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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Kayan Feminist Organization
A group of feminists who aim to advance the status of women in the Israeli-Palestinian society.
KIDMA: The Project for the Advancement of Women in Israel
KIDMA is an organization that aims to advance the status of women in Israel through creating programs to help women increase their positive involvement in Israeli society.
Korea Women's Association United (KWAU)
KWAU carries out activities to enact laws needing to be established for the promotion of women's rights and women's welfare and for the revision of gender discriminatory laws. South Korea.
Lebanese Council to Resist Violence Against Women (LCRVAW)
LCRVAW was founded in Beirut in March 1997. The Council was established in response to the alarming rate of violent acts against women in Lebanon, and the lack of legal and social support for victims of such crimes. The Council aims at carrying the concept of violence from private to public awareness. This with the goal of influencing public opinion to reject and condemn violence, as well as work on legislating laws for the protection of abused women.
Lola Press
International feminist magazine with authors from all over the world. Offices in South Africa, Uruguay and Germany.
Lotus Social Welfare Trust International (LSWTI)
Organization dedicated to promoting basic education for females in the rural areas of Pakistan. LSWTI is a word from scriptural meaning "Given to the Word of God".
Maiti Nepal
An organization based in Nepal that crusades for the prevention of girl trafficking and the rescue, rehabilitation and reintigration of trafficked victims.
May Our Daughters Return Home
Organization composed of mothers, family members, and friends of victims of femicide in Ciudad Juarez.
Mexican Family Planning Association
They work on diffusing the practice of voluntary fertility regulation among the needy sectors of the Mexican population.
National Union of Eritrean Women (NUEW)
The NUEW seeks to ensure that all Eritrean women confidently stand for their rights and equally participate in the political, economic, social, and cultural spheres of the contry and share the benefitis.
Network of Entrepreneurship & Economic Development (NEED)
NEED's objectives are the uplifting of marginalized communities and the alleviation of poverty in general, but its main focus is on economic and socio-political empowerment of women. 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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