Women's Rights
International Organizations
- Amnesty International Stop Violence Against Women Campaign
- Amnesty International (AI) is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights. Their Stop Violence Against Women Campaign works to stop discrimination and violence against women at the hands of the state, the community and families.
http://www.amnestyusa.org/Our_Issues/Womens_Human_Rights/
page.do?id=1011012&n1=3&n2=39 - Center for Reproductive Rights
- The Center for Reproductive Rights (formerly the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy) is a nonprofit legal advocacy organization dedicated to promoting and defending women's reproductive rights worldwide.
www.crlp.org - Center for Women's Global Leadership
- CWGL develops and facilitates women's leadership for women's human rights and social justice worldwide.
www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/globalcenter/about.html - Equality Now
- Equality Now works to end violence and discrimination against women and girls around the world through the mobilization of public pressure. Issues of concern to Equality Now include rape, domestic violence, reproductive rights, trafficking, female genital mutilation, political participation and gender discrimination.
www.equalitynow.org/english/index.html - GenderStats: database of Gender Statistics
- GenderStats is an electronic database of gender statistics and indicators designed with user-friendly, menu-driven features. It offers statistical and other data in modules on several subjects. The data in each module is presented in ready-to-use format. Users have the option of saving the country views in Excel (or another spreadsheet software) to customize them for their own reports. Data sources for GenderStats include national statistics, United Nations databases, and World Bank-conducted or funded surveys.
http://devdata.worldbank.org/genderstats/home.asp - Human Rights Watch: Women's Rights Divison
- The Women's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch fights against the dehumanization and marginalization of women. They promote women's equal rights and human dignity, beliving that the realization of women's rights is a global struggle based on universal human rights and the rule of law.
www.hrw.org/women - The Institute for Inclusive Security
- The Institute for Inclusive Security, which includes The Women Waging Peace Network, advocates for the full participation of all stakeholders, especially women, in peace processes.
www.huntalternatives.org/pages/7_the_initiative_for_inclusive_security.cfm - International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA)
- The IANSA Women's Network supports organizations working on women and violence prevention to combat gun violence in their communities and support the global campaign to reduce the proliferation and misuse of small arms. Its aims to connect organizations, provide information and resources, raise public awareness, and build a united and dynamic movement of women resisting gun violence around the world.
www.iansa.org/women/about-network.htm - International Women's Rights Action Watch (IWRAW)
- IWRAW is the primary international nongovernmental organization that facilitates use of international human rights treaties to promote women's human rights and rights within families.
www.iwraw.igc.org - NGO Working Group on Women, Peace, and Security
- The NGO Working Group's mission is to collaborate with the United Nations, its member states and civil society towards full implementation of SCR 1325, including ensuring the equal and full participation of women in issues relating to peace and security.
http://www.womenpeacesecurity.org/about/ - The International Women's Tribune Centre (IWTC)
- IWTC is an international non-governmental organization established in l976 following the United Nations International Women's Year World Conference in Mexico City. With a commitment to empowering people and building communities, IWTC provides communication, information, education, and organizing support services to women's organizations and community groups working to improve the lives of women, particularly low-income women, in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and Western Asia.
www.iwtc.org/index2.html - ISIS-Women's International Cross-Cultural Exchange (ISIS-WICCE)
- Isis-WICCE is a global action oriented women's resource centre that emulates "Isis," the ancient Egyptian goddess of Wisdom, Creativity and Knowledge, to promote justice, equality and mutual relationship between women and men.
www.isis.or.ug - Kvinna till Kvinna
- The Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation supports women in regions affected by war and conflict. They work in partnership with women' organizations in the Balkans, in the Middle East and in the Caucasus.
www.iktk.se/english/index.html - MADRE
- MADRE is an international women's human rights organization that works in partnership with community-based women's organizations worldwide to address issues of health and reproductive rights, economic development, education, and other human rights.
www.madre.org - PeaceWomen
- PeaceWomen is woman's international league for peace and freedom.
- www.peacewomen.org
- Responsibility to Protect—Women and Conflict
- The Responsibility to Protect concept is an essential complement to the existing set of intergovernmental commitments to protect women's human rights and security and ensure their role in prevention and peacebuilding, such as the Beijing Platform for Action and Security Council resolution 1325 on women, peace and security.
www.responsibilitytoprotect.org/index.php/pages/
9?XARAYASID=cfff49a44ac021e992cd62911a8c2bf5 - UNIFEM
- UNIFEM is the women's fund at the United Nations. It provides financial and technical assistance to innovative programmes and strategies to foster women's empowerment and gender equality.
