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Gender RECOMMENDED Gender Links 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. Sonke Gender Justice Network The Sonke Gender Justice project tries to address the social aspects of the HIV epidemic, with a particular focus on gender issues. South Africa. BAOBAB For Women's Human Rights 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. NGO sites Interdisciplinary Center of Studies on Development CIEDUR (Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios sobre el Desarrollo) is an interdisciplinary group of graduates that strives to contribute to the erection of alternatives for the sustainable development of Uruguay. International Gender Policy Network - IGPN IGPN advocates for the inclusion of women’s human rights into the national, regional and global policy agenda. It is situated all over Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia. International Indigenous Women’s Forum - IIWF The website offers a section reporting on recent and ongoing programmes that focus on indigenous women’s rights, promotes collaboration between the Indigenous women's movement and the non-Indigenous global women's movement, and provides information on international advocacy programmes in which the IIWF participates. International Women's Rights Action Watch - Asia Pacific - IWRAW They promote the domestic implementation of international human rights standards by building the capacity of women and human rights advocates to claim and realise women's human rights. International Women's Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW Asia Pacific) International human rights organisation based in the Asia-Pacific region. It is an NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. IWRAW Asia Pacific carries out collaborative projects to facilitate the monitoring and implementation of the CEDAW Convention regionally and globally. Isis International Manila Feminist NGO dedicated to women’s information and communication needs, based in the global South with sister organizations in Uganda (Isis-WICCE) and in Chile (Isis Internacional). Philippines. Isis Women’s International Cross-Cultural Exchange Action oriented women’s resource centre to meet the need for information by women from various regions of the world, Isis-WICCE has three main programmes: The Exchange Programme, Information and Documentation Programme and the Publication Programme. Uganda. Jerusalem Center for Women (JCW) The central goal of JCW is to advance Palestinian women’s rights – and the status and involvement of women within Palestinian society. JCW is also committed to the protection of human rights, and the realization of a Middle East peace based on justice. Palestine. KAFA - Enough Violence and Exploitation KAFA focuses its strategies on gender based violence, child molestation and trafficking in women and children. Lebanon. Karat Coalition Regional coalition of organizations and individuals that works to ensure gender equality in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries, monitors the implementation of international agreements and lobbies for the needs and concerns of women in the region at all levels of decision-making fora. KIDMA: The Project for the Advancement of Women in Israel KIDMA is an organization that aims to advance the status of women in Israel through creating programs to help women increase their positive involvement in Israeli society. Korea Women's Association United (KWAU) KWAU carries out activities to enact laws needing to be established for the promotion of women's rights and women's welfare and for the revision of gender discriminatory laws. South Korea. Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of Women's Rights (CLADEM) The site contains legislation related to women's rights in Latin America and information about monitoring international treaties. Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network - LACWHN Women's health movement network, working to promote women's health and the full exercise of women's human rights and citizenship. Lebanese Council to Resist Violence Against Women (LCRVAW) LCRVAW was founded in Beirut in March 1997. The Council was established in response to the alarming rate of violent acts against women in Lebanon, and the lack of legal and social support for victims of such crimes. The Council aims at carrying the concept of violence from private to public awareness. This with the goal of influencing public opinion to reject and condemn violence, as well as work on legislating laws for the protection of abused women. Page: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 [>>]

International and Regional Organizations International NGOs and Networks Information Resources   People    African Descendants    Disabilities    Gender    Indigenous Peoples    Infancy and adolescence    Migration    Sexual diversity Society Environment Communication Globalization   Urgent appeal for solidarity by Zimbabwean Women For a stronger gender equality architecture reform (GEAR) at the UN One Man Can Campaign Selected news Gender - Wed Aug 20 2008 Human rights caucus: struggle for gender equality Equalinright (Netherlands) and the Programme for Women's Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - PWESCR (India) have taken the responsibility within the Caucus for mobilising a sub-group focused on women's equality struggles and and human rights in preparation for the World Social Forum in Belem. Source: AWID Migration /Gender - Tue Aug 19 2008 Border thinking on migration, culture, economy and sex Migrants are commonly seen as both unwanted intruders and powerless victims, but Laura Agustín own ideas work to break down this duality and think about power in different ways. Source: Laura Agustín See more ...   Gender in economics -   Feminist Political Economic Framework The Feminist Political Economic Framework (FPE) deconstructs and reframes basic neo-liberal assumptions and in the process refocuses economic theory and constructs alternatives. It uses a political economic approach, which is the study of society as an integrated whole. This approach contrasts with a simply economic approach which focuses on supply and demand of goods and services within a free market system. Fuente: Center of Concern

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