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AWOGNet is a global organization that
networks all men and women, organizations, institutions and indigenous
national organizations within Africa, whose activities are targeted
towards the improvement of the living conditions of women and children in
Africa.
Amnesty
International--Women's Program
Amnesty International mobilizes AI
activists, the public and US policymakers to promote and defend the human
rights of women and girls around the world.
Arab
Women Solidarity Association
AWSA promotes Arab women's active
participation in social, economic, cultural, and political life.
Asian Pacific American Women's Leadership Institute
APAWLI's mission is to address the challenges facing Asian American and Pacific Islander women and to nurture trusteeship within our communities.
Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action
CAFRA is a regional network of feminists, individual researchers, activists and women’s organizations that define feminist politics as a matter of both consciousness and action. We are committed to understanding the relationship between the oppression of women and other forms of oppression in the society, and we are working actively for change.
Center
for Women's Global Leadership
The Center for Women's Global Leadership
develops and facilitates women's leadership for women's human rights and
social justice worldwide.
EQUALITY NOW is an international human
rights organization dedicated to action for the civil, political, economic
and social rights of girls and women.
We mobilize action on behalf of individual women whose rights are
being violated and promote women's rights at local, national and
international levels.
Female
Genital Mutilation Education and Networking Project
The purpose of the FGM Education and Networking Project is the dissemination on-line and offline of material related to female genital mutilation, otherwise known as female circumcision. The Project seeks to form an online clearinghouse and a community for researchers, activists, attorneys, and health care practitioners to obtain information and network with others involved in similar projects.
The Feminist Theory Website provides
research materials and information for students, activists, and scholars
interested in women's conditions and struggles around the world. The goals
of this website are: 1) to encourage a wide range of research into
feminist theory, and 2) to encourage dialogue between women (and men) from
different countries around the world.
Feminist International Radio Endeavor
FIRE is the first women's internet radio. It works to disseminate women's voices in all their diversity, so that they can be heard by men and women around the world, crossing barriers of nationality, culture, race, geography and language, and contributing to bridging the gender gap. FIRE's programs address diverse themes from a gendered perspective, including neo-liberal policies, women's human rights, the environment, racism, disabilities, militarism, sexualities, education, arts and culture.
Special thanks to Margie Thompson for recommending this wonderful site! The unique thing about this site is the extensive archive of audio clips and interviews from women around the world on a variety of issues.
Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women
GAATW's aim is to ensure that the human rights of trafficked persons are respected and protected by authorities and agencies. Our strategy is to promote the involvement of grassroots women in all work against trafficking in persons to ensure that any work done addresses the real problems. We work to empower women rather than treat them as victims.
GFW is a grantmaking foundation supporting women's human rights organizations around the world working to address critical issues such as gaining economic independence, increasing girls' access to education and stopping violence against women.
Global Reproductive Health Forum
GRHF
at Harvard aims to encourage the proliferation of critical discussions
about reproductive health, rights and gender on the net.
Half the Sky Foundation was created by adoptive parents of orphaned Chinese children. Our purpose is to enrich the lives and enhance the outcome for the babies and young children in China who still wait to be adopted and for those who will spend their childhoods in orphanages.
This site was recommended by Susan Sterett. Thanks, Susan!
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
IGLHRC's mission is to protect and
advance the human rights of all people and communities subject to
discrimination or abuse on the basis of sexual orientation, gender
identity or HIV status.
International
Planned Parenthood Federation
IPPF's mission is
to promote and defend the right of women and men, including young people,
to decide freely the number and spacing of their children, and the right
to the highest possible level of sexual and reproductive health.
La Leche League was founded to give
information and encouragement, mainly through personal help, to all
mothers who want to breastfeed their babies.
MADRE addresses
issues of health, education, economic development and other human rights
worldwide. We develop programs to meet immediate needs in communities hurt
by US policy and support women’s long-term struggles for social justice
and human rights.
They have a wonderful links page. We highly recommend it!
Pan Pacific & Southeast Asia Women's Association
PPSAWA's mission is to arouse and foster interest among New Zealand women in strengthening bonds of peace; by promoting better understanding of, and friendship with, women of other Pacific and South-east Asian countries; to learn and share a little of one another's culture.
NativeWeb is an international, nonprofit, educational organization dedicated to using telecommunications including computer technology and the Internet to disseminate information from and about indigenous nations, peoples and organizations around the world; to foster communication between native and non-native peoples; to conduct research involving indigenous peoples' usage of technology and the Internet; and to provide resources, mentoring and services to facilitate indigenous peoples' use of this technology.
In order to find info on women, just use the site's search engine and type in "women."
Building Bridges for Peace, a program of Seeking Common Ground, brings young women from Denver, Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza together to participate in a 21-day intensive communication workshop at a retreat center in the mountains of Colorado. The belief is that women have the power to effect change within their homes and communities, and that they have a crucial role in building peaceful communities.
