Armaments
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Campaign Against Arms Trade
is a broad coalition of groups and individuals in the UK working
to end the international arms trade and the UK's role in it as a
leading arms exporter.
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Mines Advisory Group -
an international not-for-profit NGO assisting people in clearing
and destroying landmines and unexploded ordnance that make
areas unsafe after war. MAG clear
the remnants of conflict from some of the world's poorest
nations, educate and employ local people and help provide
solutions for those trapped by poverty and economic devastation.
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Peace Pledge Union - is the
oldest secular pacifist organisation in Britain. Since 1934 it has
been campaigning for a warless world.
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War Child - a network of independent
organisations, working across the world to help children affected
by war. War
Child was founded upon a fundamental goal: to advance the cause
of peace through investing hope in the lives of children caught
up in the horrors of war.
Environmental
Organisations
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Centre for Alternative Technology
- CAT is an environmental education and visitor centre in
Mid Wales. It is also a registered charity. Its mission is
to ‘inspire, inform and enable’ people to live
more sustainable lives. It carries out a range of educational
activities on renewable energy, energy efficiency, organic
gardening, waste and recycling, green living and other aspects
of sustainable development. It publishes a quarterly journal,
Clean Slate, and runs a programme of courses. CAT free information
line 0845 330 8373. |
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Envirolink - a non-profit
organization providing access to thousands of online environmental
resources. |
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Environment
Agency - Government organisation responsible for protecting
and improving the environment in England and Wales. |
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Environmental
Data Services - provides over 500 selected, categorised
and descriptive links to the best environmental resources
on the Internet. ENDS
has been a leading provider of environmental intelligence
in Europe. They have guided businesses through the effects
of EU and UK legislation and policy.
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Friends
of the Earth UK - one of the leading environmental pressure
groups in the UK. Friends
of the Earth seeks to influence the government to make changes
to policies in favour of people and planet. |
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Watch - a group aiming to ensure that genetic technologies
are developed and used in the public interest. |
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Global
Witness - working to highlight the links between exploitation
of natural resources and international trade systems, to drive
campaigns that end resource-linked conflict, and human rights
and environmental abuses- particularly
where natural resources such as timber, diamonds and oil are
used to fund conflict. |
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Greenpeace
International - a global campaigning organisation focusing
on crucial worldwide threats to the planet's bio diversity
and environment. They aim to expose environmental criminals,
and to challenge government and corporations when they fail
to live up to their mandate to safeguard the environment. |
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National Cycle Network offers 10,000 miles of signed cycle
routes throughout the UK putting almost 75% of the UK population
within two miles of the Network. |
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Pesticide
Action Network UK - promotes healthy food, agriculture
and an environment which will provide food and meet public
health needs without dependence on toxic chemicals, and without
harm to food producers and agricultural workers. Encourages
replacement of the use of hazardous pesticides with ecologically
sound alternatives. |
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Planet
Ark works to show people the many ways they can reduce
their day to day impact on the environment - at home, at work
and in the community. |
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Sierra Club works to protect our communities and the planet.
The Club is America's oldest, largest and most influential
grassroots environmental organization. |
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Trucost
Plc is an environmental research organisation, which helps
companies and investors understand the environmental impacts
of business activities. Over the past seven years, Trucost
has built a database of the environmental impacts and disclosures
of over 3,500 companies including the world’s largest
database of greenhouse gas disclosure. |
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WaterAid - Aims to tackle easily
prevented water-related diseases in Africa or Asia. Involved
in supplying safe, clean water, sanitation and hygiene education.
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Ethical Companies
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Big Green Book
is the environmental resource that allows companies to find
environmental information and suppliers of environmental materials,
products and services. From air-conditioners to zoologists,
Big Green Book has suppliers of solutions to almost every
environmental issue your company faces. In addition companies
that need to keep abreast of environmental activities and
opportunities can join the Big Green Book Environmation Library.
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Charity Bank
- the UK’s first not-for-profit bank, is a unique organisation
that solely funds charitable projects in the United Kingdom.
The bank has already lent more than £30 million to 400
organisations, many of them community-based schemes that found
it difficult securing support from mainstream lenders. Charity
Bank’s savings account holders are with them because
they share their vision of using personal wealth to provide
finance for the benefit of society whilst also benefiting
themselves. Tax paying individual and corporate depositors
can realise more tangible benefits from saving with Charity
Bank through CITRA, their community investment tax relief
account. |
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Ecology
Building Society
- The Ecology is a mutual building society dedicated to improving
the environment by promoting sustainable housing and sustainable
communities. |
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Ethical Trading Initiative
- an alliance of companies, NGOs, and trade union organisations
committed to ensure that the working conditions of workers
producing for the UK market meet or exceed international labour
standards. |
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Triodos Bank - only
lends money to organisations that benefit people and the environment,
and uniquely publishes details of every organisation it lends
to, so savers know exactly where their money is being used.
For more on Triodos' range of ethical savings and investments
call free on 0500 008 720. |
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Ethical Consumer
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British Airways
- has introduced a scheme, to enable its customers to offset
the carbon dioxide emissions from their flights by making
a contribution to an environmental trust called Climate Care.
