International Women's Day 2002
 

Since 1975, March 8 has been celebrated as International Women’s Day, “to commemorate the historic struggle to improve women’s lives.” It is celebrated around the world at the local and national level. This year marks the 91st anniversary of International Women's Day. This year's theme is "AFGAN WOMEN TODAY: REALITIES AND OPPORTUNITIES"


 

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
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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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