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  • Afghan women: knowledge and revolt - by Chekeba Hachemi
    http://www.unesco.org/courier/2001_11/uk/dici.htm
     The only university open to Afghan women is located in Faizabad in northern Afghanistan, an area not under Taliban control. Antoinette de Jong photographed students there in April 2001. In this first-hand account, NGO director Chekeba Hachemi speaks of the suffering of her people, but also of their spirit of resistance. She appeals to the world community not to let Afghanistan become “an inconsolable country.”
    Contact Information:
    Email: redaction.courrier@unesco.org

  • Turning the Ordinary into the Extraordinary:
    The Green Pendelu and Maternal Health in Mali     - by Lydia Clemmons and Yaya Coulibaly
    http://www.comminit.com/drum_beat_55.html
     The Drum Beat #55 of July 9, 2000 reports on research studies and results in improving maternal health and health seeking behaviours in Mali. The Dioro Child Survival Project began in 1989 with the specific goal of reducing mortality rates among children and women of reproductive age. The Dioro Approach is based in the philosophy that, in order for health projects in Africa to be meaningful and sustainable, they must actively support African cultures to incorporate positive cultural values, knowledge and practices. The project draws on and incorporates local cultural symbols and meanings in order to promote and support positive change.
    Contact Information:
    Warren Feek, Director
    The Communication Initiative
    Email: wfeek@comminit.com

  • Voices for Change - Rural Women and Communication - Prepared by Silvia Balit
    http://www.fao.org/docrep/X2550E/X2550E00.htm
     In today's climate of political and socio-economic change, communication can play a decisive role in promoting food security and rural development. By fostering a dialogue between rural people and other sectors of society, communication processes can empower both women and men to provide information and knowledge as a basis for change and innovation. They can enable people to take decisions concerning their own livelihood and thereby increase their overall involvement in development. More specifically, gender-sensitive communication processes can give rural women a voice to advocate changes in policies, attitudes and social behaviour or customs that negatively affect them.
    Contact Information:
    Director, Information Division
    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
    Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
    00100 Rome
    Italy

  • Women Come Out Of Kitchen - Peru - by Stephanie Boyd
    http://www.oneworld.org/gemini/freebies/GW196.html
     The kitchens movement began as an organization providing cheap meals for poorer families but it is today one of Peru's strongest social forces demanding economic rights for the poor and pushing women's issues on to the political agenda.
    Gemini News - May 28, 2000

  • Banchte Shekha: Women Helping Women in Bangladesh - by Jim Mullins and Alice Boatwright
    http://www.jim-mullins.com/Bangladesh.html
     This is the story of Banchte Shekha, which is a safe haven for women from an abusive husband or in-laws. For others, Banchte Shekha (Bangla for "learning to live") is part of a longer journey, a first step toward self-sufficiency and dignity. For all of them, Banchte Shekha offers hope, because one woman believed that poor village women could have better lives, even when they didn't believe it themselves.
    Contact Information:
    Email: jm@jim-mullins.com

  • Boys on film: challenging masculinities in South Asia
    http://www.id21.org/static/6arp1.htm
     How can men give 100 percent support to women in their battle against violence? Does the media have a role to play? Save the Children Fund and UNICEF have examined the potential of film to help boys in South Asia question their attitudes towards gender. Violence against women in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Nepal runs high and is perpetuated by traditional practices such as dowry payments or sex selective abortions. Can film challenge entrenched gender stereotypes? The study suggests that impressionable school-aged boys could be made to think positively about alternative male role models and attitudes towards girls and women through film.
    Contact Information:
    Ranjan Poudyal, Regional Adviser
    Office for South and Central Asia
    Save the Children Fund
    Post Box 5850
    Kathmandu
    Nepal
    Telephone: +977 (1) 527152   Fax: +977 (1) 527266
    Email: ranjan@scfoscar.org.np

  • Girl Power - by David S. Landes and Richard A. Landes
    http://www.thenewrepublic.com/100801/landes100801.html
     This September 2001 article in The New Republic addresses the underlying inequality of women in contemporary fundamentalist Islamic communities and the challenge and prospects of changing the social conditions that permit such repression.

  • Hidden Faces and Public Spaces - by Charla Britt & Dr. N. Kaji Shrestha
    http://www-trees.slu.se/newsl/35/35kaji.htm
     Following the landmark FAO publication (1978) “Forestry for Local Community Development” and paradigmatic shifts in government policies, the acreage of forests managed through local institutions or community forest user groups continues to expand. Communally agreed upon rules for community forest management endure because of the advantages they provide users. However, studies of community forestry have shown that a minimum requirement for forest management to succeed is an agreement among users to follow a set of rules. Workable rules have to be created, agreed upon, disseminated, observed, monitored, and infringements sanctioned. This is impossible without creating conditions for consensus, especially within the community of women procurers and users.
    Contact Information:
    FTPP Network
    Department of Rural Development Studies (DRDS)
    Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)
    Box 7005
    Uppsala   750 07
    Sweden
    Telephone: +46-18-672001   Fax: +46-18-673420
    Email: ftpp.network@lbutv.slu.se

  • In India and Africa, Women's Low Status Worsens Their Risk of AIDS
    by Barbara Crossette
    http://www.changemakers.net/library/temp/nyt022601.cfm
     The poverty and powerlessness of women in Africa and Asia are combining to make them increasingly vulnerable to AIDS, which some research groups are now calling a women's disease. Despite years of international conferences and declarations about women's rights, in many cultures and in the most disadvantaged societies girls and women do not have the power to reject unwanted or unsafe sex.

