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Violence Against Women Bibliography & Resources

WHRD Claiming Rights, Claiming Justice November 29: Women Human Rights Defenders Day
Celebrate and protect the space for women human rights defenders in your community and around the world! Make use of this exciting new publication!

Claiming Rights, Claiming Justice: A Guidebook on Women Human Rights Defenders
  • 2008 16 Days Bibliography and Resource List: English (PDF); English (Word)
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  • 2006 16 Days Bibliography and Resource List: English (PDF); English (Word)
  • 2005 16 Days Bibliography and Resource List: English, Spanish (PDF); English, Spanish (Word)
  • 2004 16 Days Bibliography and Resource List: English (PDF); English (Word)
    • An additional list of publications concerning gender-based violence meant to be supplemental to the bibliography in the Take Action Kit (PDF, Word).
    • A comprehensive, worldwide list of organizations and initiatives including their titles, websites, and descriptions in the areas of Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights, HIV/AIDS and Violence Against Women (PDF, Word).
  • 2003 16 Days Bibliography and Resource List: English, Spanish (PDF); English, Spanish (Word)

Additional Resources

Reproductive Health and VAW

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Violence Against Women

  • Addressing Gender Violence in a Reproductive and Sexual Health Program in Venezuela. A chapter in "Responding to Cairo: Case Studies of Changing Practice in Reproductive Health and Family Planning," Nicole Haberland and Diana Measham, eds. (Population Council, 2002). Authors: Alessandra C. Guedes (IPPF/WHR), Lynne Stevens, Judith F. Helzner (IPPF/WHR), Susana Medina; Publisher: Population Council. Publication Date(s): 2002
  • Afkhami, Mahnaz and Haleh Vaziri. (1996) Claiming Our Rights: A Manual for Women's Human Rights Education in Muslim Societies, Bethesda, Maryland, USA: Sisterhood is Global Institute. Contact: Sisterhood is Global Institute, 1200 Atwater, Suite 2, Montreal, QC, Canada H3Z 1X4, http://www.sigi.org.
  • Afkhami, Mahnaz, Greta Hofmann Nemiroff and Haleh Vaziri. (1999) Safe and Secure: Eliminating Violence Against Women and Girls in Muslim Societies, Bethesda, Maryland, USA [available in Arabic and English]: Sisterhood is Global Institute. Contact: Sisterhood is Global Institute, see below.
  • Amnesty International. (2000) Respect, Protect, Fulfill Women's Human Rights: State responsibility for abuses by 'non-state actors,' London, United Kingdom: Amnesty International. Contact: Amnesty International, 1 Easton Street, London WC1X 0DW, United Kingdom, http://www.amnesty.org.
  • Ashworth, Georgina. (1993) Changing the Discourse: A Guide to Women and Human Rights, London, UK: CHANGE. Contact: CHANGE, International Reports: Women and Society, 106 Hatton Square, 16-16a Baldwins Gardens, London EC1N 7RJ, United Kingdom.
  • Asociación Dominicana Pro-Bienestar de la Familia (PROFAMILIA) (2001). Legal Guides for Service Providers Who Work With Women Survivors of Gender-Based Violence
  • Asociación Dominicana Pro-Bienestar de la Familia (PROFAMILIA). (2001). 2001Legal Guides for Service Providers Who Work With Women Survivors of Gender-Based Violence.
  • Benninger-Budel, Carin (2000) Violence against Women: 10 Reports/Year 2000 For the Protection and Promotion of the Human Rights of Women, Geneva, Switzerland: World Organisation Against Torture, Contact: World Organisation Against Torture, P.O Box 21, 8 Rue de Vieux-Billard, 1211 Geneva 8, Switzerland.
  • Beyond Victims and Villains: Addressing Sexual Violence in the Education Sector, Panos Institute, 2003. http://www.panos.org.uk/PDF/reports/Beyond%20Victims.pdf
  • Brasileiro, Ana Maria. (1997) Women Against Violence: Breaking the Silence, New York, NY, USA: United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). Contact: Women, Ink., 777 UN Plaza, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10017, USA, http://www.womenink.org
  • Bunch, Charlotte, and Niamh Reilly. (1994) Demanding Accountability: The Global Campaign and Vienna Tribunal for Women's Human Rights, New Brunswick, NJ, USA: Center for Women's Global Leadership with United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), New York, NY, USA. Contact: Center for Women's Global Leadership, see below.
  • Bunch, Charlotte, and Roxanna Carrillo. (1991) Gender Violence: A Development and Human Rights Issue, New Brunswick, NJ, USA: Center for Women's Global Leadership. Contact: Center for Women's Global Leadership, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 160 Ryders Lane, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8555, USA, http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu.
  • Butegwa, Florence, Stella N. Mukasa and Susan Mogere. (1995) Human Rights of Women in Conflict Situations, Harare, Zimbabwe: Women in Law and Development in Africa (WiLDAF). Contact: WiLDAF, P.O. Box 4622, Harare, Zimbabwe, http://www.wildaf.org.zw.
  • Callamard, Agnès. (1999) Sexual Violence: Documenting Human Rights Violations by States Agents, Montreal, Canada: Amnesty International and the International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development (ICHRDD). Contact: ICHRDD, see below.
  • Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs. (2003) Violence Against Women issue of Human Rights Dialogue (Series 2, Number 10). Available at: http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/media/1061_hrd2-10.pdf?PHPSESSID=f33f27d8f83530fcb2240ad245eee4b1.
  • Center for the Study of Human Rights. (1996) Women and Human Rights: The Basic Documents, New York, NY, USA: Center for the Study of Human Rights. Contact: Center for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University, 420 West 118th Street, 1108 International Affairs Building, Mail Code: 3365, New York, NY 10027, USA.
  • Center for Women's Global Leadership. (1994) Gender Violence and Women's Human Rights in Africa: A Symposium, New Brunswick, NJ, USA: Center for Women's Global Leadership. Contact: Center for Women's Global Leadership, see below.
  • Changing Community Norms on Partner Abuse: A Project in Iztacalco, Mexico. ICRW Report-in-Brief. 1999, 4 pages. http://catalog.icrw.org/docs/ribs/IMIFAP.pdf
  • Clarke, Roberta. (1998) Violence Against Women in the Caribbean: State and Non-State Responses, New York, NY, USA: United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). Contact: Women, Ink., see below.
  • Convention on Violence Against Women," Lanham, MD, USA: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Contact: Center for Women's Global Leadership.
  • Cook, Rebecca J. ed. (1994) Human Rights of Women: National and International Perspectives, Philadelphia, PA, USA: University of Pennsylvania Press. Contact: Women, Ink., see below.
  • Corrêa, Sonia with Rebecca Reichmann. (1994) Population and Reproductive Rights: Feminist Perspectives from the South, St. Michael, Barbados: Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) and Zed Books Ltd. Contact: Zed Books Ltd., 57 Caledonian Road, London N1 9BU, UK or 165 First Avenue, Atlantic Highlands, NJ 07716, USA, http://www.zedbooks.demon.co.uk.
  • Corrin, Chris ed. (1996) Women in a Violent World: Feminist Analysis and Resistance Across 'Europe,' Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press. Contact: Edinburgh University Press, 22 George Square, Edinburgh, Scotland.
  • Crooms, Lisa A. (1999) "Using a Multi-Tiered Analysis to Reconceptualize Gender-Based Violence Against Women as a Matter of International Human Rights," 33 New England Law Review 881, Boston, MA, USA: New England School of Law. Contact: Center for Women's Global Leadership.
  • Danieli, Yael, Elsa Stamatapoulou and Clarence Dias eds. (1999) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Fifty Years and Beyond, New York, NY USA: United Nations and Baywood Publishing Company, Inc.
  • Davies, Miranda ed. (1994) Women and Violence: Realities and Responses Worldwide, London/Atlantic Highlands: Zed Books Ltd. Contact: Women, Ink. or Zed Books Ltd., see below.
