GRANTS AND FUNDING
INSTITUTIONS
Asia
Pacific Gender Equality Network
Within the
framework of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the Asia Pacific Gender Equality
Network (APGEN) strengthens regional coordination and cooperation towards
addressing issues of feminization of poverty and gender inequality in
decision-making. TOP
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Asia Foundation
Drawing on more than four decades
of experience in Asia, the Foundation collaborates with partners from the
public and private sectors in the region to support, through grants and
other programs, the development of institutions, leadership, and policy in
four broad program areas: governance, law, and civil society; economic
reform and development; women’s political participation; and international
relations. TOP
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Canadian
International Development Agency
Equality between women and men,
boys and girls, is integral to all CIDA initiatives. The Agency will build
on its experience and comparative advantage in this area as it strengthens
its programming in the Social Development Priorities of health and
nutrition, basic education, HIV/AIDS and child protection. CIDA will
ensure that all of these initiatives are planned using sound gender
analysis, building on opportunities for the empowerment of women and men,
respecting human rights, and working to help close gender gaps that stand
in the way of social development. TOP
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Global Fund for
Women
It support
women’s human rights organization around the world working to address
critical issues such as gaining economic indpendence, increasing girls’
access to education, and stopping violence against
women.TOP
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Noel
Foundation
The
foundation encourages and supports the advancement of women around the
world through entrepreneurial and educational programs. In Asia, it
provides technical training and job skills to women in Thailand, the
Philippines and Cambodia to produce goods for sale on the global
market. TOP
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Sara
Lee Corporate Citizenship and Foundations
In it's 20 years, the Sara Lee Foundation has
established its leadership role by enriching community life through
building relationships, addressing areas of need and directing Sara Lee's
resources for the public good.TOP | HOME
Third Wave
Foundation
A US-based
activist philanthropic organization of women between the ages of 15 and
30. As a grant-making organization, it strives to connect young women to
the resources needed to counter any assault on their personal
freedoms.TOP | HOME
United Nations Development Fund for Women
UNIFEM promotes women's empowerment and
gender equality and works to ensure the participation of women in all
levels of development planning and practice, supporting efforts that link
the needs and concerns of women to all critical issues on the national,
regional and global agendas. TOP
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Womankind Wordlwide
It is dedicated to aiding women in developing countries in
their efforts to overcome poverty and ill health, to gain access to
education and training, and to gain greater control of their lives.
Womankind, a nonprofit organization, provides funding and information to
developing communities worldwide
Women’s
Grants and Resources
Comprehensive listing of links to grant-making institutions
assisting women’s organizations, mostly in the United
States.
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NEWS
SOURCES
ABC News
International Section
News from this major American TV
network. TOP
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Abyz News Links
Unusually complete and current site, with links to many thousands
of newspapers and other news sources from around the world, those with
news content of widespread interest.TOP
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American Journalism
Review News Link
Links to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and TV
stations, and news services around the world. TOP
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Asia Society
The site
offers educational and cultural programs, an events calendar, information
and news plus a gateway to Asia. Walk through the Gateway to Live From
Asia; clicking on the bicycle starts you on a trek across Asia. Jump to
"For Educators" for professional development as well as grant and funding
information. TOP
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Asia
Today
Latest news stories from all
over Asia. TOP
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Bangkok Post
The
Post's site features the full text of major stories, an archive of past
stories, travel information and more. TOP
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BBC News: Asia-Pacific
This regularly-updated site from the BBC features the latest news
and analysis, as well as special feature stories and foreign-language
broadcasts in Arabic, Russian, Spanish, and Chinese. TOP | HOME
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Newsworld
News from a prestigious source, with much audio
and video available. TOP
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ChinaVista
Newswire
For
the latest news from many of China's primary news sources, try this site
where you'll find the headlines from more than thirty major domestic and
international news sources including ChinaDaily, the Hong Kong Standard,
the Shanghai Daily News and Guangzhou
Daily.TOP
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Cable News Network
(CNN)
Christian Science Monitor
Excellent online content from an award-winning U.S. daily with an
international perspective. TOP
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Economist
The outstanding global news weekly from London,
with library and searchable archives. Their Global Agenda feature is a
concise analysis of major international issues and events. Note the Country
Briefings , summaries with "articles from The Economist,
background profiles, forecasts and statistics from the Economist
Intelligence Unit, market and currency updates, newswires and
links."TOP
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Environmental News Network:
Excellent for news,
features, multimedia, and special
reports. TOP
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EuroNews
European
news and weather in several languages, from EuroNews, a European public TV
network. TOP
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Far Eastern Economic Review
The interactive edition of Far Eastern Economic
Review.
