Useful websites and organisations working to promote women's human rights
Akina Mama wa Afrika
http://www.akinamama.org
AMwA is an international non-governmental development organisation which builds African women?s leadership capacities to influence policy and decision-making processes in their communities, by serving as a networking, information, advocacy and training forum.
Amnesty International's Stop Violence Against Women campaign
http://web.amnesty.org/actforwomen/index-eng
News, information and resources related to Violence Against Women worldwide
Asylum Aid
http://www.asylumaid.org.uk/
Asylum Aid provides legal representation to asylum-seekers. By combining expert legal advice work with campaigning activities, Asylum Aid responds to asylum-seekers' immediate legal needs and addresses the underlying causes of the difficulties they encounter during the asylum process.
AWID
http://www.awid.org
The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) is an international membership organization connecting, informing and mobilizing people and organizations committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable development and women's human rights.
BRIDGE
http://www.bridge.ids.ac.uk
BRIDGE supports gender advocacy and mainstreaming efforts by bridging the gaps between theory, policy and practice with accessible and diverse gender information in print and online.
DAWN
http://www.dawn.org.fj
Development Initiatives for Women in a New Era is a network of women scholars and activists from the economic South who engage in feminist research and analysis of the global environment and are committed to working for economic justice, gender justice and democracy
Equality Now
http://www.equalitynow.org
Equality Now is committed to protecting the civil, political, economic and social rights of girls and women around the world. It uses traditional and new forms of communication, organizes media events, conducts research, and mounts campaigns to condemn abuses against women, and promote awareness on women's rights and influence political leaders and policy-makers.
Gender Action for Peace and Security (GAPS)
Gender Action for Peace and Security is an expert working group of peace and development NGOs, academics and grassroots peace builders
The Gender Agenda (EOC)
www.gender-agenda.co.uk
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Gender & Development Network
http://www.gadnetwork.org
The Gender and Development Network is a diverse membership network of over 200 leading practitioners, academics and consultants working on gender and development issues in the U.K. The network enables its members to share information and expertise, to lobby government and international bodies effectively on their development programmes and to provide expert advice and comment on policies and projects.
INSTRAW
http://www.un-instraw.org/en/index.html
The UN International Training & Research Institute for the Advancement of Women produces strategic research, creates synergies for the production and dissemination of knowledge, builds the capacity of organisations working towards gender equality and showcases best practices and lessons learned on gender issues.
International Women's Rights Action Watch, Asia Pacific
http://www.iwraw-ap.org
IWRAW carries out collaborative projects to facilitate the monitoring and implementation of the CEDAW Convention (the Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women) regionally and globally
MADRE
http://www.madre.org
MADRE is an international women?s human rights organisation that works in partnership with women's community-based groups worldwide to address issues of health, economic development and other human rights.
Newham Asian Women's Project (NAWP)
www.nawp.org
This organisation provides advice and support for Asian women and children experiencing domestic violence.
Object
http://www.object.org.uk
Object is an organisation tackling the way in which women are objectified and sexualised in the media.
Pambazuka News
http://www.pambazuka.org
African social justice news service
The Poppy Project
http://www.poppy.ik.com
The Poppy Project provides support and accommodation to victims of trafficking. The project also conducts research about trafficking and ways out of prostitution.
Siyanda
http://www.siyanda.org
Siyanda aims to be an ever growing resource to support practitioners in implementing gender programmes and in mainstreaming gender equality concerns, whether they are gender specialists or not.
The Global Fund for Women
http://www.globalfundforwomen.org
The Global Fund for Women, an international network of women and men committed to a world of equality and social justice, advocates for and defends women's human rights by making grants to support women's groups around the world.
UNIFEM
http://www.unifem.org
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.
WEDO
http://www.wedo.org
WEDO is an international advocacy network actively working to transform society to achieve a healthy and peaceful planet, with social, political, economic and environmental justice for all through the empowerment of women, in all their diversity, and their equal participation with men in decision-making from grassroots to global arenas.
Women's Human Rights Net
http://www.whrnet.org
WhrNet is a web-based resource developed by an international coalition of organisations active in the women's human rights movement. WOMANKIND Worldwide is a founding partner of this project. WhrNet aims to strengthen advocacy for, and promote awareness of, women's human rights through the effective use of information and communication technologies.
WiLPF
http://www.wilpf.org
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.
Women News Network
http://womennewsnetwork.net/
WNN - Women News Network is dedicated to bringing in depth news features not found in the current public media stream. WNN stories have appeared on UN affiliate and agency publications through WUNRN - Women?s UN Report Network and UN-INSTRAW, the United Nations Institute of Training and Research for the Advancement of Women.
Women Watch
http://www.un.org/womenwatch
WomenWatch is a central gateway to information and resources on the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women throughout the United Nations system.
Women's Views On News
Online women's news service that provides stories about women that have appeared in a variety of news outlets. Aims to attract writers from around the world who focus on women's experiences of breaking news stories.
