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Relevant Links
WomenWatch - http://www.un.org/womenwatch/
Learn about the work of the United Nations entities and
inter-governmental and treaty bodies that deal with the advancement and
empowerment of women and about international instruments on women's
rights.
National Organization for women - http://www.now.org
General information on action for women.
Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) - http://www.wedo.org/
WEDO increases women's visibility, roles and leadership in public
policy-making through peace, gender, human rights, environmental and
economic justice campaigns
Take Action with the Feminist Majority! - http://www.feminist.org/action/1_action.html
The battle for equality never takes a day off. New actions listed
regularly.
Center for Reproductive Law and Policy - http://www.crlp.org/
CRLP is an independent, non-profit legal organization dedicated to
ensuring that all women have access to appropriate and freely chosen
reproductive health services.
Women, Ink. - http://www.womenink.org/
A project of the International Women's Tribune Center to market and
distribute books on women and development in the Global South region.
Equal Rights
Advocates - http://www.equalrights.org/
A public interest, nonprofit women's law center in San Francisco that
fights for the economic, social and political equality of women and
girls.
WomenAction 2000 - http://www.womenaction.org
A global gateway to alternative reports, campaign material, events
listings, multi-media coverage, press releases, and other resources that
deal with the UN's Beijing +5 review process on the empowerment of
women.
Zonta International - http://www.zonta.org/
Advancing the status of women locally and globally.
Equality Now - http://www.equalitynow.org
An international human rights organization dedicated to action for the
civil, political, economic and social rights of girls and women. Some of
the many human rights issues of urgent concern include: rape,
reproductive rights, trafficking, gender discrimination, domestic
violence, political representation, female infanticide, sexual
harassment, genital mutilation, and pornography.
Coalition to
Abolish Slavery & Trafficking - http://www.trafficked-women.org/
Organization to assist victims of slavery and trafficking.
Q Web Sweden - http://www.qweb.kvinnoforum.se/
A womens empowerment base. A communication network for exchange of
knowledge, experience and ideas on womens health and gender issues. The
overall aim is women's empowerment with focus on women's health and
equal rights.
Help Afghan
Women: A Project of the Feminist Majority - http://www.helpafghanwomen.com
We must not forget Afghan women and girls who have been suffering under
the brutal Taliban regime. Afghan women and girls were the first victims
of the Taliban.
Center for Women's
Global Leadership - http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu
Develops and facilitates women's global leadership toward women's human
rights and social justice worldwide.
Women Living Under Muslim Laws International Solidarity
Network - http://www.wluml.org
Provides information and support for women whose lives are governed by
Islamic laws and customs. In English and French, with details of
publications and current campaigns.
Women's
Global Strike - http://womenstrike8m.server101.com/
Stop the world and change it - for a new millenium which values all
women's work and all women's lives. Visit the site and add your reasons
for going on strike.
IIAV: Archives For The Women's Movement - http://www.iiav.nl/
The international information centre and archives for the women's
movement.
Women's Freedom
Network - http://www.womensfreedom.org/
Founded by a group of women who were seeking alternatives to extremist
ideological feminism and the anti-feminist traditionalism. It does not
set different standards of excellence, morality, or justice for men and
women.
Guerrilla Girls - http://www.guerrillagirls.com/
The Guerrilla Girls are a group of women artists, writers, performers,
film makers and arts professionals who fight discrimination.
Women Leaders Online/Women Organizing for Change - http://wlo.org
WLO is building a network of one million women and men to empower women
in politics, society, the economy, the media, and cyberspace, to achieve
full equality and improve women's lives.
INFACT Canada
breastfeeding home page - http://www.infactcanada.ca
INFACT produces and distributes educational resources to assist health
care providers and members of the public to support and promote
breastfeeding.
Dr. Homa Darabi Foundation - http://www.homa.org
To counter fundamentalist tendencies within the various religious,
cultural and social beliefs which result in the oppression or unequal
treatment of women and girl-child in different parts of the globe.
Women's
Learning Partnership for Rights, Development and Peace - http://www.learningpartnership.org/
Wlps goal is to empower women and girls in the Global South through
leadership training and capacity building. Wlp is an international
non-governmental organization.
Woman and
Earth Global Eco-Network - http://www.dorsai.org/~womearth/
The first NGO promoting women, human rights and development in the
former Soviet Union, now serving as a bridge connecting the voices of
Russian speaking women and ecology with women throughout the world.
Bases in Russia, US, Turkey, Ghana, Fance, UK, Armenia, Uzbekistan,
Tajikistan and representatives throughout the world.
Mind, Body, Spirit: Empowered. SikhWomen.com - http://www.sikhwomen.com
The principles of Sikhism
Global
Women's Rights - http://www.globalwomensrights.net
Information about Issues that Affects Women around the World,especially
in Developing Nations.
Guerrilla Girls Broadband - http://www.ggbb.org
GuerrillaGirlsBroadBand formed in 1999 to tackle the primordial
discrimination of our technologized world. GGBB.org, pioneers
interactive activism through online feminist quizzes, streaming video,
and other projects which take advantage of digital media.
Older Women - http://www.zipworld.com.au/~ownnsw/
Website dealing with the rights of older women. Older women are the
majority within our ageing population
TK-One UK - http://www.tk-one.com/
Campaign against polygamy and poverty in Nigeria. Promotes women's
rights, gender equality and monogamy, with details of publications
available.
Topfree - http://www.topfreedom.com/
Searchable database of worldwide locations where women may go topless.
Women, Education & Economic Participation by Hilary Lips - http://www.radford.edu/~gstudies/sources/nz/keyecon.htm
Hilary Lips' Distinguished American Scholar Lecture on feminization
poverty, glass ceilings, pay equity, work-family balance and women in a
learning society.
Topfree Action - Women`s Right to go Topless - http://www.geocities.com/womens_choice_org/topfreedom.html
This site is dealing with question "should women have right to go
topless wherever men can?"
Zonta International in Europe, an International NGO
service club for women - http://www.zonta.asso.fr
Zonta is a World Wide group of Professional and Business Women concerned
with the Problems of our times and possible Solutions for them. This
website is translated into 4 languages.
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