Look on the left side of the homepage for a menu of "Building Bridges for Peace" options.
Sisterhood is Global Institute
SIGI is dedicated to the support and promotion of women's rights at the local, national, regional, and global levels. With members in 70 countries and a network of more than 1300 individuals and organizations worldwide, SIGI works toward empowering women and developing leadership through human rights.
Sawnet is a forum for those interested in South Asian women's issues.
SAWA organizes and encourages dialogue across lines of age, class, sexuality, race, religion and language; articulates what it means for us to be living as South Asian women in the United States; gives our experiences political and creative expressions through a variety of media like visual art, theater, and writing; speaks out and strategizes against all kinds of discrimination.
United Nations Development Fund for Women
UNIFEM promotes women's empowerment and gender equality. It works to ensure the participation of women in all levels of development planning and practice, and acts as a catalyst within the UN system, supporting efforts that link the needs and concerns of women to all critical issues on the national, regional and global agendas.
WomenWatch is a joint UN project to create a core Internet space on global women's issues. It was created to monitor the results of the Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing in 1995.
Women's Environment and Development Organization
WEDO is an international advocacy organization that seeks to increase the power of women worldwide as policymakers at all levels in governments, institutions and forums to achieve economic and social justice, a healthy and peaceful planet, and human rights for all.
WWI is dedicated to building a world that ensures equality and justice for all. Our definition of justice includes economic, political, and social justices that has gender equality at its core.
Women, Ink. is a project of the International Women’s Tribune Centre to market and distribute books on women and development with a focus on the perspectives of women from the Global South.
Women in Technology International
For more than a decade, WITI has successfully provided women in technology inspiration, education, conferences, on-line services, publications and an exceptional worldwide network of resources. WITI is the first and only international organization solely dedicated to advancing women through technology.
WOW works to empower women to make conscious, well-informed decisions about family planning; prevent unwanted pregnancy; ensure safe and legal abortion; reduce unnecessary physical or psychological suffering and deaths from illegal abortions; and catalyze support the liberalization of abortion laws worldwide.
Women's Wire works to put an end to child marriages around the world.
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
WILPF works to achieve through peaceful means world disarmament, full rights for women, racial and economic justice, an end to all forms of violence, and to establish those political, social, and psychological conditions which can assure peace, freedom, and justice for all.
Denver University Women's Studies Colloquium Series: Through Non-Western Eyes (2002-2003)
Feminist International Radio Endeavor
FIRE is the first women's internet radio. It works to disseminate women's voices in all their diversity, so that they can be heard by men and women around the world, crossing barriers of nationality, culture, race, geography and language, and contributing to bridging the gender gap. FIRE's programs address diverse themes from a gendered perspective, including neo-liberal policies, women's human rights, the environment, racism, disabilities, militarism, sexualities, education, arts and culture.
Special thanks to Margie Thompson for recommending this wonderful site! The unique thing about this site is the extensive archive of audio clips and interviews from women around the world on a variety of topics.
Women, Inc. is a project of the International Women's Tribune Centre to market and distribute books on women and development with a focus on the perspectives of women from the Global South.
AWOGNet is a global organization that networks all men and women, organizations, institutions and indigenous national organizations within Africa, whose activities are targeted towards the improvement of the living conditions of women and children in Africa.
Arab Women Solidarity Association
AWSA promotes Arab women's active participation in social, economic, cultural, and political life.
Female Genital Mutilation Education and Networking Project
The purpose of the FGM Education and Networking Project is the dissemination on-line and offline of material related to female genital mutilation, otherwise known as female circumcision. The Project seeks to form an online clearinghouse and a community for researchers, activists, attorneys, and health care practitioners to obtain information and network with others involved in similar projects.
Asia & Pacific Islands
Asian Pacific American Women's Leadership Institute
APAWLI's mission is to address the challenges facing Asian American and Pacific Islander women and to nurture trusteeship within our communities.
Pan Pacific & Southeast Asia Women's Association
PPSAWA's mission is to arouse and foster interest among New Zealand women in strengthening bonds of peace; by promoting better understanding of, and friendship with, women of other Pacific and South-east Asian countries; to learn and share a little of one another's culture.
SAWA organizes and encourages dialogue across lines of age, class, sexuality, race, religion and language; articulates what it means for us to be living as South Asian women in the United States; gives our experiences political and creative expressions through a variety of media like visual art, theater, and writing; speaks out and strategize against all kinds of discrimination.
Sawnet is a forum for those interested in South Asian women's issues.
Central & South America
Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action
CAFRA is a regional network of feminists, individual researchers, activists and women’s organizations that define feminist politics as a matter of both consciousness and action. We are committed to understanding the relationship between the oppression of women and other forms of oppression in the society, and we are working actively for change.
The Latin American Working Group
LAWG is a coalition of over sixty religious, human rights, policy, grassroots and development organizations. Since 1983, the coalition has been striving for U.S. policies that promote peace, justice and sustainable development in the region.
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