Strategic Partners

American Friends Service Committee
Founded by Quakers, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) carries out service, development, social justice, and peace programs throughout the world. Life Over Debt, a national campaign of the AFSC, highlights the need for immediate cancellation of Africa's debt. Go >

Foreign Policy in Focus
Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF) is a think tank for research, analysis, and action that brings together scholars, advocates, and activists who strive to make the United States a more responsible global partner. FPIF provides timely analysis of U.S. foreign policy and international affairs and recommends policy alternatives. Go >

Jubilee USA Network
Jubilee USA Network is the U.S. arm of the international Jubilee movement working for debt cancellation for impoverished nations. Jubilee USA Network is made up of 70 organizations and grassroots coalitions across the United States, including Africa Action. Go >

TransAfrica Forum
TransAfrica Forum serves as a major research, educational, and organizing institution for the African-American community, focused on the economic, political and moral ramifications of U.S. foreign policy as it affects Africa and the Diaspora in the Caribbean and Latin America. Go >

Resources on Darfur

Amnesty International USA
Amnesty International USA’s website features investigate reports, analysis and action alerts on the crisis in Darfur and human rights concerns in the region.  Go >

Damanga Coalition for Freedom and Democracy
Damanga is an organization that works to protect the people of Darfur, Sudan through non-partisan research, analysis and public education materials published on their website.  Go >

Darfur Consortium
The Darfur Consortium is an umbrella group of African civil society groups, and other groups working in Africa, concerned about bringing an end to the crisis in Darfur. Its website includes statements and publications on the crisis.  Go >

Darfur Peace & Development
Darfur Peace & Development is an organization run by Darfurians, which seeks to promote and restore peace & development in Darfur, Sudan. The website includes latest news and opportunities to sponsor refugee schools and make donations.  Go >

ENOUGH
The ENOUGH Project is a project of the Center for American Progress that attempts to find solutions and policies that work to change the international conversation about crimes against humanity and to bring genocide to an end.  Go >

Eric Reeves
This site links to electronically published analytic briefs and advocacy writings on Sudan by Professor Eric Reeves of Smith College, MA.  Go >

Genocide Intervention Fund
The Genocide Intervention Fund’s website offers daily summaries of media coverage on the crisis in Darfur.  Go >

Human Rights First
Human Rights First is a human rights advocacy organization based in New York City and Washington, DC. Their H.O.P.E. for Darfur campaign page provides news and action alerts.  Go >

International Crisis Group
This website includes historical analysis, current reports and advocacy documents on the crisis in Darfur, as well as maps and photographic resources on the region.  Go >

Physicians for Human Rights
Physicians for Human Rights’ website offers video footage, analysis & action alerts on the genocide in Darfur.  Go >

Save Darfur Coalition
Save Darfur Coalition’s website features news, resources and action opportunities on the crisis in Darfur.  Go >

STAND
The STAND website features student initiatives and resources designed to create awareness about, and promote action on, the genocide in Darfur, Sudan.  Go >

Resources on HIV/AIDS

AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP)
The ACT UP website offers resources for activists and opportunities to get involved in local AIDS activism.  Go >

Campaign to End AIDS (C2EA)
The Campaign to End AIDS website offers tools to organize locally on global and domestic AIDS issues.  Go >

Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE)
The CHANGE website offers in-depth analysis and criticism on U.S. HIV/AIDS policies, especially how they affect women.  Go >

Global AIDS Alliance
The Global AIDS Alliance website offers timely action alerts and analyses on global HIV/AIDS issues.  Go >

Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
The Global Fund website features updates on its own work and on HIV/AIDS-related challenges globally.  Go >

Health Global Access Project (Health GAP)
The HealthGAP website offers tools for activists and resources on several HIV/AIDS-related campaigns.  Go >

Network of African People Living with HIV/AIDS (NAP+)
The NAP+ website helps to promote and express clearly the rights, interests, and responsibilities of African people living with HIV/AIDS.  Go >

Student Global AIDS Campaign (SGAC)
The SGAC website offers numerous resources for student AIDS activists, including campus organizing guides and timely action alerts.  Go >

Treatment Action Campaign (South Africa)
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) website supports their mission by raising public awareness and understanding about issues surrounding the availability, affordability and use of HIV treatments.  Go >

UNAIDS (United Nations Special Programme on AIDS)
The UNAIDS website features the latest statistics and initiatives on HIV/AIDS worldwide.  Go >

