One World Action

UK-based charity

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages)

This article contains promotional content. Please help improve it by removing promotional language and inappropriate external links, and by adding encyclopedic text written from a neutral point of view. (March 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

|

This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources.
Find sources: "One World Action" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (March 2017)

|

(Learn how and when to remove this message)

One World Action, formerly Bernt Carlsson Trust, was a charity based in London, United Kingdom, associated with the Solidar NGO network.

One World Action supported partner organizations in Asia, Africa and Central America. Their work was designed to support principles of democracy, with many supported projects concerning the topic of gender inequality.

All of the organization's programs were initiated by local people to provide understanding and meet local needs.[1]

One World Action was founded by Glenys Kinnock on 21 December 1989, the one-year anniversary of UN Commissioner for Namibia Bernt Carlsson's death in the Pan Am Flight 103 attack.

One World Action was removed from the register of charities on 2 October 2012 because it had ceased to exist.[2]

## Activities

[edit]

* Nearly 300,000 people in Angola were given access to clean water through the work of a One World Action partner, the Development Workshop.
* Through mediation a One World Action partner, Nagorik Uddyog settled nearly 1000 separate cases of conflict involving the poor in Bangladesh.
* In Nicaragua, a One World Action partner, Movimiento Maria Elena Cuadra, provided training to women factory workers in the Export Processing Zones about labor rights and health & safety.
* One World Action is thought to be behind The Political Compass website.[3]

## References

[edit]

1. ^ One World Action, Rhinoceros Directory
2. ^ "One World Action". Charity Commission. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
3. ^ Utley, Tom. "I'm v. Right-wing, says the BBC, but it's not that simple". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 6 January 2017. "A lot of the questions in the test are very irritatingly phrased and impossible to answer properly, with only these four options available: "strongly agree", "agree", "disagree" and "strongly disagree".

## External links

[edit]

* One World Action Web Page

This article about a philanthropic or charitable organization is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

|

* v
* t
* e

*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template