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warpofiteers.com

Exactly one year after the United States launched the dawn invasion of Iraq, war profiteering by multinational companies is at an all-time high with military contractors dramatically boosting revenues by 19% over 2002.
On March 19, 2004, Corpwatch, an Oakland, California, based non-profit launched a brand new version of the popular War Profiteers website to track these military contractors on a regular basis.

Werkstatt Ökonomie

Werkstatt Ökonomie is researching and campaigning on issues concerning a more just global economy.
These issues include child labour, forced labour and labour standards within the toy production industry. The NGO coordinates Social Watch Germany. Contact: info@woek.de
(No Webpages in English.)

Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)

WEDO is an international advocacy network that seeks to increase the power of women worldwide as policymakers in governance and in policymaking institutions, forums and processes, at all levels, to achieve economic and social justice, a peaceful and healthy planet and human rights for all. WEDO's program areas are Gender and Governance, Sustainable Development, and Economic and Social Justice.

World Conservation Union

IUCN seeks to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable.
The IUCN Business Initiatives bring this mission to the private sector. The Working Group on Environment, Trade and Investment (GETI) is part of the IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP). GETI was established to address issues at the intersection of trade, investment and environment.

World Development Movement

The World Development Movement lobbies decision makers to change the policies that keep people poor. We research and promote positive alternatives. We work alongside people in the developing world who are standing up to injustice.
WDM is urgently challenging the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and is campaigning for reform of the The World Trade Organisation (WTO)as for cancellation developing countries debt.
Within these activities, WDM aims is to ensure that foreign investment, particularly from multinational corporations, delivers the maximum benefits to all stakeholders – particularly the poor – while inflicting the minimum costs.

World Economy, Ecology and Development (WEED)

weed was founded in 1990 to boost the advocacy in the Federal Republic of Germany of alleviating global poverty and resolving international environmental problems. weed campaigns for a course correction in international economic and development policies that would put more emphasis on social justice and economic sustainability. Its aim is to create more awareness in this respect and develop and implement concrete political alternatives. weed systematically analyses global economic, environmental and socio-political issues, linking the vision of a socially equitable and environmentally sustainable society to action and policy reform.
weeds main subject are: IMF/Worldbank, debt (cancellation), international financial markets, financing for development, EU North-South policy, corporate accountability, international trade policy / WTO and the reform of Hermes, the German export credits and guarantees bank. Contact: weed@weed-online.org
(Limited English version of the website.)

World Wide Fund for Nature

WWF is a global organization acting locally through a network of family offices. All these offices do all they can to halt the accelerating destruction of our natural world.
The review of the Rio agreements in 1997 concluded that all unsustainable trends are worsening at a faster rate. Many of these problems are driven by increased economic activity, which has not been matched by adequate regulatory action.
Today, the Trade and Investment Unit is leading and co-ordinating a growing network of WWF trade and investment officers.