Global Exchange (GX)

Global Exchange is an international human rights organization dedicated to promoting political, social and environmental justice globally. Since our founding in 1988, we have been working to increase global awareness among the U.S. public while building partnerships around the world.


GOALS

• to educate the U.S. public about critical global issues

• to promote respect for the rights outlined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

• to encourage both the U.S. government and private institutions to support policies that promote democratic and sustainable development

• to link people in our own country and people in the global South who are working for political, social and environmental justice.


MAIN PROGRAMS

1. Our Political and Civil Rights Campaigns (Human Rights) are divided into two areas:

• Campaigns to monitor and report on human rights and elections in conflict areas, and to support pro-democracy movements in those countries; and
• Campaigns to improve relations between the U.S. and countries with whom we have been in conflict.

2. Our Social and Economic Rights Campaigns are divided into three areas:

• Campaigns to encourage U.S. corporations to respect the rights of workers, honor local communities and protect the environment;
• Campaigns against the unjust and undemocratic policies of the World Trade Organization, World Bank and International Monetary Fund; and
• Campaigns to promote humane, environmentally-sensitive economic alternatives, including fair trade, and an alternative green economy.

3. Our Fair Trade Program helps build economic justice from the bottom-up. Our two alternative trade centers in the San Francisco Bay Area and our on-line store generate income for artisans and crafts cooperatives in nearly 40 countries. The program also educates first-world consumers about the social and environmental implications of their spending, and about the importance of building a more just global economy.

4. Our Reality Tours provide people from the U.S. with an understanding of a country's internal dynamics through socially responsible travel. Participants in these intensive travel seminars examine political, economic and social trends in countries around the world, including Cuba, South Africa, Mexico and Vietnam. Reality Tours also serve as human rights delegations that observe and report on events in areas of conflict, and as election monitoring delegations.

5. Our Public Education Program produces books, videos, articles, and editorials through our online store; organizes educational events and workshops; and works with the media to increase coverage of international issues from a grassroots, citizens' perspective. The program also includes an International Speakers Bureau that brings community leaders from around the world to the United States to educate people on pressing global issues.

CONTACT INFO

2017 Mission Street, #303
San Francisco, CA

tel: 415/255-7296
fax: 415/255-7498

globalexchange.org