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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Gabriela
National Alliance of Women's Organizations in the Philippines. Gabriela is a movement dealing distinctly with the problems of women as women, working to free women from all forms of economic and political oppression and discrimination, sexual violence and abuse, neglect and denial of their health and reproductive rights.
GEM
Guide to integrating a gender analysis into evaluations of initiatives that use Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for social change.
Gender Advocacy Programme - GAP
GAP work bridging the gap between women in civil society and structures of governance and increasing the participation of women in policy formulation. South Africa.
Gender and Economic Reforms in Africa (GERA)
The Gender and Economic Reforms in Africa (GERA) programme is a pan-African research and advocacy programme established in 1996 by women from across Africa in order to influence economic policies and decision-making processes in Africa from a gender perspective. Committed to gender equality and economic justice, the programme supports African women to undertake a variety of African-designed policy research and advocacy projects that meet country and region-specific needs.
Gender and Environment
Gender and environment is an initiative for the Social Program of the World Conservation Union, Regional Office for Mesoamerica.
Gender and Water Alliance
Beacuse of the pooled experience and skills contained in this network, the GWA offers a mix of information and knowledge.
Gender Education Training Network (GETNET)
GETNET offers gender training for transformation, its focus is on women’s empowerment and men’s gender training. Its services contribute to addressing the vast need for skills, expertise and capacity to effect gender sensitive policies, practices and cultures within institutions and organisations. South Africa.
Gender Links - GL
GL's area of focus is the transformation of gender relations in and through the media. South Africa.
GenderIT
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) can contribute to the economic, political and social empowerment of women, and the promotion of gender equality. But that potential will only be realised if the gender dimensions of the information society - in terms of users' needs, conditions of access, policies, applications and regulatory frameworks - are properly understood and adequately addressed by all stakeholders.
Girl Child Network
GCN is a community based, activist, developmental organisation that seeks to promote the rights and empowerment of the girl child in the home, school and community in Zimbabwe.
Girls' Power Initiative Nigeria
Youth development organisation that equips girls between the ages of 10 and 18 years with human rights, comprehensive sexuality education (from a gender perspective).
Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women - GAATW
GAATW was formed at the International Workshop on Migration and Traffic in Women held in Chiang Mai, Thailand in October 1994. Since that time, GAATW has grown into a movement of members consisting of both organisations and individuals worldwide, and has coordinated, organised and facilitated work on issues related to trafficking in persons and women’s labour migration in virtually every region of the world. GAATW aimis to ensure that the human rights of trafficked persons are respected and protected by authorities and agencies.
GWS Africa
Gender and Women´s Studies for Africa´s transformation. An intellectual capacity-building and information technology development project.
Help & Shelter
It was founded to work against all types of violence, especially domestic violence and child abuse. Guyana.
"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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