This edition of Window on the World illustrates the breadth and depth of women's organizations that attended the 2008 AWID Forum selecting from each of the workshops one organization. For more details of all the other organizations that attended please see www.awid.org.
African Feminist Forum
The African feminist forum (AFF) provides a space to mobilize around feminist principles, hone analytical skills, and promote and defend women's rights in Africa. Increasing levels of impoverishment, especially among African women, escalating violence, rising fundamentalisms, make this a vital space to provide an alternative view of critical concerns for the continent and for its women in particular. The AFF is hosted by the African's Women's Development Fund and is based in Accra, Ghana.
African Women's Development Fund
The African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) is a grant-making foundation that supports local, national and regional organizations in Africa working towards women's empowerment. AWDF through institutional capacity building and programme development seeks to build a culture of learning and partnerships within the African women's movement. Its mission is to mobilize financial resources to support local, national and regional initiatives led by women. So far, AWDF has funded over 800 women's organizations in 41 African countries.
Articulacion Feminista Marcosur
Articulacion Feminista Marcosur (AFM) is a Latin American organization made up of national coordinations and articulations, non-governmental organization (NGOs) and regional networks. Its primary objective is to strengthen spaces of joint articulation between social movements and to reinforce these spheres with a feminist presence. AFM's central concern is the accelerated concentration of power and wealth that aggravates inequalities, exclusion and discrimination, and which is expressed in a way that is marked by religious, economic cultural or political fundamentalisms.
APC Women's Networking Support Programme
APC Women's Networking Support Programme (WNSP) is a global network of women who support women networking for social change and women's empowerment, through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs).
It promotes gender equality in the design, development, implementation, access to and use of ICTs and in the policy decisions and frameworks that regulate them.
APC WNSP is part of the Association for Progressive Communications, a South-Africa based international network of civil society organizations dedicated to empowering and supporting groups and individuals working for peace, human rights, development and protection of the environment, through the strategic use of ICTs.
Astra/Polish Federation for Women and Family Planning
Astra was established in 1992 by five organizations in order to defend women's right to choose. The Federation defends the right to legal and safe abortion, to full accessibility of all medically accepted family planning methods and to modern gender-sensitive sex education. The Federation advocates for better reproductive health and rights standards and practices towards women within the healthcare system. It provides education and counselling services for women and youth with respect to family planning, sexually transmitted diseases including HIV/AIDS and other related issues.
Afghan Women's Organization
The Afghan Women's Counselling and Integration Community Support Organization, more commonly referred to as the Afghan Women's Organization, is a Toronto based non-profit organization created to address the unique needs of Afghan women and children in the Greater Toronto Area, as well as the rest of Canada, and even as far as Afghanistan and Pakistan. It assists Afghan women and their families in all aspects of adaptation and integration into Canadian society.
AIDS-Free World
AIDS-Free World is an international advocacy organization committed to speaking up with and for people affected by AIDS, and speaking out for more urgent and more effective global action in response to the crisis. It advances the causes of social justice and equality and promotes the human rights of people – particularly women – living with, affected by and vulnerable to HIV/AIDS.
Akina Mama wa Afrika
Akina Mama wa Afrika (AMwA) is an international, Pan African non-governmental development organization for women based in Africa and in the United Kingdom. AMwA (Swahili for 'Solidarity among African women') was established in 1985 to create space for African women to organize themselves and to identify issues of concern to them.
ARC International
ARC International is a Canadian based international non-profit organization that strives to develop and assist in the implementation of an international strategic vision regarding Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) human rights, foster international linkages and communications between stakeholder organizations and advance equality and justice for LGBT persons and their families at the international level.
Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women
www.aworc.org/org/arrow/arrow.html
The Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW) was established in January 1993 as a regional non-governmental, non-profit women's organization based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. ARROW's current programme focus is on women and health, in particular reproductive health. As a resource and research organization, ARROW provides practical information and resource materials to strengthen initiatives to re-orient health, population and reproductive health policies and programmes with women's perspectives and gender analysis.
