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Acción Ecológica is a 25-year old Ecuadorian environmental organisation, whose principles are popular environmentalism, active non-violence and the rights of peoples and nature. Acción Ecológica works on the articulation of networks at local, national and international levels, as well as food and energy sovereignty. www.accionecologica.org

Amazon Watch works to protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous Peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with indigenous and environmental organisations in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability and the preservation of the Amazon’s ecological systems. www.amazonwatch.org

Carbon Trade Watch (CTW) aims to provide a durable body of research which ensures that a holistic and justice-based analysis of climate change and environmental policies is not forgotten or compromised. As part of our solidarity work, CTW aims to accompany and support movements and communities in their local initiatives and struggles for environmental and social justice. Importantly, the collective gathers and translates work with others in this field to help facilitate broader co-operation and understanding. www.carbontradewatch.org

Censat Agua Viva is a Colombian environmental organisation that is part of the Federation of Friends of the Earth International. For two decades it has been accompanied by social processes in the defense of territory. Censat promotes a participatory action research process with social organisations and people throughout the country. Censat participates in various national and international campaigns to defend territories against large mining projects. www.censat.org

Ecological Communities Association of La Ceiba – Friends of the Earth, Costa Rica (COECOCEIBA-AT) is a non-governmental, non-profit organisation founded in April 1999. It consists of members from various social sectors (academics, professionals, environmentalists and peasants). Its staff has over ten years of experience in designing and implementing projects to strengthen sustainable societies, struggles and environmental campaigns and advocate at the political and legal level. www.coecoceiba.org

ETC Group (Action Group on Erosion, Technology & Concentration) is a small international civil society organisation. It addresses the global socioeconomic and ecological issues surrounding new technologies with special concern for their impact on indigenous peoples, rural communities and bio-diversity. It investigates ecological erosion (including the erosion of cultures and human rights), the development of new technologies, and it monitors global governance issues including corporate concentration and trade in technologies. It operates at the global political level and have consultative status with several UN agencies and treaties. It works closely with other civil society organisations and social movements, especially in Africa, Asia and Latin America. It has offices in Canada, USA, Mexico and Philippines. All ETC Group publications are downloadable without cost at: www.etcgroup.org

Global Justice Ecology Project explores and exposes the intertwined root causes of social injustice, ecological destruction and economic domination with the aim of building bridges between social justice, environmental justice and ecological justice groups to strengthen their collective efforts. Within this framework, our programs focus on Indigenous Peoples’ rights, protection of native forests and climate justice. We use the issue of climate change to demonstrate these interconnections. Global Justice Ecology Project is the North American Focal Point of the Global Forest Coalition. www.globaljusticeecology.org

Honduran Fraternal Black Organization (OFRANEH) is a community-based organisation that, since the 1970s, has accompanied the struggles of Garifuna communities and their survival as a people. The organisation’s main focus is the defence of ancestral territory. In this regard, OFRANEH has been the only organisation that has consistently and publicly denounced the policies and projects that aim to break up community titles and has, at the same time, struggled for the legal titling of ancestral territory still not recognized by the State. www.ofraneh.org

Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) is an organisation of native peoples of the Americas for education, coalition building and action. It has existed since 1990 and is based in northern Minnesota. The organisation continues its strong involvement in advocacy and community mobilisation on a variety of issues surrounding environmental justice. IEN has influenced public policy changes on tribal land, both in national and international arenas. www.ienearth.org

Rising Tide is an international network born out of the conviction that corporate-friendly and state-sponsored “solutions” to climate change will not save us. Rising Tide operates as a grassroots network of groups and individuals who take direct action to confront the root causes of climate change and promote local, community-based solutions to the climate crisis. www.risingtide.org

The World Rainforest Movement (WRM) is an international organisation that, through its work on forest and plantation related issues, contributes to achieving the respect of local peoples’ rights over their forests and territories. WRM is part of a global movement for social change that aims at ensuring social justice, the respect of human rights and environmental conservation. www.wrm.org.uy