It is committed to promoting the rights of women within the framework of Islam. Their principels are: a) The universal and Islamic values of equality, non-discrimination, justice and dignity as the basis of all human relations. b)Full and equal citizenship, including full participation in all aspects of society, as the right of every individual. b) Marriage and family relations based on equality and justice, with men and women sharing equal rights and responsibilities.
The organisation Mukomeze tries to achieve to improve the lives of women and girls who survived rape and other forms of sexual violence arising from the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
Its main purpose is to produce, organize, and disseminate knowledge about sexuality from a human rights perspective, in order to help fight gender inequality and to contribute to the struggle against the discrimination of sexual minorities in the region.
Migrants are commonly seen as both unwanted intruders and powerless victims, but Laura Agustin own ideas work to break down this duality and think about power in different ways. Laura Agustín writes as a lifelong migrant and sometime worker in both nongovernmental and academic projects about sex, travel and work.
GL is committed with media, governance and gender justice. Working with partners at local, national, regional and international level to promote gender equality in and through the media and effective campaigns for ending gender violence, HIV and AIDS.
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Women for Change
They work with remote rural communities, especially women, through gender analysis, popular education methodologies and advocacy to contribute towards the eradiaction of all forms of poverty. Zambia.
Women for Women's Human Rights (WWHR)
WWHR is an autonomous non-governmental organization founded with the aim of working on national and international levels toward the fulfilment of women's human rights. Turkey.
Women in Development Southern Africa Awareness - WIDSAA
Regional in focus and action-oriented, SARDC WIDSAA aims to be a catalyst and service to the region’s governments, NGOs and agencies, parliaments, the media and the public in formulation of policy affecting women.
Women in Law & Development (WILDAF)
WiLDAF is a pan-African network of organisations and individuals working in the area of women's rights. It was established in 1990 with the aim of promoting and strengthening action-strategies that link law to the development and empowerment of women.
Women in Law and Development in Africa (WILDAF)
WILDAF is a pan African women's rights network dedicated to promoting and strengthening strategies which link law and development to increase women's participation and influence at the community, national and international levels.
Women Living Under Muslim Laws - WLUML
Network that provides information, support and a collective space for women whose lives are shaped, conditioned or governed by laws and customs said to derive from Islam.
Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET)
WOUGNET is a non-governmental organisation initiated in May 2000 by several women's organisations in Uganda to develop the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) among women as tools to share information and address issues collectively.
Women's Action Group
An organization to promote, advocate and defend women's civil, socio-cultural and economic rights. Zimbabwe.
Women's Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling (WCLAC)
WCLAC's mission is to contribute to the rectification of the long-standing neglect of women’s human rights in Palestinian society. It strives to provide support and guidance to Palestinian women whose human rights and rights under the law have been violated.
Women's Consortium of Nigeria (WOCON)
WOCON is a membership organization to work on issues of women's human rights. It has focused specifically on the issue of trafficking in women.
Women's Court
Permanent arab court to resist violence against women is a symbolic popular court that aims at fighting all forms of violence practiced against women in Arab societies.
Women's Empowerment in Muslim Contexts - WEMC
The overarching research concern of WEMC is to understand how women can and do empower themselves in the face of disempowering forces that often attempt to legitimise themselves through culture and religion.
Women's League of Burma (WLB)
The Women's League of Burma (WLB) is a network of women's organizations of different ethnic backgrounds from Burma, dedicated to work for the empowerment and development of women.
Women's Net
Networking support programme designed to enable South African women to use the Internet to find the people, issues, resources and tools needed for women's social action.
"In Maputo, Mozambique, on the occasion of the international seminar on building alliances for food sovereignty and against violence towards women held in Maputo from July 26 to 29, La Via Campesina worked together with World March of Women (WMW), Friends of the Earth Intenational (FoEI) and women of the countryside from Asia and Africa and shared our ideas to plan our work on women".
Governments from Latin America commit to women's right to lifelong learning
After several days of negotiation by feminist organizations, the governments attending the XI Regional Conference on Women from Latin America and the Caribbean, held from July 13-16, in Brasilia, committed to the implementation of policies and programmes for women's education and lifelong learning.
IFIs must consider gender impacts within indigenous communities
Despite International Financial Institution (IFI) mandates to safeguard indigenous peoples, gender blind IFI investments can have negative impacts on indigenous communities, especially when IFIs are financiers of environmentally destructive infrastructure projects, extractive industries, and harmful macroeconomic restructuring.
A new Human Right Watch´s report entitled "Illusions of Care: Lack of Accountability for Reproductive Rights in Argentina", documents the many obstacles women and girls face in getting the reproductive health care services to which they are entitled, such as contraception, voluntary sterilization procedures, and abortion after rape.
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