della Terra

Via Torre Argentina 18, Rome 00186, Italy
Tel: 39 06 6875308 or 6868289
Fax: 39 06 68308610
amiterra@amicidellaterra.it

www.amicidellaterra.it

Amici della Terra is one of the oldest members of Friends of the Earth International. It was established in 1977, and was the first Italian association to be concerned with the political and institutional aspects of environmental problems. The organization currently has around 26,000 members and about 100 local groups.
The organization's main concern is to promote the adoption of sound public policies for the environment and for sustainable development. The activities are carried out at various levels, and include political campaigns, research, implementation of concrete projects with partners from the civil society, information dissemination, the promotion of environmental education and local initiatives. Research activities, besides giving a sound scientific basis to the organization's campaigns and political positions, represent a crucial fund-raising tool.
Voluntary help needed: see website

Centro Nuevo Modello di Sviluppo

Via della Barra 32
56019 Vecchiano (PI)
Italy
T: +39-50-826.354
F: +39-50-827.165
email: coord@cnms.it

www.cleanclothes.org

Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) works to improve working conditions in
the garment- and sportswear industry worldwide. We work in 4 main areas:
-exchanging information with and supporting partner organisations in production countries
-informing consumers and mobilising them to take action
-putting pressure on companies to improve their policy
-informing (local)governments how to become consious consumers (thus acting as a role model) and encouraging them to pass legislation which incorporates social responsible business practices for companies in their jurisdiction.

Voluntary help needed: CCC has an extensive network of people who write protest letters and cards to company and factory owners who do not respect workers' rights (the urgent appeal system). Also there are volunteers who participate in our (street) actions or who do research for the CCC.

Latvia

Environmental Protection Club (VAK)

Audeju Str. 7/9, Riga, LV-1966, Latvia
Tel: +371 7 22 60 42
Fax: +371 7 21 36 97
int@vak.lv

www.vak.lv

www.vide.vak.lv

With more than 3400 individual members and 65 local branches all over Latvia, VAK is the largest environmental NGO in Latvia. Membership in VAK is open to all interested people.
VAK has constantly extended its fields of interests and now is active in environmental education, local environmental initiatives, organic agriculture, environmental policy, public advocacy and even cultural issues. Most recent activities involve monitoring of international financial institutions and EU integration processes from the environmental perspective.
Voluntary help needed: contact VAK directly

Lithuania

Lietuvos Zaliuju Judejimas / Lithuanian Green Movement

Central Post, PO Box 156, Kaunas 3000, Lithuania

Tel: 370 37 425 566
Fax: 370 37 425 207
zalieji@zalieji.it

www.zalieji.lt

The Lithuanian Green Movement (LGM) was established by national environmental clubs, groups and activists in 1988. LGM coordinates the activities and exchanges information between some 500 members all over Lithuania.
As the first post-Soviet environmental NGO in Lithuania, LGM played a significant role in the democratization process and in raising public awareness and participation on environmental issues in Lithuania. Today, LGM is one of the country's most active environmental NGOs, with the main strategies of influencing public policy, increasing public participation and raising public awareness about environment protection and sustainable development.
Voluntary help needed: contact LGM

Luxembourg

Mouvement Ecologique

6, Rue Vauban, L-2663 Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Tel: 352 439 030
Fax: 352 422 242
meco@emweltzenter.lu

www.emweltzenter.lu

The members and friends of the "Mouvement Ecologique" fight for the protection of nature and environment, as well as for a better quality of life and democracy.
The Mouvement Ecologique has more than 3300 members, and most campaigning is done by volunteers. Information dissemination is a high priority, for example consumer advice and environmental consulting on environmental problems and laws. Our "ecological center" has a library with over 5,000 books on environmental subjects which can be consulted or borrowed. The Mouvement Ecologique and its foundation "Oeko-Fonds" organize an environmental fair "Oeko-Foire" each year whcih attracts more than 14,000 people.
Voluntary help needed: contact Mouvement Ecologique

Macedonia

Vizhenje na Ekologistite na Makedonija

Vasil Gjorgov 39, baraka 6, 1000 Skopje, Macedonia
Tel: 389 2 220 518 or 128 075
Fax: 389 2 128 075
general - dem@dem.org.mk; youth -demmladi@dem.org.mk

[no web address]

