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Aviva
AVIVA is a FREE 'Webzine', being run by an International group of women based in London. We are providing a free listings service for women everywhere, funded by advertising, and sponsorship.
http://www.aviva.org



Battered Women's Justice Project
This site provides law, criminal justice, advocacy, and social service professionals with up-to-date information on interventions to stop violence against women.
http://www.vaw.umn.edu/



The Center for Gender and Refugee Studies
CGRS provides legal expertise and resources to attorneys representing women asylum seekers fleeing gender related harm. CGRS also works to coordinate legal and public policy advocacy efforts through domestic and international networking.
http://www.uchastings.edu/cgrs

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Center for Global Leadership
The Center for Women's Global Leadership develops and facilitates women's leadership for women's human rights and social justice worldwide.The Center's programs promote the leadership of women and advance feminist perspectives in policy-making processes in local, national and international arenas.
http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu



DAW-Division for the Advancement of Women
Advocates the improvement of the status of women and mainstreaming of the gendfer perspective both within and outside the UN system.
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/index.html



Education Topics on Women’s Human Rights
A collection of books and resources about women's human rights.
http://www.umn.edu/humanrts/education/pihre/women.htm

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Equal Rights Advocates
Based in San Francisco, ERA works to achieve women's economic security through litigation, public education, legislative advocacy, public policy analysis and advice & counseling.
http://www.equalrights.org/



Equality Now
Equality Now was founded in 1992 to work for the protection and promotion of the human rights of women around the world. Working with national human rights organizations and individual activists, Equality Now documents violence and discrimination against women and adds an international action overlay to support their efforts to advance equality rights and defend individual women who are suffering abuse. Through its Women’s Action Network, Equality Now distributes information about these human rights violations to concerned groups and individuals around the world, along with recommended actions for publicizing and protesting them. The Women’s Action Network is committed to voicing a worldwide call for justice and equality for women. Issues of urgent concern to Equality Now include rape, domestic violence, reproductive rights, trafficking of women, female genital mutilation, and equal access to economic opportunity and political participation.
http://www.equalitynow.org/



Feminist Majority Foundation Online
The Feminist Majority and The Feminist Majority Foundation are committed to empowering women and winning equality through research, the sharing of information of value to feminists everywhere, and effective action. Our work is supported by the generosity of tens of thousands of caring feminists -- women and men -- all across the USA and around the world. Urgent Action section. FREE FAX right from here.
http://www.feminist.org



Girls Global Education Fund
Girls Global Education Fund (GGEF) was founded in 1996 to send girls to school who would otherwise be denied an education.
http://www.ggef.org

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Global Fund for Women
The Global Fund for Women is a grantmaking foundation that provides flexible, timely assistance to grassroots women's groups around the world. Our giving is focused on enabling women to participate fully in all aspects of their societies.
http://www.globalfundforwomen.org



Human Rights Watch Women's Division
Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world.
http://www.hrw.org/about/projects/women.html

International Center for Research on Women
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http://www.icrw.org/

International Women’s Tribune Center
The International Women’s Tribune Centre (IWTC) is an international non-governmental organization set up in response to demands for information and resources from many of the more than 8,000 women who participated in the United Nations International Women’s Year (IWY) World Conference and the non-governmental IWY Tribune in Mexico City, 1975. For the last 20 years, IWTC has played an important role as a major information, education, communication, networking, technical assistance and training resource for women worldwide. Today, IWTC continues as a networking and information clearinghouse for some 25,000 women and women's groups in Africa, Asia/Pacific, Latin America/Caribbean and the Middle East.
http://www.womenink.org/

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Madre: An International Women’s Human Rights Organization
Broken link
Since 1983, MADRE has supported women's community-based organizations to confront the devastating effects of war and harsh economic conditions on women and their families throughout the world. We believe that it is the responsibility of people in the developed world to address these issues and provide alternatives. MADRE does this by working in partnership with community-based women's organizations that focus on health, education, economic development, and women's human rights. We support programs that simultaneously address the immediate needs of the communities they serve and work to challenge the balance of power to further the possibilities for peace and economic justice.
http://www.madre.org/



National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV)
The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence is a group dedicated to empowering battered women and their children. It is committed to ending personal and societal violence through education, shelter programs, legislation, and more. The goal of these projects is to eliminate the social conditions that allow domestic violence to continue.
http://www.ncadv.org

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Nuestras Hijas de Regreso a Casa (So That Our Daughters May Come Home)
Nuestras Hijas de Regreso a Casa is an organization formed by families and friends of the victims of violence against women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Since 1993, over 250 women have been disappeared, raped and murdered in and around Juarez, and the violence continues. Nuestras Hijas provides support for victims' families and works to bring an end to impunity for the perpetrators of these crimes.
http://www.geocities.com/pornuestrashijas



National Organization of Women
The National Organization for Women is the largest organization of feminist activists in the United States.
http://www.now.org



National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC)
The National Sexual Violence Resource Center is a group designed to research and distribute information about sexual assault. With its research partner, the University of Pennsylvania, NSVRC supplies information and technical assistance to prevention programs, cites emerging policy issues needing research, and seeks to connect all people within the anti-sexual violence movement, building a strong network of support and knowledge.
http://www.nsvrc.org

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Rape is a War Crime
Women have suffered rape at the hands of soldiers throughout the history of warfare. During the recent war in Bosnia, women in detention camps were subjected to multiple rapes, beatings and torture. This link to Letter-Writing Actions you can take from the AIUSA Balkans Cogroup Website.
/group/balkans/rapecrime.html



Sisterhood Is Global Institute
Sisterhood Is Global Institute is an international non-governmental, non-profit organization dedicated to the support and promotion of women's rights at the local, national, regional, and global levels.
www.sigi.org



United Nations Development Fund for Women
UNIFEM promotes women's empowerment and gender equality. It works to ensure the participation of women in all levels of development planning and practice, and acts as a catalyst within the UN system.
http://www.undp.org/unifem

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WILD
WILD shifts the debate about inequalities to one about rights, by introducng a human rights framework and language. We emphasize the interconnectedness of issues such as welfare, political participation, and the right to a life free from discrimination.
http://www.wildforhumanrights.org



Women's Caucus for Gender Justice
WomenWatch is a joint initiative of: DAW , UNIFEM and INSTRAW The Caucus is a network of groups and individuals, advocating for women's human rights to be applied in the International Criminal Court, CEDAW and other mechanisms of justice.
http://www.iccwomen.org



Women's Human Rights Net
whrNET is a collaborative Information & Communication Technology (ICT) project developed by an international coalition of women's organizations. whrNET aims to strengthen advocacy for women's human rights through the effective utilization of information and communication technologies.
http://www.whrnet.org



Women’s Human Rights Resources from the University of Toronto
This site is part of the Diana international human rights database

http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/diana/

Women’s Human Rights, University of Minnesota
Important documents and Ratification information for Women’s Human Rights (in English, French, and Spanish)

http://www.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/auoe.htm

WomenWatch: The UN Gateway on the Advancement & Empowerment of Women
WomenWatch is a joint initiative of: DAW , UNIFEM and INSTRAW Website features include The UN Working for Women; UN Global Conferences and Women; Follow-up to Beijing; Women of the World; News and Views; Statistics and Indicators; Global Forum
http://www.un.org/womenwatch

The Working Group on Ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). The coalition works for US ratification of CEDAW; AIUSA is a member of this Working Group.
http://www.womenstreaty.org

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