  • Elimination of Violence through Research and Education: Promoting Women's Human Rights in Bulgaria. ICRW Report-in-Brief. 1999, 4 pages. http://catalog.icrw.org/docs/ribs/MAHR.pdf
  • Elson, Diane ed. (2000) Progress of the World's Women 2000, New York, NY, USA: United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). Contact: Women, Ink., see below.
  • Family Violence Prevention Fund and Center for Women's Global Leadership. (1997) Migrant Women's Human Rights in G-7 Countries: Organizing Strategies, New Brunswick, NJ, USA: Center for Women's Global Leadership. Contact: Center for Women's Global Leadership, see below.
  • Finney Hayward, Ruth (2000) breaking the earthenware Jar: Lessons from South Asia to End Violence against Women and Girls, New York, NY USA: United Children's Fund (UNICEF). Contact: UNICEF, see below.
  • Fisher, Elizabeth and Linda Gray MacKay. (1996) Gender Justice: Women's Rights are Human Rights, Cambridge, MA, USA: Unitarian Universalist Service Committee. Contact: Women, Ink., see below.
  • Fitzpatrick, Joan. "The Use of International Human Rights Norms to Combat Violence Against Women," in Cook, Rebecca J., ed., Human Rights of Women: National and International Perspectives, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.
  • for Organisations in East and Southern Africa, Modern Litho Press, Nairobi, Kenya: Raising Voices in collaboration with UNIFEM and ActionAid Uganda. Contact: Raising Voices, 16 Tufnell Drive, Kamwokya, P O Box 6770, Kampala, Uganda, www.raisingvoices.org.
  • Fragoso, Julia Moñarrez. (2002) "Serial Sexual Femicide in Ciudad Juárez: 1993-2001," Debate Feminista, 13th Edition, Vol. 25, April 2002. Contact: Center for Women's Global Leadership.
  • Gender-Based Violence: A Human Rights Issue. Mujer y Desarrollo Series #16. Economic Comisión for Latin America and the Caribbean, 1996. http://www.eclac.cl/publicaciones/UnidadMujer/7/lcl957/lcl957i.pdf
  • Green, December. (1999) Gender Violence in Africa: African Women's Responses, New York, NY, USA: St. Martin's Press. Contact: St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010, USA.
  • Human Rights Dialogue: Violence Against Women, Series 2, Number 10 (Fall 2003), Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs. Impunity and Women's Rights in Ciudad Juárez: Lydia Alpízar explains how women's organizations are responding to the systematic killings of women in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Charlotte Bunch notes that their efforts have opened doors for the human rights movement to address other important issues. http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/viewMedia.php/prmID/1057
  • Human Rights Watch - Women's Rights Project. (1995) The Human Rights Watch Global Report on Women's Human Rights, New York, NY, USA: Human Rights Watch (see also numerous country-specific reports on violations of women's human rights). Contact: Human Rights Watch, 350 Fifth Avenue, 34th Fl., New York, NY 10118-3299, USA, http://www.hrw.org.
  • Human Rights Watch. (2003) We'll Kill You If You Cry: Sexual Violence in the Sierra Leone Conflict. Available at: http://hrw.org/reports/2003/sierraleone/.
  • Ilkkaracan, Pinar ed. (2000) Women and Sexuality in Muslim Societies, Istanbul, Turkey: Women for Women's Human Rights (WWHR). Contact: WWHR, Inönü Cad. Saadet Apt. No: 37/6, Gümüsuyu 80090, Istanbul, Turkey.
  • International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission. (1995) Unspoken Rules: Sexual Orientation and Women's Human Rights, San Francisco, California, USA: International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC). Contact: IGLHRC, 1360 Mission Street, Suite 200, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA, http://www.iglhrc.org.
  • International Women's Tribune Centre. (1998) Rights of Women: A Guide to the Most Important UN Treaties on Women's Human Rights, New York, NY, USA: International Women's Tribune Centre (IWTC). Contact: Women, Ink., see below.
  • Kempadoo, Kamala and Jo Doezema eds. (1998) Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance and Redefinition, New York, NY, USA: Routledge. Contact: Women, Ink., see below.
  • Kvinna till Kvinna Report - Voices From the Field about women testifying against sexual violence (info@iktk.se or Telephone: +46-8-702 98 20; www.iktk.se)
  • Landsberg-Lewis, Ilana ed. (1998) Bringing Equality Home: Implementing the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), New York, NY, USA: United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). Contact: Women, Ink., see below.
  • Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network. (1996) The Right to Live Without Violence: Women's Proposals and Actions, Women's Health Collection, Vol 1: Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network. Contact: Women, Ink., see below.
  • Maramba, Petronella, Bisi Olateru-Olagbegi and Rosalie Tiani Webanenou. (1995) Structural Adjustment Programs and the Human Rights of African Women, Harare, Zimbabwe: Women in Law and Development in Africa (WiLDAF). Contact: WiLDAF, see below.
  • Mertus, Julie with Mallika Dutt and Nancy Flowers. (1999) Local Action/Global Change: Learning About the Human Rights of Women and Girls, New Brunswick, NJ, USA: Center for Women's Global Leadership and New York, NY, USA: United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). Contact: Women, Ink.., see below.
  • Meyer, Mary K. (1999) "Negotiating International Norms: The Inter-American Commission of Women and the
  • Michau, Lori and Naker, Dipak. (2003) Mobilising Communities to Prevent Domestic Violence: A Resource Guide
  • Naraghi Anderlini, Sanam. (2000) Women at the Peace Table: Making a Difference, New York, NY, USA: United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). Contact: UNIFEM, 304 East 45th Street, New York, NY 10017, USA.
  • Petchesky, Rosalind and Karen Judd eds. (1998) Negotiating Reproductive Rights: Women's Perspectives across Countries and Cultures, New York, NY: International Reproductive Rights Research and Action Group. Contact: Women, Ink., see below.
  • Rahman, Anika and Nahid Toubia eds. (2000) Female Genital Mutilation: A Guide to Laws and Policies Worldwide, New York, NY, USA: ZED Books in association with Center for Reproductive Law & Policy and Research, Action and Information Network for the Bodily Integrity of Women. Contact: Zed Books, see below.
  • Ravikant, Namratha S. (2000) "Dowry Deaths: Proposing a Standard for Implementation of Domestic Violence Legislation in Accordance with Human Rights Obligations," 6 Michigan Journal of Gender & Law 449, MI, USA. Contact: Center for Women's Global Leadership.
  • Rehn, Elisabeth and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. (2002) Progress of the World's Women 2002: Women War Peace, The Independent Experts' Assessment on the Impact of Armed Conflict on Women and Women's Role in Peace-Building, New York, NY, USA: United Nations Development Fund for Women. Contact: UNIFEM.
  • Reid, Sheila. (2003) Preventing violence against women: a European perspective. ISBN : 92-871-5291-8. Council of Europe Publishing, Palais de l'Europe, 67075 Strasbourg Cedex, France; E-mail: publishing@coe.int; Visit our site : http://book.coe.int; Tél. : +33 (0)3 88 41 25 81; \ Fax : +33 (0)3 88 41 39 10.
  • Reilly, Niamh. (1996) Without Reservation: The Beijing Tribunal on Accountability for Women's Human Rights, New Brunswick, NJ, USA: Center for Women's Global Leadership. Contact: Center for Women's Global Leadership, see below.
  • Richter-Lyonette, Elenor ed. (1996) In the Aftermath of Rape: Women's Rights, War Crimes and Genocide, Givrins, Switzerland: The Coordination of Women's Advocacy. Contact: The Coordination of Women's Advocacy, Ancien Collège, CH-1271, Givrins, Switzerland.
  • Rothschild, Cynthia (2000) Written Out: How Sexuality is Used to Attack Women's Organizing, New York, NY, USA: International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) and Center for Women's Global Leadership. Contact: IGLHRC, see below.
  • Sajor, Indai Lourdes ed. (1998) Common Grounds: Violence Against Women in War and Armed Conflict Situations, Philippines: Asian Centre for Women's Human Rights (ASCENT). Contact: Women, Ink., see below.
  • Schuler, Margaret ed. (1992) Freedom from Violence: Women's Strategies from Around the World, New York, NY, USA: United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). Contact: Women, Ink., see below.
