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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Durbar - Unstoppable
Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee is a forum of 65,000 sex workers based in West Bengal, India. Durbar has been active in challenging and addressing the structural barriers that form the everyday reality of sex workers' lives as they relate to their material deprivation or their social exclusion with the aim of altering them.
East African Media Women Association
Its vision is for African women to have equal access to New Information and Communication Technologies (NICT), and to be empowered to use these in ways that benefit their lives and those of their communities.
El Arbol
The Foundation empowers female entrepreneurs and workers in the small Nicaraguan wood and metal industry, by funding and supporting hands-on, sustainable projects.
Feminist Africa
Feminist Africa provides a forum for progressive, cutting-edge gender research and feminist dialogue focused on the continent.
Feminist Dialogues - FD
It is a transnational meeting of feminist networks and organizations usually held before the World Social Forum. The 2005 Feminist Dialogues is being organized by a Coordinating Group made up of seven international feminist networks and organizations.
Feminist Peace Network - FPN
FPN is dedicated to the urgent need of providing shelter, food, education, and a safe environment for women and children in all parts of the world, as well as creating economic conditions to ensure these human rights in the future.
FemLinkPacific
Community media organisation which aims to empower women and communities by giving them a voice to fully participate in decision making for equality, development and peace.
Fiji Women's Crisis Centre (FWCC)
The Centre's work addresses all forms of violence against women including rape, beating, sexual harassment and abuse of children. Fiji.
Fiji Women's Rights Movement - FWRM
Organisation committed to removing discrimination against women through institutional reforms and additional changes.
Flame: African Sisters OnLine
Flame is a network of African women committed to strengthening the capacity of women through the use of ICTs to lobby, advocate and participate in the Beijing +5 process regionally and globally.
"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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