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.
Sexuality, Health and Society
This on-line journal is a project by the Latin American Center on Sexuality and Human Rights (CLAM-IMS/UERJ), seeking to promote the exchange of Latin American scholarly production and its dissemination among researchers, activists and policymakers.
Shan Women's Action Network - SWAN
They commit themselves to work for gender equality and justice for Shan women in the struggle for social and political change in Burma through community-based actions, research and advocacy. Thailand.
Society for Women's Education and Awareness Development (SWEAD)
SWEAD aims to help The most marginalised and oppressed sections of the Indian society, in particular tribal Dalits (untouchables), scheduled casts, rural migratory women and their children, and those who live below the poverty line. India.
Solidarity for African Women's Rights - SOAWR
Coalition of 30 civil society organizations across the continent working to ensure that the Protocol to the African Charter on the Rights of Women in Africa remains on the agenda of policy makers.
South Asian Women's Network - SAWNET
A forum for and about women from Bangladesh ~ Bhutan ~ India ~ Maldives ~ Nepal ~ Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The organization has no formal structure, no finances, and no board of directors. It exists entirely in the electronic medium, has no bylaws, and is not registered as an organization anywhere. Sawnet also has no philosophy or goals, except as a medium of communication by & for South Asian women. The political slant of the list depends on who happens to be subscribed and contributing, but often includes opinions from all parts of the spectrum. Posts on the list or this website represent only the opinion of the author of that post.
Tanzania Gender Networking Programme (TGNP)
TGNP seeks to promote gender equality and social equity through the empowerment of women and other marginalised sections of the community.
Tanzania Gender Networking Programme - TGNP
It is a pressure group which promotes gender positive activism. The organisation strives to enhance the mainstreaming of gender at all levels of society from grassroots communities to the highest levels of national policy making and legislation.
Tanzania Media Women's Association (TAMWA)
Apart from the general role of contributing to the development of the country through media advocacy, the main objective of the association is to educate women and children on their rights. Tanzania.
The African Feminist Forum - AFF
This feminist movement promotes the learning and teaching of feminist principles, the universality of women’s human rights, the necessity of providing a voice for women, the primacy of women’s bodily integrity, norms for working across diversities, and the value of working in solidarity with strategically chosen allies.
The Asian Women’s Resource Exchange (AWORC)
Internet-based women’s information service and network in Asia. It is an inititive geared towards developing cooperative approaches and partnerships in increasing access and exploring applications of new information and communication technologies (ICT) for women’s empowerment.
The Coalition on Violence Against Women (COVAW)
The Coalition on Violence Against Women based in Kenya is a women's human rights organisation that is committed to the eradication of all forms of violence against women and the promotion of women's human rights.
"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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