  • Sweetman, Caroline, ed. (1998) Violence Against Women, Oxford, United Kingdom: OXFAM International. Contact: Women, Ink., see below.
  • The Russian Women Lawyers' Advocacy Project: Improving Knowledge and Services for Survivors of Violence Against Women. ICRW Report-in-Brief. 1999, 4 pages. http://catalog.icrw.org/docs/ribs/WLDI.pdf
  • Thomas, Dorothy Q. (1996) All Too Familiar: Sexual Abuse of Women in U.S. State Prisons, New York, NY, USA: Human Rights Watch (HRW). Contact: HRW, see below.
  • Tomasevski, Katarina. (1993) Women and Human Rights, London/Atlantic Highlands: Zed Books Ltd. Contact: Zed Books Ltd., see below.
  • Turshen, Meredith and Clotilde Twagiramariya, eds. (1998) What Women Do in Wartime: Gender and Conflict in Africa, London/Atlantic Highlands: Zed Books. Contact: Women, Ink. or Zed Books Ltd., see below.
  • United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). (2000) Domestic Violence Against Women and Girls, Florence, Italy: UNICEF. Contact: UNICEF - Innocenti Research Centre, Piazza SS. Annunziata - 12, 50122 Florence, Italy, http://www.unicef-icdc.org
  • United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). (1999) Women@Work to End Violence: Voices in Cyberspace, New York, NY, USA: UNIFEM. Contact: Women, Ink., see below.
  • United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). (2000) With an End in Sight: Strategies from the UNIFEM Trust Fund to Eliminate Violence Against Women, New York, NY, USA: Available at http://www.unifem.undp.org/public/tfbook/ or via Women, Ink., see below
  • United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). (2003) Not a Minute More: Ending Violence Against Women, New York, NY, USA: UNIFEM. Contact: Women, Ink., see below.
  • United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. (1995) Sexual Violence Against Refugees: Guidelines on Prevention and Response, Geneva, Switzerland: High Commissioner for Refugees. Contact: High Commissioner for Refugees, Case Postale 2500, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland, http://www.unhcr.ch.
  • United Nations. (18 December 1979) Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. RES. 34/180. Contact: Division for the Advancement of Women, 2 United Nations Plaza, Room DC2-1220, New York, NY, USA, http://www.un.org/daw.
  • United Nations. (1995 - 1999) Reports submitted by Radhika Coomaraswamy, Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Its Causes and Consequences. Doc. E/CN.4/1995/42 (1995); Doc. E/CN.4/1996/53 (1996); Doc. E/CN.4/1997/47 (1997); Doc. E/CN.4/1998/54 (1998); Doc. E/CN.4/1999/68 (1999). Geneva, Switzerland: Commission on Human Rights. Contact: Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, see below.
  • United Nations. (1996) Platform for Action and the Beijing Declaration, New York, NY, USA: Department of Public Information. Contact: Department of Public Information, Room S-1005, United Nations Headquarters, New York, NY 10017, USA.
  • United Nations. (23 February 1994) Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women. A/RES/48/104. Contact: Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights - Centre for Human Rights, New York Office, United Nations, New York, NY 10017 USA, or Centre for Human Rights, United Nations Office at Geneva, 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland, http://www.unhchr.ch.
  • United Nations. (25 June 1993) World Conference on Human Rights: The Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action. A/CONF.157/23.25. Contact: Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, see below.
  • Watts, Charlotte, Susanna Osam and Everjoice Win, eds. (1995) The Private is Public: A Study of Violence Against Women in Southern Africa, Harare, Zimbabwe: Women in Law and Development in Africa (WiLDAF). Contact: WiLDAF, see below.
  • Wijers, Marjan and Lin Lap-Chew. (1997) Trafficking in Women, Forced Labour and Slavery-like Practices in Marriage, Domestic Labour and Prostitution, Utrecht, The Netherlands: Foundation Against Trafficking in Women (STV) and Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW). Contact: STV, Postbus 1455, 3500 BL Utrecht, The Netherlands.
  • Wolper, Andrea and Julie S. Peters. (1995) Women's Rights, Human Rights: International Feminist Perspectives, New York, NY, USA: Routledge. Contact: Women, Ink, see below.
  • Women, Law and Development International and Human Rights Watch. (1997) Women's Human Rights Step by Step: A Practical Guide to Using International Human Rights Law and Mechanisms to Defend Women's Human Rights, Washington, DC, USA: Women, Law and Development International. Contact: Women, Law and Development International, see below.
  • Women-Initiated Community Level Responses to Domestic Violence: Summary Report of Three Studies. Duvvury, Nata et al. ICRW Research Report. 2002, 84 pages. http://www.icrw.org/docs/DVIndia_Report5_702.pdf

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Working with Men to End Violence Against Women

Contacts for Publications:

  • Amnesty International, 1 Easton Street, London WC1X 0DW, United Kingdom, http://www.amnesty.org.
  • Center for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University, 420 West 118th Street, 1108 International Affairs Building, Mail Code: 3365, New York, NY 10027, USA.
  • Center for Women's Global Leadership, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 160 Ryders Lane, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8555, USA, http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu. cwgl@igc.rutgers.edu.
  • CHANGE, 6930 Carroll Avenue, Suite 910, Takoma Park, Maryland 20912, USA, http://www.genderhealth.org
  • CHANGE, International Reports: Women and Society, 106 Hatton Square, 16-16a Baldwins Gardens, London, EC1N 7RJ, United Kingdom
  • Edinburgh University Press, 22 George Square, Edinburgh, Scotland.
  • Human Rights Watch, 350 Fifth Avenue, 34th Fl., New York, NY 10118-3299, USA, http://www.hrw.org.
  • International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development (ICHRDD), 1001 de Maisonneuve Blvd. East, Suite 1100, Montreal, Quebec, H2L 4P9 Canada, ichrdd@ichrdd.ca
  • International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC), 1360 Mission Street, Suite 200, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA, http://www.iglhrc.org.
  • Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights - Centre for Human Rights, New York Office, United Nations, New York, NY 10017 USA, or Centre for Human Rights, United Nations Office at Geneva, 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland, http://www.unhchr.ch.
  • Sisterhood is Global Institute, 1200 Atwater, Suite 2, Montreal, QC, Canada H3Z 1X4, http://www.sigi.org
  • The World Bank, Distribution Unit, Office of the Publisher, 1818 H Street, NW, Washington DC 20433, USA
  • UNIFEM, 304 East 45th Street, New York, NY 10017, USA.
  • United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), UNICEF House, 3 United Nations Plaza, New York, New York 10017, U.S.A. 1.212.326.7000, email: info@unicef.org, http://www.unicef.org
  • Women in Law and Development in Africa (WiLDAF), P.O. Box 4622, Harare, Zimbabwe, http://www.wildaf.org.zw.
  • Women, Ink., 777 UN Plaza, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10017, USA, http://www.womenink.org.
  • World Organisation Against Torture, P.O Box 21, 8 Rue de Vieux-Billard, 1211 Geneva 8, Switzerland.
  • Zed Books Ltd., 57 Caledonian Road, London N1 9BU, UK or 165 First Avenue, Atlantic Highlands, NJ 07716, USA, http://www.zedbooks.demon.co.uk.

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  • Advocates for Youth http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/
    Advocates for Youth is dedicated to creating programs and advocating for policies that help young people make informed and responsible decisions about their reproductive and sexual health. Advocates provides information, training, and strategic assistance to youth-serving organizations, policy makers, youth activists, and the media in the United States and the developing world.
  • Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) http://www.agi-usa.org/
    The Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) is a nonprofit organization focused on sexual and reproductive health research, policy analysis and public education. AGI publishes Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, International Family Planning Perspectives, The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy and special reports on topics pertaining to sexual and reproductive health and rights. The Institute's mission is to protect the reproductive choices of all women and men in the United States and throughout the world. It is to support their ability to obtain the information and services needed to achieve their full human rights, safeguard their health and exercise their individual responsibilities in regard to sexual behavior and relationships, reproduction and family formation.
