Links
News, comment, analysis and
education resources on women's human rights
Women's Human Rights Net/Challenging Fundamentalisms
www.whrnet.org
A web resource providing comprehensive information and analysis on women's human rights and global issues. The site contains links to the texts and analysis of all the major women's human rights instruments; articles and interviews on women's human rights and fundamentalisms both sourced from the international press and specially written for WHRnet.
Association of Women's Rights in Development (AWID)
www.awid.org
The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) is an international membership organization connecting, informing and mobilizing people and organizations committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable development and women's human rights. Its goal is to cause policy, institutional and individual change that will improve the lives of women and girls everywhere. AWID's website contains a huge range of publications for download. In addition to themed publications which cover the areas of Feminist Movements and Organizations, Women’s Rights and Economic Change, Young Women and Leadership and Gender Equality and New Technologies, there are journals, handbooks and materials on everything from women and HIV/AIDS to globalization and employment.
WEDO Women’s Environment and Development Organisation
www.wedo.org
WEDO is an international organization that advocates for women’s equality in global policy. It seeks to empower women as decision makers to achieve economic, social and gender justice, a healthy, peaceful planet and human rights for all. Programme areas include: economic justice, sustainable development and gender and governance. WEDO's website includes an extensive library on issues ranging from globalisation and trade to natural resources. WEDO's 2007Resource: Changing the Climate: Why Women's Perspectives Matter is available for download from the web-site.
WIDE Women in Development Europe
www.wide-network.org
WIDE is a European feminist network of women's organisations, development NGOs, gender specialists and women's rights activists. WIDE monitors and influences international economic and development policy and practice from a feminist perspective. Banúlacht is the Irish Platform of WIDE. The website includes briefing papers on a wide range of issues related to trade and development policy, privatisation, alternative economics and economic literacy.
Women Living Under Muslim Laws
www.wluml.org
An international solidarity network that provides information, support and a collective space for women whose lives are shaped, conditioned or governed by laws and customs said to derive from Islam. The site features a 'news and views' section with an extensive range of articles from international media sources on topics including empowerment, sexual and reproductive rights and violence against women,
Development Alternatives With Women For A New Era (DAWN)
www.dawnnet.org
Dawn is a network of women scholars and activists from the economic South who engage in feminist research and analysis of the global environment and are committed to working for economic justice, gender justice and democracy. DAWN's web site includes articles and other resources on the themes of the Political Economy ofGlobalization, Political Restructuring and Social Transformation; Sustainable Livelihoods; and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, in partnership with other global NGOs and networks.
UN-focused websites
UN Women Watch
wwww.un.org/womenwatch/
www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/
WomenWatch is the central gateway to information and resources on the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women throughout the United Nations system. The website provides links to a vast range of information and analysis on gender issues; information on the outcomes of, as well as efforts to incorporate gender perspectives into follow-up to global conferences; links to the texts and officials sites of the major international treaties on women's human rights.
International Women's Rights Action Watch - Asia Pacific
www.iwraw-ap.org
IWRAW Asia Pacific is a non-profit international women's organisation that promotes 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. The website provides official and practical information on the application of the UN (Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and other international human rights treaties.
Peacewomen Project
www.peacewomen.org
A project of the Women’s International League for Peace and
Freedom, this website monitors and works toward rapid and full implementation
of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and
security.
UNIFEM
www.unifem.org
UNIFEM is the women’s fund at the United Nations. It
provides financial and technical assistance to innovative programmes and
strategies to foster women’s empowerment and gender equality throughout the
world. The website has of information and resources on gender and development,
as well as links to thematic web portals. The four web portals developed by
UNIFEM on specific themes are:
Campaign and solidarity websites
Clean Clothes Campaign
www.cleanclothes.org
The Clean Clothes Campaign is an international campaign, focused on improving working conditions and to empower workers in the global garment industry, in order to end the oppression, exploitation and abuse of workers in this industry, most of whom are women. The website features information and analysis about the conditions of women workers in the garment industry, as well as campaign resources and briefings. You can sign up to an urgent action e-mail list. A 2005 report, Made by Women: Gender, the Global Garment Industry and the Movement for Women Workers’ Rights, published by the Clean Clothes Campaign, is available for download from the website.