The Ecologists’ Movement of Macedonia (DEM) is a non-governmental, non-profit and apolitical association. It is a national association which includes 29 local environmental NGOs as full-members and 17 other organizations and institutions as associated members. It was established in 1990 in order to coordinate the work of the existing local groups.
DEM's objective is to raise public awareness concerning environmental protection, sustainable development, and preservation of nature. DEM also has a youth branch which coordinates public protests against air pollution, cycle races, anti-nuclear protests, protests against waste disposal, clean-up actions in different places in Macedonia, a climate campaign, summer work and educational camps, street theatre and so forth.
Voluntary help needed: contact DEM

Malta

Moviment Ghall-Ambjent (Friends of the Earth Malta)

PO Box 13, Valletta, Malta
Tel: 356 21 342269
Fax: 356 21 342269
info@foemalta.org

www.foemalta.org

The stance of the movement is for strong sustainability which is informed by "deep" ecological values. The group has concentrated its energies on the issues of land use, energy, pollution, and waste. The group has been successful in opposing many of the major developments which threatened to deplete Malta's countryside and coast. This work is supplemented by on-going educational activities and the preparation of reports on diverse environmental problems. Since 1994 the movement has put on the public agenda the threats posed by tourism to the Maltese islands, and has organized conferences, workshops, and meetings wherein those involved with the tourism industry have cooperated to achieve higher environmental standards in order to improve tourism destinations. The group also participated in the Sustainable Europe campaign and is currently lobbying for Malta to aim towards achieving equitable and sustainable levels of consumption by the year 2010.
Voluntary help needed: see website

Netherlands

Corporate Europe Observatory

Paulus Potterstraat 20, 1071 DA Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tel: 31 20 6127023
Fax: 31 20 6127023
ceo@corporateeurope.org

www.corporateeurope.org

Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) is a European-based research and campaign group targeting the threats to democracy, equity, social justice and the environment posed by the economic and political power of corporations and their lobby groups.
Voluntary help needed: contact CEO

Milieudefensie

Postbus 19199, Amsterdam 1000 GD, The Netherlands
Tel: 31 20 550 7300
Fax: 31 20 550 7310
info@milieudefensie.nl

www.milieudefensie.nl

Milieudefensie is a national organization with a hundred local groups. A separate youth organization, JMA, has several thousand partners.
The Netherlands is a densely populated and built up country, which largely defines the scope of our campaigns, for example the campaign for the legal protection of green and less populated countryside. We are campaigning for rules against the enormous use of cars, such as car-free city centres and better public transport. For years we have fought against the growth of Schiphol, one of Europe's largest airports. We are encouraging supermarkets chains to sell more biological products. Recycling, energy saving and sustainable energy are ongoing themes. In a "low" country like the Netherlands campaigns for climate change are especially important.
But the remit of our organization does not stop at our borders and one of our campaigns is concerned with the adverse effects of the liberalization of the world market and the role of the WTO.
Voluntary help needed: see website

Schone Kleren Kampagne

Postbus 11584, 1001 GN Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Tel: +31-20-4122785
Fax: +31-20-4122786
info@schonekleren.nl

www.cleanclothes.org/campaign/reply_cccform.htm

www.schonekleren.nl

Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) works to improve working conditions in
the garment- and sportswear industry worldwide. We work in 4 main areas:
-exchanging information with and supporting partner organisations in production countries
-informing consumers and mobilising them to take action
-putting pressure on companies to improve their policy
-informing (local)governments how to become consious consumers (thus acting as a role model) and encouraging them to pass legislation which incorporates social responsible business practices for companies in their jurisdiction.

Voluntary help needed: CCC has an extensive network of people who write protest letters and cards to company and factory owners who do not respect workers' rights (the urgent appeal system). Also there are volunteers who participate in our (street) actions or who do research for the CCC.

Norway

Norges Naturvernforbund

PO Box 342, Sentrum 0101, Oslo, Norway
Tel: 47 22 402400
Fax: 47 22 402410
naturvern@naturvern.no

www.naturvern.no

Norges Naturvernforbund (Norwegian Society for the Conservation of Nature) is Norway's largest environmental conservation organization with a total of about 17,000 adult members, 4,000 members of the independent youth organisation Nature & Youth (Natur og Ungdom) and 7,000 members of the independent children's club, Inky Arms Eco-detectives (Blekkulfs Miljødetektiver). All members can participate in the decision-making process through their local and county branches and the general meeting every second year. We believe that public participation is necessary to save our environment. Consequently information work is high on the organization's agenda. This work is aimed at strengthening public environmental awareness, concern and practice. Norges Naturvernforbund works with the whole range of important environmental issues. This does not exclude the ability to react quickly to new challenges and focus sharply on new relevant issues when they occur.
Voluntary help needed: see website

