• Human Rights Watch. HRW is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world. We investigate and expose human rights violations and hold abusers accountable. We challenge governments and those who hold power to end abusive practices and respect international human rights law: http://www.hrw.org/

• International Action Network on Small Arms. IANSA is the global network of civil society organisations working to stop the proliferation and misuse of small arms and light weapons (SALW). World attention is increasingly focused on the humanitarian impact of these weapons, and IANSA brings together the voices and activities of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and concerned individuals across the world to prevent their deadly effects: http://www.iansa.org/

• InterAction. Formed in 1984, IA has become one of the nation's [US] most effective advocates for programs that strengthen people's ability in the developing world to help themselves. InterAction member organizations promote economic development and self-reliance, improve health and education, provide relief to victims of disasters and wars, assist refugees, advance human rights, protect the environment, address population concerns, advocate for more just public policies and increase understanding and cooperation between people. Women, who comprise 70 percent of the world's poor, are central to many of these programs: http://www.interaction.org/

• International Alert. IA is a non-governmental organisation based in the UK. set up in 1985 by human rights advocates including Martin Ennals, former Secretary General of Amnesty International. The creation of the organisation was a response to the rise in violent conflict within countries and the subsequent abuse of individual and collective human rights. Our objective is to identify and address the root causes of violence and contribute to the just and peaceful transformation of violent internal conflict: http://www.international-alert.org/

• International Committee of the Red Cross. ICRC is an impartial, neutral and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of war and internal violence and to provide them with assistance. It directs and coordinates the international relief activities conducted by the Movement in situations of conflict. It also endeavours to prevent suffering by promoting and strengthening humanitarian law and universal humanitarian principles. Established in 1863, the ICRC is at the origin of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement: http://www.icrc.org/

• Médecins Sans Frontières. Also known as Doctors Without Borders, MSF delivers emergency aid to victims of armed conflict, epidemics, and natural and man-made disasters, and to others who lack health care due to social or geographical isolation: http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/

• MiningWatch Canada. Founded in April, 1999, is a pan-Canadian initiative supported by environmental, social justice, Aboriginal and labour organisations from across the country. It addresses the urgent need for a co-ordinated public interest response to the threats to public health, water and air quality, fish and wildlife habitat and community interests posed by irresponsible mineral policies and practices in Canada and around the world: http://www.miningwatch.ca/

• Project Underground. It exists as a vehicle for the environmental, human rights and indigenous rights movements to carry out focused campaigns against abusive extractive resource activity. We seek to systematically deal with the problems created by the mining and oil industries by exposing environmental and human rights abuses: http://www.moles.org/

• Refugees International. RI generates lifesaving humanitarian assistance and protection for displaced people around the world, and works to end the conditions that create displacement: http://www.refugeesinternational.org/

• South Eastern Europe Clearinghouse for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons. SEESAC was launched on 8 May 2002 in Belgrade, and is a component of the Regional Implementation Plan on Combating the Proliferations of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) formulated and adopted by the Stability Pact in November 2001, with the aims of stopping the flow and availability of SALW in the region, consolidating achievements so far and supporting the socio-economic conditions for peace and development in South East Europe: http://www.seesac.org/

- SALW and Private Security Companies in South Eastern Europe: A Cause or Effect of Insecurity? SEESAC/ Saferworld / International Alert, 2005: click here

• ZNet. A community of people concerned about social change. http://www.zmag.org/weluser.htm

- Noam Chomsky archive at ZNet: http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/index.cf