  • AMANITARE - the African Partnership for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Women http://www.amanitare.org/
    AMANITARE evolved from the need for a coordinated Pan-African effort to consolidate the skills, knowledge and institutional resources of groups and individuals active in the field of sexual and reproductive health, gender equality, and women's rights. AMANITARE is a ten-year initiative (1999-2009) with a mandate derived from the outcomes of The World Conference on Human Rights (Vienna 1993), The International Conference on Population and Development (Cairo 1994), and The Fifth World Conference on Women (Beijing 1995). In the course of these conferences declarations were drawn by national governments emphasizing the importance of a wide range of women's sexual and reproductive health and rights for overall social development. All forms of gender-based violence and violations were deemed unacceptable.
  • ASTRA - Central and Eastern European Women's Network for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights http://www.astra.org.pl/astra_network_online.htm
    Striving to promote sexual and reproductive health and rights in the region, while simultaneously hoping to bridge the gaps in women's issues, health issues and rights issues, ASTRA has been established by organisations of the region who share common concerns and goals. ASTRA will strive to increase awareness about these issues and to ensure that the specific reality of women's sexual and reproductive rights and health in Central and Eastern Europe receive the highest attention and are treated with adequate priority on international and regional agendas.
  • Australian Reproductive Health Alliance http://www.arha.org.au/
    The Australian Reproductive Health Alliance's mission is to promote public support for enhanced reproductive and sexual health in Australia and internationally, and promote the advancement of the status of women and girls by means of and including: the production of educational materials; the organisation of seminars and workshops; the preparation of briefing materials for members of the press; networking with parliamentarians, government departments and other interested parties as required; and the support and promotion of alliances with opinion makers with comparable aims and objectives.
  • Black Women's Health Imperative http://www.blackwomenshealth.org/site/PageServer
    Black Women's Health Imperative, the new name of the National Black Women's Health Project, is a leading African American health education, research, advocacy and leadership development institution. Founded in 1983 by health activist Byllye Y. Avery, it has been a pioneer in promoting the empowerment of African American women as educated health care consumers and a strong voice for the improved health status of African American women. The organization is gaining the well-earned reputation as the leading force for health for African American women. Black Women's Health Imperative possesses national stature as the only national organization devoted solely to the health of the nation's 19 million Black women and girls. Our mission is to promote optimum health for Black women across the life span-physically, mentally and spiritually.
  • Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC) http://www.catholicsforchoice.org/indexengflash.htm
    Catholics for a Free Choice, an independent not-for-profit organization, is engaged in research, policy analysis, education, and advocacy on issues of gender equality and reproductive health. Working in the Catholic social justice tradition, CFFC is affiliated with Catholic Organizations for Renewal and the Women-Church Convergence, both based in the United States, and with the European Network/Church on the Move.
  • Center for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) http://www.cedpa.org/
    Founded in 1975, CEDPA has provided services to millions of women through partnerships with 138 organizations in 40 countries. We begin with the individual to assure her access to high quality reproductive health and voluntary family planning. To sustain the services she needs and provide life-enriching skills, we strengthen community organizations that provide those choices and other vital support. Leaders of those groups, now more than 5,000 strong, form a powerful global CEDPA network. Together, we advocate at national and global levels to bring about lasting change for women.
  • Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE) http://www.genderhealth.org/
    The Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE) is a U.S.-based non-governmental organization focused on the effects of U.S. international policies on the health and rights of women, girls, and other vulnerable populations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. We believe that every individual has the right to the basic information, technologies, and services needed to enjoy a healthy and safe sexual and reproductive life free from coercion and preventable illness. Our mandate is based on the premise that it is the responsibility of US organizations, connected to US constituencies, to foster accountability of our government's policies abroad. Our overarching goal therefore is to ensure that U.S. international policies and programs promote sexual and reproductive rights and health through effective, evidence-based approaches to prevention and treatment of critical reproductive and sexual health concerns, and through increased funding for critical programs.
  • Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) http://www.reproductiverights.org/
    The Center for Reproductive Rights is a non-profit legal advocacy organization dedicated to promoting and defending women's reproductive rights worldwide. Reproductive rights, the foundation for women's self-determination over their bodies and sexual lives, are critical to women's equality. We believe laws and policies that protect and advance these rights are essential. They must allow women the freedom to decide whether and when to have children. They must respect women's ability to exercise their reproductive choices without coercion. They must also secure women's access to basic health services, including contraception, abortion, education, and safe pregnancy care. Ultimately, reproductive rights are imperative to ensuring justice for all members of society -- women, children, and their families.
  • Center for Research in Women's Health (CRWH) http://www.crwh.org/
    With its roots in both clinical and academic medicine, CRWH takes a broad approach to the study of women's health. While some of our researchers focus on clinical questions and methods of improving service delivery, others look at the context of women's lives, the social and cultural factors that influence women's wellbeing and women's experiences of illness. Our perspective is also expanding to include the basic science of sex differences, the underlying biology that makes women's bodies unique. CRWH draws social scientists, clinicians, basic scientists and public health experts together in a multi-faceted women's health research community that encourages interdisciplinary collaboration.
  • Centre for African Family Studies (CAFS) http://www.cafs.org/
    The Centre for African Family Studies (CAFS) is an African institution dedicated to strengthening the capacities of organisations and individuals working in the field of reproductive health, population and development in order to contribute to improving the quality of life of families in sub-Saharan Africa. CAFS was founded by the International Planned Parenthood Federation - Africa Region (IPPF-AR) and has been serving Africa since 1975. It is now a fully autonomous international non-governmental organisation.
  • Cervical Barrier Advancement Society (CBAS) http://www.cervicalbarriers.org/
    The Cervical Barrier Advancement Society (CBAS), officially launched in June 2004, is an international professional networking organization that aims to raise the profile of cervical barriers, both for preventing pregnancy and potentially HIV and other STIs.
  • Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/sph/
  • Countdown 2015: Sexual and Reproductive Rights for All http://www.countdown2015.org/
    Countdown 2015: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for All is an initiative dedicated to assessing the progress and mapping the future for the key goals of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), held in Cairo in 1994. With ten years left until 2015, this initiative is about identifying future directions, recruiting new allies, and recognizing the critical role of young people in the next decade of efforts to both fulfill the commitments made at ICPD and bring real change to people's lives. Countdown 2015 comprises a series of activities and events that will be held throughout 2004 and into 2005 - and is a key element of efforts by NGOs and civil society to mark the tenth anniversary of ICPD at the national, regional and international levels.
  • EngenderHealth http://www.engenderhealth.org/
    EngenderHealth works worldwide to improve the lives of individuals by making reproductive health services safe, available, and sustainable. We provide technical assistance, training, and information, with a focus on practical solutions that improve services where resources are scarce. We believe that individuals have the right to make informed decisions about their reproductive health and to receive care that meets their needs. We work in partnership with governments, institutions, and health care professionals to make this right a reality.
  • EU/UNFPA Reproductive Health Initiative for Youth in Asia (RHIYA) http://www.asia-initiative.org/
    The EU/UNFPA Reproductive Health Initiative for Youth in Asia (RHIYA) expands upon the successful multi-country intervention, entitled the EC/UNFPA Initiative for Reproductive Health in Asia (RHI). The RHIYA continues the successful collaboration between the European Union (EU), the UNFPA, European and local NGOs towards improving the sexual and reproductive health of the most vulnerable populations in South and South East Asia. This large-scale, multi partner Initiative, spans seven South and South East Asian countries, namely Bangladesh, Cambodia, the Lao PDR, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Viet Nam.
  • Family Care International (FCI) http://www.familycareintl.org/
    FCI is dedicated to improving women's sexual and reproductive health and rights in developing countries, with a special emphasis on making pregnancy and childbirth safer. FCI addresses a range of urgent health issues within a framework of the comprehensive, women-centered approach to reproductive health, which was endorsed by 179 countries at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994. Our work encompasses family planning, unsafe abortion, and gender violence, and we place particular emphasis on safe motherhood and adolescent sexual and reproductive health.
  • Family Health International (FHI) http://www.fhi.org/en/index.htm
    Formed in 1971, Family Health International (FHI) is among the largest and most established nonprofit organizations active in international public health with a mission to improve lives worldwide through research, education, and services in family health.