Aswat – Palestinian Gay Women
Aswat is a group of Arab gay women, and is a home to all lesbians, inter-sex, queers, transsexual, transgender, questioning and bisexual women. It supports Arab gay women by creating dialogue and change on homosexuality within Arab Palestinian society. It also conducts monthly meetings, offers support groups, provides a support and consultation line, implements empowerment sessions and awareness raising workshops, and provides informational publications in Arabic and English, as well as an effective website and discussion forums.
CONAMUNE
www.conamune.altervista.org
The National Coordinator of Black Women (CONAMUNE) was founded in 1999 in the First National Congress of Black Women of Ecuador.
It aims to promote the strengthening of black women's organizations at the national, provincial, local and community levels. It regards the components of gender and ethnicity as vital tools in achieving socioeconomic, political and cultural development.
Centre for Egyptian Women's Legal Assistance
The Centre for Egyptian Women's Legal Assistance is a leading Egyptian women's lawyers group, founded in 1995 to advance women's rights through the law. It provides legal aid, mainly to impoverished women, and advocates against female genital mutilation, 'honour crimes' and discriminatory divorce laws.
Coalition of African Lesbians
http://cal.org.za/joomla/index.php
The Coalition of African Lesbians (CAL) is a network of organizations committed to African lesbian equality and visibility. It was founded in 2003 as an independent, non-profit organization with a membership comprising African organizations that do work to support the struggle of lesbian women for equality. CAL is the first NGO in Africa to work on the equality of lesbian women at a continental level.
Consorcio para el Diálogo Parlamentario y la Equidad
Consorcio is a Mexican network that serves as a bridge between women's organizations and members of parliament, working through different channels of communication, with the aim of achieving a legal framework that respects women's rights and non-discrimination.
Coordinadora de la Mujer
The Coordinadora de la Mujer is a network of about 25 organizations that are located in different cities of Bolivia. The network was established to collaboratively fight the violations of women's human rights, to address the lack of a gender perspective in government policies and to reinforce the participation of women in decision-making processes.
CREA
CREA is a women's human rights organization. CREA empowers women to articulate, demand and access their human rights by enhancing women's leadership and focuses on issues of sexuality, sexual and reproductive rights, violence against women, human rights and social justice.
Center for Women's Global Leadership
The Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL) was founded as a project of Douglass College in 1989 and is a unit of the Institute for Women's Leadership – a consortium of seven women's programmes at Rutgers University, created to study and promote how and why women lead, and to develop programmes that prepare women of all ages to lead effectively. CWGL's remit is to develop and facilitate women's leadership for women's human rights and social justice worldwide.
Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era
Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (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 works globally and regionally in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Pacific on the themes of the Political Economy of Globalization; Political Restructuring and Social Transformation; Sustainable Livelihoods; and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), in partnership with other global NGOs and networks.
Equal Ground Pasifik
Registered as the only GLBT organization in Fiji, Equal Ground Pasifik (EGP), works for the acceptance and promotion of sexual diversity at the local, national and regional level. EGP works with other organizations to create an enabling environment for individuals, communities, church and government to ensure the safety and protection of sexual minorities and their human rights.
Fiji Women's Rights Movement
The Fiji Women's Rights Movement (FWRM) is a multi-ethnic and multicultural NGO committed to removing discrimination against women through institutional reforms and additional changes. By means of core programmes, as well as innovative approaches, the FWRM practice promotes democracy, good governance, feminism and human rights. It strives to empower, unite and provide leadership opportunities for women in Fiji, especially for emerging young leaders.
FEMNET
The African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) was set up in 1988 to share experiences, information and strategies among African women's NGOs through advocacy, training and communications so as to advance African women's development, equality and human rights.
It also aims to provide a channel through which these NGOs can share experiences, information and strategies to improve their work on African women's development and equality.
