poisoning in Thailand to illustrate how alliances between factory workers and middle class activists strengthened political campaigns against the state but failed to identify the nature of risk or address workers’ concerns. It is argued that academic debates need to acknowledge the pragmatic nature of both

The goal of this article is to explain micro-political aspects of women’s participation within the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) by explicating how Non-Governmental Organization’s (NGO) representatives negotiate and perceive their work. Data from ethnographic participant observation

, the problem of bridging the gap between movement protesters and NGO advocates; and, third, that of escaping movement structuration by nat-ional cleavages, alignments, and opportunities. Reflecting on the international protests against neoliberalism since the late 1990s, activist-

of transparency, lack of commitment among the NGO activists, and also the absence of public surveillance are the key issues for affecting NGO governance in Nepal. This has affected the NGOs for efficient management, resource mobilization and policy advocacy. Such phenomenon poses difficulty in NGO governance

teachers, professionals, students, activists and community organizations from low-income settlements. It was set up in response to the recognition that the planning process for Karachi did not serve the interests of low- and lower-middle-income groups, small businesses and informal sector operators

What shapes the transnational activist agenda? Do non-governmental organizations with a global mandate focus on the world’s most pressing problems, or is their reporting also affected by additional considera-tions? To address these questions, we study the determinants of country reporting

In the current globalized market, multinational corporations are experiencing heightened external social and environmental pressures to operate more responsibly. Transnational activist groups and advocacy NGOs are successfully framing normative expectations on corporate social responsibility

Rights (TRIPS). These will have serious implications for India’s pharmaceutical industry, as well as for the political environment within which pro-poor policy change can be effected. In anticipation of the 2004 deadline, various actors (in business, government and activist circles) have been positioning

The public opinion in the North is increasingly concerned about how the interna-tional division of labour induced by globalization has been a¤ecting working conditions across the world. Civil society activists and international NGOs exert increased pres-sure on multinationals to force these …rms

, ideas, and practices now seem to circulate without any specifically localized base, taking on, as it were, a life of their own. Hence, we have global companies, interna-tional organizations, diasporic populations, and transnational mafias. The ac-tors in the global arena area international managers, NGO