Society

The Center operates The Refuge For Land And People, a unique leadership forum where citizens and activists from around the country come together to find solutions to the most pressing and difficult conservation issues our nation faces today.

Cleanwater is a website aimed to increase environmental awareness, provide information to community on how they can prevent pollution at their local waterways and to help people to get involved in ecosystems restoration projects.

California nonprofit funding research, education, and land acquisition and supporting programs that benefit the quality of human life; promotes Al Gore's environmental ideas set out in "Earth in the Balance"

KEC aims to inspire young people to make environmental action part of their everyday life and generate a critical mass of people to create environmental harmony throughout the world.

An industry organization that works to develop international and U.S. government policies on ozone protection and climate change. Details current regulations, upcoming events, articles, and news items.

Novelist and alternative gardening columnist, Elizabeth Stromme. Bibliography and reviews, sketchbook, reflections, and non-fiction works.

Includes personal theories on climate change.

US presidential candidates' views on environmental issues.

Based on an educational TV program. The articles cover topics such as human consumption, sustainable population rate, and the impact of the average age within a country. Page includes people counter, photos, quizzes, and maps.

Focus is on social and cultural change, without which sustainable development is unattainable. Pages include threats and opportunities, agenda for change, practical examples, skilled people, models for change, sources of information.

United Kingdom company providing services in the development of aquaculture projects. Background on company, links, and contact information.

Specialist social research company that promotes litter reduction and prevention. Based in Australia.

Offers several suggestions to save water.

Christian organization, affiliated with the American Life League, with a goal of closing down Planned Parenthood through non-violent means. About the group, its activities, and its positions.

Provides information on fake bank sites and how to distinguish them from legitimate ones, along with announcements of monthly flash mob events aiming to shut down fake bank sites through bandwidth siphoning.

The author describes the mass of offers he has received from African nations, offering him a share of millions, with a description of how the scam works. [Salon]

Department of Justice site includes information defining Internet fraud, what to do about it, and where to go to get more information.

Describes ignoring evidence of bisexuality, with a focus on the gay community.

Even the Department of Defense acknowledges that registration could be dropped with no effect on military mobilization requirements. Yet draft registration lives on, an example of the difficulty of terminating even the most useless government programs.

News and resource site that takes its name from a Dutch journalistic slang term meaning to obtain documents through Freedom of Information legislation.

Produces radio and TV advertisements (available online). Site includes a broadcast schedule.

Information about legislation regarding birth certificates for parents of stillborn children and the 'MISSing Angels Bill'.

Information and communities for depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and other metal conditions. Includes news, editorials and chat.

An organization opposed to psychiatric abuses and involuntary treatment.

National trust fund campaign and legislative information.

News articles, studies, resource library, calendar, member directory and other resources related to public housing operations and funding.

Los Angeles-based organization documenting current events and political activism in North America and Latin America, including human rights, and United States foreign policy.

Focused in teaching the principles of the libertarian movement .

Non-profit film and video production and distribution company explain their goal of promoting awareness of social and human rights issues. Work of the group, and videos and presentations available.

When academics boast a 100 per cent employment rate for graduates, you'd think they and their peers would find much to celebrate. Not so for medical radiation science professionals report the Sydney Morning Herald

Collected news, analysis and commentary about international migration.

The right to leave your nation could be more valuable than the right to speak freely. This 100-page book explains why you should have the right to migrate.

United States immigration statistics from the Census Bureau.

UK umbrella organisation for visitors to immigration detainees. Reports, documents, data, links.

An internet discussion about scientific and scholarly journals and their future.

Introduction to the issues in a Kenyan context, with an emphasis on farmers, pastoralists and fisherfolk, and the need for protocols on intellectual property. Includes Via Campesina's statement on Farmers' Rights.

Website of the institution that governs this 65 nation Convention on Plant Variety Protection (PVP) of crops and flowers. Details of the Convention, membership, conduct, implementation.

A non-profit that offers an alternative to full copyright. Offering work under a Creative Commons license does not mean giving up copyright. It means offering some of an author's rights to any taker, and only on certain conditions.

Aims to identify patterns in recent NGO activity at CBD COP, FAO, WHO, WIPO, WTO. Focuses on public health and access to essential medicines, and agriculture, genetic resources. and traditional knowledge.

Activists based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada promoting the rights of seasonal Caribbean and Mexican migrant farm workers who annually participate in the federal government's Caribbean and Mexican Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (known as SAW).

Report from the Trades Union Congress in Britain on issues surrounding migrant workers including the impact on labour in Britain. Introduction is free though the full report is accessible only by purchase.

Report in PDF format on the condition of foreign workers in Israel.

Study arguing against the minimum wage, by Michael LaFaive.

Institute provides the supplementary analysis and research necessary to expose the inequities of compulsory unionism.

Works to develop the concepts needed to achieve full employment in America and to do so in a fashion that will utilize and enhance free enterprise and minimize or eliminate governmental involvement or influence.

Center opposed to compulsory union dues, and responsible for the Organized Labor Accountability Project.

Articles and news releases from Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum.

A guide to forms of language preferred by "progressives."

Complete online text of a handbook on the preservation of Native American languages.

An emerging sovereign state serving the global community by advocating and connecting disenfranchised individuals and communities. Site contains comprehensive information on development, government, and citizenship.