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Agribusiness Accountability

The Agribusiness Accountability Initiative is a growing international network of academics, activists and food system experts who recognize that corporate concentration and vertical integration among transnational agro-food companies threaten the sustainability of the most important industry on earth – the global food system.

Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU)

ALTER-EU is a coalition of over 140 civil society groups, trade unions, academics and public affairs firms, calling for
- EU lobbying disclosure legislation.
- An improved code of conduct for European Commission Officials
- The European Commission to terminate cases of privileged access and undue influence granted to corporate lobbyists.

Alternative Information and Development Centre

The Alternative Information and Development Centre is a NGO working in the context of globalisation, together with popular organisations and social movements in South and Southern Africa, for economic justice and social transformation.
Focusing on problems of debt, international trade, finance and macroeconomic policy, AIDC implements an integrated strategy of: research, popular education, public information and publications and lobbying and advocacy.

Amnesty International

AI is a worldwide campaigning movement that works to promote internationally recognized human rights
Our 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 our work to promote all human rights.
Amnesty International believes economic actors - be they companies or international financial institutions - are accountable for the human rights impact of their activities.

Asia Monitor Resource Center

Asia Monitor Resource Center's main goal is to support democratic and independent labour movements in Asia. In order to achieve this goal, AMRC upholds the principles of workers' empowerment and gender consciousness, and follows a participatory framework.
AMRC documents aand informs about national social and political situations, and labour; data on wages and employment; trade union profiles; occupational safety and health; transnational corporations; industry-specific data.
The organisation's research includes comparative labour law in Asia-Pacific countries; layoffs in China's SOEs; women workers in Asian Export Processing Zones, the impact of TNC subcontracting on workers; transnational subcontracting and social development; migrant workers in Southern China and the monitoring of working conditions and workers' rights in the sports shoe, garment and toy industries.