I. International Women's Peace and Women's Human Rights Organizations

Women Building Peace http://www.international-alert.org/women/home.html
is a campaign whose objectives include strengthening the protection and participation of refugee and internally displaced women, including women in peace negotiations, putting women at the heart of reconstruction and reconciliation, and more. The Millennium Peace Prize for Women is a part of the campaign.

Women For Women: http://www.womenforwomen.org/
supports women who are survivors of war and genocide. It formed in 1993 in response to atrocities against women in Bosnia; then added Rwanda, Kosova, Colombia, Nigeria, Bangladesh and Pakistan.

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom http://www.wilpf.int.ch/~wilpf (English, French). WILPF names itself the oldest and largest women's peace and justice organization in the world. Besides peace, globalization/economic justice, human rights, women's rights, and eliminating racism are all WILPF concerns. WILPF service Peacewomen under http://www.peacewomen.org highlights UN-focused information and news of peace campaigns and under "resources" links to a bibliography as well as numerous reports and articles in fulltext.

Women in black http://www.igc.org/balkans/wib/links.html
is an initiative of women mourning for peace, wearing black clothes.
Originally coming from Yugoslavia, there are now independent groups
around the world. The site shows links to other Women in Black Groups or similar groups.
To name some:
Women in Black Yugoslavia http://www.zeneucrnom.org.yu/
Women in Black England and Spain http://wib.matriz.net/
Women in Black Cambridge, UK http://www.camwib.org.uk/
Women in Black New York, USA http://www.womeninblack.net
Women in Black Canberra, Australia http://www.sshub.com/wib.htm

Women for International Peace and Arbitration: http://www.wipa.org
based in Glendale, USA but with chapters in other countries, mainly African, WIPA is an educational organization for peace. Site includes information on project with women in China.

The Women Peacemakers Program (WPP), http://www.ifor.org/wpp/
working locally and internationally, empowers women peace activists. Launched in June 1997, this program of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR) supports women in promoting nonviolent social change. The website offers information on regions of crisis and a directory on Women's Peace Groups, which gives mainly phsyical adresses and is not very up to date.

Women Waging Peace http://www.womenwagingpeace.net
is an initiative of the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. It is a network of women peace builders almost all over the world. Included on the site is a searchable bibliography on "Women, Conflict, and Peace Building".

World March of Women http://www.ffq.qc.ca/marche2000/index.html
(English/ Spanish& French) is a worldwide initiative of women marching for a peacefull word - that means without any discrimination.

II. International Peace Organizations With Women's Sections or Projects (Exemples)
Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org
works for human rights worldwide.

Association for Progressive Communications (APC) http://www.apc.org
is an Internet network of non-profit Internet service and communication providers. PeaceNet: http://www.igc.org/igc/pn and WomensNet: http://www.igc.org/igc/womensnet/ are two of them. The sites are a source for older news items and articles (1999-2001).

Human Rights Watch: http://www.hrw.org
(French, English, Spanish, Arabic) has a women's right's section http://www.hrw.org/about/projects/women.html

ICHRDD, http://www.ichrdd.ca/frame00e.html
the International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development has a Women's Rights Program and several publications about women's rights.

International Peace Bureau (IPB): http://www.ipb.org/,
founded in 1892, names itself the world's oldest international peace federation." Among its projects. IPB promotes the International Women's Day for Peace and the Committee of Soldiers' Mothers of Russia.

Peace Brigades International (PBI) http://www.peacebrigades.org/pbi-e.html
website in English, Spanish, French and other languages is an NGO based in Brussels, Belgium, which protects human rights and promotes nonviolent transformation of conflicts by sending volunteers into places in crisis. Currently, they have volunteers protecting human rights activists in Colombia, Indonesia, and Mexico, as well as a project restarting in Guatemala and a joint project with other organizations in Chiapas, Mexico.
The website gives adresses in the countries they work in, reports and other publications.

International Service for Peace http://www.sipaz.org/ SIPAZ,
(English, Spanish, French, German, Italian), is a coalition of North American, Latin American and European organizations based in Santa Cruz, USA, formed in 1995 to support the peace process in Chiapas, Mexico mainly by sending volunteers to the country and informing and mobilizing the international community.

III. Local Women's Peace Organizations, But With International Interests (exemples)

Afghanistan

Afghan Women in the Peace Process, http://www.wapha.org/peace.html
offers a list of Women's organizations in Afghanistan.

