Organisations - Organizaciones

gender and economy, development
women's media
sexual and reproductive rights
women and human rights / women, peace and war
lesbians
women and politics, leadership
women and environment
women and history / oral history
women literature and arts
women and racism
women and migration / refugees
women's news
women's networks
women's health
women's libraries, documentation centres and archives
gender and economy, development
Intermón Oxfam: La Salud antes que el beneficio - firmen la petición (Spanish) http://www.intermon.org/patentes
Gender Center for Sustainable Development, Mongolia (English) http://www.wirc.mn/
DAWN: Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (English) http://www.dawn.org.fj/
WIDE: Network Women in Development Europe (English) http://www.eurosur.org/wide/porteng.htm
women's media
Gender Forum - gender forum is an electronic journal dedicated to the discussion of women's and gender studies. It developed out of gender Inn, a database for gender and women's studies launched by the English Department of Cologne University (Germany) in 1987. (English) http://www.genderforum.uni-koeln.de
A primera plana - Revista de Género y Comunicación, una publicación de la Red Dominicana de Periodistas (Spanish) http://www.aprimeraplana.org/No1/
Penelopes: Femmes Information (French) http://www.mire.net/penelopes/
feminismus.cz: czech feminist internet-publications (Czech) http://www.feminismus.cz/
CIMAC Comunicación y Información de la Mujer A.C., México (Spanish) http://www.cimac.org.mx/
The African Women's Media Center (AWMC) is a project of the International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) (English, French) http://www.awmc.com/
The Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press. The Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press (WIFP) is a nonprofit, tax-exempt research, education, and publishing organization. (English, Spanish) http://www.wifp.org/
The Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press in Spanish: Lo que buscamos es difundir los medios de comunicación de y por las mujeres en diversos ámbitos: cultura, política, derechos humanos, etc.; así como nuevos espacios donde podemos dar a conocer nuestras voces. (Spanish) http://www.wifp.org/DWM/Spanish.html
International Women's Media Foundation: The IWMF was launched in 1990 with the mission to strengthen the role of women in the news media around the world, based on the belief that no press is truly free unless women share an equal voice. (English) http://www.iwmf.org/
WomanPlus magazine: Since 1994 the Russian Women's NGO - "East-West Women's Innovation Fond" publishes the social and enlightening magazine WOMAN PLUS. (English) http://www.owl.ru/eng/womplus/index.htm
sexual and reproductive rights
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. http://www.womenonwaves.org/
Hydra e.V. Treffpunkt und Beratung für Prostituierte (German) http://www.lustgarten.de/hydra/
women and human rights / women, peace and war
RAWA: The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (English, Persian, Italian, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese) http://www.rawa.org/
Women Living Under Muslim Laws (English, French) http://www.wluml.org/
Shaan online, IPS e-zine on Gender and Human Rights, Women with AIDS (English) http://www.ipsnews.net/hivaids/index.shtml
Network of East-West Women NEWW (English) http://www.neww.org/
WomensNet (SouthAfrica): Women and Human Rights Webpage (English) http://womensnet.org.za/humanrights/
Equality Now: Human rights violations against women (English, French, Spanish, Arabian) http://www.equalitynow.org/brochure_eng_hub.html
Women's Human Rights Net (English) http://www.whrNet.org/
WomenWatch The UN Internet Gateway on the Advancement and Empowerment of Women (English) http://www.un.org/womenwatch/
Madre: an international Women's Human Rights Organization (English) http://www.madre.org/
Isis WICCE: Isis-Women's International Cross Cultural Exchange (Isis-WICCE) is an action oriented women's resource centre (English) http://www.isis.or.ug/
lesbians
Lesbian Links (English) http://www.dykes.org.uk/leslinks.htm
A Dyke's World (English) http://dykesworld.de/index1a.html
Euro-Sappho is a list for sapphic discussion on topics that are mainly of interest to European dykes. It links to many lesbian organisations (English, German, Spanish, French) http://www.helsinki.fi/~kris_ntk/euro-sappho/
Polish Lesbian Archives established in Warsaw in 1996 (English, Polish) http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/8676/
Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Rights in India (English) http://www.altindia.net/altsex/toc.html
women and politics, leadership
Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung - Glow Website (German) http://www.glow-boell.de/home/content/d/Sitemap/index_html
Center for Women's Global Leadership (English) http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/
women and environment
Ecofeminism; espirituality and theology in Latin America (spanish) http://www.conspirando.cl/contactos.htm
Women's Environment and Development Organization (English) http://www.wedo.org/