  • Foundation for Women's Health, Research and Development UK (Forward Foundation) http://www.forwarduk.org.uk/
    FORWARD is the leading voluntary organisation in the United Kingdom working towards elimination of FGM worldwide. It does this through sponsorship of local and international health programmes in the countries directly concerned. It advocates remedial policies be adopted in those countries where harmful traditional practices (such as FGM) have a strongly negative impact on health, including child mortality and reproductive morbidity.
  • FPA Health http://www.fpahealth.org.au/index.html
    FPA Health (formerly Family Planning NSW) has been providing reproductive and sexual health services in New South Wales for over 60 years. We are an independent, not-for-profit organisation responsible to a voluntary board of directors. Our mission is to promote the reproductive and sexual health of the people of NSW and to
    contribute to, collect and disseminate reproductive and sexual health knowledge, information and learning.
  • Global Reproductive Health Forum, Harvard University (GRHF) http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/grhf
    The Global Reproductive Health Forum@Harvard (GRHF) is an 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 through our clearinghouse as well as maintains an extensive, up-to-date research library. Our goal is to reach out to, involve and meet the needs of under served groups globally, the reproductive health community worldwide, academics and people who are dedicated to women's rights and gender issues. GRHF is the premiere reproductive health-focused internet project which encourages global discussion. We hope to create on-going dialogues, partnerships and strategic planning sessions which take place via the web within countries and across continents.
  • Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/fxbcenter/
    The François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights is the first academic center to focus exclusively on health and human rights. The Center combines the academic strengths of research and teaching with a strong commitment to service and policy development.
  • Health Canada - Women's Health and Violence Against Women http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/english/women/facts_issues/facts_violence.htm
    Health Canada's role is to foster good health by promoting health and protecting Canadians from harmful products, practices and disease. Violence against women, a prime area of concern as a health issue, is rooted in the social, economic and political inequality of women. Health Canada's activities through the National Clearinghouse on Family Violence focus on synthesizing and disseminating best practices to prevent and treat family violence, including violence against women.
  • International Center for Reproductive Health (ICRH) http://www.icrh.org
    The main objective of ICRH is to improve the acceptability, accessibility and quality of health services, with the emphasis on reproductive health. This objective is put into practice by developing integrated health care services of high standards, training of health care workers, community involvement, health systems and policy research.
  • International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) http://www.icrw.org/html/issues/violence.htm
    The International Center for Research on Women was created in 1976 to fill the gaps in understanding the complex realities of women's lives and their role in development. Since then, we have focused on improving women's status by connecting insight and action.
  • International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) http://www.iglhrc.org/site/iglhrc/
    The mission of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) is to secure the full enjoyment of the human rights of all people and communities subject to discrimination or abuse on the basis of sexual orientation or expression, gender identity or expression, and/or HIV status. A US-based non-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO), IGLHRC effects this mission through advocacy, documentation, coalition building, public education, and technical assistance.
  • International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) http://www.ilga.org
    The International Lesbian and Gay Association is a world-wide federation of national and local groups dedicated to achieving equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) people everywhere. Founded in 1978, it now has more than 400 member organisations. Every continent and around 90 countries are represented. ILGA member groups range from small collectives to national groups and entire cities. ILGA is to this day the only international non-profit and non-governmental community-based federation focused on presenting discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation as a global issue.
  • International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) http://www.ippf.org/
    The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) links national autonomous Family Planning Associations (FPAs) in over 180 countries worldwide. It is registered as a charity in the United Kingdom and is the largest voluntary organization in the world to be concerned with family planning and sexual and reproductive health. IPPF and its member Associations are committed to promoting the right of women and men to decide freely the number and spacing of their children and the right to the highest possible level of sexual and reproductive health. They believe that the balance between the world's population and its natural resources and productivity is a necessary condition for improving the quality of life on the planet.
  • International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC) http://www.iwhc.org/
    Founded in 1984 by Joan Dunlop and Adrienne Germain, the International Women's Health Coalition works in three ways to build political will and influence the policies of governments, donors, and international agencies to secure girls' and women's sexual and reproductive health and rights: we provide professional assistance and financial support, $1.5-2.0 million annually, to local organizations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America; we inform professional and public debates in the United States and abroad through policy analyses, reports on effective programs and strategies, and media outreach; we advocate at intergovernmental conferences, and collaborate with the UN Population Fund, the World Health Organization, the World Bank, and other international agencies to generate essential policies and resource flows that benefit women and their families
  • Ipas http://www.ipas.org/english/
    Ipas has worked for three decades to increase women's ability to exercise their sexual and reproductive rights and to reduce deaths and injuries of women from unsafe abortion. Ipas's global and country programs include training, research, advocacy, distribution of equipment and supplies for reproductive-health care, and information dissemination.
  • Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network (LACWHN) http://www.reddesalud.org/english/sitio/portada.htm
    The Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network, LACWHN, was created in 1984 during the First Regional Women and Health Meeting held in Tenza, Colombia. LACWHN is a network of organizations and individuals in the women's health movement working to promote women's health and the full exercise of women's human rights and citizenship through the cultural, political and social transformation of our region and the world from a feminist perspective. The Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network unites hundreds of organizations and individuals from a wide range of nationalities, ethnicities, social backgrounds, ages, religious beliefs and sexual orientations. Numerous national and international networks also have joined forces with LACWHN.
  • Marie Stopes International Australia (MSIA) http://www.mariestopes.org.au/
    Marie Stopes International Australia (MSIA) is an Australian not for profit, non-government, tax deductible organisation (NGO), working with local partners and governments to provide vital reproductive health services in low income communities in Asia and the Pacific. We also work with Australia's Indigenous communities through MSIA's fully-owned charity, Marie Stopes Australia. MSIA works for the improvement of the health and quality of life of women and their families, helping them to exercise their right to enjoy reproductive health and have Children by Choice, Not by Chance. MSIA and its partners are committed to saving lives through reproductive health care.
  • National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL) http://www.naral.org
  • National Women's Health Information Center (NWHIC) http://www.4woman.gov/violence/index.htm
    The National Women's Health Information Center (NWHIC), is a service of the Office on Women's Health in the US Department of Health and Human Services. The NWHIC provides a gateway to the vast array of Federal and other women's health information resources. Our site on the World Wide Web can help you link to, read, and download a wide variety of women's health-related material developed by the Department of Health and Human Services, other Federal agencies, and private sector resources.
  • Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP) http://www.nswp.org/
    The NSWP was founded in 1991 as an informal alliance which participates in independently financed projects in partnership with member organizations and technical support agencies. The Network has recently established a secretariat, which was based in Cape Town in 2002 and moved to Rio de Janeiro in 2003. A board has been established to take the network as a legally constituted international organisation to promote sex workers health and human rights.
  • Nursing Network on Violence Against Women International (NNVAWI) http://www.nnvawi.org
    The Nursing Network on Violence Against Women (NNVAW) was formed to encourage the development of a nursing practice that focuses on health issues relating to the effects of violence on women's lives. NNVAW was founded in November of 1985 during the first National Nursing Conference on Violence Against Women held at the University of Massachusetts/ Amherst. We now have international members and have added "International" to our name (NNVAWI). The abuse and exploitation of women is a social problem of epidemic proportions which adversely affects the health of millions of women each year. The Network's ethic fosters the ideal of nursing practice designed to provide assistance and support to women in the process of achieving their own personal empowerment. The ultimate goal of NNVAWI is to provide a nursing presence in the struggle to end violence in women's lives.
  • Pacific Institute for Women's Health http://www.piwh.org/index.html
    The Pacific Institute for Women's Health believes that women's health is a human right, and that access to contraception, reproductive freedom and gender equality are central to women's empowerment and social justice. Our mission is to increase the ability of women to make informed decisions about their sexuality and reproduction. We advance reproductive choice and defend sexual and reproductive rights for women and girls around the world. We work to guarantee access to safe reproductive technology and abortion, improve protection against STIs and HIV, and eliminate gender-based violations of human rights. We conduct action research, education and advocacy in collaboration with activists, scholars, policy-makers and health providers to strengthen grassroots organizations and promote change.
  • Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) http://www.paho.org/
    The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is an international public health agency with 100 years of experience in working to improve health and living standards of the countries of the Americas. It serves as the specialized organization for health of the Inter-American System. It also serves as the Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization and enjoys international recognition as part of the United Nations system.
  • PANOS Institute http://www.panos.org.uk/
    The word "Panos" means torch or beacon in classical Greek. A "panas" is a Nepali word for a lamp, lit when people need to gather round and discuss an issue. It symbolises the principle aims of the Panos Institute when it was founded over 15 years ago - to illuminate and provide insights from developing countries into issues facing us globally; and to stimulate informed, enlightened discussion around such issues.
  • Pathfinder International http://www.pathfind.org/site/PageServer
    Working in 23 countries throughout Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Asia and the Near East, Pathfinder is committed to making family planning and reproductive health services available to all who want them. By partnering with local governments and grassroots organizations, Pathfinder creates innovative programs that are responsive to the health needs of individual communities. In isolated rural areas, Pathfinder trains community members to provide their neighbors with contraceptive services and reproductive health counselling in their own homes. With Pathfinder's support, young women who come to hospital emergency rooms suffering from botched illegal abortions receive live-saving treatment and are provided with counselling and contraception before they leave the hospital. Pathfinder's projects go directly to the people who need them most, bringing HIV/AIDS information and services into the workplace, marketplace, schools, community groups, and youth centers.
  • Physicians for Human Rights http://www.phrusa.org/
    Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) promotes health by protecting human rights. We believe that human rights are essential preconditions for the health and well-being of all people. Using medical and scientific methods, we investigate and expose violations of human rights worldwide and we work to stop them. We support institutions that hold perpetrators of human rights abuses, including health professionals, accountable for their actions. We educate health professionals and medical, public health and nursing students and organize them to become active in supporting a movement for human rights and creating a culture of human rights in the medical and scientific professions.
  • Planned Parenthood Federation of America http://plannedparenthood.org/
    Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., is the world's largest and most trusted voluntary reproductive health care organization. Founded by Margaret Sanger in 1916 as America's first birth control clinic, Planned Parenthood believes in everyone's right to choose when or whether to have a child, that every child should be wanted and loved, and that women should be in charge of their own destinies.
  • The Policy Project http://www.policyproject.com/
    Building on more than 25 years of experience in population and development, the POLICY Project works with host-country governments and civil society groups to achieve a more supportive policy environment for family planning/reproductive health (FP/RH), HIV/AIDS, and maternal health. Multisectoral engagement, community and organizational empowerment, and promotion of human rights and gender equality characterize POLICY's approaches to better reproductive health policies and programs.
  • Population Action International (PAI) http://www.populationaction.org/
    Population Action International (PAI) is an independent policy advocacy group working to strengthen public awareness and political and financial support worldwide for population programs grounded in individual rights.
  • Population Services International (PSI) http://www.psi.org/
    A nonprofit group based in Washington, D.C., PSI is the leading social marketing organization in the world, with programs in almost 70 countries. PSI uses social marketing to deliver health products, services and information that enable low-income and other vulnerable people to lead healthier lives.
  • Promundo http://www.promundo.org.br/
    Promundo is a Brazilian NGO, which seeks to promote gender equity and prevent violence against children, youth and women in Brazil and internationally. Promundo develops methodologies and materials for working with individuals and communities and evaluates and documents the results to influence public policy in Brazil and abroad.
  • The Religious Consultation on Population, Reproductive Health and Ethics (TRC) http://www.religiousconsultation.org
    The Religious Consultation (TRC) is an international, multi-faith network of progressive feminist religious scholars and leaders. We seek out the positive, renewable moral energies of our faith traditions, directing them to the issues of population, consumption, ecology, reproductive health and the empowerment of women.
  • Reproductive Health for Refugees Consortium (RHRC) http://www.rhrc.org/
    The Reproductive Health Response in Conflict (RHRC) Consortium is dedicated to the promotion of reproductive health among all persons affected by armed conflict. The RHRC Consortium promotes sustained access to comprehensive, high quality reproductive health programs in emergencies and advocates for policies that support reproductive health of persons affected by armed conflict. The RHRC Consortium believes all persons have a right to quality reproductive health care and that reproductive health programming must promote rights, respect and responsibility for all.
  • Reproductive Health Outlook (RHO) http://www.rho.org/
    Welcome to Reproductive Health Outlook (RHO), the reproductive health website produced by Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH). RHO is especially designed for reproductive health program managers and decision-makers working in developing countries and low-resource settings.
  • Reproductive Technologies Web http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/rt21
    The Reproductive Technologies Web is dedicated to exploring the many ways scientific and medical developments participate in broader processes of social reproduction. Each section features articles and links to related resources.
  • Research, Action, and Information Network for the Bodily Integrity of Women (RAINBO) http://www.rainbo.org/
    Established in 1994, RAINBO is an African led international non-governmental organisation working on issues of women's empowerment, gender, reproductive health, sexual autonomy and freedom from violence as central components of the African development agenda. RAINBO specifically strives to enhance global efforts to eliminate the practice of Female Circumcision /Female Genital Mutilation (FC/FGM) through facilitating women's self-empowerment and accelerating social change.
  • Right to Decide http://www.righttodecide.org/
    Right To Decide is a web initiative on reproductive and sexual rights and health. Right To Decide provides an open forum for the permanent exchange of best practices, views and news for anyone who is interested. In order not to approach the wide field of reproductive rights and health all at once the themes that are started with are Youth and Conflict.
  • Scarleteen http://www.scarleteen.com/
    Committed to delivering the best contemporary teen sex ed on the net since 1998.
  • Sexual Health Exchange http://www.kit.nl/frameset.asp?/ils/exchange_content/default.asp&frnr=1&
    Sexual Health Exchange is a quarterly, 16-page newsletter produced by KIT in collaboration with SAfAIDS - Southern Africa AIDS Information Dissemination Service - in Harare, Zimbabwe.
    In line with current developments and thinking, HIV/AIDS and STDs are related to a wider reproductive and sexual health framework. The newsletter provides policy guidance and ideas for possible initiatives. It serves as a forum for the exchange of innovative programme experiences world-wide. Subscriptions for organizations and individuals in developing countries are FREE.
  • Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) http://www.siecus.org/
    SIECUS-the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States-has served as the national voice for sexuality education, sexual health, and sexual rights for almost 40 years. SIECUS believes that sexuality is a natural and healthy part of life and that all people have the right to the information, skills, and services they need to make responsible sexual decisions.
  • She's in Recovery - The Online Community for Women in Recovery http://www.shesinrecovery.com
    The goals of She's In Recovery include to create a community of support for each other as women on our recovery journey from addictions, especially to alcohol and drugs; to provide an ongoing relapse prevention resource that is relevant to women; to provide current addictions news, information and research about women, for women.
  • Site Specializing in the Treatment of Domestic Violence for Health Care Professionals (SIVIC) http://www.sivic.org/
    This site discusses the various practical aspects relating to the detection and the medical monitoring of women who are victims of domestic violence. It is therefore directed towards all heath sector professionals who wish to have information on the subject of domestic violence and its consequences in health terms and who wish to know, as health professionals, what action they should take. We consider domestic violence to include all forms of violence used by a partner or ex partner against his woman with the aim of permanently destroying her self esteem and keeping her under his control. Conjugal violence, or domestic violence is a very real public health problem. This site has been created within the framework of the European Commission's Daphné Initiative and is translated into 4 languages (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese).
  • The Supply Initiative: Meeting the Need for Reproductive Health Supplies http://www.rhsupplies.org/
    The Supply Initiative: Meeting the Need for Reproductive Health Supplies; was established to create a forum in which leading reproductive health organisations can work together to identify the main causes of supply shortages, and make recommendations to governments and donors on solving these shortages.
  • United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) http://www.undp.org/
    At the United Nations Millennium Summit, world leaders put development at the heart of the global agenda by adopting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which set clear targets for reducing poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women by 2015. On the ground in 166 countries, UNDP uses its global network to help the UN system and its partners to raise awareness and track progress, while it connects countries to the knowledge and resources needed to achieve these goals.