Global Fund for Women
The Global Fund for Women is an international network of women and men committed to a world of equality and social justice. It advocates for and defends women's human rights by providing grants to support women's groups around the world.
It believes that women should have a full range of choices, and that women themselves know best how to determine their needs and propose solutions for lasting change.
The Global Fund provides grants to seed, strengthen and link women's rights groups based outside the United States working to address human rights issues.
Gender Advocacy Programme
The Gender Advocacy Programme (GAP) is an independent, non-governmental advocacy and lobbying organization based in Cape Town. It sees its position as bridging the gap between women in civil society and structures of governance and in increasing the participation of women in policy formulation and decision-making. GAP conducts research and training in order to facilitate, mobilize, link and empower women to lobby for equity between men and women in all spheres of South African society.
Gender at Work
Gender at Work is a network of professionals committed to gender equality through institutional change. Working with development and human rights practitioners, researchers and policymakers, it strengthens women's voices and gender equality by working within organizations. This includes examining how organizations can change gender-biased rules, values and practices.
Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women
The Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) is an Alliance of more than 90 NGOs from all regions of the world. The GAATW International Secretariat is based in Bangkok, Thailand, it coordinates the activities of the Alliance, collects and disseminates information, and advocates on behalf of the Alliance at regional and international level. Member organizations include migrant rights organizations; anti-trafficking organizations; self-organized groups of migrant workers, domestic workers, survivors of trafficking and sex workers; human rights and women's rights organizations; and direct service providers.
GROOTS International
Grossroots Organizations operating together in Sisterhood (GROOTS) operates as a flexible network linking leaders and groups in poor rural and urban areas in the South and the North. To nurture relationships of mutual support and solidarity among women engaged in redeveloping their communities, the network is open to grassroots groups and their partners who share a commitment to strengthen women's participation in the development of communities and the approaches to problem-solving, and to help urban and rural grassroots women's groups identify and share their successful development approaches and methods globally.
HomeNet Southeast Asia
HomeNet Southeast Asia is a subregional network of the South East Asian groups that grew out of a ILO-DANIDA initiative and was formalized in June 1997. HomeNet Southeast Asia, based in Manila, enables the national groups in Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines to coordinate their activities particularly in the area of advocacy work at subregional level. It aims to empower homeworkers to realize their economic, political and social rights through the strengthening of own organizations and networks and the improvement of their working and living conditions.
International Consortium for Medical Abortion
www.medicalabortionconsortium.org
International Consortium for Medical Abortion was formed in June 2002, and has brought together key players in the field from all regions of the world to promote medical abortion within the framework of support for safe abortion worldwide, focusing on the needs of women in developing countries, including those countries where abortion is unsafe or not accessible.
International Gender and Trade Network
International gender and trade network (IGTN) is a Southern-led network of feminist gender specialists who provide technical information on gender and trade issues to women's groups, NGOs, social movements and governments and acts as a political catalyst to enlarge the space for a critical feminist perspective and global action on trade and globalization issues.
IGTN builds South/North cooperation, and is currently organized in seven regions: Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Central Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East and Gulf and North America. Its secretariat is based in Brazil.
International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS
The International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW), a registered UK charity, is the only international network run for and by HIV positive women. ICW was founded in response to the desperate lack of support, information and services available to women living with HIV worldwide, and the need for these women to have influence and input on policy development. ICW was formed by a group of HIV positive women from many different countries attending the 8th International Conference on AIDS held in Amsterdam in July 1992.
International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region
International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region is a network of 40 sexual and reproductive health organizations across North America, Latin America and the Caribbean. Its member associations provide 19.4 million services each year. These range from sexuality education, contraceptive services, prenatal care to HIV testing, abortion-related care and screening for gender-based violence. They also act as advocates for sexual and reproductive rights at the local and international levels.
