About CUTS INTERNATIONAL

Established in 1983 as a rural development communication initiative, Consumer Unity and Trust Society is currently at the cutting edge of consumer movement in India and across the globe. The organisation has become a leading Southern voice on Rules-Based Trade, Effective Regulation, and Good Governance. CUTS Mission is ‘Consumer Sovereignty in the Framework of Social Justice, Economic Equality and Environmental Balance, Within and Across Borders.’

At present, CUTS operates out of:

• Three Programme Centres in Jaipur and one in Chittorgarh, India
• A Public Policy Centre in Jaipur
• An Advocacy Centre in New Delhi and a Resource Centre in Kolkata, India
• Six Affiliated Centres in Lusaka, Nairobi, and Accra (Africa), Hanoi (Vietnam), Geneva (Switzerland), and Washington DC (USA)
• CUTS Institute for Regulation & Competition (CIRC) was established in New Delhi 2018 with the aim of offering research, educational training programmes on competition policy and law and sector regulatory laws.

Over the last four decades, CUTS has experienced an organic and evolutionary growth - marked by a refreshing spontaneity in responding to the needs of the hour, particularly those of the developing world, by addressing contemporary and emerging economic governance issues at national, regional, and international-level through an exchange of ideas, evidence and experiences of state and non-state actors.