NGOs and civil society
  Women’s Consultation on Financing for Development

Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID)

They work to connect, inform and mobilize people and organizations committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable development and women's human rights.

Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)
A network of feminist scholars, researchers and activists from the economic South working for economic and gender justice and sustainable and democratic development.

International Trade Union Confederation - ITUC
The founding Agreement for the Council, signed by top leaders of each of its participating organisations, is based on a "common determination to organise, defend human and trade union rights and labour standards everywhere, and promote the growth of trade unions for the benefit of all working women and men and their families".

Women in Development Europe - WIDE
European network of development NGOs, gender specialists and human rights activists.

Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)
WEDO is an international advocacy organization that seeks to increase the power of women worldwide as policymakers at all levels in governments, institutions and forums to achieve economic and social justice, a healthy and peaceful planet, and human rights for all.


In depth reports
Detailed reports on key issues.
Gender in economics
Notwithstanding the fact that economic, trade and labour policies have differentiated impacts on men and women, the concept of gender has been systematically ignored by the analysis and formulation of these policies.
Financing for Development
The Financing for Development process, led by the United Nations, reached a global 'consensus' in the Monterrey Conference (2002). But without political will that opportunity remains in jeopardy.
The UN reform... and what about women?
Women’s human rights and social justice groups propose the creation of a stronger UN entity for women in order to significantly advance gender equality, the empowerment of women and women’s human rights in the work of the UN.
Beijing +10: Conference on Women review
This global process was held in 2005 to review the implementation of the Platform for Action signed at the UN 4th World Conference on Women, in Beijing 1995.
The gender gap in education
Countries aren't fulfilling their commitment to getting girls and women into school.

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