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WIEGO - Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing
Global research-policy network that seeks to improve the status of the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy.
Akina mama Wa Afrika
Akina Mama is an African women's international non-governmental development organisation based in the UK and Africa. Coordinating local, regional and international initiatives, Akina Mama serves as a mobilising, networking, information, advocacy and training forum for African women, building their leadership capacities to influence policy and decision-making.
Amnesty International Women
Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID)
They work to connect, inform and mobilize people and organizations committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable development and women's human rights.
Association of African Women Scholars - AAWS
Worldwide organization dedicated to promoting and encouraging scholarship on African women in African Studies, forging intellectual links and networks with scholars, activists, students, and policy makers inside and outside Africa.
Black Women for Wages for Housework
International network of Black women, other women of colour, immigrant and migrant women, in countries of the South and the North, organizing against poverty and overwork, and for financial compensation for the unwaged and low-waged work they do.
Bridge - Development, Gender
BRIDGE is based in the UK and supports gender advocacy and mainstreaming efforts by bridging the gaps between theory, policy and practice with accessible and diverse gender information in print and online.
Catholics for a Free Choice
Research, policy analysis, education and advocacy on gender equality and reproductive Health.
Center for Health and Gender Equity - CHANGE
International reproductive health and rights organization.
Center for Reproductive Law and Policy (CRLP)
CRLP is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting women’s equality worldwide by guaranteeing reproductive rights as human rights.
Center for Women's Global Leadership - CWGL
The Center develops and facilitates women's leadership for women's human rights and social justice worldwide.
Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA)
CEDPA has provided services to millions of women through partnerships with 138 organizations in 40 countries, assuring their access to high quality reproductive health and voluntary family planning.
Coalition for Women's Human Rights in Conflict Situations
The Coalition aims to promote the adequate prosecution of perpetrators of crimes of gender violence in transitional justice systems based in Africa, in order to create precedents that recognise violence against women in conflict situations and help find ways to obtain justice for women survivors of sexual violence.
EC/UNFPA Initiative for Reproductive Health in Asia
This site, which focuses on South and South East Asia, includes country profiles, projects, resources, news, and related events. A new feature is that all RHI partner NGOs, especially those who do not have their own web site, now have the chance to present themselves and their work.
Energia
International network on gender and sustainable energy.
Equality Now
Human rights organization dedicated to action for the civil, political, economic and social rights of girls and women.
European Women Lobby - EWL
The largest co-ordinating body of national and European non-governmental women's organisations in the European Union.
European Women's Lobby - EWL
Umbrella organisations of women’s associations in the European Union (EU). The EWL Secretariat is based in Brussels, but EWL has member organisations in 25 Member States of the Eureopean Union.
Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
The Donors Working Group on FGM/C (DWG) has reached a consensus on a common programmatic approach to support the abandonment of the practice of female genital mutilation.
Financing for Development - Civil Society Engagement
Gender & Development
Journal published to focus specifically on international gender and development issues, and to explore the connections between gender and development initiatives, and feminist perspectives.
Gender Action
Organization dedicated to promoting gender equality and women's rights in all International Financial Institution (IFI) investments such as those of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund - two of the largest public sources of development financing in the world.
Global Fund for Women
International network of women and men committed to a world of equality and social justice, advocates for and defends women's human rights.
Global Fund for Women (GFW)
GFW is a foundation supporting women's human rights organizations around the world.
Global Migration and Gender Network
The purpose of the Network is to provide a means for practitioners and researchers with an interest in gender and migration to share information and ideas on a regular basis. The network issues a regular newsletter to all network subscribers, incorporating links to relevant documents, news of forthcoming conferences and publications, book reviews and opinion pieces.
Global Reproductive Health Forum (GRHF)
The organization is an internet networking project that aims to encourage the proliferation of critical discussions about reproductive health and gender on the net.
Huairou Commission
Global coalition of networks, institutions and individual professionals that links grassroots women’s community development organizations to partners. Currently, the network focuses its joint efforts on five campaigns: Governance, AIDS, Disaster, Land and Housing and Peace Building.
Huairou Commission
Global coalition of networks, institutions and individual professionals that links grassroots women's community development organizations to partners.
International Center for Research on Women (ICWR)
ICRW's work has three distinct dimensions: research, technical support for capacity building and advocacy.
International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW)
ICW is the only international network run for and by HIV positive women. It was founded in response to the desperate lack of support, information and services available to women living with HIV worldwide and the need for these women to have influence and input on policy development.
International Gender & Trade Network
Seven regional networks of women involved in research, advocacy and economic literacy around issues of trade and development.
International Women Health Coalition (IWHC)
IWHC works to generate health and population policies, programs, and funding that promote and protect the rights and health of girls and women worldwide, particularly in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and countries in postsocialist transition. IWHC is committed to these critical themes: adolescent health and rights; sexual rights; and access to safe abortion.