  • Kerosene, Weapon of Choice for Attacks on Wives in India
    by Celia W. Dugger
    http://www.changemakers.net/library/temp/nyt122600.cfm
     This December 26, 2000 article addresses the widespread violence that women face every day by which they are grotesquely disfigured.

  • Living in a World Without Women - by Barbara Crossette
    http://www.changemakers.net/library/nytimes110401.cfm
     According to Crossette in this article from The New York Times, in the war of militant Islam against the infidel West, there is a chilling paradox. Nowhere—not on protesters' banners, pre-suicide videos or posters of the most wanted—is there a woman's face. These martyrs and radicals call themselves the purifiers of society and the saviors of the poor, yet everything the world has learned in the last decade about why some countries develop and others stay mired in poverty shows that women can make all the difference.

  • Waging Peace - An Inverview with Swanee Hunt - by Todd R. Nelson
    http://www.hopemag.com/issues/2002/septOct/specialwaging.htm
     http://www.womenwagingpeace.net/
     Swanee Hunt, former United States ambassador to Austria, suggests a new approach to peacemaking in troubled regions: let women have a turn. As an example, she cites the work of the organization Women Waging Peace. The goal of Women Waging Peace is the full inclusion of women in peace processes. The participation of all sectors of society furthers the development of fresh, workable solutions to seemingly intractable conflicts. Sustainable peace, and therefore international security, depends on such innovations. Women Waging Peace is an initiative of the Hunt Alternatives Fund, which advances innovative and inclusive approaches to social change at a local, national, and global level.
    Notable Feature(s): Profiles of women peacebuilders around the world, their experiences, perspective, and wisdom; resources of articles, links, and like-minded organizations around the world; More than Victims: The Role of Women in Conflict Prevention; Winning the Peace: the Role of Women in Post-Conflict Iraq.
    Contact Information:
    Women Waging Peace
    625 Mount Auburn Street
    Cambridge, Massachusetts   02138
    USA
    Telephone: 617.868.3910   Fax: 617.995.1982
    Email: information@womenwagingpeace.net.

  • ABANTU for Development
    http://www.abantu.org/
     ABANTU for Development is a non-governmental organization founded in 1991 by women, for the purpose of harnessing resources to the benefit of African people. Abantu means "people" in many languages, and symbolizes the organization's people-centred philosophy. The main focus of our work is on training, providing information and advice on mobilizing resources towards sustainable development in Africa. In addition, Abantu hopes to foster a human resource network that promotes a gender and African perspective that benefits women and the interests of the entire community in the process.
    Contact Information:
    Office in the UK
    Telephone: 0207 820 00 66   Fax: 0207 820 0088
    Email: people@abantu.org

  • Aviva
    http://www.aviva.org/internat.htm
     AVIVA is a free monthly 'webzine' run by an international group of feminists based in London. They provide a free global listings service for women and they host information about Women's Groups and Services.
    Notable Feature(s): Resource links listing opportunities and contacts; massive directory of organizations and initiatives concerning women and human rights issues; news and updates on international conferences and issues.
    Contact Information:
    Aviva
    41 Royal Crescent
    London   W11 4SN
    UK Fax: +44(0)171 371 6315
    Email: kateb@aviva.org

  • Catalyst
    http://www.catalystwomen.org/
     Catalyst is the premier nonprofit research and advisory organization working to advance women in business, with offices in New York, San Jose, and Toronto. The leading source of information on women in business for the past four decades, Catalyst has the knowledge and tools that help companies recruit, retain, and advance top talent and enable women to reach their potential. The American Institute of Philanthropy consistently ranks Catalyst number one among U.S. nonprofits focused on women's issues.
    Notable Feature(s): Publications; newsletters and updates available by email.
    Contact Information:
    Catalyst
    120 Wall Street, 5th Floor
    New York, NY   10005
    USA
    Telephone: 212.514.7600   Fax: 212.514.8470
    Email: info@catalystwomen.org

  • Center for Development and Population Activities
    http://www.cedpa.org/
     The Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) is a women-focused nonprofit international organization founded in 1975. CEDPA's mission is to empower women at all levels of society to be full partners in development.
    Working with partner nongovernmental organizations and networks in more than 37 countries, CEDPA designs, implements, monitors, and evaluates projects in family planning and reproductive health, family life education, women's participation in empowerment, youth services, and international advocacy for women and girls.
    Contact Information:
    The Center for Development and Population Activities
    1400 16th Street NW, Suite 100
    Washington, D.C.   20036
    USA
    Telephone: (202) 667-1142   Fax: (202) 332-4496
    Email: cmail@cedpa.org

  • Center for Women's Global Leadership (Global Center)
    http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/
     http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/gcnews.html
     The Global Center's programs promote the leadership of women and advance feminist perspectives in policy-making processes in local, national and international arenas. Since 1990, the Global Center as fostered women's leadership in the area of human rights through women's global leadership institutes, strategic planning activities, international mobilization campaigns, UN monitoring, global education endeavors, publications, and a resource center. The Global Center works from a human rights perspective with an emphasis on violence against women, sexual and reproductive health and socio-economic well-being.
    The annual Women's Global Leadership Institute is at the core of the Center's work and feeds into all its programmatic activities. An intensive two-week residential program enables women from all regions of the world to become more effective leaders in human rights policy making and practice. Each institute brings together about 25 leaders who engage in policy discussions; develop local and global strategies; attend workshops on women's leadership, United Nations operations, and human rights education; and learn about organizational issues such as fundraising, strategic planning, and using technology.
    Notable Feature(s): Excellent collection of global links, including some in Spanish.
    Contact Information:
    Center for Women's Global Leadership
    Douglass College
    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    160 Ryders Lane
    New Brunswick, NJ   08901-8555
    USA
    Telephone: 732.932.8782   Fax: 732.932.1180
    Email: cwgl@igc.org

  • Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
    http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/index.html
     The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), adopted in 1979 by the UN General Assembly, is often described as an international bill of rights for women. Consisting of a preamble and 30 articles, it defines what constitutes discrimination against women and sets up an agenda for national action to end such discrimination.
    Notable Feature(s): Access to Division for the Advancement of Women resources, including those specifically on women's rights.
    Contact Information:
    UN Division for the Advancement of Women
    2 UN Plaza, DC2-12th Floor
    New York, NY   10017
    USA Fax: 212.963.3463
    Email: daw@un.org

  • Conveying Concerns: Women Write on Gender-based Violence
    http://www.prb.org/MeasureTemplate.cfm?Section=Documents&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=1414
     http://www.prb.org/
     This booklet, which conveys a range of themes on gender-based violence from the perspective of women journalists, reflects the issue's complexity. The booklet is the third in a series, compiled through the Women's Edition project, a unique effort to bring together women from the media in developing countries. In October 1998, the Population Reference Bureau brought senior journalists from nine countries to New York City to discuss gender-based violence. The journalists subsequently produced special supplements in their newspapers and magazines as well as programs on radio and television that highlighted local and international aspects of the issue.
    The report highlights myths and facts and outlines a global overview and a strategic approach. Topics include: Domestic Violence, Sexual Abuse, Female Genital Cutting, Laws and Policies, The Role of the Media. Particular focus and insights from Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, India, Romania, USA.
    Contact Information:
    Population Reference Bureau
    1875 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
    Suite 520
    Washington, D.C.   20009
    USA
    Telephone: 202-483-1100   Fax: 202-328-3937
    Email: measure@aed.org

  • Directory of Links to Reproductive Health Programs and Analysis

  • End Violence Against Women (ENDVAW)
    http://www.endvaw.org/
     The End Violence Against Women site provides policymakers, researchers, health communication specialists and others with the latest information and materials from around the world that are related to violence against women. The site allows the user to access policy documentation, articles and publications on the latest research, training materials and curricula, and communication materials such as videos, brochures and posters.
    Notable Feature(s): News and events; a Listserv offering its members regular updates on the newest information and materials added to the website, up-to-date information on upcoming events and new publications, and monitored discussions on issues relating to violence against women.
    Contact Information:
    End Violence Against Women
    Johns Hopkins Population Information Program
    111 Market Place Suite 310
    Baltimore, MD   21202
    USA
    Email: endvaw@jhuccp.org

  • Feminist Majority Foundation Online
    http://www.feminist.org/
     The Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF), which was founded in 1987, is a cutting-edge organization dedicated to women's equality, reproductive health, and nonviolence. In all spheres, FMF utilizes research and action to empower women economically, socially, and politically. The organization believes that feminists - both women and men, girls and boys - are the majority, but this majority must be empowered. Led by FMF President Eleanor Smeal, the research and action programs focus on advancing the legal, social and political equality of women with men, countering the backlash to women's advancement, and recruiting and training young feminists to encourage future leadership for the feminist movement in the United States. To carry out these aims, FMF engages in research and public policy development, public education programs, grassroots organizing projects, leadership training and development programs, and participates in and organizes forums on issues of women's equality and empowerment. FMF's sister organization, the Feminist Majority, engages in lobbying and other direct political action, pursuing equality between women and men through legislative avenues.
    Notable Feature(s): Extensive news and topical features, including global feminism, resources, and on-line dialogue.
    Contact Information:
    Feminist Majority Foundation
    1600 Wilson Blvd., Suite 801
    Arlington, VA   22209
    USA
    Telephone: 703.522.2214   Fax: 703.522.2219
    Email: webmaster@feminist.org

  • Gender Equality and Social Inclusion
    http://www1.worldbank.org/devoutreach/
     http://www.undf.org/unifem
     The Spring 2001 issue of Development OUTREACH contains several important articles and reports on differenct aspects of these issues, including violence against women; engendering development through gender equality; and gender and growth in Africa and in Eastern Europe.
    Contact Information:
    Editorial Offices
    Rm. J2-139
    The World Bank
    1818 H Street, NW
    Washington, DC   20433
    USA
    Email: devoutreach@worldbank.org

  • Global Fund for Women
    http://www.globalfundforwomen.org/
     http://www.globalfundforwomen.org/OurWork/GranteeProfiles/grantee_profiles.html
     The Global Fund for Women provides flexible, timely grants to women's groups around the world striving to improve women's human rights. The challenges that women face vary widely across communities, cultures, religious traditions, and countries. The Fund believes that women themselves know best how to determine their needs and propose solutions for lasting change. The Global Fund listens to women's groups, and supports their efforts to improve the situation of women, even when the issues they address are difficult or controversial.
    It also believes that the way in which it works is as important as what it does. This philosophy is reflected in its flexible, respectful, and responsive style of grantmaking. Since 1987, the Fund has given to some 1,400 grantee organizations over $14 million in grants in support of women's rights, health, education and the like in almost 150 countries and territories.
    Notable Feature(s): Publications; links; grantee profiles & grant application.
    N.B. The Global Fund for Women does not fund organizations in the United States.
    Contact Information:
    Kavita Nandini Ramdas (based in India) - President and CEO
    The Global Fund for Women
    425 Sherman Avenue, Suite 300
    Palo Alto, CA   94306-1823
    USA
    Telephone: 650.853.8305   Fax: 650.328.0384
    Email: gfw@globalfundforwomen.org