Poland

Polski Klub Ekologiczny

Ul slawkowska 26a, Kraków 31.014, Poland
Tel: 48 12 4232047
Fax: 48 12 4232098
biuro@zgpke.most.org.pl

www.most.org.pl/pke-zg

The Polish Ecological Club is a non-profit, non-governmental organization opposing treating the environment as an owner-less, valueless property. Making people aware that the quality of life depends on achieving the balance between technological development, humanistic values and wise stewardship of the earth's natural resources together with preserving the natural, historical and cultural heritage still is our main challenge.
PKE works within the Green Consumer campaign that promotes environmental friendly models of consumption as an alternative to ‘run-away’ consumerism.
Voluntary help needed: see website

Portugal

Clean Clothes Campaign

c/o Cidac, Rua Pinheiro Chagas, 77 - 2º Esqº, 1069-069 Lisboa, Portugal
Tel: +351-21-317 28 60
Fax: +351-21-317 28 70
cidac@esoterica.pt

http://homepage.esoterica.pt/~cidac/

Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) works to improve working conditions in
the garment- and sportswear industry worldwide. We work in 4 main areas:
-exchanging information with and supporting partner organisations in production countries
-informing consumers and mobilising them to take action
-putting pressure on companies to improve their policy
-informing (local)governments how to become consious consumers (thus acting as a role model) and encouraging them to pass legislation which incorporates social responsible business practices for companies in their jurisdiction.

Voluntary help needed: CCC has an extensive network of people who write protest letters and cards to company and factory owners who do not respect workers' rights (the urgent appeal system). Also there are volunteers who participate in our (street) actions or who do research for the CCC.

Romania

Public Services International (PSI)

Str. Piata Amzei 10-22, Sc. B, Et. 5, Ap. 26, RO Bucuresti Sector 1, Romania
Tel/Fax: 40.1.659.2559
Irimie@ping.ro

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

Scotland

ActionAid

Hamlyn House, Macdonald Road, Archway, London N19 5PG, UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7561 7561
Fax: +44 (0)20 7272 0899
mail@actionaid.org.uk

www.actionaid.org

ActionAid is a unique partnership of people who are fighting for a better world - a world without poverty. As one of the UK’s largest development agencies, we work in more than 40 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, listening to, learning from and working in partnership with over nine million of the world’s poorest people.

Voluntary help needed: see <http://www.actionaid.org/takeaction/takeaction.shtml>

Friends of the Earth Scotland

72 Newhaven Road, Edinburgh EH6 5QG, Scotland
Tel: 44 131 554 9977
Fax: 44 131 554 8656
enquiries@foe-scotland.org.uk

www.foe-scotland.org.uk

Formed in 1978, Friends of the Earth Scotland is campaigning for environmental justice: No less than a decent environment for all; no more than a fair share of the Earth's resources.

Voluntary help needed: contact Friends of the Earth Scotland

Trade Justice Movement

c/o The Fairtrade Foundation, Suite 204, 16 Baldwin's Gardens, London, EC1N 7RJ, UK
Tel: +00 44 20 7404 0530
mail@tjm.org.uk

www.tjm.org.uk

The Trade Justice Movement is a fast growing coalition of over 50 UK organisations including aid agencies, environment and human rights campaigns, fairtrade organisations, trade unions, faith and consumer groups. The movement campaigns for trade justice - not free trade - with the rules weighted to benefit poor people and the environment.
Voluntary help needed: see 'Take action' section of the Trade Justice Movement website: <http://www.tjm.org.uk/action.shtml>

World Development Movement

25 Beehive Place, London, SW9 7QR, UK
wdm@wdm.org.uk
Tel: 0800 328 2153

www.wdm.org.uk

The World Development Movement tackles the underlying causes of poverty. We lobby decision-makers to change the policies that keep people poor. We research and promote alternative approaches. We mobilise consumers, shareholders and governments to hold multinational companies accountable for their actions. We are lobbying for the reform of the World Trade Organisation and we support people in the developing world who are standing up against injustices of the world.

Voluntary help needed: WDM does receive a high number of requests for volunteering experience but as there are more requests than available positions we advertise specific volunteer positions on our website.