International Women's Health Coalition
IWHC works to generate health and population policies, that promote and protect the rights and health of girls and women worldwide, focusing especially on adolescence, sexual rights and safe abortion.
International Womens' Peace Service (IWPS)
IWPS Palestine is an international team of 16 women based in Hares, a village in the Salfit Governorate of Occupied Palestine's West Bank. Since August 2002 they have been documenting human rights abuses, working with the media, and engaging in non-violent intervention in abuses.
International Women’s Tribune Centre (IWTC)
IWTC is dedicated to achieving women’s full participation in development.
Ipas
Ipas works on women's reproductive health and the right of each woman to control her own sexuality and fertility.
Just Associates - JASS
Network of justice activists, scholars and popular educators in 13 countries worldwide committed to increasing women’s voice, visibility and collective organizational power to advance a more just, equitable and sustainable world.
Les Penelopes
Directed by the women's group, Les Pénélopes, the bilingual international feminist quarterly magazine Digitall Future is produced by an international team gathering of activists, professional or not of information, renewed with each edition. It analyzes the international actuality with a feminist perspective and proposes a vision of the world coupling local situations and global context.
MADRE
International women's human rights organization that works in partnership with community-based women’s groups worldwide. Their programme reflects a human-rights-based and people-centered approach to achieving the UN Millennium Development Goals.
Network Women in Development Europe - WIDE
European network of gender specialists, women active in Non-Governmental Development Organisations (NGDOs), and human rights activists.
Peace Women
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Peace x Peace
PEACE X PEACE (pronounced “peace by peace”) connects women’s groups (“Circles”) in the United States with women’s Circles everywhere in the world—directly via the Internet—for the exchange of information and personal experiences that result in mutually supportive actions.
Rights and security for women
Stop gender based violence: this web site started a forum with a discussion on "Involving men in eliminating gender based violence".
Sexuality Policy Watch - SPW
Global forum composed of researchers and activists from a wide range of countries and regions of the world. The SPW's mandate is twofold: to contribute to sexuality related global policy debates through strategic policy-oriented research and analysis projects, and to promote more effective linkages between local, regional and global initiatives.
Sustainable Energy and Economy Network (SEEN)
A project of the Institute for Policy Studies (Washington, DC) and the Transnational Institute (Amsterdam), SEEN works in partnership with citizens groups nationally and globally on environment, human rights and development issues with a particular focus on energy, climate change, environmental justice, and economic issues, particularly as these play out in North/South relations.
The Afghan Women's Mission
They support many programs run by Afghan women including Malalai Hospital, schools, orphanages, agricultural programs, demonstrations and functions in support of women's and human rights.
The International Working Group on Gender, Macroeconomics and International Economics GEM-IWG
This international network of economists has the purpose of promoting research, teaching, policy making and advocacy on gender-equitable approaches to macroeconomics, international economics and globalization.
Urgent Action Fund - UAF
Global women’s fund that exists to protect, strengthen and sustain women human rights defenders at critical moments in time.
WILPF
Women International League for Peace and Freedom.
WNSP
Women’s Networking Support Programme (an ACP program.
Women in black
Network of women protesting war.
Women in Development Europe - WIDE
European network of development NGOs, gender specialists and human rights activists.
Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)
WEDO is an international advocacy organization that seeks to increase the power of women worldwide as policymakers at all levels in governments, institutions and forums to achieve economic and social justice, a healthy and peaceful planet, and human rights for all.
Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR)
A worldwide autonomous network of groups and individuals who jointly aspire to the recognition and protection of reproductive rights for women.
Women's Human Rights Net (WHRNet)
WHRnet provides valuable information and analyses on women's human rights in English, Spanish and French.
Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace - WLP
WLP is an international NGO that empowers women and girls in the Global South to re-imagine and re-structure their roles in their families, communities, and societies. WLP works with 18 partner organizations in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East to achieve this goal through providing leadership training, supporting capacity building, and helping women generate and receive information and knowledge.
Women's Media Center - WWC
The WMC works with the media to ensure that women’s stories are told and women’s voices are heard.
Women's UN Report Program & Network - WUNRN
Non-governmental organization to implement the conclusions and recommendations of a United Nations Study on Freedom of Religion of Belief and the Status of Women From the Viewpoint of Religion and Traditions.
Women's World Summit Foundation (WWSF)
WWSF's principle objective is to empower women, children and NGOs. Its programs serve to help implement women's and children's rights, to generate increased commitment and support for the realization of agreed development goals, and to hold world leaders accountable to their promises made at numerous UN summits and international conferences.
WomenAction
Global information and media network.
Women’s International Coalition for Economic Justice - WICEJ
WICEJ works to link gender with macro-economic policy in international inter-governmental policy-making arenas, from a human-rights perspective.
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