South Asia

Finance

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

Bank Information Center (BIC)

733, 15th Street NW Suite 1126, Washington, D.C. 20005, USA
Tel: 202-737-7752
Fax: 202-737-1155
info@bicusa.org

www.bicusa.org

The Bank Information Center’s Mission is to empower citizens in developing countries to influence Multilateral Development Bank financed operations and policies in a manner that fosters social justice and ecological responsibility. BIC aims to democratize the International Financial Institutions to ensure citizen participation, information disclosure, full adherence to environmental and social policies and public accountability.

Voluntary help needed: see website

Specific countries

Bangladesh

ActionAid

House CWN (A) 32, Road 43, Gulshan 2, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh
Tel : 880-2-8815991, 8815992 and 8815973
Fax : 880-2-8815087
mail@actionaid-bd.org

www.actionaid.org/asia

ActionAid believes that every person has a right to many of the simple things we take for granted. These include the right to food, healthcare, clean water, education, shelter and security. These are set out in the 1948 United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights and are defined in the constitution of many countries. However, millions of poor people are denied these rights. ActionAid believes that poverty will not end until everyone is able to assert their basic human rights.

Voluntary help needed: ActionAid is always looking for support from people with English writing skills. This includes articles on websites, documents, press release, case studies, and reports/publications. If you think you can help us with our writing in English, either by working in one of our offices or remotely by email, please contact David Robinson at David@actionaidasia.org.

India

ActionAid

71, Uday Park, New Delhi -110 049
Tel : 91-11-651-0254/ 0273/ 0351/ 0316,
Fax : - 91-11-651-0254
mail@actionaidasia.org

www.actionaid.org/asia

ActionAid believes that every person has a right to many of the simple things we take for granted. These include the right to food, healthcare, clean water, education, shelter and security. These are set out in the 1948 United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights and are defined in the constitution of many countries. However, millions of poor people are denied these rights. ActionAid believes that poverty will not end until everyone is able to assert their basic human rights.

Voluntary help needed: ActionAid is always looking for support from people with English writing skills. This includes articles on websites, documents, press release, case studies, and reports/publications. If you think you can help us with our writing in English, either by working in one of our offices or remotely by email, please contact David Robinson at David@actionaidasia.org.

Insaaf International

Kishori Ram Hospital Building, Basant Vihar, Bathinda, Punjab, India
Tel: 91-164-215400
Fax: 91-164-214500
vineetag@sancharnet.in OR insaafhr@yahoo.com

www.geocities.com/insaafin

Insaaf International is committed to demanding economic, social and political rights for all, especially marginalized and vulnerable sections of society, with a particular focus on women.
We believe that social change is possible only when affected communities take initiative and mobilize to demand their human rights. We also believe that women can provide a leadership role in the human rights movement in general, not just in the arena of women’s rights.
The Punjab-based group Insaaf (Justice) International regularly provides the World Bank Bonds Boycott international network with information on the impact of World Bank user fees on low-income people, especially women, particularly within the health sector.

Voluntary help needed: see INSAAF website

Jubilee 2000

Sheelu Francis, Women’s Collective, 63 SRP Colony, Madras, India
Tel: 53 70 526/6461620
Fax: 48 91 897
sheelu@giasmd01.vsnl.net.in

www.jubilee2000uk.org/index.htm

Part of the hugely successful Jubilee 2000 debt cancellation campaign. We will maintain Jubilee 2000's tradition of distilling, analysing and de-mystifying economic concepts and information; and communicating in ways easily understood by campaigners.
We are not just an economic think-tank. We are a think-and-do tank. We encourage people to undertake advocacy and campaign action.

Voluntary help needed: contact campaign directly

Nepal

ActionAid

GPO Box No. 6257, Lazimpat, Kathmandu, Nepal
Tel : 977-1-419115, 410929
Fax : 977-1-419718

www.actionaid.org/asia

ActionAid believes that every person has a right to many of the simple things we take for granted. These include the right to food, healthcare, clean water, education, shelter and security. These are set out in the 1948 United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights and are defined in the constitution of many countries. However, millions of poor people are denied these rights. ActionAid believes that poverty will not end until everyone is able to assert their basic human rights.

Voluntary help needed: ActionAid is always looking for support from people with English writing skills. This includes articles on websites, documents, press release, case studies, and reports/publications. If you think you can help us with our writing in English, either by working in one of our offices or remotely by email, please contact David Robinson at David@actionaidasia.org.

Pakistan

ActionAid

H # 10, St.# 17, F-8/3 GPO Box No. 2943, Islamabad, Pakistan
Tel: 00-92-51-2264689, 228-2954, 2253880
Fax: 00-92-51-2260678
mail@actionaidpakistan.org

www.actionaid.org/asia

ActionAid believes that every person has a right to many of the simple things we take for granted. These include the right to food, healthcare, clean water, education, shelter and security. These are set out in the 1948 United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights and are defined in the constitution of many countries. However, millions of poor people are denied these rights. ActionAid believes that poverty will not end until everyone is able to assert their basic human rights.

Voluntary help needed: ActionAid is always looking for support from people with English writing skills. This includes articles on websites, documents, press release, case studies, and reports/publications. If you think you can help us with our writing in English, either by working in one of our offices or remotely by email, please contact David Robinson at David@actionaidasia.org.