{"id":730,"date":"2007-04-18T22:23:27","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T20:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.world-citizenship.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-archive\/730"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:05:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T12:05:33","slug":"third-world-network-twn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=730","title":{"rendered":"Third World Network TWN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Added Sept. 6, 2009<\/strong>: linked with <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.world-citizenship.org\/wp-archive\/2013\">Northern Alliance for Sustainability<\/a> ANPED; with <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.world-citizenship.org\/wp-archive\/2015\">Environment Liaison Centre International<\/a> ELCI, Kenya; and with <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.world-citizenship.org\/wp-archive\/2014\">Sustainable Development Issues Network<\/a> SDIN, to form a global NGO network whose purpose is to promote good governance, and enhanced awareness and knowledge about environmental and sustainable development processes and to ensure global quality NGO participation in these global processes within the intergovernmental systems, primarily within the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>Linked with <a href=\"http:\/\/word.world-citizenship.org\/wp-archive\/1216\">Martin Khor &#8211; Malaysia<\/a>, with <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/wp-archive\/613\">Speech about Third World Economics<\/a>, and with <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/wp-archive\/614\">WTO, The New Threats to Developing Countries and Sustainability<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twnside.org.sg\/\">Third World Network TWN<\/a> is an international network of organizations and individuals involved in issues relating to environment, development and the Third World and North-South issues. It has its international secretariat in Penang, Malaysia. Its flagship magazine, Third World Resurgence, covers a wide range of topics including environment, economics, biotechnology, north-south relations etc. The network conducts research on various issues pertaining to the third world countries; It publishes books and magazines, organizes seminars.<\/p>\n<p>Published Magazines:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twnside.org.sg\/twr.htm\">Third World Resurgence<\/a>, the flagship magazine of Third World Network.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twnside.org.sg\/twe.htm\">Third World Economics<\/a>, a magazine published by Third World Network.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twnside.org.sg\/twnf.htm\">TWN Features<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twnside.org.sg\/twnf.htm\">GLOBAL TRENDS SERIES<\/a> BY MARTIN KHOR.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twnside.org.sg\/suns.htm\">South-North Development Monito<\/a>r SUNS.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twnside.org.sg\/book.htm\">Books<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nDirected by Martin Khor, (Malaysia) it has offices (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twnafrica.org\/\">TWN Africa<\/a>) in Accra (Ghana), Geneva, Goa (India) and (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.redtercermundo.org.uy\/\">Red del Tercer Mundo<\/a>) Montevideo (Uruguay). It also has affiliated organizations in a number of third world countries, including Bangladesh, Brazil,Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, the Philippines, Senegal, South Africa, Thailand, and Uruguay.<\/p>\n<p>Issues:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>UN and UN Reform<\/li>\n<li>Latest News and Papers on WTO<\/li>\n<li>Trade Issues\/Rules and WTO<\/li>\n<li>Intellectual Property Rights<\/li>\n<li>Global Financial and Economic Crisis<\/li>\n<li>Trade Developments (incl. UNCTAD)<\/li>\n<li>Economics<\/li>\n<li>Biotechnology\/ Biosafety<\/li>\n<li>Biodiversity, Access, Indigenous Knowledge and IPRs<\/li>\n<li>Environment<\/li>\n<li>Women&rsquo;s Rights &amp; Gender Issues<\/li>\n<li>Human Rights<\/li>\n<li>Health<\/li>\n<li>UN, Peace &amp; Security<\/li>\n<li>Tourism<\/li>\n<li>Climate Change<\/li>\n<li>WSSD\/Rio+10<\/li>\n<li>TNCs<\/li>\n<li>Free Trade Agreements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Added Sept. 6, 2009: linked with Northern Alliance for Sustainability ANPED; with Environment Liaison Centre International ELCI, Kenya; and with Sustainable Development Issues Network SDIN, to form a global NGO network whose purpose is to promote good governance, and enhanced awareness and knowledge about environmental and sustainable development processes and to ensure global quality NGO &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=730\" class=\"more-link\">Continuer la lecture<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> de &laquo;&nbsp;Third World Network TWN&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-verifier","category-ngos-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15145,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions\/15145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}