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- UN chief promotes education, gender empowerment during final day of Mozambique visit May 21, 2013Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today commended the Government and people of Mozambique for steady progress in political development, but urged greater efforts to overcome human rights challenges, including discrimination and violence against women, through education and awareness-raising. […]
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Center for Women's Global Leadership
Center for Women's Global Leadership develops and facilitates women's leadership for women's human rights and social justice worldwide.
Center for Women's Global Leadership develops and facilitates women's leadership for women's human rights and social justice worldwide.
CODEPINK
CODEPINK is a women initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement that seeks positive social change through proactive, creative protest and non-violent direct action.
CODEPINK is a women initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement that seeks positive social change through proactive, creative protest and non-violent direct action.
Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF)
FMF is an organization dedicated to women’s equality, reproductive health, and non-violence.
FMF is an organization dedicated to women’s equality, reproductive health, and non-violence.
Global Fund for Women
Global Fund for Women is an international network of women and men committed to promoting women
Global Fund for Women is an international network of women and men committed to promoting women
Honour Based Violence Awareness Network (HBVA)
HBVA is an international digital resource centre working to advance understanding of honour based violence and forced marriage through research, documentation, information and training for professionals who may encounter women, girls and men at risk.
HBVA is an international digital resource centre working to advance understanding of honour based violence and forced marriage through research, documentation, information and training for professionals who may encounter women, girls and men at risk.
2012-10-20: I Am Malala
In support of Malala Yousufzai, the Pakistani girl shot in the head by the Taliban for wanting an education, the organization calls on Pakistan to agree a plan to deliver education for every child.
In support of Malala Yousufzai, the Pakistani girl shot in the head by the Taliban for wanting an education, the organization calls on Pakistan to agree a plan to deliver education for every child.
MADRE
MADRE is an international women’s human rights organization that works in partnership with women’s community-based groups in conflict areas worldwide.
MADRE is an international women’s human rights organization that works in partnership with women’s community-based groups in conflict areas worldwide.
National Organization for Women (NOW)
U.S. with 500,000 contributing members and 550 chapters in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
U.S. with 500,000 contributing members and 550 chapters in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI)
SIGI is an innovative measure of underlying discrimination against women for over 100 countries.
SIGI is an innovative measure of underlying discrimination against women for over 100 countries.
Stop Honour Killings!
Stop honour killings! provides support and protection to women faced with ‘honour’-based violence and forced marriage.
Stop honour killings! provides support and protection to women faced with ‘honour’-based violence and forced marriage.
2013-02-23: V-Day
V-Day is a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls. V-Day exists until the violence stops.
V-Day is a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls. V-Day exists until the violence stops.
Women for Women International
Women for Women International gives hope to women survivors of war and conflict and helps them move toward economic self-sufficiency with direct aid, rights education, job skills training, and small business development.
Women for Women International gives hope to women survivors of war and conflict and helps them move toward economic self-sufficiency with direct aid, rights education, job skills training, and small business development.
Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition
WHRD IC is a resource and advocacy network for the protection and support of women human rights defenders worldwide.
WHRD IC is a resource and advocacy network for the protection and support of women human rights defenders worldwide.
Women's Environment and Development Organization
WEDO is an international advocacy organization working to promote and protect human rights, gender equality and the integrity of the environment.
WEDO is an international advocacy organization working to promote and protect human rights, gender equality and the integrity of the environment.
Women's Human Rights Resources (WHRR)
WHRR provides information on international women's human rights via the Internet. WHRR is a member of DIANA, which is a collaborative venture of university-based human rights centres and non-governmental human rights agencies.
WHRR provides information on international women's human rights via the Internet. WHRR is a member of DIANA, which is a collaborative venture of university-based human rights centres and non-governmental human rights agencies.
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
WILPF is the oldest women's peace organisation in the world (founded in April 1915, in the Hague, the Netherlands, by 1300 or so women from Europe and North America).
WILPF is the oldest women's peace organisation in the world (founded in April 1915, in the Hague, the Netherlands, by 1300 or so women from Europe and North America).
WomenWatch
Womenwatch is a joint United Nations project created in March 1997 to provide an internet space for global gender equality issues and to support implementation of the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action.
Womenwatch is a joint United Nations project created in March 1997 to provide an internet space for global gender equality issues and to support implementation of the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action.