Slovakia

Priatelia Zeme (Slovakia Friends of the Earth)

Ponicka Huta 65, Poniky 976 33, Slovakia
Tel: 421 48 4193324
Fax: 421 48 4193324
foe@changenet.sk

Friends of the Earth (FoE) Slovakia was established in 1997 as an association of environmental NGOs. Its objectives include environmental and economic justice, protection of quality of life, environment and nature. Presently FoE Slovakia has four member organizations: Center for Environmental Public Advocacy (CEPA), WOLF Forest Protection Movement, Society of Friends of the Earth and the Slatinka Civic Association. Those member organizations represent together more than 900 people. FoE Slovakia covers the following issues: public interest law, large dams and water management, globalization, public transportation, natural forest and forest management, waste management, sustainable communities.
Voluntary help needed: contact FoE Slovakia

Spain

Amigos de la Tierra

Avenida de Ajalvirá Vicalvaro 82, 4th Floor, Madrid 28022, Spain
Tel: 34 91 306 9900 or 9921
Fax: 34 91 313 4893
tierra@tierra.org

www.tierra.org

Amigos de la Tierra (AdT) presently has 14 active local groups around the country. With a central office in Madrid, AdT also runs three information centres for the general public called Centro Iris in Galicia, Catalonia and Madrid. These provide environmental information and educational materials, give support to citizens wishing to present complaints about environmental abuses, and investigate and prepare reports on environmental issues. The centres also promote voluntary youth programmes. Amigos de la Tierra España: puts pressure on national, regional and local governments and companies to protect the environment and natural resources; promotes local awareness of both global and local environmental problems and offers opporunities for direct action.
Voluntary help needed: contact Amigos de la Tierra

Campaña Ropa Limpia

c/o SETEM Catalunya, Bisbe Laguarda 4, Barcelona 08001, Spain
Tel: +34-93-441-5335
Fax: +34-93-443-2069
ropalimpia@pangea.org

www.ropalimpia.org

Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) works to improve working conditions in
the garment- and sportswear industry worldwide. We work in 4 main areas:
-exchanging information with and supporting partner organisations in production countries
-informing consumers and mobilising them to take action
-putting pressure on companies to improve their policy
-informing (local)governments how to become consious consumers (thus acting as a role model) and encouraging them to pass legislation which incorporates social responsible business practices for companies in their jurisdiction.

Voluntary help needed: CCC has an extensive network of people who write protest letters and cards to company and factory owners who do not respect workers' rights (the urgent appeal system). Also there are volunteers who participate in our (street) actions or who do research for the CCC.

Sweden

Kampanjen Rena Kläder

c/o LO-TCO Biståndsnämnd, Upplandsgatan 3, S-111 23 Stockholm, Sweden
Tel: +46-(0) 8 796 29 89
Fax: +46-(0) 8-24 97 94
info@renaklader.org <>

www.renaklader.org

Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) works to improve working conditions in
the garment- and sportswear industry worldwide. We work in 4 main areas:
-exchanging information with and supporting partner organisations in production countries
-informing consumers and mobilising them to take action
-putting pressure on companies to improve their policy
-informing (local)governments how to become consious consumers (thus acting as a role model) and encouraging them to pass legislation which incorporates social responsible business practices for companies in their jurisdiction.

Voluntary help needed: CCC has an extensive network of people who write protest letters and cards to company and factory owners who do not respect workers' rights (the urgent appeal system). Also there are volunteers who participate in our (street) actions or who do research for the CCC.

Miljöförbundet Jordens Vänner (Friends of the Earth Sweden)

Box 7084, Gothenburg 402 31, Sweden
Tel: 46 31 121808
Fax: 46 31 121817
info@mjv.se

www.mjv.se

FoE Sweden works with public information, mobilizing action and influencing decision-makers on all levels, from the household to the national and international levels, on a wide range of topics. A recurring theme is highlighting the role of the powerful economic driving forces behind a type of development that leads to human and environmental destruction. Much of the work is carried out by volunteers in working groups on issues such as energy, traffic, agriculture but also cross-cutting issues such as international financial institutions, the European Union, globalization etc. Local groups decide their own activities, but also participate in national and international campaigns. A major activity during the past years has been the Sustainable Sweden project, based on the concept of "fair shares of environmental space". FoE Sweden has produced a series of publications, touching on issues such as targets for material and energy flows, the household level, the local level, limited environmental space as a source of conflict, etc. The local group in Stockholm has produced an ambitious report on Sustainable Stockholm
Voluntary help needed: contact FoE Sweden

Switzerland

Berne Declaration

P.O. Box 1327, CH-8031 Zurich, Switzerland
Tel: +41 (0)1 277 70 00
Fax: +41 (0)1 277 70 01
info@evb.ch

www.evb.ch

The Berne Declaration is a Swiss non-governmental organization with 19 000 members. Through research, public education and advocacy work, it has promoted more equitable, sustainable and democratic North-South relations since 1968.