  • Gramalaya
    http://www.gramalaya.org/index.php
     Gramalaya, a nonprofit organization in India, foresees a world where people will have equal rights and access to protected water, sanitation, health and improved income status without gender discrimination. Its mission is to encourage the oppressed people in the community especially women and children in getting justice, equality and participation in education, health, water and sanitation activities and to initiate actions towards upliftment of the economically and socially downtrodden through active participation in income generation activities.
    Notable Feature(s): Excellent collection of links.
    Contact Information:
    GRAMALAYA
    No.12, 4th Cross West
    Thillainagar
    Tiruchirappalli - 620 018, Tamil Nadu
    India
    Telephone: 91-431-2761263   Fax: 91-431-2761263
    Email: gramalaya@hotmail.com

  • Human Trafficking - A Service of Polaris Project
    http://www.humantrafficking.com/humantrafficking/htindex.aspx
     http://www.polarisproject.org/polarisproject/
     The mission of HumanTrafficking.com is to serve as a research and networking center for the anti-trafficking community. The site is designed to strengthen and expand the movement through helping us communicate with each other, learn from one another, and mutually support our work. It is a community-maintained site, so contributions and involvement from everyone are encouraged to help make the site more effective.
    HumanTrafficking.com is maintained by the Polaris Network, a diverse team of committed volunteers around the world who are contributing their time, talent, and passion to end trafficking in women and children.
    Notable Feature(s): Online discussion forums on trafficking issues around the world; PolarisTrac, the premier research database on sex trafficking issues, with thousands of full-text resources and detailed search options and hundreds of new resources added each week, along with the latest trafficking news in English, Korean, and Chinese; job bulletin; calendar.
    Contact Information:
    Polaris Project Office
    Telephone: 202.547.7909   Fax: 202.547.6654
    Email: Info@PolarisProject.org

  • International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
    http://www.icrw.org/
     http://www.icrw.org/projects/prowid/prowidregions.htm
     The International Center for Research on Women is a private nonprofit organization founded in 1976 and based in Washington, D.C., with an office in India. The International Center for Research on Women is a non-profit organization that seeks to improve the lives of women in poverty, advance womens' equality and human rights, and contribute to the broader economic and social well-being. ICRW accomplishes this, in partnership with others, through policy-oriented research, capacity building and advocacy on issues affecting women's economic, health and social status in low and middle income countries.
    ICRW bases its work in sustainable development on a number of key principles:
    • Supporting women as economic providers and innovators, nurturers and caregivers, community leaders and agents of change
    • Ensuring women's control of economic resources; guaranteeing reproductive rights, health and nutrition; strengthening capabilities and increasing political power
    • Fostering equity and respect for the human rights and dignity of all

    Notable Feature(s): A vast collection of research, analyis, and reporting on programs about women in development, their role, their challenges and opportunities, skills, and legal status, in communties around the world; links on policy & advocacy links, adolescence, HIV/AIDS, poverty reduction, nutrition, governance, environment, violence against women, reproductive health, and social change, norms and institutions.
    Contact Information:
    International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
    1717 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
    Suite 302
    Washington, DC   20036
    USA
    Telephone: 202.797.0007   Fax: 202.797.0020
    Email: info@icrw.org

  • International Women's Democracy Center (IWDC)
    http://www.iwdc.org/About_IWDC.htm
     The International Women's Democracy Center was established to strengthen women's global leadership through training, education, networking and research in all facets of democracy with a particular focus on increasing the participation of women in policy, politics and decision-making.
    Notable Feature(s): Program information; extensive links directory of resources on civil society, women and technology, and women and politics in every region of the world.
    Contact Information:
    International Women's Democracy Center
    1730 Rhode Island Ave., NW
    Suite 715
    Washington, DC   20036
    USA
    Telephone: 202.530.0563   Fax: 202.530.0564
    Email: washdc@iwdc.org

  • International Women's Health Coalition
    http://www.iwhc.org/
     Contact Information:
    International Women's Health Coalition
    24 East 21 Street
    New York, NY   10010
    USA
    Email: info@iwhc.org

  • International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF)
    http://www.iwmf.org/index.htm
     http://www.awmc.com/
     The International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) was launched in 1990 with a mission to strengthen the role of women in the news media worldwide, based on the belief that no press is truly free unless women share an equal voice. The IWMF works to reduce discrimination and eliminate persecution of women in the news media, and to encourage promotion of women as leaders within the media.
    A key component of all IWMF programs is the exchange of ideas, skills and knowledge to enhance women journalists' professional capabilities. The IWMF sponsors training sessions and seminars that respond to the needs of women journalists for learning and growth. All over the globe, IWMF programs offer critical leadership development tools, training in the techniques of a free press, and practical advice about the business of the media.
    Notable Feature(s): IWMF reports: Women's Health Care: Romania; Empowering Women in the Asian Media; The Power Behind the Scene: African-American Women in the Media; Empowering Women in the Media: Mexico
    The African Women's Media Center, opened in 1997 by the International Women's Media Foundation in Dakar, Senegal, offers opportunities for training and networking; the AWMC works with existing women's media organizations to provide women journalists the support necessary to compete equally with their male colleagues; AWMC site also available in French.
    Excellent directory of Internet resources on journalism, women in media, radio broadcasting, global communications, freedom of speech and press.
    Contact Information:
    International Women's Media Foundation
    1726 M Street NW, Suite 1002
    Washington, DC   Washington
    USA
    Telephone: 202.496.1992   Fax: 202.496.1977
    Email: iwmf@aol.com