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International
Herald Tribune
Japan Times:
English-language daily from Japan.TOP | HOME
Kathmandu
Post
The daily English-language
newspaper from Nepal's capital features many of their articles online as
well as an archive of past issues. TOP | HOME
Kiosken:
Complete links to news media worldwide. Over
15,559 links to 213 countries.
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Lankapage
This site
offers news and news links for Sri Lanka, plus basic weather information,
exchange rates, and share price indices. TOP | HOME
Media Links
From
Editor & Publisher, a really complete full service and global
coverage of online newspapers, magazines, news services, radio and
television stations, association listings, and city
guides. TOP
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NewsDirectory.com
A
guide to English-language media online, worldwide--newspapers, magazines,
TV, others. TOP
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News
Feeds on Women Issues
It features news concerning women’s rights and
issues from around the world.TOP
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Newspapers Online
Worldwide listings by type
and country. TOP
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Newspapers of the World on the Internet
Covers newspapers worldwide, organized by
region. TOP
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Oneworld Online
Based in London, Oneworld is an
excellent resource center for international news, media, guides,
education, partners, a gallery of artwork, and a take-action bulletin.
Oneworld is the recipient of the best non-commercial site award.
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Reuters
Top world and business news stories
from this prestigious agency. TOP
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South China Morning Post
Interactive
The South China
Morning Post, Hong Kong's premier source for news, features much of their
daily content on their site with an emphasis on business information. And
for those who miss know the Post well, they'll be happy to find Nury
Vittachi onsite in all his glory.TOP | HOME
Voice of America News
News and special reports, printed and audio (in scores of
languages), from this U.S. government international
service. TOP | HOME
Washington Post World Section
With regional news pages, and searchable by
countries, topics, or keywords. Interactive maps. Also check out the
Search the World page for access by country and other
features. TOP
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Wings: Women’s International News Gathering
Service
The site features real-time broadcast from WINGS,
an all-women independent radio production company that produces and
distributes news and current affairs programs by and about women around
the world. It also offers online consultations and training for women in
community radio production and updates on stories about women’s
media.TOP | HOME
MAJOR SEARCH
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TRAINING
INSTITUTIONS
Center for Development and Population
Activities
The Centre for
Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) is a women-focused nonprofit
international organization founded in 1975. CEDPA's mission is to empower
women at all levels of society to be full partners in development. It
offers the following training courses for women: Masters Trainer
Certification and Women in Management. TOP
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Center for the Education
of Women
Originally called the
Center for Continuing Education of Women, it was the nation's first
comprehensive, university-based women's center of its kind, and from the
beginning had a commitment to helping women further their educational and
employment goals, as well as focusing on research and advocacy for
women.
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International Center for
Research on Women
ICRW's Fellows
Program gives development researchers and practitioners from developing
countries the opportunity to spend time in Washington, DC, at ICRW, where
they gain policy and project perspectives on the gender dimensions of
development. TOP
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Institute of International Studies
List of research and training programs from
Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
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Leadership Training Courses UK 
It
provides advice and recommend sites where you can find: General advice on
becoming a better leader; Online tutorials on improving leadership skills;
and Training courses that help you to become a better leader. TOP
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Women's Studies Programs, Departments, & Research
Centers
Links to more than 600
women's studies (including "gender studies") programs, departments, and
research centers around the world that have web sites.
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VIRTUAL LIBRARIES
International
Information Centre and Archives for the Women's
Movement
The IIAV is the source, the intermediary and the supplier of
information and documentation for all those who occupy themselves with the
position of women, whether it concerns books, periodicals, data,
addresses, archives, visual materials, current or historical, national or
international. TOP
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Gender Studies of South Asia
The topics covered in the following
bibliographies are somewhat specific, and not necessarily comprehensive.
These include bibliographies on history and culture of South Asia, on
women development studies and political economy.TOP
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Project South
Asia: Women's Studies
Housed at Missouri Southern State College,
Project South Asia is a Web-based digital library for improving the study
and teaching of South Asia, focusing especially on India and Pakistan.
