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Agenda
Agenda is a quarterly journal published since 1987 by a women's media project in South Africa.
Conference of NGOs (CONGO)
An international, not-for-profit membership association of NGOs that facilitates the participation of organizations in United Nations debates and decisions. The site provides a Calendar of Substantive Committees Events.
Development Goals
Targets for reductions in poverty, improvements in health and education, and protection of the environment.
Feminist Collections
News of the latest print and audiovisual resources for research and teaching in women's studies.
Feminist Majority Foundation
The program focuses on advancing the legal, social and political equality of women with men.
International Information Centre and Archives for de Women's Movement
The IIAV is a source, an intermediary and a supplier of information and documentation for all those who occupy themselves with the position of women.
Planet Wire
Newsroom for journalists who want the latest information about reproductive health rights and services, maternal and child health, equality in education, women's empowerment, youth participation and a healthy environment.
Siyanda - Mainstreaming Gender Equality
Siyanda is a gateway with materials to support the work of gender practitioners in mainstreaming gender.
Social Science Research Council - SSRC
They are committed to international, interdisciplinary social science that focuses on themes of public importance: from human sexuality to the challenges of globalization, from the impacts of information technology to current transformations in international higher education.
The Global Women's Issues Scorecard on the Bush Administration
Released by the Center for Health and Gender Equity, Feminist Majority, and Women's Environment and Development Organization. The Scorecard compares the administration's public statements to its record of action on global women's rights, health and development.
Womankind Worldwide
Is a UK-based charity dedicated to women's development and women's human rights globally.
Women's Feature Service
WFS produces crisply-written features and opinions on development from a gender perspective.
 
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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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