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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Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action (CAFRA)
Regional network of feminists, individual researchers, activists and women’s organisations. Its activities include programmes on Women in Caribbean Agriculture; Women and the Law; Women’s History and Creative Expression; Women, Development and Sustainable Livelihood; Women’s Health and Reproductive Rights; and Gender and Youth.
Centre for African Family Studies (CAFS)
CAFS is an African institution working in the field of population and development, and reproductive health in order to contribute to improve the quality of life of families in sub-Saharan Africa. Kenya.
Centre for Women’s Development Studies - CWDS
They develop, promote and disseminate knowledge about women's roles in society and economic trends which affect women's lives and status. India.
Coalition on Violence Against Women (COVAW)
COVAW is a membership-based non-partisan, secular, feminist network of individuals and organizations who are committed to eradicating violence against women. Kenya.
Commission for Gender Equality
Independent state institution that adopts an approach to human resources and institutional development and promotes gendered best practices at work, which are in compliance with labour and equality legislation. South Africa.
Continental Network of Indigenous Women
The Continental initiative of Indigenous Women aims to strengthen the organisational processes of the regions to give better clarity to the organisational work at the national level, promote solidarity, and give more visibility and voice to the Indigenous women inside the international arena. Panama.
Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action - CREA
They work with women to articulate, demand and access their human rights, focusing on issues of sexuality, reproductive health, violence and social justice.
Disha
Disha's vision is to establish an equitable society where there is no discrimination on the basis of gender, race, religion and caste and which provides equal social, economic and political opportunities. India.
"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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