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Appendix: Selected campaigning organizations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 January 2010

Michael P. Hornsby-Smith
Michael P. Hornsby-Smith
Affiliation:
University of Surrey
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Note: The following list is a fraction of the number of organizations and campaigning groups working in the six broad areas of justice used in this book. Up to date information on all of them can be found on their websites. Organizations listed are, for the most part, campaigning groups which publish appropriate research or informational materials rather than charities mainly concerned with the amelioration of need.

HUMAN RIGHTS

  1. Amnesty International (UK)

  2. Asylum Aid

  3. The Bourne Trust

  4. Catholic Association for Racial Justice (CARJ)

  5. Churches' Commission for Racial Justice (CCRJ)

  6. Commission for Racial Equality (CRE)

  7. Howard League for Penal Reform

  8. Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS UK)

  9. Liberty (National Council for Civil Liberties)

  10. Medical Foundation: Caring for the Victims of Torture

  11. Migration Policy Group (Brussels)

  12. National Catholic Refugee Forum (NCRF)

  13. Prison Reform Trust

  14. Refugee Council

THE FAMILY AND BIOETHICAL ISSUES

  1. Caritas-Social Action

  2. Life

  3. The Linacre Centre

  4. Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child (SPUC)

ECONOMIC LIFE

  1. Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility (ECCR)

  2. Ethical Investment Research Service (EIRIS)

  3. Industrial Christian Fellowship (ICF)

  4. International Christian Union of Business Executives (UNIAPAC)

  5. Movement of Christian Workers (MCW)

SOCIAL EXCLUSION

  1. ATD Fourth World UK

  2. Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)

  3. Church Action on Poverty (CAP)

  4. Homeless Link

  5. Housing Justice

  6. Shelter

  7. Those on the Margins of Society (THOMAS)

AUTHENTIC DEVELOPMENT

  1. Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD)

  2. Christian Aid

  3. Christian Ecology Link (CEL)

  4. Friends of the Earth (FOE)

  5. Greenpeace UK

  6. Intermediate Technology Development Group (ITDG)

  7. International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

  8. Jubilee Debt Campaign (JDC)

  9. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

  10. New Economics Foundation (NEF)

  11. One World Week (OWW)

  12. Oxfam

  13. Progressio (formerly Catholic Institute for International Relations, CIIR)

  14. Save the Children UK

  15. Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund (SCIAF)

  16. Shared Interest Society

  17. Trócaire

  18. World Development Movement

WAR AND PEACE

  1. Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT)

  2. Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)

  3. […]

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An Introduction to Catholic Social Thought , pp. 343 - 345
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2006

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