  • MEASURE Communication
    http://www.measurecommunication.org/
     MEASURE Communication assesses information needs and helps plan and implement dissemination and data use. The project is implemented by the Population Reference Bureau, in collaboration with the Academy for Educational Development, and partners in developing countries. MEASURE Communication is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development.
    Notable Feature(s): Links to information on population, nutrition, and health; Interagency Gender Working Group reports and news.
    Contact Information:
    Audrey Seger
    IGWG Coordinator
    Office of Population, USAID
    Washington, DC
    USA
    Telephone: 202.712.0662  
    Email: aseger@usaid.gov

  • Media for Development and Democracy
    http://www.devmedia.org/
     DevMedia helps people exchange information and news about how communication tools can promote development and democracy. DevMedia's focus is on media that are in the hands of people and communities. It draws attention to ways of improving peoples' access to media to encourage the sharing of ideas, voices and knowledge: locally and globally.
    Notable Feature(s): Women's issues; grassroots media; telecommunications for rural development.
    Contact Information:
    Email: don@tdg.ca

  • Men as Partners for Ending Violence Against Women and Children
    http://www.mapev.org
     http://www.unicef.org/programme/gpp/profiles/masc.htm
     The idea for this site is to inspire events all over the world to "accompany" an upcoming conference — "Working with Men to end Gender-Based Violence: An Interchange for Global Action" October 8-12, 2001 at the Rockefeller Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy organized by Ruth Finney Hayward, UNICEF; James Lang, INSTRAW; Geoff Prewitt, UNDP; and Michael Kaufman, White Ribbon Campaign.
    Contact Information:
    Email: info@mapev.org

  • North-South Institute
    http://www.nsi-ins.ca/index.html
     The North-South Institute (NSI) has built a reputation for sound research and analysis of Canadian foreign policy, offered an independent voice on the urgent importance of world development issues
    The Institute's research supports global efforts to strengthen international development cooperation, improve governance in developing countries, enhance gender and social responsibility in globalizing markets, and prevent ethnic and other conflict.
    Contact Information:
    The North-South Institute
    55 Murray Street, Suite 200
    Ottawa, ON   K1N 5M3
    Canada
    Telephone: 613.241.3535   Fax: 613.241.7435
    Email: nsi@nsi-ins.ca

  • Permanent Waves
    http://www.amarc.org/pw/
     http://www.amarc.org/pw/links.html
     Permanent Waves is a transnational project focusing on training for women in the radio sector, with a particular emphasis on community radio. The project brings together a unique partnership of women's radio training projects from Spain, UK, Greece, Italy and Ireland.
    Notable Feature(s): Excellent collection of communications links with an emphasis on women in media; materials in English and Spanish.
    Contact Information:
    Sangita Basudev
    CMA, Community media Association
    The Workstation
    15, Paternoster Row
    Sheffield   S1 2BX
    United Kingdom
    Telephone: +44 (0)114 279 5219   Fax: +44 (0)114 279 8976
    Email: sangita@commedia.org.uk

  • RAWA: Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
    http://www.rawa.org
     RAWA is a political/social organization of Afghan women struggling for peace, freedom, democracy and women's rights in fundamentalism-blighted Afghanistan. RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, was established in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1977 as an independent political/social organization of Afghan women fighting for human rights and for social justice in Afghanistan. The founders were a number of Afghan woman intellectuals under the sagacious leadership of Meena who in 1987 was assassinated in Quetta, Pakistan, by Afghan agents of the then KGB in connivance with fundamentalist band of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar . RAWA's objective was to involve an increasing number of Afghan women in social and political activities aimed at acquiring women's human rights and contributing to the struggle for the establishment of a government based on democratic and secular values in Afghanistan. Despite the suffocating political atmosphere, RAWA very soon became involved in widespread activities in different socio-political arenas including education, health and income generation as well as political agitation.
    Notable Feature(s): Publications; contact details, including ways to make monetary contributions.
    Contact Information:
    RAWA
    P.O.Box 374
    Quetta
    Pakistan
    Telephone: 0092-300-8551638   Fax: 001-760-2819855
    Email: rawa@rawa.org

  • Reproductive Health Outlook (RHO)
    http://www.rho.org/
     http://path.org/index.htm
     The Reproductive Health Outlook (RHO) Web site provides up-to-date summaries of research findings, program experience, and clinical guidelines related to key reproductive health topics, as well as analyses of policy and program implications. An important objective of RHO is to help users link with quality online resources and collaborate with colleagues around the world. RHO is published by PATH (Program for Appropriate Technology in Health). It follows the World Health Organization (WHO) definition of reproductive health , as defined at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo. Like its companion print publication, Outlook, RHO presents key research findings and program information related to a variety of reproductive health issues.
    RHO provides in-depth information on 12 reproductive health topics (including HIV/AIDS, Gender and Sexual Health, Safe Motherhood, and Infertility), and is designed for program managers and researchers in developing countries and other low-resource settings.
    Notable Feature(s): Extensive news and topical resources; worldwide program descriptions of work in Africa, the Americas and the Caribbean, Asia and SE Asia, the Middle East, the former Soviet States and Eastern Europe.
    Contact Information:
    Jacqueline Sherris, Editorial Director, RHO
    PATH
    4 Nickerson Street
    Seattle, Washington   98109-1699
    USA
    Telephone: 206.285.3500   Fax: 206.285.6619
    Email: rho@path.org

  • Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA) of India
    http://www.sewa.org/
     SEWA is a trade union registered in 1972. It is an organisation of poor, self-employed women workers. These are women who earn a living through their own labour or small businesses. They do not obtain regular salaried employment with welfare benefits like workers in the organised sector. They are the unprotected labour force of our country. Constituting 93% of the labour force, these are workers of the unorganised sector. Of the female labour force in India, more than 94% are in the unorganised sector. However their work is not counted and hence re-mains invisible. In fact, women workers themselves remain uncounted, undercounted and invisible.
    SEWA is both an organisation and a movement. The SEWA movement is enhanced by its being a sangam or confluence of three movements : the labour movement, the cooperative movement and the women's movement. But it is also a movement of self-employed workers : their own, home-grown movement with women as the leaders. Through their own movement women become strong and visible. Their tremendous economic and social contributions become recognised.
    Notable Feature(s): SEWA services, including bank, health care, legal, work security insurance, child care, video; information on SEWA campaigns: food security, forest workers, water, recognition of midwives, minumum wages, construction workers, and more; organization links.
    Contact Information:
    Self-Employed Women's Association
    SEWA Reception Centre
    Opp.Victoria Garden
    Ahmedabad   380 001
    India
    Telephone: +(91-79) 5506444   Fax: +(91-79) 5506446
    Email: mail@sewa.org

  • Shaan online: IPS e-zine on Gender and Human Rights
    http://www.ipsnews.net/hivaids/index.shtml
     Shaan is an initiative of IPS, Inter Press Service News Agency (IPS), the world's leading provider of information on global issues. In this special magazine produced by Inter Press Service (IPS), in cooperation with the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), the impact of HIV/AIDS on women who are denied their human rights, is told through their own voices.
    IPS is backed by a network of journalists in more than 100 countries. Its clients include more than 3,000 media organizations and tens of thousands of civil society groups, academics, and other users.
    Notable Feature(s): Poverty, Women and HIV/AIDS, one of several sections addressing women and the feminisation of HIV/AIDS around the world, including one on activists.
    Contact Information:
    Email: webmaster@ipsnews.net

  • Swayam Shikshan Prayog - Shaping the Future of Rural Women in India
    http://www.sspindia.org/
     Swayam Shikshan Prayog is an organisation which seeks to bring women into the centre of development process. It is specifically involved in building the capacities of rural women's collectives to access and manage resources so that they can participate in decision making processes that affect the allocation and management resources. Located in Mumbai (Bombay), Swayam Shikshan Prayog partners with women's collectives and communities across 889 villages supported by field centres in Latur, Osmanabad, Solapur, Amaravati, Beed and Nanded districts in Maharashtra and in Jamnagar and Kutch in Gujarat.
    Swayam Shikshan Prayog partners with over 1,680 savings and credit groups with a membership of 22,507 women belonging to rural communities. These women's groups adddress priority issues such as credit, food security, water and sanitation, health, education, and social infrastructure by initiating demonstration projects, community planning, skills training, and increasing participation in governance.
    Notable Feature(s): Special resources on credit and livelihood, water resource management, disaster response, and community health.
    Contact Information:
    Ms. Prema Gopalan, Director
    Swayam Shikshan Prayog
    58, CVOD Jain High School
    84, Samuel Street, Dongri
    Mumbai 400 009
    India
    Telephone: +91-22-23434730   Fax: +91-22-28223139
    Email: ssp2000@vsnl.com

  • The BRIDGE Bulletin
    http://www.ids.ac.uk/bridge/Bri_bull.html
     The BRIDGE bulletin, development and gender in brief, aims to raise gender awareness among policy makers and practitioners. Drawing on the body of BRIDGE reports, and other current literature, the bulletin provides succinct, state-of-the-art updates on specific themes.
    Notable Feature(s): Back issues have covered environmental projects, poverty reduction strategies, conflict, emergency responses, and institutionalising gender. The bulletin is mailed to 2,500 interested individuals and organisations mainly in developing countries.
    Contact Information:
    Hazel Reeves, Manager
    BRIDGE Institute of Development Studies
    University of Sussex
    Brighton   BN1 9RE
    United Kingdom
    Telephone: + 44 (0) 1273 606261   Fax: +44 (0) 1273 621202
    Email: bridge@ids.ac.uk

  • The Politics of Integrating Gender To State Development Processes: Trends, Opportunities and Constraints in Bangladesh, Chile, Jamaica, Mali, Morocco and Uganda - by Anne Marie Goetz
    http://www.unrisd.org/engindex/publ/list/opb/opb2/toc.htm
     Occasional paper from UN Fourth World Conference On Women - May 1995.

