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The Alternative Information Center

AIC is a joint Palestinian-Israeli organization which prioritizes political advocacy, critical analysis and information sharing on the Palestinian and Israeli societies as well as on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In doing so, the AIC promotes responsible co-operation between Palestinians and Israelis based on the values of social and political justice, equality, solidarity, community involvement and respect for the full inalienable national rights of all Palestinian people.
Its website holds a Photo, Video and audio Database, Publications, Booklets, Book Reviews, Articles and News.

Mountain Voices

This website presents interviews with over 300 people who live in mountain and highland regions round the world. Their testimonies offer a personal perspective on change and development. Collections have been gathered from communities in the Himalaya (India and Nepal); the Andes (Peru); the Sierra Norte (Mexico); Mount Elgon (Kenya); the highlands of Ethiopia and Lesotho; southwest and northeast China; the Sudety mountains (Poland); and the Karakorum mountains of Pakistan.
This project was initiated by the Panos Oral Testimony Programme, which gathers, publishes and amplifies the voices and opinions of the so-called beneficiaries of development.

India Together

India Together (IT) is an electronic publication devoted to coverage of public affairs, policy, and development in India. It provides in-depth information & news on the issues that matter covering over 15 major topics and themes ranging from government and poverty to agriculture and environment. Over 1500 articles have been published, as of mid-2005.

Inter Press Service

IPS was set up in 1964 as a non-profit international cooperative of journalists. It is an international, not-for-profit association of professional journalists and others in the field of communications. It has no national or political base and pursues the objectives of balanced geographical, ethnic and gender representation.
The website for the Inter Press Service News Agency has up-to-date news alerts, with a focus on developing countries in the South, as well as more in depth articles and dossiers.

Panos

Panos London was established in 1986 as a UK registered charity. Since 1996, Panos London has set up a network of regional offices in Southern Africa, Eastern Africa and South Asia. Panos aims to ensure that the perspectives of the people whose lives are most affected by development (mainly the poor and marginalised) are included within decision-making and that decisions are subject to their scrutiny and debate. Panos’ job is to make the immensely complex issues facing developing countries accessible and understandable, to provide information that people can trust, and to open up opportunities for different perspectives to be heard.
The website holds case studies, daily news bulletins, journalist briefs, reports and lists of publications.