A San Francisco Bay Area Progressive Directory Saturday 9 Jul ...

Bengal Basin. Address: 2509 McGee Avenue, Berkeley CA 94703 Voice: (510) 841-3253
Email: usak2@yahoo.com IIBengalBasin@gmail.com
Web: http://www.nvo.com/ghosh_research [28 Feb 2009]
International Institute of the Bay Area (IIBA) For ninety years in Northern California,
people have trusted the International Institutes to give fair, accurate, and low cost legal
advice on more than fifty USCIS federal government procedures that can move you and your
families toward becoming US citizens, with all the rights and responsibilities that come with
full participation in our democracy. We have programs and services for immigrant and refugee
families that ease the transition to American life in your first years here. We can answer your
questions, help you understand our language and culture, and help your teenagers learn how
to set a career goal and map the path to follow it. Address: 657 Mission Street, Suite 500,
San Francisco CA 94105 Voice: (415) 538-8110 Fax: (415) 538-8111
Web: http://www.iibayarea.org/ [18 Jul 2010]
International Labor Organization (ILO) A United Nations specialized agency that
seeks the promotion of social justice and internationally recognized human and labour rights.
The ILO formulates international labour standards in the form of Conventions and
Recommendations setting minimum standards of basic labour rights: freedom of association,
the right to organize, collective bargaining, abolition of forced labour, equality of opportunity
and treatment, and other standards regulating conditions across the entire spectrum of work
related issues. Web: http://www.ilo.org/ [09 May 2010]
International Labor Rights Fund (ILRF) A nonprofit action and advocacy organization
that uses new and creative means to encourage enforcement of international labor rights.
Pursues legal and administrative actions on behalf of working people, creates innovative
programs and enforcement mechanisms to protect workers' rights, and advocates for better
protections for workers through publications, testimony before national and international
hearings, and speeches to academic, religious, and human rights groups.
Web: http://www.laborrights.org/ [09 May 2010]
International Museum of Women (I.M.O.W.) A groundbreaking social change museum
that inspires global action, connects people across borders and transforms hearts and minds
by amplifying the voices of women worldwide through global online exhibitions, history, the
arts and cultural programs that educate, create dialogue and build community. With its
unique focus on cultural change, I.M.O.W. advances the human right to gender equity
worldwide. We invite you to join this innovative twenty-first century museum and invest in
making the world a better place for our daughters, granddaughters and nieces as well as our
sons, grandsons and nephews by participating in I.M.O.W.'s new global online exhibition,
Women, Power and Politics. Address: POBox 190038, San Francisco CA 94119-0038
Voice: (415) 543-4669 Fax: (415) 543-4668 Email: info@imow.org events@imow.org
Web: http://www.imow.org http://www.imow.org/wpp/ [31 May 2008]
International NGO Campaign on Export Credit Agencies (ECA Watch) Citizens
worldwide are increasingly aware of global institutions (like the WTO and the World Bank)
and their impacts on the environment and human rights. But other secretive government
bodies such as export credit agencies have as big, if not bigger, impacts on the process of
globalization. Export Credit Agencies and Investment Insurance Agencies, commonly known
as ECAs, are public agencies that provide government-backed loans, guarantees and
insurance to corporations from their home country that seek to do business overseas in
developing countries and emerging markets. Most industrialized nations have at least one
ECA, which is usually an official or quasi-official branch of their government.
Web: http://www.eca-watch.org/ [06 Jan 2008]
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) A nonpartisan
federation of national medical organizations in 62 countries, representing thousands
of doctors, medical students, health workers, and concerned citizens who are united behind
the goal of creating a more peaceful and secure world freed from the threat of nuclear