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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Amanitare
African Partnership for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Women and Girls, which evolved from the need for a coordinated Pan-African effort to consolidate the skills, knowledge and institutional resources of groups and individuals active in the field of sexual and reproductive health, gender equality, and women's rights.
APC Women's Networking Support Program (APCWNSP)
An international team of women at the World Summit on the Information Society, where, united with APC and Civil Society, they promote the construction of information and communication societies that are people-centred, inclusive and equitable.
APC-Africa-Women
Network of organisations and individuals that work to empower African women's organisations to access and use Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for equality and development.
Arab Women's Solidarity Association - AWSA
AWSA believe that the struggle for freedom from economic, cultural and media domination cannot be separated from the liberation of Arab women.
Association Najdeh
Association Najdeh is a Lebanese NGO that works in and around the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, targeting primarily women and children. Najdeh has projects in Beirut, Tripoli (north), Sidon (south), Tyre (south-south) and Beqaa (central north).
Association of Media Women in Kenya - AMWIK
The Association uses the media as a tool to advance issues that affect women. It also recognizes that gender inequality and inequity undermines the effectiveness of development, that media is a powerful tool for social change and agenda setting.
Association of Uganda Women Lawyers
Initiative to assist women and children, especially widows and orphans to attain effective protection under the law. The Association provides free legal aid services in Uganda.
Aswat - Palestinian Gay Women
ASWAT (which means Voice in Arabic) is a courageous and dynamic group of Palestinian gay women who have decided to organize to challenge the status quo and to improve their lives and hopefully secure these rights for the coming generations.
BAOBAB For Women's Human Rights
Women's human rights organization, which focuses on women's legal rights issues under the three systems of law - customary, statutory and religious laws in Nigeria.
Bat Shalom
Bat Shalom is a feminist peace organization of Israeli women. They work toward a just peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors, the recognition of a Palestinian state and Jerusalem as the capital of both.
Bhutan Women and Children Organisation (BWCO)
BWCO was established in 1990 in exile by the Bhutanese women to organise themselves for the protection, promotion and defence of women’s and child rights, and advancement and empowerment of women in Bhutan.
"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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