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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Humanitarian Assistance for the Women and Children of Afghanistan (HAWCA)
HAWCA is a making organization of Afghan women aiming to enhance the well-being of Afghan women and children and, hence, empower and encourage women's participation in the reconstruction and development of Afghanistan.
Ilitha Labantu
Ilitha Labantu strives to end violence and abuse against women and children in disadvantaged communities (townships and in rural areas). The organisation provides emotional support, practical advice, education and training for coping with and addressing violence against women and children. South Africa.
Indian Association for Women's Studies - IAWS
IWAS aims to further women's studies perspectives in different disciplines and contribute to strengthening the movement for women's equality. India.
Individual and Community Rights Advocacy Forum Inc. (ICRAF)
ICRAF was established to deal with human rights, environmental destruction and land rights issues in Papua New Guinea. ICRAF aims to provide legal services on human rights and environmental issues, to carry out awareness and educational campaigns and to monitor the abuse of human rights and environmental destruction. Programs are delivered through three desks and lawyers: Human Rights, Women's and Land & Environment Desks.
Interdisciplinary Center of Studies on Development
CIEDUR (Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios sobre el Desarrollo) is an interdisciplinary group of graduates that strives to contribute to the erection of alternatives for the sustainable development of Uruguay.
International Gender Policy Network - IGPN
IGPN advocates for the inclusion of women’s human rights into the national, regional and global policy agenda. It is situated all over Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia.
International Indigenous Women’s Forum - IIWF
The website offers a section reporting on recent and ongoing programmes that focus on indigenous women’s rights,
promotes collaboration between the Indigenous women's movement and the
non-Indigenous global women's movement, and provides information on international advocacy programmes in which the IIWF participates.
International Women's Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW Asia Pacific)
International human rights organisation based in the Asia-Pacific region. It is an NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. IWRAW Asia Pacific carries out collaborative projects to facilitate the monitoring and implementation of the CEDAW Convention regionally and globally.
Isis International Manila
Feminist NGO dedicated to women’s information and communication needs, based in the global South with sister organizations in Uganda (Isis-WICCE) and in Chile (Isis Internacional). Philippines.
Isis Women’s International Cross-Cultural Exchange
Action oriented women’s resource centre to meet the need for information by women from various regions of the world, Isis-WICCE has three main programmes: The Exchange Programme, Information and Documentation Programme and the Publication Programme. Uganda.
Jerusalem Center for Women (JCW)
The central goal of JCW is to advance Palestinian women’s rights – and the status and involvement of women within Palestinian society. JCW is also committed to the protection of human rights, and the realization of a Middle East peace based on justice. Palestine.
KAFA - Enough Violence and Exploitation
KAFA focuses its strategies on gender based violence, child molestation and trafficking in women and children. Lebanon.
Karama
It is a movement to end violence against women in the Middle East and North Africa. In the Karama movement, the emphasis is on women from the ground up addressing violence against women as they define it, with solutions of their own design.
Karat Coalition
Regional coalition of organizations and individuals that works to ensure gender equality in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries, monitors the implementation of international agreements and lobbies for the needs and concerns of women in the region at all levels of decision-making fora.
"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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