International Women's Health Coalition
International Women's Health Coalition promotes and protects the sexual and reproductive rights and health of all women and young people, particularly in Africa, Asia and Latin America, by helping to develop effective health and population policies, programmes and funding. It aims to change thinking, redirect funding and motivate action by people and institutions that can secure rights and health for women.
International Women's Rights Centre La Strada – Ukraine
La Strada Ukraine was the first organization in Ukraine to work on the problem of trafficking. Since 1997, it has laid a firm basis for an independent, specialist Ukrainian NGO that campaigns against trafficking in people. The organization has developed a special expertise and knowledge on trafficking in children in the past years, and cooperates closely with child rights organizations.
International Indigenous Women's Forum
International Indigenous Women's Forum (FIMI) is a network of indigenous women leaders from Asia, Africa and the Americas, whose purpose is to strengthen indigenous women's networks, increase their participation and visibility in the international arena and build capacity.
FIMI's mission is to bring together indigenous women activists, leaders and human rights promoters from different parts of the world to coordinate agendas, build unity, develop leadership and advocacy skills, increase indigenous women's role in international decision-making processes and advance women's human rights.
Isis-Women's International Cross-Cultural Exchange
www.isi.or.ug
Founded in 1974 in Geneva as an action-oriented women's resource centre that could meet the need for information by women from different regions of the world, Isis-Women's International Cross-Cultural Exchange (WICCE) has three main programmes: The Exchange Programme, Information and Documentation Programme and the Publication Programme.
Isis-WICCE relocated to Kampala, Uganda at the end of 1993 with the objective of tapping African women's ideas, views and problems and share the information with women at the international level.
International Women's Tribune Centre
The International Women's Tribune Centre (IWTC) is an international NGO established in l976 following the United Nations International Women's Year World Conference in Mexico City. With a commitment to empowering people and building communities, IWTC provides communication, information, education and organizing support services to women's organizations and community groups working to improve the lives of women, particularly low-income women, in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and Western Asia.
International Women's Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific
International Women's Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific is a non-profit international women's organization based in Malaysia that promotes the domestic implementation of international human rights standards by building the capacity of women and human rights advocates to claim and realize women's human rights. It facilitates a process through which the CEDAW Convention is used as a tool for applying international human rights standards at both the national and international level.
International Gender Policy Network
International Gender Policy Network is a network based in the Czech Republic that conducts policy research and analyses to ensure monitoring and accountability of the major agreements in the area of women's rights and gender equality. Through its work, its seeks to influence and improve national, regional and global public policies on gender equality, as well as promoting effective and responsible gender mainstreaming strategies.
Ipas
Ipas is an international organization that works around the world to increase women's ability to exercise their sexual and reproductive rights, and to reduce abortion-related deaths and injuries. It believes that women everywhere must have the opportunity to determine their futures, care for their families and manage their fertility.
Just Associates
Just Associates (JASS) is a global community of justice activists, scholars and popular educators in 25 countries worldwide. JASS is committed to strengthening women's voice, visibility and collective organizing power to create a just and sustainable world for all. JASS works from a feminist perspective to transform norms, institutions, policies and decision-making processes in both public and private spaces of power.
Karama
Karama was established in 2002 as a NGO in the Deheishe Refugee Camp near the West Bank city of Bethlehem. Karama's centre is an oasis that provides a safe place for women, children and adolescents, offering them different activities and supporting them in many fields. Karama (Arabic for dignity) is working independently and is not affiliated with any political party or movement.
Korean Women's Trade Unions
www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/gems/eeo/law/korea/l_kwtu.htm
The Korean Women's Trade Unions (KWTU) is one of the three predominant women's trade unions in Korea. Its primary role is to campaign for the demands of women workers and organize women to fight for their rights. The KWTU seeks to overcome the male-oriented direction of existing trade unions.