  • UNESCO: Electronic articles on Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health http://www.unescobkk.org/ips/arh-web
    The UNESCO office in Bangkok was established in 1961 as the Asian Regional Office for Primary and Compulsory Education. The Office was later extended to cover all divisions of the education sector and the countries of the Pacific region. Further growth included the incorporation of activities relating to the culture, communication, and social and human science sectors, which led to the eventual renaming of the office as the Principal Regional Office for Asia and Pacific (PROAP) in 1987.
  • United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) http://www.unfpa.org/
    UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is the world's largest international source of funding for population and reproductive health programmes. Since we began operations in 1969, the Fund has provided nearly $6 billion in assistance to developing countries.
  • White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood http://whiteribbonalliance.org
    The white ribbon is dedicated to the memory of all women who have died in pregnancy and childbirth. Worldwide, every minute of every day, a woman dies of pregnancy-related complications - nearly 500,000 women each year. Most of these deaths can be prevented. The White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood unites individuals, organizations and communities who are working to increase public awareness about this needless loss of life and to promote safe motherhood worldwide.
  • Women, Health & Development (HDW) http://165.158.1.110/english/hdp/hdwmuje.htm
    The mandate of PAHO's Women, Health and Development Program (HDW) is to provide technical cooperation to member countries to promote equitable and sustainable development with a gender perspective. This mandate calls for the redistribution of responsibilities and power between women and men in order to improve the physical, psychological, and social well-being of the entire population. Within this framework, HDW seeks identify and reduce the inequalities between women and men that are unnecessary, unjust, and avoidable with regard to: health outcomes and its determinants, access to resources and quality care that serve the specific needs of women and men from different social groups, allocation of public and private health resources, equitable redistribution of the division of labor and power at the family and community level, and within the health system.
  • Women's Health Hotline (newsletter) http://www.libov.com
    This site was created and is maintained by women's health advocate Charlotte Libov for the purpose of enhancing public education about women's health issues.
  • Women's Health Project http://www.whealth.org/
    The first of its kind in the country, the Women's Health Project is an initiative of the National Health Sciences Consortium(NHSC), a group of nine top science institutions across the country, of which the Maryland Science Center is a member and the lead organization for this project.
  • World Health Organization - Department of Gender and Women's Health http://www.who.int/gender/en/
    The Department of Gender and Women's Health is charged with helping WHO's various programs and departments undertake the challenge of integrating gender considerations into their work. It is also responsible for researching and disseminating information on neglected topics directly pertaining to women's health, such as gender-based violence against women.
  • YouthNet http://www.fhi.org/en/Youth/YouthNet/index.htm
    YouthNet is a global program to improve reproductive health and prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS among people 10 to 24 years old.
  • Youth-Policy.com http://www.youth-policy.com/
    Youth-policy.com is a collaboration of the POLICY Project and YouthNet. Youth-policy.com is an online resource for improving youth reproductive health and HIV/AIDS policy worldwide.

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HIV/AIDS - Gender and Violence Against Women-Related Websites

  • AIDS Law Project South Africa (ALP) http://www.alp.org.za/view.php?file=/index.xml
    The AIDS Law Project (ALP) is at Wits University Centre for Applied Legal Studies. It is an organisation that specialises in helping people with HIV/AIDS to deal with these problems. We also research many of the difficult social, legal and human rights issues around AIDS. We use this research to develop law, policies and "best practice" recommendations on questions such as AIDS and employment, AIDS and pregnancy, AIDS and development, AIDS and women.
  • Eldis Gender and HIV/AIDS Dossier http://www.eldis.org/gender/dossiers/
    A dossier is an online, dynamic guide that provides narrative and up-to-date resources to guide the user through the key issues and debates on a specific development theme. The editors ensure the dossiers remain relevant and cutting-edge by regularly updating and incorporating new debates, case-studies and research papers. The editors also welcome new contributions from researchers and practitioners.
  • European Network for HIV/STD Prevention in Prostitution http://www.europap.net/links/tampep.htm
    Europap is a network across 18 Western and Central European countries, linking over 400 specialist health projects, sex workers' projects and social support programmes. The members of our network include health and other project staff, sex workers and academics across Europe working on HIV prevention and other health and safety issues. We share information and experience in order to promote best practice in local projects.
  • Global Campaign for Microbicides http://www.global-campaign.org/
    The Global Campaign for Microbicides is a broad-based, international effort to build support among policymakers, opinion leaders, and the general public for increased investment into microbicides and other user-controlled prevention methods. Through advocacy, policy analysis, and social science research, the Campaign works to accelerate product development, facilitate widespread access and use, and protect the needs and interests of users, especially women.
  • Global Coalition on Women and AIDS http://womenandaids.unaids.org/
    The Global Coalition on Women and AIDS is not a new organization but a movement of people, networks and organizations, launched in London on 12 February 2004, with four key goals: to raise the visibility of issues related to women, girls and AIDS; to catalyse action to address those issues; to facilitate collaboration at all levels; and, to scale up action that will lead to concrete, measurable improvements in the lives of women and girls.
  • Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria http://www.theglobalfund.org/en/
    The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was created to dramatically increase resources to fight three of the world's most devastating diseases, and to direct those resources to areas of greatest need. As a partnership between governments, civil society, the private sector and affected communities, the Global Fund represents an innovative approach to international health financing.
  • Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (GNP+) http://www.gnpplus.net/
    The Global Network of People living with HIV/AIDS (GNP+) is a global network for and by people with HIV/AIDS. The mission of GNP+ is to work to improve the quality of life of people living with HIV/AIDS.
  • Health Canada - HIV and Sexual Violence Against Women http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hppb/hiv_aids/you/sex_violence/
    This guide has been prepared to raise awareness among counsellors of the issues related to HIV and sexual violence and to provide counsellors with current information and guidance on these issues, assist counsellors in responding to the immediate and short-term needs of survivors with regard to HIV issues, including assessment of HIV risk, increase the probability that survivors of sexual violence will receive thorough, up-to-date information related to HIV and sexual violence upon which to base their choices and decisions, encourage consistency among counsellors with regard to the information and care related to HIV and sexual violence that they offer survivors.
  • International Coalition of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO) http://www.icaso.org/
    ICASO's mission is to: Mobilize communities and their organizations to participate in the response to HIV/AIDS; Articulate and advocate the needs and concerns of communities and their organizations; Ensure that community-based organizations, particularly those with fewer resources and within affected communities, are strengthened in their work to prevent HIV infection, and to provide treatment, care and support for people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS; Promote the greater involvement of people living with, and affected by, HIV/AIDS in all aspects of prevention, treatment, care and support, and research; and Promote human rights in the development and implementation of policies and programs responding to all aspects of HIV/AIDS.
  • International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW) http://www.icw.org
    ICW's vision is of a world where all HIV positive women: Have a respected and meaningful involvement at all political levels, local, national, regional, and international, where decisions that affect their lives are being made;
    Have full access to care and treatment; and Enjoy full rights, particularly sexual, reproductive, legal, financial and general health rights; irrespective of our culture, age, religion, sexuality, social or economic status/class and race.
  • International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS Latina (ICW-Latina) http://www.icwlatina.org
    La Comunidad Internacional de Mujeres Viviendo con VIH/SIDA (ICW), es la únicaRed Internacional dirigida por y para mujeres con VIH positivo. ICW fue fundada respondiendo a las desesperadas faltas de apoyo, información y servicios disponibles para mujeres viviendo con VIH en todo el mundo y a las necesidades de estas mujeres de poder influenciar y participar en el desarrollo de las políticas. ICW fue formada por un grupo de mujeres seropositivas de diferentes paísesque participaban en 8va. Conferencia Internacional de SIDA en Ámsterdam en julio de 1992. Estas mujeres positivas compartieron historias y estrategias con el fin de copiar e idear planes de acciones para el futuro.
  • International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM) http://www.ipm-microbicides.org/
    The International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM) was established in 2002 to accelerate the discovery, development and accessibility of microbicides to prevent transmission of HIV. The organization's goal is to deliver a safe and effective microbicide for women in developing countries as soon as possible.
