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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.
The Sonke Gender Justice project tries to address the social aspects of the HIV epidemic, with a particular focus on gender issues. South Africa.
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.
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Feminist Africa
Feminist Africa provides a forum for progressive, cutting-edge gender research and feminist dialogue focused on the continent.
Feminist Dialogues - FD
It is a transnational meeting of feminist networks and organizations usually held before the World Social Forum. The 2005 Feminist Dialogues is being organized by a Coordinating Group made up of seven international feminist networks and organizations.
Feminist International Radio Endeavour (FIRE)
A women's radio project based in Costa Rica. Broadcasts in English and Spanish.
Feminist Peace Network - FPN
FPN is dedicated to the urgent need of providing shelter, food, education, and a safe environment for women and children in all parts of the world, as well as creating economic conditions to ensure these human rights in the future.
FemLinkPacific
Community media organisation which aims to empower women and communities by giving them a voice to fully participate in decision making for equality, development and peace.
Fiji Women's Crisis Centre (FWCC)
The Centre's work addresses all forms of violence against women including rape, beating, sexual harassment and abuse of children. Fiji.
Fiji Women's Rights Movement - FWRM
Organisation committed to removing discrimination against women through institutional reforms and additional changes.
Flame: African Sisters OnLine
Flame is a network of African women committed to strengthening the capacity of women through the use of ICTs to lobby, advocate and participate in the Beijing +5 process regionally and globally.
Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE)
Supporting girls and women to acquire education for development.
Gabriela
National Alliance of Women's Organizations in the Philippines. Gabriela is a movement dealing distinctly with the problems of women as women, working to free women from all forms of economic and political oppression and discrimination, sexual violence and abuse, neglect and denial of their health and reproductive rights.
GEM
Guide to integrating a gender analysis into evaluations of initiatives that use Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for social change.
Gender Advocacy Programme - GAP
GAP work bridging the gap between women in civil society and structures of governance and increasing the participation of women in policy formulation. South Africa.
Gender and Economic Reforms in Africa (GERA)
The Gender and Economic Reforms in Africa (GERA) programme is a pan-African research and advocacy programme established in 1996 by women from across Africa in order to influence economic policies and decision-making processes in Africa from a gender perspective. Committed to gender equality and economic justice, the programme supports African women to undertake a variety of African-designed policy research and advocacy projects that meet country and region-specific needs.
Gender and Environment
Gender and environment is an initiative for the Social Program of the World Conservation Union, Regional Office for Mesoamerica.
Gender and Water Alliance
Beacuse of the pooled experience and skills contained in this network, the GWA offers a mix of information and knowledge.
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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.
Source: 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)

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The UN reform... and what about women? - Fri Jul 04 2008
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.
Fuente: Choike

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