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.
FEMNET works to strengthen the role and contribution of African NGOs concerned with women's development and to create a channel through which they can share ideas, knowledge and experiences geared towards improving the condition of African Women. Kenya.
NGO
sites
Center for Migrant Advocacy- Philippines (CMA-Phils)
This is an advocacy group that promotes the rights of overseas Filipinos - land- or sea-based migrant workers and Filipino immigrants - and their families.
Movimientos.org
Web community of Social Movements. Available also in spanish and portuguese.
Por los chicos (For the children)
Independent website committed to improving the standard of living of impoverished children in Argentina. Each time a visitor clicks the donate button, the sponsors provide a ration of food for a needy child.
Sawed Trust
Non-profit organization based in India that works towards the empowerment of underprivileged women and children through vocational training and education programmes.
Brazil: Increasing repression and criminalization against Landless People Movement (MST)
The Yanomami threathened by gold mining
Arab women's right to nationality
Selected news
Human Rights
/Migration
- Tue Jul 01 2008
Migrants in the European Union
This newsletter focuses on news items and policy developments concerning the basic social rights of
undocumented migrants in Europe and USA. (pdf)
Source:
PICUM
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,
On June 19, 2008 the United Nations Security Council adopted a Resolution to end sexual violence in conflict. The Resolution is not a comprehensive instrument for addressing sexual violence; It is however, a step in the right direction provided that it will complement and not distract from Resolution 1325, which is still the definitive standard so far for incorporating women's rights perspectives into conflict prevention and resolution, and peace building.
Fuente:
AWID
