Südwind Association

The Südwind Association is an Austrian non-profit NGO focusing on education and campaign work in the international development field.

Organizing campaigns for a more just world, for example “Jute statt Plastik” (1979; aimed at making people replace plastic bags with jute bags), “Hunger ist kein Schicksal” (1980; hunger is not a destiny), “Stimmen für den Regenwald” (1992; voices for the rainforest) and the “Clean Clothes Campaign” (since 2001) are an essential part of Südwind's activity.

It is also member of the WIDE-Network and is engaged in the platforms ECA-Watch Austria, Oikocredit, the information agency for journalists & development policy (ISJE), “Wir haben es satt!” and Baobab.

The status allows Südwind to organize parallel events, take part in UN conferences in Vienna, Geneva and New York City, and to utter statements and written inputs.

Here, Südwind's main focus lies on partaking in the United Nations Human Rights Council's (UNHRC) meetings in Geneva.

The editorial charter determines the magazine's mission to inform the public about social, political, economic and cultural realities in so called third-world countries, about development policies and international cooperation, aiming to bridge the gap between north and south.

[11] Today a large repertoire of respective literature, world music CDs and fairtrade handicraft and foods are sold in shops in the 9th and in the 7th district of Vienna and online.

[12] The bookstore is constantly engaged in synthesizing respective literature for common use, and aspires to improve industrial regions’ understanding of societal, ecological and economic processes in the Global South.