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International and Regional Organizations
Arab Women Connect - AWC
UNIFEM Arab States Regional Office (ASRO) launched Arab Women Connect (AWC) website as part of the WID FI project evolution. The website contains studies, reports, and statistics on Arab women.
Coalition of African Lesbians (CAL)
Independent, non-profit organization with a membership comprising of organizations in Africa that do work to support the struggle of lesbian women for equality.
Gender Equality & the MDGs
This site is a collaborative effort by the UN Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality, the OECD/DAC Network on Gender Equality, and the Multilateral Development Bank Working Group on Gender.
INSTRAW
UN International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women.
International IDEA
Intergovernmental organization with member states from all continents, has a mandate to support sustainable democracy worldwide. They work on political equality and participation, especially of underrepresented groups, including women in politics.
SADC Gender Monitor
Monitoring implementation of the Beijing commitments by SADC (Southern African Development Community) member States.
Socio-economic and Gender Analysis (SEAGA) Programme
The SEAGA Programme was established to promote gender awareness when meeting development challenges. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Labour Organization (ILO), the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) initially undertook the development of the SEAGA materials.
U.N. - WomenWatch
The UN International Gateway on the Advancement and Empowerment of Women. WomenWatch is an inter-agency initiative founded by DAW, UNIFEM and INSTRAW.
UN and Partners on Women
UNIFEM
United Nations Development Fund for Women.
 
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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.

Take back the tech!
GEAR UP - Gender Equality Architecture Reform

NEWS
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Women united for food sovereignty and against violence towards women
Mon Aug 16 2010 - Source: La Vía Campesina
"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
Fri Jul 16 2010 - Source: ICAE
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
Thu Jul 15 2010 - Source: Gender Action
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.

Beijing +15 - Fifteen-year review of the Beijing Platform for Action Abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean Gender in economics The UN reform... and what about women?
Gender-based violence UN reform Cairo +10 - ICPD +10 Migrant sex work
Beijing +10: Conference on Women review The gender gap in education Sexual and reproductive rights Women for peace

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