The money will be invested in sustainable energy projects
that tackle global warming. |
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Energy Savings Trust -
In the UK, grant schemes are available to help those who want
to generate electricity from renewable sources. |
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Ethical Consumer
- The UK's alternative consumer organisation looking at the
social and environmental records of the companies behind the
brand names. |
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Fairtrade Foundation
- ensuring a better deal for marginalized and disadvantaged
third world producers. This they do by
licensing the FAIRTRADE Mark to products
in the UK which meet their standards. Producer organisations
that supply Fairtrade products are inspected and certified.
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Food
Commission - the UK's leading independent food watchdog, campaigning
for safer, healthier food.
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Recoup,
the UK's leading authority on plastics waste recycling. |
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Recycled products:
A wide range of products made from recycled materials are
available, from clothing to school lunch boxes. |
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Recyclenow For more
information on your nearest recycling bank. |
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Retail
Charity To shop ethically whilst
donating money to charity at no cost to you.
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Wasteonline-
Gives
information from Local authorities and community groups who
run composting schemes. |
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Ethical Investment Research Sites
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Clear profit
delivers independent coverage of attempts to align investment
decisions with social, environmental and ethical concerns. |
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Ethical Investment Research
Service - Carries out independent research into companies
from the UK, continental Europe, North America and the Asia
Pacific region, covering areas including military, environmental
performance, human rights and animal testing. |
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Ethical Junction
- The ethical business directory for the UK and Ireland, with
information on nearly 1000 businesses offering ethical services
and products. |
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Fair Pensions
- calls for responsible investment by UK pension funds. Fair
Pensions gives a voice to people who want their pension funds
to be more ethical. They challenge pension funds to hold companies
to account and show how responsible investment can generate
better returns. Fair Pensions also acts as a watchdog of pension
funds, urging greater transparency about their investments. |
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Global
Reporting Initiative - develops globally applicable guidelines
for reporting on economic, environmental, and social performance.
The
GRI develops and builds capacity around the use of its Sustainability
Reporting Framework. |
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Just Pensions -
aims to educate and influence UK pension funds and other institutional
investors about the importance of international development
issues in their practice of SRI. Justpensions co-ordinates
in-depth research to assess current practice and works to
address the blocks to the growth of SRI generally and pro-poor
SRI in particular. They produce information specifically designed
for pension managers and trustees interested in implementing
SRI. |
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New Economics Foundation
- A charity and independent think tank which works to construct
a new economy centred on people and the environment.
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SocialFunds-
features over 10,000 pages of information on SRI mutual
funds, community investments, corporate research, shareowner
actions, and daily social investment news. |
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Trustnet - Publishes
comprehensive lists of ethical funds and trusts and their
performance. |
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UK Social Investment Forum
- offers a "membership network" for promoting socially
responsible investment. On their web site you will find links
to companies and organisations involved in ethical investment.
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Human Rights
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ActionAid
- working for a world without poverty in which every person
can exercise their right to a life of dignity. They work with
local partners to fight poverty and injustice worldwide, helping
them fight for and gain their rights to food, shelter, work,
education, healthcare and a voice in the decisions that affect
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Amnesty
International - a worldwide campaigning movement that
works to promote internationally recognized human rights.
AI’s mission is to undertake research and action focused
on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical
and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression,
and freedom from discrimination, within the context of its
work to promote all human rights. |
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Business
and Human Rights- an independent, non-profit organisation
aimed at encouraging companies to respect human rights, avoid
harm to people, & maximise their positive contribution.
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Byte Night
- Byte Night is the IT industry’s annual sleep-out in
support of young people who are homeless or coping with life
after foster or residential care. Every year, hundreds of
senior IT professionals get together and sleep under the stars
to raise funds for NCH, the children’s charity. NCH
works with some of the UK’s most vulnerable children
and young people, who have been affected by homelessness and
leaving care issues, to help them achieve their full potential.
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Christian
Aid - striving for an end to poverty and campaigning to
change peoples lives in the developing world. |
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Fior
Di Loto India Inc - involved in providing basic education
to Indian girls in the village of Pushkar, India. Also involved
in improving the quality of life to the impoverished community
by drilling water wells and providing inoculation programs and
basic healthcare. |
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Freedom
House - a non-profit organization campaigning for democracy
and freedom around the world. |
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Human
Rights Watch - dedicated to protecting the human rights
of people around the world. They work with victims and activists
to prevent discrimination, to uphold political freedom, to
protect people from inhumane conduct in wartime, and to bring
offenders to justice. |
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New
Internationalist - reporting on issues of world poverty
and inequality and focusing attention on the relationship
between the powerful and the powerless in both rich and poor
nations, from the cynical marketing of baby milk in the Majority
World to human rights in Burma. |
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OneWorld
UK - aim to provide online coverage of human rights and
sustainable development. |
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Oxfam
- development, relief, and campaigning organisation dedicated
to finding lasting solutions to poverty and suffering around
the world. Oxfam
responds in emergencies to save lives; works with people to
improve their lives and prospects through longer term development
programmes; and campaigns on the issues that it believes will
achieve lasting change and an end to poverty. |
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Survival
International - a worldwide organisation supporting tribal
peoples, standing for their right to decide their own future
and helping them protect their lives, lands and human rights. |
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Tobacco
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Framework Convention Alliance
- building support for global tobacco control.