This section includes Encyclopedia of South Asian Women's Studies, Source
Documents in South Asian Women's Studies; Image Bank for South Asian
Women's Studies; Timeline of Important Events in South Asian Women
Studies; and important weblinks among others. TOP | HOME
Resources on Gender and Governance
This is an
electronic database divided into following categories: gender perspective,
women's rights, women's participation in politics, advocacy on women's
issues, and women and electoral politics. Conceptualized and
maintained by the Philippine-based Center for Legislative Development
through the Asia-Pacific Women in Politics Research and Documentation
Project (APWIP-RDP). TOP
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South Asian Women’s Library
Comprehensive
listing of bibliographies TOP
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Women In Asia: Publications from the Asian Studies
Association of Australia
Online bookstore that features various
books, research papers, case studies and other documents on Asian women.
TOP
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Women's studies information sources
Provides links to full text electronic journals on
women’s studies available at York University.TOP
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Women's Studies Electronic Journal
Links to full text electronic journals in women's
studies. Also a selective list of other women's studies electronic
journals currently available. TOP
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The Women's
Library
Documents the changing
role of women in society, in the past, now and in the future. It collects
materials relating to the changing role of women in society and to make
these available to personal and to remote users, however they make
contact. It maintains links with other women centered
libraries.TOP
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The Women's Presses
Library Project
It is a coalition
of women-owned independent presses. These presses produce books that
address a range of subjects and concerns for women and girls not regularly
dealt with by the mainstream houses. TOP
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The Schlesinger
Library
The Schlesinger Library draws thousands of researchers each year
to study the history of women in the United States. The library holds
letters and diaries, photographs, books and periodicals, ephemera, oral
histories, and audiovisual materials that document the history of women,
families, and organizations, primarily in the 19th and 20th
centuries. TOP
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ONLINE LEARNING
MODULES
Making Governance Gender Responsive
Learn more
about governance which is based on people-centered development, and
works towards addressing the needs
of all citizens, regardless of gender. Click the title above to start
learning. TOP
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ICT Policy for Civil Society:
Training Curriculum
The ICT Policy
for Civil Society training course builds the capacity of civil society
organisations to understand policy and regulation related to information
and communication technologies (ICT) so that they can begin to engage and
influence policy processes affecting ICT adoption and implementation at
national, regional and global levels. TOP
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WOMEN AND
GENDER-RELATED SITES
Association for Women's Rights
in Development (AWID)
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.
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Asia-Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development
(APWLD)
The
online home of APWLD, an independent and non-profit organization committed
to enabling women to use law as an instrument of social change for
equality, justice and development. The site has sections on network news
and publications. TOP
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Asociacion de Comunicaciones Feminist Interactive Radio
Endeavor (AC FIRE)
AC Fire was borne out of Feminist International Radio Endeavor or
FIRE, originally a showrtwave radio program by and about women. The
website features livebroadcast of the program plus nes and other
information on women. TOP
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Aviva
It is a
free webzine run by an international group of feminists based in London.
It provides free listings service for women everywhere. TOP
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Be active, Be emacipated - BaBe
B.a.B.e. is a
Women's Human Rights Group working in Croatia. It is a strategic lobbying
and advocacy group working for the affirmation and implementation of
women's human rights. TOP
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BRIDGE
BRIDGE was
set up in 1992 as a specialised gender and development research and
information service within the Institute of Development Studies, UK.
BRIDGE supports gender mainstreaming efforts of policymakers and
practitioners by bridging the gaps between theory, policy and practice
with accessible and diverse gender information.TOP
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Coalition Against Trafficking In Women–Asia
Pacific
The Coalition Against
Trafficking in Women-Asia Pacific is an international network of feminist
groups, organizations and individuals fighting the sexual exploitation of
women globally. TOP
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Center for Legislative Development (CLD)
CLD
addresses the need for both capability-building of legislatures and
strengthening participation of civil society in legislative
decision-making to ensure the passage of responsive and gender-fair
legislation. TOP
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Centre For Women’s Research
The Centre has 15 years of research experience on women in Sri
Lanka with a view to facilitating the realization of their full potential
in achieving equality. One special section of the website is the Sri Lanka
Women’s NGO Forum, which serves as a lobbying and advocacy body on women’s
concerns. Its main focus is to popularize the Beijing Platform for
Action. TOP
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Center for Reproductive Law and Policy (CRLP)
A non
profit organisation dedicated to promoting women's equality worldwide by
guaranteeing reproductive rights as human rights. Reproductive rights, the
foundation of women's self determination over their bodies and sexual
lives, are critical to all women's ability to achieve their full
potential. TOP
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Center for Women’s Global Leadership (Global
Center)
The
Center for Women's Global Leadership (Global Center) develops and
facilitates women's leadership for women's human rights and social justice
worldwide. TOP
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Centre For Social Research
Online home of the Centre for Social Research, one of the leading
women’s institutions in India devoted to the objective of restructuring
the existing gender relations for the empowerment of
women. TOP
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Commonwealth
Gender
This is the Commonwealth homepage on gender and
development. You will find information on the Commonwealth's core
activities defined by the 1995 Commonwealth Plan of Action on Gender and
Development. You can also find out about programmes specifically designed
to: Improve the relationships between the 1.7 billion women and men in the
Commonwealth; Promote the sharing of best practices and partnerships; and
Deal with issues of concern to men and women in the 21st century.
