Who can join OneWorld UK?

OneWorld UK assesses applications on a case-by-case basis using the following guideline criteria:

Organisations working in the fields of sustainable development or human rights. This may include publicising, campaigning, researching, debating or implementing work in these areas.
Branches, departments or projects that work in the fields of sustainable development or human rights as part of larger organisations with wider aims. However, where the wider organisation is seen to significantly contravene the aims of the OneWorld community, the application will be refused.
OneWorld gives special priority to partnership applications from NGOs based in the South.

In considering applications for partnership, OneWorld bases its definitions of 'human rights' and 'sustainable development' on key documents (such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Rio Declaration, the Child Rights Convention and others) that offer guidance on these terms. However, these documents are not considered to be unquestioned authorities.

Who cannot be a OneWorld partner?

Organisations whose activities significantly contravene OneWorld objectives of promoting human rights and sustainable development will be excluded from the partnership.
OneWorld is supportive of change by peaceful means. Therefore organisations directly or indirectly involved in the use of violence do not have a place in the OneWorld community.
OneWorld embraces all human differences and cannot accept organisations advocating intolerance on the grounds of ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age or religion.
OneWorld cannot accept political parties
Commercial organisations are not specifically excluded, but will be required to demonstrate how their activities will benefit the shared aims of OneWorld
OneWorld may also refuse applications on the basis of our judgments on the quality and legitimacy of the applicant organisation.

Being a OneWorld partner brings an organisation into an ever-growing global network that shares a common aim of using technology to promote human rights and sustainable development.

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