Partnership

Partnership with OneWorld means membership of a community of organisations working from a range of perspectives and backgrounds to promote sustainable development and human rights. OneWorld aims for partnership to reflect no single orthodoxy, but to nurture debate and to value difference by promoting inclusive and participatory global communication.

Who can be a OneWorld partner?
OneWorld 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) which 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, 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 also reserves the right to refuse applications on the basis of editorial judgements, including the quality, updatedness, relevance or presentation of information on a prospective partner's site.

Being a OneWorld partner brings an organisation into an ever-growing global network of organisations that share a common aim of using the internet to promote human rights and sustainable development and a shared vision and values.