  • UN Development Fund for Women - Western Asia
    http://www.unifem.org.jo/
     UNIFEM Western Asia was established in Amman in 1994, as one of 11 regional offices of UNIFEM worldwide. Today UNIFEM Western Asia's mandate encompasses 13 Arab countries: Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen.
    UNIFEM Western Asia believes that the best way to help Arab women is to strengthen the organizations they create and control, while fostering links and partnerships at every level. The effectiveness of UNIFEM Western Asia's programmes depends greatly on the efficiency and hard work of the national counterparts (both governmental and non-governmental), and local women's machineries.
    Notable Feature(s): Program and networking details; publications; ecomomic empowerment project profiles; bulletin board; Arab Women Connect Web site containing full-length studies, reports and other information on Arab women; a comprehensive on-line database of local women's NGOs and government agencies; an on-line database of experts in gender and development, media, new information and communication technologies, advocacy, project formulation and management, strategic planning and analysis; and interactive e-mail and discussion lists.
    Contact Information:
    Ra'ida S. Al-Zu'bi, Information Officer
    PBP II, UNIFEM Western Asia
    P.O. Box 830896
    Amman
    11183 Jordan
    Telephone: 9626 567 4689   Fax: 9626 567 8594
    Email: amman@unifem.org.jo

  • UNIFEM - United Nations Development Fund for Women
    http://www.undp.org/unifem/
     Working for women's empowerment and gender equality, UNIFEM is a famously engaged partner on many fronts concerning critical issues throughout the world.
    Notable Feature(s): Information on the Global Campaign to End Violence against Women; legislation and constitutional reform; conflict resolution.
    Contact Information:
    UN Development Fund for Women
    304 East 45th Street, 15th floor
    New York, NY   10017
    USA
    Telephone: 212.906.6400   Fax: 212.906.6705
    Email: unifem@undp.org

  • US Women Connect
    http://www.uswc.org/
     US Women Connect is a network that developed after the 1995 UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing out of a series of consultations between 1996-1999 with representatives of over 100 US women's organizations and NGOs. Its mission is to connect together US women and girls working for rights and empowerment, and to link them with other activists and advocates around the globe.
    USWC is the US focal point for the Global Communications Network for NGOs & WomenAction 2000, the prime international NGO network for information-sharing and advocacy related to the Platform for Action and Beijing +5.
    Notable Feature(s): Information on WomenAction 2000: Africa - Asia - Europe; Girls' Zone - a forum for girls; UN Women Watch; Mapping the World, a database of women's resource and information centers worldwide.
    Contact Information:
    Email: uswc@uswc.org

  • Video for Women's Voices - (SEWA)
    A festival of films by rural women was recently showcased in New Delhi. Trained by the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA) of Ahmedabad, most of the women are poor and illiterate, and recognize video as a tool for empowerment – to document and highlight their issues and concerns. Video is an integral part of SEWA's activities: it is used for income-generation, occupational health, wage negotiations, legal interventions, teaching new skills and advocating for policy change.
    Contact Information:
    Mirai Chatterjee
    Email: sewa.mahila@gnahd.globalnet.ems.vsnl.net.in

  • Vital Voices
    http://www.vitalvoices.org/
     Vital Voices is a global partnership to support women's progress in building democracies, strong economies and peace. Its work focuses on three critical areas: expanding women's roles in politics and civil society; increasing women's successful entrepreneurship; and fighting trafficking in women and girls and other human rights abuses.
    The nonprofit Vital Voices Global Partnership grew out of the U.S. government's successful Vital Voices Democracy Initiative. The Vital Voices Democracy Initiative was established in 1997 by then-First Lady Hilary Rodham Clinton and former Secretary of State Madeline Albright after the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing to promote the advancement of women as a U.S. foreign policy goal.
    Vital Voices regularly hosts international forums and events that engage emerging women leaders in discussions with policy makers, business leaders, field practitioners and other experts about issues affecting women in their communities and countries. These international forums allow participants to share successful strategies, facilitate cross-cultural dialogue, and create valuable networks and partnerships with other individuals and organizations also working to advance the status of women.
    Contact Information:
    Vital Voices Global Partnership
    1050 Connecticut Ave., NW
    10th Floor
    Washington, DC   20036
    USA
    Telephone: 202.772.4162   Fax: 202.772.2353

  • WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service
    http://www.wings.org/
     WINGS is an all-woman independent radio production company that produces and distributes news and current affairs programs by and about women around the world. WINGS programs are used by non-commercial radio stations, women's studies, and individuals. Programs can be heard on local radio stations, on shortwave, on the Internet, and on cassettes. The WINGS Mailing List provides updates on stories and new information about women's media.
    Notable Feature(s): Producers' Guide for submitting stories to WINGS; recent programs on raising women's voices worldwide about issues of social, environmental, and human rights concern.
    Contact Information:
    Frieda Werden, Producer
    WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service
    P.O. Box 33220
    Austin, TX   78764
    USA
    Telephone: 512.416.9000  
    Email: wings@wings.org

  • Women and Population
    http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO/SUSTDEV/WPdirect/default.htm
     News, handbooks, and reports on best practices and action plans for: agriculture, gender equity, environment, food security and other issues.
    Contact Information:
    Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N (FAO)
    Sustainable Development Department
    Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
    Rome   00100
    Italy
    Telephone: (+39 6) 57051   Fax: (+39 6) 570 53064
    Email: SD-Dimensions@fao.org