Yes Africa Matters
"This initiative is the work of the Catholic Task Force on Africa, a Washington DC based group of advocates who come together monthly to share our work, passion and perspective with each other on behalf of our many constituents who are working for justice and peace in Africa...."  Go >

Resources on Debt Cancellation

African Forum and Network on Debt and Development
AFRODAD conducts research and advocacy on Africa’s debt. Their monthly electronic newsletter provides news updates, analysis and other useful information on debt.  Go >

American Friends Services Committee (AFSC)
AFCS’s Life Over Debt campaign provides activist toolkits and other resources to highlight the need for immediate cancellation of Africa’s debt.  Go >

Economic Justice Network Lesotho [EJNL]
"The Economic Justice Network Lesotho [EJNL] is an alliance of diverse independent and voluntary organizations (Non-Governmental Organizations, Community Based Organizations, Trade Unions and their Networks, Faith-Based Organizations, representatives of media which have activities in the field of economic governance etc).  Go >

Jubilee South
Jubilee South publishes an e-newsletter and the Jubilee Journal, a good source of critical analysis of debt from Jubilee’s network of 85 groups in over 40 countries.  Go >

Jubilee USA Network
This website features action alerts, updates, analysis, reports, and other resources on debt cancellation.  Go >

Jubilee Zambia
In addition to analysis of the impact of debt in Zambia, this website offers a critique of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative in Zambia.  Go >

Kenya Debt Relief Network (KENDREN)
KENDREN uses the materials on this website to raise awareness among Kenyans about the impact of the heavy debt burden on the provision of social services in Kenya.  Go >

MWENGO
MWENGO’s website offers policy alerts, publications and analysis on economic justice issues.  Go >

Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (ZIMCODD)
Through their website and their e-newsletter Breakfree, ZIMCODD provides updates, analysis, and reports on debt and trade-related issues in Zimbabwe. This site is temporarily unavailable  Go >

Other Allied Organizations

Africa Today Associates (ATA)
Africa Today Associates, Inc. (ATA) is a non-governmental organization which conducts educational and research activities to bring together academics, activists, and community groups to address the challenges and issues of Africa. Go >

Africa Faith and Justice Network
AFJN works closely with Catholic missionary congregations and numerous Africa-focused coalitions of all persuasions to advocate for U.S. economic and political policies that will benefit Africa's poor majority, facilitate an end to armed conflict, establish equitable trade and investment with Africa and promote ecologically sound development. Go >

African Services Committee
African Services Committee is a nonprofit organization based in Harlem and dedicated to improving the health and self-sufficiency of the African community in New York City. They provide health, housing, legal and social services to more than 10,000 newcomers each year, focusing on HIV prevention, testing, care and advocacy. Go >

All Africa Conference of Churches
The All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC) is a fellowship of Churches and Institutions working together to mobilize people of faith around social and economic justice (overcoming poverty), health and wholeness (HIV/AIDS), and international relations (governance, ethics and morality). Go >

American Medical Students Association (AMSA)
AMSA is a national network of medical, nursing, and public health students focused on advocating for the fight against the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. Go >

The Association of African Women for Research and Development (AAWORD)
The Association of African Women for Research and Development (AAWORD) is a pan-African non-governmental organization based in Senegal, which undertakes and supports research, training and advocacy to promote the economic, political and social rights of African women. Go >

Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition
The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition represents more than 350 pro-democracy civil society groups in Zimbabwe. Go >

Justice Africa
Justice Africa serves as focal point for activities by a range of like-minded organizations in Africa. Justice Africa currently focuses on HIV/AIDS and Darfur. Go >

Roadmap for Peace
Roadmap for Peace is a set of principles and recommendations endorsed by a diverse group of policy, faith-based, development, and direct service organizations and individual experts convened by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). The consensus is in: Americans favor a new direction in U.S. foreign policy that recognizes the intersection of national and global security and favors multilateral, cooperative approaches to global challenges. Go >

Southern and Eastern African Trade, Information and Negotiations Institute (SEATINI)
SEATINI is an African initiative to strengthen Africa's capacity to take a more effective part in the emerging global trading system and to better manage the process of globalization. It deals specifically with issues and debates around the World Trade Organization and Africa's relationships to it. Go >

United States Student Association (USSA)
USSA works towards building grassroots power among students to win concrete victories on education-related issues at campus, state and federal levels. Go >

Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU)
ZCTU's mission is to promote, advance and safeguard the economic, social and constitutional freedoms of workers in Zimbabwe. It works to secure a national legal and political framework of democray and good governance by   strengthening the capacity and independenceof its affiliates. Go >