Labrys
http://kyrgyzlabrys.wordpress.com/about-labrys/
Labrys is an NGO committed to improving the situation of lesbians, bisexual women, gay men and transgender people in Kyrgyzstan through empowering LGBT themselves and working with the general public to integrate LGBT.
MADRE
Over the past 25 years, MADRE has built a network of community-based women's organizations worldwide. This network encompasses thousands of women and families – in Sudan, Iraq, Nicaragua, Cuba, Haiti, Guatemala, Kenya, Peru, Colombia, Panama, Palestine and elsewhere – who are on the frontlines of the global crisis. Its programmes focus on peace building, women's health and combating violence against women, and economic and environmental justice.
Mama Cash
Mama Cash is the oldest international women's fund – established in the Netherlands in 1983. It supports pioneering and innovative women's initiatives around the world, because it believes that social change starts with women and girls. Since 1983 Mama Cash has subsidized more than 6,000 women's projects and has invested more than 30 million euros. It is active in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Maquila Solidarity Network
http://en.maquilasolidarity.org/
The Maquila Solidarity Network is a labour and women's rights organization that supports the efforts of workers in global supply chains to win improved wages and working conditions and a better quality of life. Since 1994, it has been working in solidarity with women's and labour rights organizations in Mexico, Central America and Asia.
Masimanyane Women's Support Centre
Masimanyane Women's Support Centre is a non-profit international women's organization based in East London, South Africa. With a specific focus on gender-based violence, SRHRs and the gendered nature of HIV and AIDS, it aims to build the capacity of women and human rights advocates to claim and realize women's human rights. This is done through the development of new knowledge and the use of a rights-based approach.
Mujeres Unidas y Activas
Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA) is a grassroot organization of Latina immigrant women with a dual mission of personal transformation and community power. Creating an environment of understanding and confidentiality, MUA empowers and educates its members through mutual support and training to be leaders in their own lives and in the community.
Naripokkho
Naripokkho is a membership-based women's activist organization working for the advancement of women's rights and entitlements and building resistance against violence, discrimination and injustice. Its activities include campaigns, cultural events, training, research, lobbying and advocacy, and the maintenance of a regular participatory discussion forum.
One in Nine Campaign
The One in Nine Campaign was established in February 2006, at the start of the rape trial of Jacob Zuma in South Africa, to ensure the expression of solidarity with the woman in that trial, as well as other women who speak out about rape and sexual violence. The One in Nine Campaign works for social justice in a society where the sexual rights of women are respected, upheld and advanced, and it collaborates with organizations and institutions involved in HIV/AIDS, violence against women, women's rights, human rights, and lesbian, gay and bisexual activism.
Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization_of_Women's_Freedom_in_Iraq
The Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq is an organization that campaigns in favour of women's rights in Iraq, and against political Islam. It was founded in 2003, its director is Yanar Mohammed, who is also a co-founder of the organization.
REDLAC
http://www.profamilia.org.co/jovenes/doc_print.php?cod=225
Red Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Jóvenes por los Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos (REDLAC) is a network of organizations and groups of young people that work with youth in 14 countries of Latin America. It aims to empower young people so that they can fully exercise their sexual and reproductive rights. Its work is carried out from an inclusive feminist perspective.
Red Lationoamericana de Católicas por el Derecho a Decidir
www.catolicasporelderechoadecidir.org
Red Latinoamericana de Catolicas por el Derecho a Decidir is an independent movement of Catholic people who are committed to the search of social justice and a change in the cultural and religious norms of our societies. It promotes women's rights, especially sexual and reproductive rights, and it fights for equitable gender relations.
REPEM
Red de educación entre mujeres de América latina y el caribe (REPEM) has been active in Latin America since 1981. It is a non-profit association that groups about 140 institutions, organization and women's groups in more than 15 countries in Latin America. Its activities aim to empower women who live in conditions of discrimination, inequality, violence and poverty in the region.