RAWA The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan http://www.rawa.org/ (English)
or http://rawa.fancymarketing.net/spanish.htm
(Spanish) is a political/social organization of Afghan women struggling for peace, freedom, democracy and women's rights in fundamentalism-blighted Afghanistan.

Africa

OAU, http://www.oau-oua.org/document/mechanism/english/mech05.htm
the Organization of African Unity has an African Women's Committee on Peace and Development co-sponsored a conference in Zanzibar, May 17-20, 1999, that resulted in the Zanzibar Declaration on Women and a Culture of Peace: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Urgent_Action/apic_6799.html

Argentina

Asociación de las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo: http://www.madres.org/ (Spanish); Association of the Mothers of the Place of May, works on the issue of people who disappeared during the dictatorship.

Canada

Canadian Voice of Women for Peace: http://www.interlog.com/~vow/
(English) works on peace, social justice, human rights and development, promoting a woman's and a feminist's perspective.

Columbia

Planeta Paz (Peace Planet) http://www.planetapaz.org/
(Spanish) has a women sector and wants to empower the social sector in Columbia.

Columbia en Paz/ Columbia in Peace, http://www.colombiaenpaz.org/
deals with the peace process in Columbia.

Embarca Paz en Colombia, http://www.embarcapazcolombia.org/pazintegral.html
Website on women and the peace process in Columbia launched by several Columbian women's NGOs.

Eastern Europe

NEWW http://www.neww.org/ has the mission to empower women and girls throughout the East (Central and Eastern Europe, and NIS and the Russian Federation) and the West by dialogue, networking, campaigns, and educational and informational exchanges. NEWW supports action and joint projects inspired by feminist principles.

El Salvador

CEPAZ, http://www.cepaz.org.sv/ Centro de Paz/ Cenre for Peace, El Salvador,
(Spanish). The site provides histroical documents about the peace process in El Salvador.

Guatemala

Mujeres Nuevo Milenio http://ar.geocities.com/redmujeresnuevomilenio/page13.html
(Women New Millenium) has a Spanish website that gives information on women and peace in Guatemala.

Puerto Rico

Paz Para la Mujer/ Peace for the Woman, http://www.pazparalamujer.org/
The Coordination Paz para la Mujer (CPM) is an NGO formed by centres for survivors of domestical violence, investigation centres, women's studies centers etc. The NGO is based in Puerto Rico.

Middle East

Bat Shalom, http://www.batshalom.org/
is a feminist center for peace and social justice in Israel.

The Bridge: http://tx.technion.ac.il/~ada/the-bridge.html,
ewish and Arab Women for Peace in the Middle East, includes Jewish and Arab Israeli women and their supporters.

Building Bridges for Peace http://ajp.com/scg/bbfp.html
brings together Jewish and Arab Israeli young women along with US high schoolers.

Coalition of Women for Peace http://www.coalitionofwomen4peace.org NGO
is an NGO of Jewish and Palestinian women, citizens of Israel representatives of various women's organizations and individuals who work togother on peace.

The Jerusalem Center for Women: http://www.j-c-w.org/
is a Palestinian NGO working on peace.

The Jerusalem Link http://www.batshalom.org/JerusalemLink.htm
connects two women's organizations, working together for peace: Bat Shalom: http://www.batshalom.org (Israeli) and The Jerusalem Center for Women: http://www.j-c-w.org/ (Palastine).

Jewish Unity for a Just Peace http://www.endtheoccupation.org
is an international gathering of grassroots Jewish activists who support a just, viable and lasting peace based on the principles of international law, requiring a complete end to Israel's Occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip.

Nisan Young Women Leaders: http://www.nisan.org
develops the leadership potential of Jewish and Arab Israeli young women and "fosters communication and cooperative partnerships among them."

Spain

The Asamblea de Cooperación por la Paz http://www.acpp.com/
(Assembly for a cooperation for peace) is an NGO which develops activities for solidarity, cooperetation and defense of human rights. Website in English, French, Spanish and other regional languages spoken in Spain. Based in Madrid (Spain) it develops cooperations with other parts of the world as in Latin America, the Caribean, Africa, The Near East.
Its women's commission (Comisión de Mujeres de la Asamblea de Cooperación por la Paz) is active in a campaign for the support of Afghanian women for excemple.

