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.
Women's human rights organization, which focuses on women's legal rights issues under the three systems of law - customary, statutory and religious laws in Nigeria.
ASWAT (which means Voice in Arabic) is a courageous and dynamic group of Palestinian gay women who have decided to organize to challenge the status quo and to improve their lives and hopefully secure these rights for the coming generations.
WiLDAF is a pan-African network of organisations and individuals working in the area of women's rights. It was established in 1990 with the aim of promoting and strengthening action-strategies that link law to the development and empowerment of women.
NGO
sites
Women's Net
Networking support programme designed to enable South African women to use the Internet to find the people, issues, resources and tools needed for women's social action.
Women´s Media Watch
Organization comprising a core volunteer membership of women and a network of male and female associates to promote a gendered analysis of the media in order to increase awareness of the influence of the media in our lives. Jamaica.
Zambia Association for Research and Development (ZARD)
ZARD is a voluntary, non-governmental organisation with the aim of contributing to the process of empowering women to uplift their status and standards of living through participatory action-oriented research. It is a membership organisation comprising members from diverse backgrounds and professions. Zambia.
Zimbabwe Women's Resource Centre and Network
A gender and development organization involved in gathering, analysing, repackaging, and disseminating information on gender and development issues, especially those on gender, HIV/AIDs and the economy.
Zimbabwe Women’s Resource Centre and Network - ZWRCN
Gender and development organisation involved in gathering, analysing, repackaging, and disseminating information on gender and development issues, especially those on gender, HIV/AIDs and the economy.
For a stronger gender equality architecture reform (GEAR) at the UN
Selected news
Gender
- Tue Jun 17 2008
Deputy Secretary-General notes need to improve U.N. system-wide coherence on gender issues
The Deputy Secretary-General says that gender equality and women’s empowerment are core elements of fostering peace, achieving development, protecting the environment, promoting human rights and reaching so many of the UN’s goals.
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U,N,
Human Rights
/Gender
- Fri Jun 13 2008
Woman murdered by relatives to "mantain family honor"
The Palestinian Centre for Human (PCHR) condemns in the strongest possible terms the murder of a woman in Rafah on Tuesday 3 June, allegedly to maintain “the honor” of her family.
Source:
Palestinian Centre for Human (PCHR)
In the international seminar "Women in motion for the right to education" organized by the Gender and Education Office (GEO) of the International Council for Adult Education (ICAE), feminist activist and scholar Dr. Gita Sen gave a speech on advocacy spaces for the women's movement based on her experience at DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era). The new changes in the political and economic global context as well as the new spaces for advocay within the changing UN structure, namely the Human Rights Council, were among the points mentioned.
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