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About the World Social Forum
The
World Social Forum is a not-for-profit association which helps other world forums (unions,
associations, non‑governmental organizations ‑ NGOs) throughout the
world by providing
research, practical
orientation and strategies for helping resolve the social crises.
Indeed, mass debates, working sessions and demonstrations alone are not
enough to create a
platform for mutual
understanding
between governments and NGOs. The WSF acts rationally with aim‑oriented
and practical approaches to the struggle against poverty, ignorance, and
unemployment. The WSF offers new
practical approaches, publications, legal measures, and directives for
the effective use of the WSF proposals and projects, studies, and
materials for analyzing and humanizing the negative impacts of
globalization and creating
a better market economy and
an improved democratic political system.
The WSF
bases its activities on conventions, recommendations and approaches of
the ILO for human basic life
needs for every human being.
Through
practical actions (conferences, seminars, publications, and TV
programs), the WSF plans to awaken and motivate two-thirds of society to
develop a more active civil
society, without political or ethnic tensions, with only one
objective : to ensure happiness for each family and human being in the
world.