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Environmental Defense

Environmental Defense is dedicated to protecting the environmental rights of all people, including future generations.
Environmental Alliances is a unique program within Environmental Defense that uses strategic partnerships to drive solutions to pressing environmental challenges.

Ethical Corporation

Ethical Corporation is an independent publisher and events producer on business ethics and corporate responsibility.
We publish a monthly print magazine, a daily website, hold conferences around the world, and produce reports on business ethics in big firms.

Ethical Shareholders of Europe united

The ecologically and socially motivated shareholder-movements from European countries are working closer together, as the result of their international conferences in Brussels, Frankfurt and Geneva. Ethical shareholder organizations from France, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, and UK are participating. Organizations from further nations are expected.
In 2002 the ethical shareholders in Europe startet a joint campaign for equality of women and men in business. It will be followed by an international campaign according a very different subject in 2003.

Ethics Ressource Center

The Ethics Resource Center (ERC) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization whose vision is a world where individuals and organizations act with integrity.
The mission of the Ethics Resource Center is to strengthen ethical leadership worldwide by providing leading-edge expertise and services through research, education and partnerships.

European Coalition for Corporate Justice

The European Coalition for Corporate Justice (ECCJ) is an initiative from 16 European organisations.  ECCJ is led by a steering group composed of Friends of the Earth Europe, SOMO, IRENE, Hivos, CORE UK, Forum Citoyen pour la RSE, Manitese, Germanwatch, GARDE (Environmental Law Service), Observatorio de RSC.
Our vision is of a sustainable world in which corporations’ drive for profit is balanced by the interest of society at large and respects human, social and environmental rights. To ensure such a vision, we are convinced that legally enforceable mechanisms based on internationally agreed standards and principles in the areas of human, social and environmental rights are necessary to reverse the unsustainable impacts of business activities.

Europe-Third World Centre (CETIM)

The Europe-Third World Centre (CETIM) is engaged in reflections and activities on the legal supervision of transnational corporations (TNCs) at the international level in order to prevent and, if need be, to sanction human rights violations committed by TNCs.