Subject(s): Social movements -- Globalization -- Social aspects -- World Trade Organization -- NEW INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORDER -- GLOBALIZATION -- SOCIAL MOVEMENTS -- LABOUR MOVEMENTS -- GENDER DISCRIMINATION -- TRADE UNIONS. -- Challenging globalization- developing alternative strategies - Neoliberal approaches, social democratic approaches, alterative approach, populism from the right as well as from the left -- Democratization and marketization - state, market and civil society : Civil society, social capital and capacity building for active citizenship and community empowerment, global social movements -- Social movements- competing approaches : New social movement approach, environment issues and human rights -- Social movements old and new- alternatives or allies : Globalization and need for international solidarity, center of labor movements concerns, union revitalization in American labor movement -- Empowerment, accountability and participation- challenges for local and global movements : Global social movements, students against sweatshops, community development, community education debates, landless people's movement in Brazil -- People to people exchanges - sharing local experiences in global context : Insider as well as outsiders as experts, learning from sharing experiences and networking internationally, urban transformation -- Globalization and gender - New threats, new strategies : Women empowerment, DAWN -- Rights to public services- global campaign for education : International context, context in terms of debates within NGOs and trade union organizations, global education campaign for education is launched, GCE's achievements at Dakar -- Learning from jubilee 2000- mobilizing for debt relief -- Resisting imperialism- building social movements for peace and social justice : Peace movements, debt and trade, sustainable