women and history / oral history
ViVa: A Bibliography of Women's History in Historical and Women's Studies Journals (English) http://www.iisg.nl/~womhist/vivahome.html
The National Women’s History Project is a non–profit organization dedicated to recognizing and celebrating the diverse and historic accomplishments of womenby providing information and educational material and programs, USA, with online-catalogue (English) http://www.nwhp.org/
women literature and arts
Datenbank zu Literatur etc. über / von Frauen / Database with literature etc. from / about women (English) http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/englisch/datenbank/e_index.htm
women and racism
Internet Centre Anti Racism Europe (English, French) http://www.icare.to/
WCAR Material Submitted by NGO's organized by theme (English) http://www.hri.ca/racism/Submitted/Theme/index.shtml
El racismo viola los derechos humanos. Grupo de trabajo de Mujeres negras y de color (Spanish) http://www.movimientos.org/dhplural/foro-racismo/
World Conference Against Racism - At the Crossroads of Gender and Racial Discrimination (English) http://www.un.org/WCAR/e-kit/gender.htm
women and migration / refugees
Portal for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Migrants, Portail pour la promotion et la protection des droits des migrants, Portal para la promoción y protección de los derechos de los migrantes, Portaal voor de promotie en de bescherming van de rechten van de migrant, Crocevia per la promozione e la tutela dei diritti dei migranti (English, Español, Nederlands, Français, Deutsch) http://www.december18.net
Africains sans papiers « de Saint-Ambroise » (French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, Wolof, Soninké, Bamanankan, Esperanto, Dutch) http://www.bok.net/pajol/
Sans-Papiers: Informazioni sulle lotte per il diritto di libera circolazione degli uomini, delle donne, e delle idee (Italian) http://www.ecn.org/sans/index.htm
Kein Mensch ist illegal: Network for support of illegalised people (German) http://www.contrast.org/borders/kein/
Study about women, migration, environment and rural development policy in Brazil (English) http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/x0210e/x0210e00.htm
La Asociación mujeres de esta tierra, frauen dieser erde e.V. se fundó en octubre de 1998 por mujeres de América Latina, de España y de otras nacionalidades que hablan español. La Asociación orienta su trabajo en dos direcciones. La primera, en proporcionar ayuda y apoyo a la mujer inmigrante y su familia con información, cursos, asesorías y actividades culturales que le faciliten una mejor integración en la sociedad alemana. Y la otra, en apoyarle en su desarrollo personal y profesional. (Spanish, German) http://www.mujeres-de-esta-tierra.de
women's news
Aviva: Free monthly listings of women's groups & events worldwide (English) http://www.aviva.org/
women's networks
The APC Women's Networking Support Programme (APC WNSP)(English, Spanish) http://www.apc.org/english/about/apcwomen/index.htm
Isis International-Manila: linking women, sharing knowledge, engendering change (English) http://www.isiswomen.org/
Asia-Japan's Women's Resource Center, a regional women's oragnisation based in Japan that "Facilitates discussion and action for women in Asia to envision an alternative future society based on gender justice, ecology and local and global democracy where poverty, oppression and discrimination are eliminated" (English, Japanese) http://www.jca.apc.org/ajwrc/en/index.html
women's health
The Canadian Women’s Health Network is a national non-profit organization committed to enhancing women’s health. The website is one of the premier Canadian portals to resources, news, and information about women’s health. The information is relevant to health consumers all over the globe. Access to women’s health resources through our searchable database of more than 1600 organizations, 2400 published resources, 250 specialists, and 200 projects. Breaking women’s health news. Thousands of health articles and information organized by subject. Links to women’s health resources around the globe National and International conference and event listings (English, French) http://www.cwhn.ca/
women's libraries, documentation centres and archives
The archive of the german women's movement (Das Archiv der deutschen Frauenbewegung) in Kassel: a special library with ca 20.000 books and magazines from 1800 to the 1960s. Online access to the catalogue (German) http://www.addf-kassel.de
Zenska infoteka - Women's Information and Documentation Centre from Zagreb, Croatia (Croatian, English) http://www.zinfo.hr/engleski/index-engleski.htm
Glasgow Women's Library & Lesbian Archive and Information Centre (English) http://www.womens-library.org.uk/index.htm
International Information Centre and Archives for the Women's Movement - Library, documentation centre and archives on the position of women and women's studies (English, Dutch) http://www.iiav.nl/
Comunicación y Información de la Mujer A.C., Centro de Documentación (Spanish) http://www.cimac.org.mx/cdocu.html

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