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IBON International is the international division of IBON Foundation, Inc. As an international NGO, IBON Foundation responds to international demand to provide support in research and education to peoples’ movements and grassroots empowerment and advocacy and links these to international initiatives and networks.

IBON International initiates and implements international programs, develops and hosts international networks, initiates and participates in international advocacy campaigns, and establishes regional and country offices where necessary and appropriate.

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Offices

IBON Foundation is a non-stock non-profit development institution committed to serve the Filipino people through various programs in research-education-information.

 

IBON Europe was set up in 2007 as the base for IBON International's program in Europe. It will initially focus on EU member states where it will develop partnerships with grassroots-based movements of marginalized peoples and sectors according to its mandate.

 

IBON South Asia's thrust is the empowerment of grassroots in the sub-region by developing the capacity of people's movements and grassroots organizations through research-education and advocacy support. IBON South Asia provides needed support to movements of marginalized sections of society such as Dalits, Adivasis, women, peasants, agricultural workers, fisherfolk and the toiling masses to empower them in building free democratic societies in the sub-region

 

IBON Africa focuses on building knowledge based capacity for grassroots organizations, social movements and local community based organization (CBOs) and NGO in the Africa region. To attain this objective, IBON Africa provides various services to sectors and organization in the Africa community - access to timely and relevant information through its databank and publications; training and seminars; organizing of international events to tackle such themes as golbalization, food sovereignty, aid and development and governance initiated by IBON in partnership with other international networks.

Networks

The Asia Pacific Research Network (APRN) was established in 1998 as a result of networking including a number of conferences in 1997, where the objective to channel and focus the efforts of NGO research towards supporting the need for information, education and advocacy of grassroots organizations was recognized by a number of key Asian research organizations or non-government organizations with established research departments.

 

The Reality of Aid network is the only major north/south international non-governmental collaboration focusing exclusively on analysis and lobbying for poverty eradication policies and practices in the international aid regime.

Issue Networks

The People's Movement on Climate Change is a global campaign that aims to provide venue for grassroots, especially from the South - who are the worst-affected and yet are the least empowered to adapt to climate change - to participate in the process of drawing up a post-2012 climate change framework.

 

The Water for the People Network (WPN) Water for the People Network (WPN) is a campaign network that supports the various water-related struggles at the grassroots in order for them to achieve national and international projection. It also serves as an information and resource center as well as a coordinating body for joint actions and campaigns on the national and international levels.

 

The International Initiative on Corruption and Governance (IICG) was set up in 2001 to promote interest on corruption and governance issues from a grassroots perspective that takes into account all aspects of corruption, including systemic factors and corruption in the private sector.

Network Participant

The World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) is a global network of communicators committed to communication for social change.

 

The Our World is Not For Sale (OWINFS) is a worldwide network of organizations, activists and social movements committed to challenging trade and investment agreements that advance the interests of the world’s most powerful corporations at the expense of people and the environment.

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PMCC assails Copenhagen Accord
Written by Administrator   
Thursday, 21 January 2010

In a statement, the Peoples' Movement on Climate Change decried manipulation by Northern countries of the COP15 process. PMCC decries the non-binding Copenhagen Accord released in this UN climate change meeting last December as a "hollow, unjust, and potentially disastrous agreement." It calls on "peoples, communities, and social movements to take our struggles forward, in their local contexts and internationally, and mobilize along the following platform for action set out in the Peoples’ Protocol [on Climate Change]."

 

Click this link to read the statement in full.

 
Tujan on post-COP 15 challenges
Written by Administrator   
Thursday, 21 January 2010

Mr. Tony Tujan, Jr., IBON International Director, was recently interviewed by Redaktion E+Z/D+C on the challenges facing the international community after the failed UN climate summit (COP 15).

 

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Copenhagen agreement must uphold human rights - climate activists
Written by Ms. Theresa Lauron   
Thursday, 10 December 2009

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK (10 December 2009) – On Human Rights Day, the Peoples' Movement on Climate Change (PMCC) demand negotiators in the UN Climate Change Conference to make human rights the center of their negotiations for a global climate deal.

 

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Take responsibility for global warming, Filipino educators tell First World
Written by Educators for Development   
Wednesday, 09 December 2009
Manila, Philippines - As 15th United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP 15) enters its third day, cause-oriented groups and progressive educators in the Philippines hit the US and other developed countries for refusing to take responsibility for global warming.
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Reject false solutions. Resist climate injustice. Adopt the Peoples' Protocol on Climate Change!
Written by Ms. Theresa Lauron   
Wednesday, 09 December 2009
Copenhagen, Demark - Climate activists and people’s organizations gather in front of the Bella Center on December 9, Wednesday, for the Peoples Action for Climate Solutions. The protest action comes on the third day of the 192-country UN Climate Change Conference, which is expected to conclude with a strong agreement for global action to address climate change.
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Protests around the world to mark opening of UN climate talks in Copenhagen
Written by Ms. Theresa Lauron   
Wednesday, 09 December 2009
As world leaders meet for the 15th Conference of Parties (COP15) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), people’s groups in different countries including the Philippines hold protest actions to demand a people-centered response to the global climate crisis.
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Speech by Dr. Rajendra K Pachauri during the welcoming ceremony at COP 15
Written by Dr RK Pachauri   
Wednesday, 09 December 2009
Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Director General, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) Director, Yale Climate and Energy Institute (YCEI)

Your Excellency, Prime Minister of Denmark Mr. Lars Lokke Rasmussen; Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat, Mr. Yvo de Boer; Mayor of Copenhagen, Madame Ritt Bjerregard; excellencies; colleagues; members of the media; distinguished ladies and gentlemen.
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IBON Policy Brief now out
Written by Administrator   
Monday, 07 December 2009

cover IBON International has come out with a policy brief on the World Bank and climate change finance from a Southern perspective. The brief also includes proposals for a people's climate fund.

 

You can download the brief here (pdf).

 
Second International Assembly of Migrants and Refugees successfully held as a counter-GFMD conferenc
Written by IAMR 2 Secretariat   
Saturday, 28 November 2009

Communique of the 2nd International Assembly of Migrants and Refugees
Held in Athens, Greece on November 1-4, 2009


More than 100 delegates and guests representing 45 organizations of migrants, refugees and advocates from 20 countries, participated in the successful holding of the second International Assembly of Migrants and Refugees (IAMR) held November 1-4, in Athens, Greece. The assembly, held at the Athens University of Economics and Business, and the Polytechnic University of Athens, was held as a counter-assembly to the government-led Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) that also convened in Athens last November 5.

 

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Inaction on and tolerating human rights violations abet crimes such as the Maguindanao massacre
Written by KARAPATAN   
Friday, 27 November 2009
KARAPATAN condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the massacre of 57 civilians which included media persons and two women lawyers in Maguindanao, on November 23, 2009.
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