Peace Now (Paz ahora) http://www.nodo50.org/pazahora/
is an NGO based in Spain that runs an English/Spanish website with information on Afghanistan, Israel/ Palastine, the Balcanes - especially on the situation of women.

Teachers for Peace http://www.sgep.org/
(Galicia/ Spain), website in English and Spanish promotes peace education.

United Kingdom

Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp: http://www.web13.co.uk/greenham/
originated in 1981 with marches and demonstrations against siting Cruise missiles at Greenham Common, U.K., an air force base. The effort was successful, and the group continues to protest nuclear weapons. Other activities of women nuclear resisters are covered elsewhere in issues of The Nuclear Resister http://www.nonviolence.org/nukeresister/.

NIWC, the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition http://www.pitt.edu/~novosel/northern.html
began in 1996 "to put forward an agenda of reconciliation through dialogue, accommodation and inclusion."

IV. Governmental Organisations

UN

Women Watch http://www.un.org/womenwatch/index.html
is a joint UN project to create a core Internet space on global women's issues. It was created to monitor the results of the Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing in 1995. It was founded in March 1997 by the Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW), the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW).
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/world/ (English) gives an overview about the process of implementation of women's rights and governmental conferences on women worldwide

Overview about al United Nations programmes http://www.un.org/Depts/otherprgs.htm

Division for the Progress of the Women http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/index.html
lists up all UN activities concerning women

Woman and Gender programes http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/topicse/womengee.htm
lists up the special programmes on women.

UNIFEM http://www.undp.org/unifem/index.html
the United Nations Develoment Fund for Women has Peace Building and Conflict Resolution and the progress on it http://www.undp.org/unifem/gov_pax.htm as one of its main topics.
The page (English) informs about governmental and nongovernmental acitivitees.

EU

ECHO http://europa.eu.int/comm/echo/es/index.html
European Commission Humanitarian Organisation makes it ppossible to find all relevant documents concerning women and women and peace by a search machine, running in all EU working languages such as English, Spanish, French, Italian, German etc.

V. Resources on Peace and Women's Human Rights

Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org
includes reports and other documents, and Amnesty International USA Women's Human Rights links (English and Spanish)

Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action has a Women and Armed Conflict section http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing/platform/armed.htm where a diagnosis on women in amred conflict is made and strategic objectives are described.

Equipo Nizkor http://www.derechos.org/nizkor/eng.html (English) or http://www.derechos.org/nizkor/index.html (Spanish) collects information and documents about human rights in Latin America. Searchable database in English or Spanish.See also Derechos,http://www.derechos.org/ the "first Internet-based human rights organization," whose 6,000 page site has a searchable index.

IFOR,The International Fellowship of Reconciliation http://www.ifor.org
is an international, spiritually-based movement composed of people working on peace. The page ifor.org/wpp offers a list of Women's peace Groups by countries which mainly contains physical adresses and is not updated.

Mujeres hoy (Women today) http://www.isis.cl/mujereshoy/vi/docu10.htm
(Spanish) gives a list of documents on women and the peace process in several Latin American countries. On the website http://www.isis.cl/mujereshoy/vi/enlaces.htm#otr
a list of women and human rights organisations worldwide is provided.

Women Waging Peace http://www.womenwagingpeace.net/
a venture of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, connects women addressing conflicts worldwide. The site offers a searchable Bibliography on Women, Conflict and Peace Building, http://www.womenwagingpeace.net/content/researchcenter/bibliography/index.asp (English only).

Peace Women http://www.peacewomen.org/
runs an annotated Bibliography on women and peace.

Peace Magazine http://www.peacemagazine.org/
site includes tables of contents and selected articles. Articles available in fulltext.

The Peace and Conflict Homepage http://csf.colorado.edu/peace
is a mega-site for Peace Studies with a women and peace section, sponsored by Communications for a Sustainable Future, housed at the University of Colorado.
Programs at universities, Peace Research Institutes, syllabi, journals, and more.

Peace.Protest.Net http://pax.protest.net/
includes links to anti-war and anti-racist events, petitions, coalitions, and news.

The Women's Human Rights Resources section of the DIANA Project (English) http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/Diana/
is a massive annotated bibliography of articles, documents, and websites maintained by the University of Toronto Law School Library.

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