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Contemporary Women World Leaders
This site provides
the visitors with short profiles of women leaders which have been in power
from 1945 - 2001. The compilation includes queens, presidents, prime
ministers, governor-generals, parliamentary chairwomen and party
leaders.TOP
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FemAid
FemAid aims at bringing women together across
the world and involving them in ongoing projects in a practical way.
Women’s rights, environment, poverty, war victims are all fields where
your help and input will be valued. Because there are a lot of women
fighting to get adequate medical care, school books, basic toiletries and
just friends. TOP
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FemiNet
Korea
FemiNet Korea is an online space established in November
1996. Its goal is to develop the creative power of women through the
"Movement for Women's Information Empowerment" and to contribute to the
establishment of an electronic democracy through the spreading of an
information culture. TOP
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Feminist
Majority
The Feminist Majority is committed to empowering women
and winning equality through research, the sharing of information of value
to feminists everywhere, and effective action. The site is a gateway to
other Internet resources on feminism and gender equality. Mostly
US-maintained websites. TOP
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Fiji Women’s
Crisis Centre (FWCC)
FWCC provides
crisis counseling as well as legal, medical and other practical support
services to women and children survivors of all forms of
violence. TOP | HOME
Fourth World
Conference on Women
A link site that is becoming the one-stop
center for information related to the UN conference. Major categories
include late breaking news, background information, lists of other
Beijing-realted web sites, and copies of Earth Negotiations Bulletin. Many
of the documents are geared toward actual conference participants (subway
maps, visa information). TOP | HOME
Gender and Political
Participation: International and Regional Weblinks
This page from
the International Insitute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA)
features 105 weblinks to non-profit organizations, academic institutions
and online resource centers from all over the world. TOP | HOME
Great Women
Short biographies of notable women of
the world. TOP | HOME
Global Alliance
Against Traffic in Women (GAATW)
GAATW is a worldwide movement of organizations and individuals
that organize and co-ordinate work on issues related to trafficking in
persons and women’s labor migration. It promotes the involvement of
grassroots women in all work against trafficking so that any work done
addresses the real problems. TOP | HOME
Global Center for Women's for Women's Studies and Politics
(GLOW)
Glow , a subsection of the Feminist Institute in the
Heinrich Böll Foundation, stands for global information, global discussion
and learning for women worldwide. It is a virtual center for women's
studies and women's politics, established by the Feminist Institute of the
Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin, Germany. TOP | HOME
Global Reproductive Health Forum
Maintained by the
Harvard School of Public Health, the website internet networking project
that aims to encourage the proliferation of critical discussions about
reproductive health and gender on the net. GRHF provides interactive
electronic forums, global discussions, distributes reproductive health and
rights materials from a variety of perspectives as well as maintains an
extensive, up-to-date research library. TOP | HOME
International Women's Democracy Center
The
International Women's Democracy Center was established to strengthen
women's global leadership through training, education, research and
networking in all facets of democracy with a particular focus on
increasing the participation of women in policy, politics and
decision-making. TOP | HOME
International Women's Forum
Forum History The IWF is
a global organization of preeminent women of significant and diverse
achievement. Members come together across national and international
boundaries to share knowledge and ideas, to enrich each other's lives, to
provide a network of support and to exert influence. Through the
Leadership Foundation, the International Women's Forum helps prepare
future generations of women leaders. TOP | HOME
Isis
International-Manila
A feminist NGO dedicated to women’s information and communication
needs, documenting ideas and visions, creating channels to communicate,
collecting and moving information, networking and building links. Isis
focuses on those advancing women’s rights, leadership and empowerment in
Asia and the Pacific and with connections in over 150 countries, keeps up
with changing trends and analysis concerning women worldwide. TOP
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Les Penelopes
Penelopes is a feminist organization that advocates the use of the
Internet and other information and communications technologies in building
bridges of solidarity and networking among women of different cultures.
