global rising

West 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

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 <http://www.world-psi.org/psi.nsf/public?openpage> are members of PSI.
For nearly 100 years, PSI has fought for public services through its activities and campaigns <http://www.world-psi.org/psi.nsf/actions?openpage>, its regional structure <http://www.world-psi.org/psi.nsf/regions?openpage>, its association with other international organisations and its work on priority issues <http://www.world-psi.org/psi.nsf/priorities?openpage>. 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 <http://www.unesco.org>, ECOSOC <http://www.un.org/documents/ecosoc.htm> and UNCTAD <http://www.unctad.org>.
Voluntary help needed: see website

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

Israel

Green Action Israel

2 3325 St. (corner of 42 Jerusalem Blvd.), Jaffa, Jerusalem
Tel: 03-5184770
Fax: 03-6813476
info@greenaction.org.il

www.greenaction.org.il

Green Action Israel takes part in campaigns on a range of issues, including consumerism and genetic modification.

Voluntary help needed: contact Green Action

Lebanon

Public Services International (PSI)

6th Floor, Yachoui Center, LB Jal El Dib, Lebanon
Tel: 228.221.8552
Fax: 228.221.2852
g.slaiby@sodetel.net.lb