www.unifem.org and www.womenwarpeace.org/iraq/iraq.htm - Women's UN Report Network—WUNRN
- WUNRN is a non-governmental organization to implement the conclusions and recommendations of a United Nations Study on Freedom of Religion of Belief and the Status of Women from the Viewpoint of Religion and Traditions. This study is a major, universal, comprehensive U.N. approach to intolerance and discrimination against women based on religion and traditions.
www.wunrn.com
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National/Regional Organizations
Asia/Pacific
- 1325Australia—WILPF Australia
- 1325australia is an action site for Australian Women working to implement United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 within the Australian context.
www.1325australia.org.au/html/nuhome1.html - Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development(APWLD)
- APWLD is an independent, non-government, non-profit organization. It is committed to enabling women to use law as an instrument of social change for equality, justice and development. It has a consultative status at the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC).
www.apwld.org - International Women's Rights Action Watch (IWRAW) Asia Pacific
- IWRAW Asia Pacific contributes to the progressive interpretation, universalisation, implementation and realisation of women's human rights through the lens of CEDAW and other international human rights treaties.
www.iwraw-ap.org/index.htm
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Middle East
- Coalition of Women for Peace
- The Coalition brings together independent women and nine women's peace organizations, some newly formed and others promoting coexistence since the founding of the state of Israel. They are a mix of Jewish and Palestinian women (all citizens of Israel), and they take action to amplify the voices of women calling for peace and justice for all inhabitants of the region.
www.coalitionofwomen.org/home/english/about/general_info - Kurdish Women's Rights Watch (KWRW)
- KWRW is an organisation dedicated to supporting and promoting women's rights in the Kurdish community, whether in Kurdistan or in the diaspora. KWRW aims to monitor and promote the interests of Kurdish women both in relation to honour-based violence and in relation to human and civil rights in general.
www.kwrw.org - The Jerusalem Link
- The Jerusalem Link is the coordinating body of two independent women's centers: Bat Shalom—The Jerusalem Women's Action Center, located in West Jerusalem, and Marcaz al-Quds la l-Nissah—The Jerusalem Center for Women, located in East Jerusalem.
www.batshalom.org and www.j-c-w.org - Women's Centre for Legal Aid and Counseling(WCLAC)
- Established in Jerusalem in 1991, the WCLAC is a Palestinian women's organization that aims to address the causes and consequences of gender-based violence within the community as well as the gender-specific effects of the increasing militarization associated with the Israeli occupation.
www.wclac.org - Women Living Under Muslim Laws
- An international network that provides information, solidarity and support for all women whose lives are shaped, conditioned or governed by laws and customs said to derive from Islam.
www.wluml.org/english/index.shtml
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United States/Canada
- Canadian Committee on Women, Peace and Security
- Canadian Foreign Affairs website explaining Canadian policy regarding international human rights and gender
www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/foreign_policy/human-rights/women_peace-en.asp - Gender and Peacebuilding Working Group, CPCC
- The GPWG is a network designed to strengthen collaboration among Canadian organizations, activists, and academics by providing a forum for the exchange of resources, facilitating dialogue between and among civil society and government and contributing to the direction of programming and policy.
www.peacebuild.ca/working/?load=gender
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Africa
- African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET)
- FEMNET seeks to facilitate and coordinate the sharing of experiences, ideas, information, and strategies for human rights promotion among African women's organizations through networking, communication, capacity-building and advocacy at the regional and international levels.
www.femnet.or.ke/subsection.asp?ID=2 - Femmes Africa Solidarite(FAS)
- FAS aims to develop, strengthen and promote the leading role of women as a force for change in prevention, management and resolution of conflicts in Africa by putting human security at the centre of peace building process.
www.fasngo.org/en/presentation/index.htm - Mano River Women's Peace Network
- The mission of the Mano River Women's Peace Network is to advocate for and promote at all decision-making levels the involvement of women and youth in the prevention, management and resolution of conflict in the Mano River sub-region, throughout Africa and the world, to serve as a catalyst through which sustainable peace, human security and justice can be attained by ensuring gender responsive policies and building women's/girls' capacity for socio-economic, political empowerment and human development for all.
www.marwopnet.org - Women in Peacebuilding Network (WIPNET)
- WIPNET examines avenues through which West Africa women can play more functional roles in peacebuilding. The program seeks to outline the roles of women at different stages of conflicts. Core objective of this program is to enable women to transform the negative image of 'helpless victimhood' that is often ascribed to them in violent conflict situations to a positive and more assertive image of stakeholders and active participants in the pursuit for justpeace in their communities.
www.wanep.org/women_in_peace.htm
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Resources
- Women in International Law: Research Resources
- A comprehensive list of print and internet resources relating to women and human rights law from the University of Chicago
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/~llou/women.html
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