The site features Beijing + 5 documents. TOP
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MahilaWeb: Sharing
Resources About Women and Gender in Nepal
Mahilaweb is an electronic repository on
women and gender issues in Nepal. It features information on the 12
Critical Areas of the Beijing Platform for Action as well as updates on
post-Beijing activities in Nepal. TOP
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Network of Women in Media, India
An association which
aims to provide a forum for women in media professions to share
information and resources, exchange ideas, promote media awareness and
ethics, and work for gender equality and justice within the media and
society. TOP
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Said It: Feminist News,
Culture and Politics
Self-described as pro-equality, pro-multiplicity, pro-abundance,
pro-responsibility pro-animal, pro-justice, pro-love, pro-laughter
feminist publication. It is an online newsletter that heightens the
analysis and advocacy on globalisation, portrayal of women in media,
pornography, prostitution, women's rights, reproductive health, women's
bodies and the women's movement. TOP
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Salidumay: Women’s Voices Weaving
The largest online network of women’s
organizations in the Philippines. The site boasts of news stories mainly
from the Women’s Feature Service-Philippine Bureau, publications, laws,
and other documents on gender and development in the Philippines. It also
has a directory of women’s organizations working in the Philippines.
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Sisterhood is Global Institute (SIGI)
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. With members in 70 countries, and a network of more
than 1300 individuals and organizations worldwide, SIGI works toward
empowering women and developing leadership through human rights education.
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South Asian Women For Action (SAWA)
SAWA organizes and leads dialogues across lines of
age, class, sexuality, race, religion and language to articulate the life
of South Asian women. It is committed to the fight for social and economic
justice. TOP | HOME
South
Asian Women’s Network
SAWNET (South Asian Women's NETwork) started as a mailing list in
Nov 1991, with about 40 subscribers. Now it has a website that features a
discussion board, news and features on issues affecting South Asian women
and other resource materials.
Taiwan Women
Taiwan Women is a network founded in
1995 to facilitate communication and co-operation among Taiwanese women
studying or living in the U.S. who are interested in gender issues and
current situation of Taiwanese women. TOP | HOME
The White House Project
The White House Project works
to create a climate in America where it is normal for women to be
governors, CEOs and president. It is a national non-partisan organization,
is dedicated to advancing women's leadership across sectors, enhancing
public perception's of women's ability to lead and fostering the entry of
women into leadership positions, including the presidency. TOP | HOME
Wings: Women’s International News Gathering
Service
The site features
real-time broadcast from WINGS, an all-women independent radio production
company that produces and distributes news and current affairs programs by
and about women around the world. It also offers online consultations and
training for women in community radio production and updates on stories
about women’s media. TOP | HOME
Women Against Fundamentalisms (WAF)
WAF was launched
in 1989 to challenge the rise of fundamentalism in all religions. For
them, fundamentalism does not mean religious observance, (which is a
matter of individual choice) but as modern political movements which use
religion as a basis for their attempt to win or consolidate power and
extend social control. TOP | HOME
Women and Islam
The website has en extensive
collection of materials on women and Islam, women in Qur'an and in the
Sharia. TOP | HOME
Women Building Peace
The WBC Campaign works to:
Raise global awareness of women's experiences and perspectives of peace
and conflict; Help women better realize their potential as peacebuilders
from the village to the national level; Get more women included in all
levels of peace processes; Affect the policy of international agencies,
and Gain a greater commitment by the international community to gender
considerations in peace-building and conflict transformation. TOP | HOME
Women In
It features individual women or groups and
organizations in different fields each month.TOP | HOME
Women in 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.
