Global Policy Forum provides a large collection of links to external resources relevant to GPF's work, including the UN and its agencies, NGOs, institutes, newspapers, magazines, and more. Resources related to the many issues covered by Global Policy Forum, include: the UN Security Council, social and economic policy, globalization, nations & states, NGOs, UN Finance, Iraq, Empire and UN reform.
Furthermore, GPF has gathered links to United Nations resources, including information on the history of the organization, schedule of meetings, UN resolutions and other information.
A collection of news resources as well a different lists of bibliographies can also be found on our website.
Security Council links
UN Security Council website
Background Information
The UN website provides background information about the UN Security Council.
Program of work
The daily schedules of work of the Security Council for each month and presidency.
Glossary of Council Meeting
A concise definitional list of the different types of meetings of the Council - includes a section on informal consultations. Prepared up by the Mission of Singapore to the UN.
Resolutions and Documents
The UN Documentation Center provides access to Security Council resolutions by year, presidential statements, letters, press releases, mission reports and SG reports.
Repertoire of the Practice of the Security Council
Posted by the UN's Department of Political Affairs, the “Repertoire” is the only analytical record of the practices of the Security Council. It includes the Provisional Rules of Procedure.
Security Council's Public Meetings
Security Council Report
This website provides a detailed analysis of issues, with a focus on the Council's monthly program of work.
External links by areas of work
Sanctions
This page provides links to various organizations and websites that cover sanctions in general and detail.
Peacekeeping
This page provides links to UN Resources, thinktanks and institutions, media, and government institutions working on Peacekeeping.
Diamonds and Conflicts
This page provides links to organizations working on conflict resources and diamonds in particular.
Small arms and Light Weapons
This page provides links to organizations working on Small Arms and Light Weapons issues.
Other
Bibliography on the Security Council
Photo Gallery
An amusing photo gallery, showing members in the Council on the job and in other venues
Social and Economic Policy Links
This page provides external resources on Social and Economic Policy, including links to NGOs, government, directories and intergovernmental organizations concerned with social and economic policy.
The Three Sisters and Other Institutions
Poverty and Development
World Hunger
Financing for Development
International Trade and Development
International Aid
Debt Relief
Global Taxes
Global Injustice and Inequality
The Environment
Global Public Goods
Labor Rights and Labor Movements
Transnational Corporations
Globalization Links
Corporate Watch
Alternative Information and Development Center
BBC-Globalisation
Citizens Trade Campaign
Club of Rome
Economic Policy Institute
Provides links to EPI press releases and several analytical articles on economic issues of trade and globalization.
Eurostep
European Solidarity Towards Equal Participation of People, an NGO that analyzes EU development cooperation and advocates increased civil society participation in issues of trade and development.
Focus on the Global South
Site dedicated to regional and global policy analysis, micro-macro linking and advocacy work. FOCUS works with NGOs and people's organizations in Asia Pacific and other regions.
Foreign Policy in Focus
A joint project that aims to forge a new global affairs agenda and increase the responsibility of the US as a global leader and partner.
Friends of the Earth
Articles on trade, finance, and the implications for just and sustainable development.
The Globalist
A site "for global citizens, by global citizens," containing general information on globalization and original articles.
Globalization About.Com
Site that offers information on globalization in the news as well as public views of globalization.
The Globalization Research Center of Hawaii
Scholarly work on globalization.
The Globalization Website
A broad range of usefully organized information on globalization.
Helsinki Process on Globalisation and Democracy
A joint initiative of the Finnish and Tanzanian governments, aiming at bringing together leaders, officials and NGOs from rich and poor countries to discuss globalization.
Institute for Public Accuracy
A group of researchers that seeks to broaden public discourse by gaining media access for commonly margianalized perspectives.
Interhemispheric Resource Center
A group that focuses on aspects of the Mexican-US relationship but also provides information on many other issues of globalization.
International Centre For Trade and Sustainable Development
Site that provides articles and other resources while focusing on issues of development and the environment in the context of globalization.
International Gender and Trade Network
A system of seven autonomous regional networks that analyzes trade's impact on women, families and communities. In both English and Spanish, the site uses research and advocacy to promote "equitable, social and sustainable trade."
International Forum on Globalization
The International Forum on Globalization (IFG) is an alliance of sixty leading activists, scholars, economists, researchers, and writers formed to stimulate new thinking, joint activity, and public education in response to the rapidly emerging economic and political arrangement called the global economy.