Women Working Worldwide (WWW)
www.poptel.org.uk/women-ww
Women Working Worldwide is a UK based organisation that works with an international network of women workers. WWW focuses on supporting the rights of women working in supply chains that supply the UK and other European countries with consumer goods. The organisation's ethos is that it is women themselves who are calling for change in their working conditions and networks such as WWW can make sure that their voices are heard and not ignored. The website gives details of WWW's campaigns such as the flower campaign focusing on using consumer power to demand that supermarkets give a better deal to women workers in East Africa.
Amnesty International
www.amnesty.ie (Irish
Section); also www.amnesty.org
Amnesty International
needs no introduction: the site features details of the Global Stop Violence
Against Women Campaign and other campaigns, as well as information on issues
such as trafficking of women.
Human Rights Watch
www.hrw.org
Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human
rights of people around the world. The website features an extensive section on
women's human rights (www.hrw.org/women/) with thematic and regional overviews
of women's rights.
Solidarity Network
www.maquilasolidarity.org
The Maquila Solidarity Network
(MSN) is a labour and women's rights advocacy organization promoting solidarity
with grassroots groups in Mexico,
Central America, and Asia working to improve
conditions in maquiladora factories and export
processing zones. The organisation aims to make retailers accountable for the
conditions under which their products are made. As well as resources and
thematic features, the site includes details of MSN campaigns focusing on a
range of countries, including background information, urgent actions and sample
letters.
Stop Rape Now
www.stoprapenow.org
Website of the UN Action Against Sexual Violence in
Conflict, a new, cross-UN initiative, committed to prevent all forms of
gender-based violence in conflict and to support survivors.
Research and policy resources
Siyanda
www.siyanda.org
Siyanda is an on-line database of gender and development materials from around the world. Siyanda is hosted by BRIDGE - the gender and development research and information service located at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Brighton.
Gender Action
www.genderatwork.org
Gender Action is dedicated to promoting gender equality and women's rights in all International Financial Institution (IFI) investments such as those of the World Bank, the largest public source of development financing in the world. Gender Action's goal is to ensure that women and men equally participate in and benefit from all IFI investments. Gender Action's vision is a World Bank and other IFIs with mandatory gender policies and strategies that are implemented to increase women's economic empowerment opportunities and eliminate their human rights violations. Themes covered by the website include, gender and economic restructuring, women's rights in peace and conflict, women and the environment. A 2006 publication, Gender Guide to World Bank and IMF Policy-Based Lending, by Suzanna Dennis and Elaine Zuckerman is available to download from the website.
Gender at Work
www.genderatwork.org
Gender at Work works to increase political accountability and support organizations to challenge social norms and gender inequity in the society in which they work. The website has a range of thought-provoking articles on gender and development for download and a catalogue of books which can be ordered on line.
International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN)
www.igtn.org
IGTN is a network of feminist gender specialists who provide technical information on gender and trade issues from a critical feminist perspective. It is a Southern-led network that builds South/North cooperation in the work of developing more just and democratic policy. IGTN is organised in Asia, Latin America, Caribbean, Central Asia, Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Gulf and North America. The website includes comment and analysis of the current round of World Trade Organisation negotiations, an overview of international trade policy issues from a gender perspective and resources for economic literacy.
UNRISD
www.unrisd.org
The United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
(UNRISD) is an autonomous UN agency engaging in multidisciplinary research on
the social dimensions of contemporary problems affecting development. The
Gender and Development section has an extensive range of documents on:
- Political and Social Economy of Care
- Religion, Politics and Gender Equality
- Gender Dimensions of Judicial Reform
- Decentralization, Redistribution and Women’s Access to Welfare
UNRISD also has
programmes and areas of research on: social policy and development; democracy,
governance and well-being; civil society and social movements; markets,
business and regulation; and identities, conflict and cohesion.
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