International Women and Mining Network
Red Internacional 'Mujeres y Mineria', or the International Women and Mining Network, is the first and only platform that has brought women from different continents on the very serious issue of mining and gender justice. What started as an initiative to explore the gender concerns in mining took the role of a global platform for women exploited by mining projects either as communities displaced or as workers in highly exploitative working conditions.
Silence Speaks
Silence Speaks is an international digital storytelling initiative, offering a safe, supportive environment for telling stories that all too often remain unspoken. The initiative holds intensive workshops in which participants share and bear witness to tales of struggle and courage, resulting in short digital videos known as 'digital stories'. These first-person stories aim to challenge media legacies of voyeurism and naturalized representation by ensuring that workshop participants, not producers, have primary control over what is shared and how events and people are portrayed. Silence Speaks stories are used in training, community organizing and policy advocacy arenas to promote global health and human rights.
Sister Namibia
www.feministafrica.org/index.php/sister-namibia
Sister Namibia, a feminist women's rights organization based in Windhoek, Namibia, was founded in 1989 on the eve of national independence to give women a voice in the building of a democratic post-colonial society. For the first ten years, the main activity of the organization was the production of Sister Namibia magazine. From 1999 onwards, it began to broaden its scope, and it is now engaged in the fields of media, education, research, advocacy and cultural activity in order to promote women's human rights and full equality in a world free from violence, discrimination and oppression.
Sisters in Islam
Sisters in Islam (SIS) is a group of Muslim women committed to promoting the rights of women within the framework of Islam. Its efforts to promote the rights of Muslim women are based on the principles of equality, justice and freedom enjoined by the Qur'an. SIS was formed in 1988 and registered as an NGO in 1993 under the name SIS Forum (Malaysia) Berhad.
Tanzania Gender Networking Programme
Tanzania Gender Networking Programme is an NGO working in the civil society sector since 1993. It is an activist organization focusing on the practical promotion and application of gender equality, equity and women's empowerment objectives through policy advocacy and mainstreaming of gender and pro-poor perspectives at all levels in the Tanzanian society and beyond.
The Women's Technology Empowerment Centre
The Women's Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC), is a Nigerian NGO working to encourage Nigerian girls and women to learn how to use technology as a means of empowering themselves socially and economically.
This is done through projects that build technology skills among women, as well as other technology literacy workshops. W.TEC also research and publish works examining pivotal issues related to how African women use technology, barriers preventing or limiting technology use and strategies for more efficient technology use.
Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights
Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights (UAF) is a global women's fund that exists to protect, strengthen and sustain women human rights defenders at critical moments in time. By intervening quickly when defenders are poised to make great gains or face serious threats to their lives and work, UAF provides an efficient and effective model of strategic philanthropy. Designed and led by women activists, UAF's core programmes are the Rapid Response Grantmaking and Research, Advocacy and Publications.
Women's Hope Artistic Voice and Expressions
www.wworld.org/about/affiliates/weave.htm
Created to support black women's writing and publishing in Cape Town, South Africa, the organization thrives on mutual exchange through skill sharing and moral support. In 1997, Women's Hope Artistic Voice and Expressions (WEAVE) exploded on the literary scene through its affiliation with the umbrella organization Women's WORLD, an international free speech network of feminist writers. The women in WEAVE organize publications as well as public poetry readings, cultural festivals and writing workshops. They also set a precedent by forming the first self-published, multi-genre collection of black women's writing to come out of contemporary South Africa called ink@boilingpoint.
Women Against Fundamentalism
www.womenagainstfundamentalism.org.uk
Women Against Fundamentalism (WAF) was formed in 1989 in the United Kingdom to challenge the rise of fundamentalism in all religions. Its members include women from a wide range of backgrounds and from across the world. WAF believes that only secular institutions – which have no religious agenda – can begin to bring about equality for people of all religions or none.
