The International Labour Organization (ILO) which is the UN specialized agency which seeks the promotion of social justice and internationally recognized human and labour rights.
It promotes the development of independent employers' and workers' organizations and provides training and advisory services to those organizations.

UNESCO is working to create the conditions for genuine dialogue based upon respect for shared values and the dignity of each civilization and culture.

The world urgently requires global visions of sustainable development based upon observance of human rights, mutual respect and the alleviation of poverty, all of which lie at the heart of UNESCO’s mission and activities.

Social Alert is an international coalition of social, human rights and workers organizations.

The coalition was created with a view to join the programs of action of several international organizations and to struggle against social injustice worldwide.

Social Alert was born in 1997, after an initiative by five international organizations:

• Pax Christi International (PCI),
• World Confederation of Labour (WCL),
• International Youth Christian Workers (IYCW),
• World Movement of Christian Workers (WMCW), and
• World Solidarity (WSM).

CIDSE is an alliance of 15 Catholic development organisations from Europe and North America.

The Conference of the ICO's is:

• A place for dialogue and coordination for some 40 ICO's (International Catholic Organization) that, on the five continents, gather more than 150 million lay people.
• A platform for the ICO's that, on the basis of an action in the field, want to defend the dignity of people and meet the expectations of the different fields.

The World Social Forum is an open meeting place where social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organizations opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital or by any form of imperialism come together to pursue their thinking, to debate ideas democratically, for formulate proposals, share their experiences freely and network for effective action.

Since the first world encounter in 2001, it has taken the form of a permanent world process seeking and building alternatives to neo-liberal policies. This definition is in its Charter of Principles, the WSF’s guiding document.

The World Social Forum is also characterized by plurality and diversity, is non-confessional, non-governmental and non-party. It proposes to facilitate decentralized coordination and networking among organizations engaged in concrete action towards building another world, at any level from the local to the international, but it does not intend to be a body representing world civil society. The World Social Forum is not a group or an organization.