TOP
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Women in Politics
A section on the website of the
Inter-Parliamentary Union that deals with Women in Politics. The site
features various studies and documents dealing with the subject. It also
includes a bibliographical database on WIP. TOP
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Women Learning Partnership (WLP)
WLP is an
international, non-governmental organization (NGO) that empowers women and
girls in the Global South to re-imagine and re-structure their roles in
their families, communities, and societies. The website is rich with
online resources on women such as facts and figures on political
participation and economic decision-making. TOP
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Women Living Under Muslim Laws
An international
Network that provides information, solidarity and support for all women
whose lives are shaped, conditioned or governed by laws and customs said
to derive from Islam. The Network aims to increase the autonomy of women
by supporting the local struggles of women from within Muslim countries
and communities and linking them with feminist and progressive groups at
large; facilitating interaction, exchanges and contacts and providing
information aswell as a channel of communication. TOP
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Women's Caucus for Gender Justice
A network of
individuals and groups committed to strengthening advocacy on women's
human rights and helping to develop greater capacity among women in the
use of International Criminal Court, the Optional Protocol to CEDAW and
other mechanisms that provide women avenues of and access to different
systems of justice. TOP
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Women’s Aid Organization
(WAO): Pertubuhan Pertolongan Wanita
WAO is a Malaysian-based institution which has
been assisting women and children suffering from mental, physical and
sexual abuse through its temporary refuge services. The site is dedicated
for these women who are victims of violence and for all those who want to
help stop the violence against women.
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Women’s
Edge
Women's EDGE is a dynamic
coalition of individuals and respected organizations that is giving women
and families around the world an economic edge. Women's EDGE organizes for
economic, political and social change.
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Women's Human Rights Network (WHRNet)
A
collaborative Information & Communication Technology (ICT) project
developed by an international coalition of women's organizations that aims
to strengthen advocacy for women's human rights through the effective
utilization of information and communication technologies. TOP
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Women in Local Government - Asia and Pacific
The
Regional Information Resource Facility – Women In Local Government
(RIRF-WLG) is an internet-based resource facility which houses a
compendium of research output, conference papers, gender statistics and
articles on women in local governance across Asia and the Pacific.
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Women
in Power
What does it take for a woman to succeed in world
politics? Despite the progress made in the last century, there are still
few women leaders. Hear these eleven women talk about how they achieved
success. Find out what motivates them and how they overcame the barriers
they faced. Can women have it all? Using exclusive material from recent
interviews and the BBC archive, follow these profiles to discover what it
takes. TOP
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Women's International Center
Online home of the
Center based in California, which was founded in 1982. WIC mission is
celebrate women and their positive, enduring contributions to humanity
through the Living Legacy Awards. It features biographies of its past
awardees like Corazon Aquino, Benazir Bhutto and Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
WILPF works to create an environment of political, economic,
social and psychological freedom for all members of the human community,
so that true peace can be enjoyed by all. TOP
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Women's International Net
WIN is an Internet
publication by and about women worldwide. It includes important news and
information about issues that affect all of us. TOP
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Women's Voting Guide: Directory of Women in Politics in the
US
A comprehensive list of links to web resources on women in
politics in the US that includes statistics, documents and directories of
women organizations. TOP
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Women for Women
International
WWI defines justice as economic, political, and social justice
that has gender equality at the core. It provides women with
tools and resources needed to move out of crisis and poverty, and into
stability and self-sufficiency through direct aid, skills training, rights
awareness and leadership
development.TOP
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Women Watch
WomenWatch is a joint initiative of DAW,
UNIFEM, & INSTRAW. The site serves as a gateway to UN information and
data on women worldwide and an evolving forum on global women's issues in
the follow-up to the FWCW and constitutes an electronic space for exchange
of information and ideas on women's issues. TOP
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WoMen's
Statistics Watch
Serves as an international link collection of
already accessible gender and women statistics pages selected by topics
and of related general statistics sites and analysis pages. The W%W
project was initiated to build by and by an international detailed
gender/women statistics internet database easily accessible to the public
and to researchers. The main aim is to combat discrimination against
women. TOP
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WorldWIT (Women in Technology)
WorldWIT.org is a
global, online community for women in technology. That means technical
women, and other women involved in the 'tech sector,' including
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Transparency International's Global Corruption
Report 2004
This year’s
Global Corruption Report focuses on corruption in the political process,
and on the insidious impact of corrupt politics on public life in
societies across the globe. It addresses the following areas in the
context of political corruption: the regulation of political finance; the
disclosure of money flows in politics and the enforcement of political
finance laws; elections – specifically vote buying; the private sector –
with a focus on the arms and oil sectors; and tackling the abuse of office
– including reducing conflicts of interest, limiting recourse to immunity,
pursuing extradition and repatriating stolen wealth.
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