Women's Health and Rights Advocacy Partnership
www.wikigender.org/index.php/Women%27s_Health_and_Rights_Advocacy_Partnership_in_South_Asia
Women's health and rights advocacy partnership brings together NGOs that are committed to strengthening civil society capacity to effectively advocate for SRHRs, especially maternal health and young people's SRHRs at local, national and regional levels. It was founded by the ARROW, and is currently implemented in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan.
Women's Learning Partnership
Women's Learning Partnership is a builder of networks, working with 18 autonomous and independent partner organizations in the Global South, particularly in Muslim-majority societies, to empower women to transform their families, communities and societies.
Its primary objectives are to increase the number of women taking on leadership and decision-making roles at family, community and national levels, and to improve the effectiveness of feminist movements in Muslim-majority societies and also globally.
Women's Initiative for Gender Justice
The Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice is an international women's human rights organization advocating for gender-inclusive justice and working towards an effective and independent International Criminal Court (ICC).
It is based in the Hague, the Netherlands, the seat of the ICC, in order to advocate for inclusion of gender-based crimes in the investigations and prosecutions of the ICC and to promote the rights of women victims/survivors of armed conflict throughout the justice process.
It also advocates for the use of international treaties, specifically the Rome Statute of the ICC, to advance women's rights and gender equality domestically.
Women and Law in Southern Africa Research Trust
Women and Law in Southern Africa Research Trust is an action-oriented research organization active in seven countries of Southern Africa: Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Its objective is to contribute to the sustained well-being of women within families and societies, through collaborative strategic and action research in the socio-legal field, and lobbying for legal reforms and policy changes on laws and practices that disadvantage women.
Women's Link Worldwide
Women's Link Worldwide is an international human rights non-profit organization working to ensure that gender equality is a reality worldwide. It strives to advance women's rights through the implementation of international human rights law and strategic work with the courts, including strategic litigation. Founded in 2001, Women's Link has regional offices in Europe (Madrid, Spain) and Latin America (Bogotá, Colombia).
Women on Waves
Women on Waves is a non-profit organization concerned with women's human rights. Its mission is to prevent unwanted pregnancy and unsafe abortions throughout the world. Working in close cooperation with local organizations, Women on Waves wants to respond to an urgent medical need, empower women to exercise their human right to reproductive health and legal safe abortion, and to draw public attention to the consequences of unwanted pregnancy and illegal abortion. Women on Waves supports the efforts of local organizations to change the laws in their country.
World Pulse
World Pulse is a media enterprise covering global issues through the eyes of women, and is dedicated to listening to and broadcasting the unheard voices and innovative solutions of women worldwide.
It produces World Pulse Magazine as well as PulseWire, an interactive community newswire where women can speak for themselves to the world and connect to solve global problems.
Women Won't Wait
Women Won't Wait is an international coalition of organizations and networks working to promote women's health and human rights in the struggle to address HIV and AIDS, and in ending all forms of violence against women and girls. Women Won't Wait seeks to speed up effective responses to the linkages of violence against all women and girls and the spread of HIV.
Women's Environment and Development Organization
Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) was established in 1990. Since its inception, WEDO has been a leader in organizing women for international conferences and actions. Today, WEDO recognizes that policy commitments alone are not enough to improve women's daily lives. That is why WEDO is collaborating more deeply with Southern partners on implementing global policy gains at the national level and holding governments accountable to their commitments on women's rights.
Women's League of Burma
The Women's League of Burma is an umbrella organization comprising twelve already-existing women's organizations of different ethnic backgrounds from Burma. Its mission is to work for women's empowerment and advancement of the status of women, and to work for the increased participation of women in all spheres of society in the democracy movement, and in peace and national reconciliation processes through capacity building, advocacy, research and documentation.
World March of Women
The World March of Women is an international feminist action movement connecting grassroot groups and organizations working to eliminate the causes at the root of poverty and violence against women. It struggles against all forms of inequality and discrimination directed at women, and its values and actions are directed at making political, economic and social change.