International Simultaneous Policy Organisation
The ISPO presents a proposal of global cooperation to solve the globalization crisis facing today's world.
Multinational Monitor
Site that provides articles and links dealing with globalization.
One World
Link to full coverage and search tools, guides and channels to research your areas of interest.
OpenDemocracy.net
OpenDemocracy describes itself as "a global site for the exchange of experience, independent of vested interests and political parties." The section on globalization provides articles, interviews and discussions on relevant issues.
PlanetAgora
This website contains news, articles, discussion forums, resources and links on globalization and culture.
Policy Innovations
Policy Innovations is a weekly online magazine devoted to highlighting innovators and their ideas for a fairer globalization.
Polity Press
The site of leading globalization scholars David Held and Anthony McGrew, it contains information on their research, their seminal Global Transformations series, and an outstanding list of globalization links.
Project Syndicate
This online resource of over 170 international newspapers in over 90 countries is an excellent source of information on globalization. In addition, renowned experts contribute monthly articles on subjects like economics and justice, world politics, development, the global economy and human rights.
Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch
Site that seeks to increase government and corporate accountability by providing articles and information on how to get involved.
Third World Network
Link to articles and analysis of globalization within a larger section of economic issues. The site specializes in economic and trade policies, debates at the WTO and important issues in the global economy.
Tim's Brain (formerly Baobab's Corporate Power Information Center)
Provides articles and sites that "explore, expose and critique the domination of global business, politics, and culture by large corporations."
Transnational Institute
A prominent research institute in the Netherlands that offers articles, reports, seminars and lobbying information as a means of addressing various global problems through international cooperation.
UNESCO - Management of Social Transformations
Articles, reports, and other information. Provides in-depth coverage of some special issues such as, migration, urbanization, and the globalization of the drug trade.
World Policy Institute
This group publishes an online journal that addresses many different aspects of globalization.
World Social Forum
Not an organization, but an annual "open meeting" of the global justice movement. WSF 2004 will be held January 16-21 in Mumbai, India.
World Watch Institute (WWI)
WWI conducts extensive research projects focusing on how global economics and governmental policies affect environmental health and sustainability. Its State of the World annual is justly famous as an overview of big picture environmental issues.
Yale Global Online
The Yale Center for the Study of Globalization publishes this online magazine, a great resource for current events and debates about international affairs.
Nations and States Links
What is a State?
Statehood and Sovereignty
NGOs Links
Academic/Research Centers
Hauser Center for Non-Profits Organizations at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Global Equity Initiative at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Program on Non-Profit Organizations at Yale University
Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action
Centre for Civil Society at LSE, London
International NGO Training and Research Centre (INTRAC)
Institute of Development Studies at University of Sussex, UK
NGO/UN Links
NGOs and UN Conferences
Link to reference document on the participation of civil society in United Nations conferences and special sessions of the General Assembly during the 1990s (Version 1 August 2001)
UN/Civil Society
Link to UN Website : "Partners in Civil Society"
DPI/NGO
The NGO Section of the Department of Public Information (DPI) at UN Headquarters serves as the liaison between the UN and NGO associated with DPI.
DESA/NGO
UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) section on NGOs offers information on how to obtain status and how to get a pass to the UN. There is also a link to the ECOSOC Committee on NGOs, responsible for accreditation and suspension of NGOs.
NGLS
The United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service (NGLS) is a small inter-agency programme established in 1975 to strengthen UN-NGO dialogue and cooperation, particularly in the fields of development education, information and policy advocacy on global sustainable development.
CONGO
The Conference of Nongovernmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations Economic and Social Council. This is an independent, international and not-for-profit membership association of nongovernmental organizations that facilitates the participation of NGOs in United Nations debates and decisions.
The NGOs Network
A web site with information and recent developments regarding the NGO access debate to the UN.
Other Links
OneWorld
The OneWorld website remains the best route to individual NGOs.
CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation
NGO Coalition for the International Criminal Court
NGOs at the Commission for Sustainable Development
NGO Committee on Disarmament
Our World Is Not for Sale
This international coalition of activists, social movements, and organizations critique corporate globalization as socially irresponsible. They advocate a trading system based on human rights, environmental sustainability, and democracy.
Focus on the Global South
NGO Café
Resources and tools for NGOs - including a section on "kickstarting an NGO".
Work by Peter Willetts on NGOs