  • Women and Trade
    http://www.unifem.undp.org/trade/index.htm
     http://www.unifem.undp.org/economic.htm
     The impact of trade liberalisation reaches almost every community in the world, both directly and indirectly. Women's livelihoods, in particular, are affected in many ways. Since the founding of the WTO in January 1995, a number of organisations and researchers have been working on trade liberalisation and its consequences for sustainable livelihoods, including women's livelihoods.
    The term "sustainable livelihoods" was first used by the Brundtland Commission in Our Common Future (1987) to denote sustainability in resource ownership and access, basic needs and livelihood security especially in rural areas. This concept has received growing legitimization through several major international fora. Agenda 21 from the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) noted the integrative power of the concept in linking socioeconomic and ecological issues to policy-making.
    Notable Feature(s): Special UNIFEM focus on "Strengthening Women's Economic Capacity" and tools to eradicate the feminization of poverty.
    Contact Information:
    Women and Trade
    United Nations Development Fund for Women
    304 East 45th Street, 15th floor
    New York, NY   10017
    USA
    Telephone: 212/906-6400   Fax: 212/906-6705
    Email: unifem@undp.org

  • Women entrepreneurs - success story in Kenya
    http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/women.htm
     Contact Information:
    David Yuen-hoi Lee
    UNIDO Vienna International Centre
    P.O.Box 300
    Vienna   A-1400
    Austria
    Telephone: (43 1) 21131 3837  
    Email: Ylee@unido.org

  • Women of the World - country specific resource directory
    http://www.un.org/womenwatch/world/index.html
     Contact Information:
    Email: womenwatch@un.org

  • Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET)
    http://www.wougnet.org
     WOUGNET is a place to share news, information and activities on women related issues in Uganda. Its goal is to promote the use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) by women organisations and individuals for the better being of Ugandan women.
    Notable Feature(s): Subscribe to mailing list for exchange of news and activities related to women in Uganda; links to African and global organisations and resources about women and education, women and business, women and health, human rights, agriculture and other topics; useful bulletin board of announcements, news, conferences, research and advocacy.
    Contact Information:
    Dorothy Okello
    Email: dokello@wougnet.org

  • Women Watch - the UN Gateway on the Advancement and Empowerment of Women
    http://www.un.org/womenwatch/
     This is the official site for news, status reports, actions plans, research, statistics, treaty information and much more on every aspect of the UN's efforts to improve the status of women everywhere.
    Notable Feature(s): Beijing +5 Global Forum final report in English, French and Spanish, along with archived discussion material; links to non-governmental organizations, calendar, working groups; weekly feature on Women's Issues on UN Radio; access to reports from CEDAW, Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women .
    Contact Information:
    Email: womenwatch@un.org

  • Women's Caucus for Gender Justice
    http://www.iccwomen.org/
     The Women's Caucus grew out of the work of a last minute organizing effort of a small group of women human rights activists at the February 1997 Preparatory Committee for the Establishment of an International Criminal Court at the U.N. These women realized that without an organized caucus, women's concerns would not be actively defended by the mainstream Human Rights NGOs or the NGO coalition monitoring the proceedings for the establishment of the ICC (the CICC), although it must be recognized that the latter played an important role in the creation of the caucus.
    Documentary work for social change is one element of the organization's programs. In cooperation with Witness.org the Women's Caucus for Gender Justice recently completed a video documentary to accompany their training manual for women's rights-related NGOs around the world. The video and manual explain how to use the International Criminal Court treaty as a tool to promote awareness of and prosecute gender crimes.
    Through the voices of women survivors of historic and on-going violence in both armed-conflict situations and peacetime, the video documents the inspiring struggle towards justice and the end of impunity for violence against women. WITNESS served as a liaison by connecting the Women's Caucus with an intern from WITNESS partner group, Ain O Salish Kendra, in Bangladesh. Witness also assisted in conceptualizing the video documentary, reviewing and providing feedback on the proposed script, logging footage, and offering guidance on locating archival footage.
    Notable Feature(s): Reports on Caucus activity and publications; regional news on women's human rights; links and bibliographies.
    Contact Information:
    Women's Caucus for Gender Justice
    P.O. Box 3541 Grand Central Post Office
    New York, NY   10163
    USA
    Telephone: 212.697.7741   Fax: 212.949-.996
    Email: iccwomen@igc.org

  • Women's Human Rights Resources
    http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/Diana/
     The Bora Laskin Law Library is an extremely valuable gateway site for law review articles and international resources of importance to women and their human rights.
    Notable Feature(s):
    • Articles: annotated bibliographic references to scholarly articles with links to full text where available
    • Documents: annotated references to conventions and UN Reports, NGO reports, case law and legislation with links to full text where available
    • Links to other websites with annotations

    Contact Information:
    Email: whrr.law@utoronto.ca

  • Women's Learning Partnership (WLP)
    http://www.learningpartnership.org/WLP/
     Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace (WLP) is an international, non-governmental organization (NGO) that empowers women and girls in the Global South to re-imagine and re-structure their roles in their families, communities, and societies. WLP achieves this goal through providing leadership training, supporting capacity building, and helping women generate and receive information and knowledge. WLP conducts all of its work in collaboration with partner organizations located in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, and with members of an international network of experts.
    Notable Feature(s): Bibliographies on women and leadership, women's human rights and violence against women; Facts and Figures, statistics on the measure of women's status globally; directory of international, national, and family legislation that men and women can use to seek protection for their rights and to hold governments accountable.
    Contact Information:
    Women's Learning Partnership (WLP)
    4343 Montgomery Avenue, Suite 201
    Bethesda, MD   20814
    USA
    Telephone: 301.654.2774   Fax: 301.654.2775
    Email: wlp@learningpartnership.org

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