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Organisations that focus on social issues at a global level
- Center of Concern (Washington, DC) - enables individuals, organizations and coalitions to explore and analyze the global issues
and social structures from an ethical perspective based on Catholic social teaching, and to become involved in strategies and
projects that promote the good of the entire global community and the integrity of every individual
- International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) (Paris) - international professional association that aims to
foster relations between persons engaged in the study of demography in all countries of the world, and to stimulate interest in
demographic matters among governments, national and international organisations, scientific bodies and the general public
- Open Society Institute-Budapest (Hungary) - private operating and grantmaking foundation that develops and implements a
range of programs in civil society, culture, education, media, public administration, public health, and human and women's
rights, as well as social, legal and economic reform, in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, Guatemala,
Haiti, Mongolia, and Southern and West Africa
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- Social Change
- Ashoka (Arlington, VA, USA) - global non-profit organization that searches the world for social entrepreneurs with
unprecedented ideas for change in their communities and identifies and invests in these social entrepreneurs when no one else
will
- Changemakers.net (Calcutta, India) - organisation that aims to provide social entrepreneurs worldwide with inspiration,
resources, and opportunities for those interested in social change throughout the world
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- Social Justice
- Social Justice Committee (SJC) (Montreal) - recognizing the root, global causes of poverty, social injustice, and environmental
degradation
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- Social Security
- International Council on Social Welfare (ICSW) (Bangkok, Thailand) - global NGO which represents a wide range of national and
international member organisations that seek to advance social welfare, social development and social justice, and which aims
to promote forms of social and economic development aimed at reducing poverty, hardship and vulnerability throughout the
world, especially amongst disadvantaged people
- International Social Security Association (ISSA) (Geneva) - international organization which brings together institutions and
administrative bodies dealing with one or more aspects of social security in different countries of the world, namely all forms of
compulsory social protection which, by virtue of legislation or national practice, are an integral part of the social security system
of these countries
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- Social Work
- International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) (Berne, Switzerland) - global organisation striving for social justice, human
rights and social development through the development of social work, best practices and international cooperation between
social workers and their professional organisations
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- Housing
- International Federation for Housing and Planning (IFHP) (The Hague, Netherlands) - world-wide network of professionals
representing the broad field of housing and planning, which organises a wide range of activities and creates opportunities for an
international exchange of knowledge and experience in the professional field
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- Transportation
- Victoria Transport Policy Institute (Victoria, BC, Canada) - an independent research organization, dedicated to developing
innovative and practical solutions to transportation problems, which provides a variety of resources to help improve transportation
planning and policy analysis
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