Open Directory - Society: People: Women: Women's Rights
See also: This category in other languages: - A group of women artists, writers, performers, film makers and arts professionals who fight discrimination. Schedule of appearances, art archive, profile and interview. - Social entrepreneurship helping Afghan families with steady income and access to education and healthcare by sourcing and selling handmade area rugs Afghan women weave. - A veteran of women's rights struggles offers resources on topics such as sexual harassment, sexual assault, and discrimination against women faculty and students on college campuses. - Extensive reference library on women's rights. - The Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of Women's Rights - The Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women - The Center for Reproductive Rights is a nonprofit, legal advocacy organization that promotes and defends the reproductive rights of women worldwide. - A public interest, nonprofit women's law center in San Francisco that fights for the economic, social and political equality of women and girls. - An international human rights organization dedicated to action for the civil, political, economic and social rights of girls and women. - An international campaign for women's rights, improved health care, and legal abortion and birth control. Issue links, celebrity profiles, current projects and news, and photo exhibition. - A network created by Roula Scoutari of intercommunication and solidarity among women. Aims and views. [Greek and English]. - A group of diverse feminists working to preserve the individual's right and responsibility to read, listen, view and produce materials of her choice - Formed in 1999 to address discrimination in our technologized world. Sponsors interactive activism through online feminist quizzes, streaming video, and other projects which take advantage of digital media. - The international information centre and archives for the women's movement. - International Criminal Court offers a long-awaited improvement in how international crimes against women are treated. It increases the possibility for redress and provides witness protection and other measures to afford women the greatest level of protection. - An international women's human rights group - Women's rights in the profession of law and worldwide. - Real Women of B.C. Canada - A Nepali NGO working to eliminate injustice and violence against women and children in Nepal and providing support to victims. - International non-governmental organization specializing in women's rights and advocacy. - A feminist organization dedicated to gender equality and justice for Shan women in Burma - Articles about women's rights. - Challenging the conservative politics of sexism, homophobia, racism and classism. - Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). - Global hub providing free legal assistance, news, resources, national legislation and international conventions about women's rights. Run by Thomson Reuters Foundation. - News and information about the UN effort to work with Afghan women and the government of Afghanistan since 2002. Includes justice, governance, community empowerment and economic development. - Multimedia reports on the struggle for gender equality around the globe. - Resources and dialogue to promote advocacy, networking, collaboration, collectives and women's power around the globe. - The objective of this website is to share facts on women and other social problems which the world is facing. - WEDO is an international organization that advocates for women’s equality in global policy. - Stop the world and change it - for a new millennium which values all women's work and all women's lives. Visit the site and add your reasons for going on strike. - Wlp's goal is to empower women and girls in the Global South through leadership training and capacity building. Wlp is an international non-governmental organization. - Hilary Lips' Distinguished American Scholar Lecture on feminization poverty, glass ceilings, pay equity, work-family balance and women in a learning society. - A global gateway to alternative reports, campaign material, events listings, multi-media coverage, press releases, and other resources that deal with the UN's Beijing +5 review process on the empowerment of women. - Learn about the work of the United Nations entities and inter-governmental and treaty bodies that deal with the advancement and empowerment of women and about international instruments on women's rights.