The Berne Declaration monitors the role of Swiss corporations, banks, and government agencies. It addresses the problems of unequal international trade and financial relations, unsustainable consumption patterns and cultural prejudices. It calls on all Swiss actors - the private sector and the state, citizens and consumers - to assume their responsibilities in resolving these problems.

Clean Clothes Campaign

c/o Déclaration de Berne, Case Postale 212, 1000 Lausanne 9, Switzerland
Tel: +41-1-277-7000
Fax: +41-1-277-7001
info@cleanclothes.ch

www.cleanclothes.ch

Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) works to improve working conditions in
the garment- and sportswear industry worldwide. We work in 4 main areas:
-exchanging information with and supporting partner organisations in production countries
-informing consumers and mobilising them to take action
-putting pressure on companies to improve their policy
-informing (local)governments how to become consious consumers (thus acting as a role model) and encouraging them to pass legislation which incorporates social responsible business practices for companies in their jurisdiction.

Voluntary help needed: CCC has an extensive network of people who write protest letters and cards to company and factory owners who do not respect workers' rights (the urgent appeal system). Also there are volunteers who participate in our (street) actions or who do research for the CCC.

Ukraine

Public Services International (PSI)

Maidan Nezalezhnosti 2, 252012 Kiev, Ukraine
Tel/Fax: 380.44.2281249

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 <http://www.ilo.org>) and has accreditation with UNESCO, ECOSOC and UNCTAD.

Voluntary help needed: see website

Zelenyi Svit

Post box 3069, 49051 Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
Tel: 380 567 781301 (Dnipropetrovsk office) 380 44 4165218 (Kiev office)
Fax: 380 56 2343454 (Dnipropetrovsk office) 380 44 4174383 (Kiev office)
victor@zsfoe.org

www.zsfoe.org

"Zelenyi Svit", was founded in 1987 and officially registered in 1990, has become the first real environmental NGO in Ukraine. "Zelenyi Svit" was the first among the NGOs that started to work out the issues of sustainable development. It has become one of initiators of working out of legal and practical aspects of this issue in Ukraine.
"Zelenyi Svit" became a full member of the federation " Friends of the Earth International" in 1994 and always actively participates in implementation of programmes and projects of the world and European federations of "Friends of the Earth". "Zelenyi Svit" organisations are active at the national, regional and the local levels.

Voluntary help needed: contact Zelenyi Svit

Wales

ActionAid

Hamlyn House, Macdonald Road, Archway, London N19 5PG, UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7561 7561
Fax: +44 (0)20 7272 0899
mail@actionaid.org.uk

www.actionaid.org

ActionAid is a unique partnership of people who are fighting for a better world - a world without poverty. As one of the UK’s largest development agencies, we work in more than 40 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, listening to, learning from and working in partnership with over nine million of the world’s poorest people.

Voluntary help needed: see http://www.actionaid.org/takeaction/takeaction.shtml

Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland

26-28 Underwood Street, London N1 7JQ, UK
Tel: 44 207 490 1555
Fax: 44 207 490 0881
info@foe.co.uk

www.foe.co.uk

Friends of the Earth is the UK's most influential national environmental pressure group and is a unique network of campaigning local groups, working in over 200 communities throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Voluntary help needed: see website

Trade Justice Movement

c/o The Fairtrade Foundation, Suite 204, 16 Baldwin's Gardens, London, EC1N 7RJ, UK
Tel: +00 44 20 7404 0530
mail@tjm.org.uk

www.tjm.org.uk

The Trade Justice Movement is a fast growing coalition of over 50 UK organisations including aid agencies, environment and human rights campaigns, fairtrade organisations, trade unions, faith and consumer groups. The movement campaigns for trade justice - not free trade - with the rules weighted to benefit poor people and the environment.

Voluntary help needed: see 'Take action' section of the Trade Justice Movement website: <http://www.tjm.org.uk/action.shtml>

World Development Movement

25 Beehive Place, London, SW9 7QR, UK
wdm@wdm.org.uk
Tel: 0800 328 2153

www.wdm.org.uk

The World Development Movement tackles the underlying causes of poverty. We lobby decision-makers to change the policies that keep people poor. We research and promote alternative approaches. We mobilise consumers, shareholders and governments to hold multinational companies accountable for their actions. We are lobbying for the reform of the World Trade Organisation and we support people in the developing world who are standing up against injustices of the world.

Voluntary help needed: WDM does receive a high number of requests for volunteering experience but as there are more requests than available positions we advertise specific volunteer positions on our website.