  • MTCT Plus - Columbia Mailman School of Public Health http://www.mtctplus.org/
    The MTCT-Plus Initiative takes a team approach toward the care and treatment of people living with HIV/AIDS in resource limited settings. Administrative, clinical, and training efforts are coordinated to develop multidisciplinary treatment at MTCT-Plus sites for comprehensive care of participants and their families. Supported by a coalition of private philanthropic organizations and leading international agencies, the MTCT-Plus Initiative aims to develop a model for care that can be replicated around the world.
  • Sidaweb http://www.sidaweb.com/index.htm
    Ce site est réalisé par l'ALS - Association de Lutte contre le Sida.
  • Society for Women and AIDS in Africa (SWAA) http://www.swaainternational.org/en/home.html
    SWAA's mission is to advocate on behalf of women, children and families in the fight against HIV/AIDS. SWAA mobilizes communities by strengthening capacity to prevent, control, and mitigate the impact of the epidemic. SWAA's institutional vision is a world free of HIV/AIDS, where African women and children are empowered to claim equal rights, access to health care, education, and economic and socio-cultural opportunities.
  • South African Gender-Based Violence and Health Initiative (SAGBVHI) http://www.mrc.ac.za/gender/sagbvhi.htm
    SAGBVHI, which was formed in 2000, is a partnership of 15 organisations working on gender based violence and health issues. SAGBVHI is funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. SAGBVHI, with sponsorship from INTERFUND, hosted its first annual conference on gender based violence and health in April 2002. With over 250 local and international participants, the conference has set a high standard for other conferences to follow.
  • South Asia Against AIDS Foundation (SAAAIDS) http://www.saaaids.org/
    We at South Asia Against AIDS Foundation, Inc. (SAAAIDS), a NYC-based not-for-profit organization, recognize that South Asia's HIV/AIDS epidemic shall only be rolled back when we fight the primary cause fueling infection and death - women and children's extreme societal inequality and the violation of their human rights to their own lives, health and bodies. Our mission, therefore, is to help South Asia's women and children lead lives of true self-empowerment through our SHE strategy (Shelter, Healthcare and Education) as an effective, structural and long-term strategy to fight South Asia's HIV/AIDS epidemic.
  • Synergy Project http://www.synergyaids.com/
    The Synergy Project provides technical assistance and services to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to design, evaluate, and coordinate HIV/AIDS programs and identify and disseminate lessons learned from these programs.
  • Transnational AIDS STI Prevention Among Migrant Prostitutes (TAMPEP) http://www.tampep.com/
    TAMPEP (Transnational AIDS/STI Prevention Among Migrant Prostitutes in Europe) is an international networking and intervention project operating in 24 countries in Europe, including 7 countries in Central and Eastern Europe.
  • UNAIDS (Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS) http://www.unaids.org/en/default.asp
    The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS, is the main advocate for global action on the epidemic. It leads, strengthens and supports an expanded response aimed at preventing transmission of HIV, providing care and support, reducing the vulnerability of individuals and communities to HIV/AIDS, and alleviating the impact of the epidemic. UNAIDS Gender Resources: http://unaidsapict.inet.co.th/gend.htm
  • UNIFEM Gender and HIV/AIDS Web Portal: Violence Against Women and HIV/AIDS http://www.genderandaids.org/modules.php?name=News&new_topic=9
    UNIFEM, in collaboration with UNAIDS, has developed this comprehensive gender and HIV/AIDS web portal to provide up-to-date information on the gender dimensions of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The site aims to promote understanding, knowledge sharing, and action on HIV/AIDS as a gender and human rights issue.
  • Women, Children and HIV Resources for Prevention and Treatment http://www.womenchildrenhiv.org
    Goals include: disseminate state-of-the-art clinical information and training resources on mother-to-child transmission of HIV (MTCT) and related topics; communicate the best practices in preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) and caring for infected children; disseminate PMTCT program resource materials; disseminate state-of-the-art clinical information and training resources on perinatally acquired pediatric HIV infection; implement services responsive to the needs of the CDC Global AIDS Program (CDC/GAP).
  • World Health Organization Violence Against Women and HIV/AIDS http://www.who.int/gender/violence/vawandhiv/en/
    The World Health Organization is the United Nations specialized agency for health. It was established on 7 April 1948. WHO's objective, as set out in its Constitution, is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. Health is defined in WHO's Constitution as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
  • World YWCA HIV/AIDS http://www.worldywca.org/aids/index.html
    The primary objective of YWCA programmes is the empowerment of women and girls. In the context of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, this means enabling women and girls to take responsibility for their own lives and to provide leadership in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

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  • A Closer Walk http://www.acloserwalk.org/
    A Closer Walk is the first film to depict humankind's confrontation with the global AIDS epidemic.
  • Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) http://www.actsa.org/
    Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) campaigns with the people of Southern Africa as they strive to build a better future. Working for peace, democracy and development across the region, ACTSA is the successor organisation to the Anti-Apartheid Movement.
  • Advocates for Youth http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/index.htm
    Advocates for Youth is dedicated to creating programs and advocating for policies that help young people make informed and responsible decisions about their reproductive and sexual health. Advocates provides information, training, and strategic assistance to youth-serving organizations, policy makers, youth activists, and the media in the United States and the developing world.
  • AEGIS http://www.aegis.org/
    AEGiS began in the mid-1980s and has continued to be the definitive web-based reference for HIV/AIDS-related information. The collaborative effort of many organizations and individuals has enabled the creation of this vast database of facts regarding the history, prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS...to date over 1 million files.
  • AIDS Consortium http://www.aidsconsortium.org.za/
    The AIDS Consortium is a network of over 1000 members, mainly community-based organisations focusing on HIV/AIDS related issues.
  • AIDS Education and Training National Resource Center (AETC) http://www.aids-etc.org/aidsetc?page=home-00-00
    The AIDS Education and Training Centers (AETC) Program of the Ryan White CARE Act currently supports a network of 11 regional centers (and more than 130 local performance sites) that conduct targeted, multi-disciplinary education and training programs for healthcare providers treating persons with HIV/AIDS. The AETCs serve all 50 States, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and the six U.S.-affiliated Pacific Jurisdictions. The mission of the AETCs is to improve the quality of life of patients living with HIV/AIDS through the provision of high quality professional education and training. The AETC Program is administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), HIV/AIDS Bureau.
  • AIDS Law Project, PA, USA http://www.aidslawpa.org/
    People with HIV and AIDS may need a lawyer as much as a doctor. All too often, society's bigotry, bureaucracy and ignorance cause serious legal problems for people with HIV/AIDS. But most people with HIV/AIDS can't afford a lawyer. For 15 years, the AIDS Law Project of PA has been fighting for the rights of Pennsylvanians living with HIV/AIDS.
  • AIDS Law Project South Africa http://www.alp.org.za/view.php?file=/index.xml
    The AIDS Law Project (ALP) is at Wits University Centre for Applied Legal Studies. It is an organisation that specialises in helping people with HIV/AIDS to deal with these problems. We also research many of the difficult social, legal and human rights issues around AIDS. We use this research to develop law, policies and "best practice" recommendations on questions such as AIDS and employment, AIDS and pregnancy, AIDS and development, AIDS and women.
  • AIDS Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA) http://www.lac.org.na/arasa/
    Aligning HIV/AIDS and human rights.
  • AIDS Info NYC.org http://www.aidsinfonyc.org
  • AIDSLink http://www.aidslink.org.za/
    To be a leading non-profit organisation in South Africa, dedicated to providing care and support to people living with HIV/AIDS.To help create a society in which people living with HIV/AIDS are treated with compassion and respect, where they are given every opportunity to realise their potential, and where they can live with dignity and hope.
  • AIDSmap http://www.aidsmap.com/
    On this site you can find more original, daily news on developments in the world of HIV than any other HIV website. The site also includes completely searchable databases of HIV treatment and care, worldwide HIV organisation listings, and one of the most comprehensive ranges of patient information available on the web.
  • AIDSMark http://www.psi.org/our_programs/AIDSMark.html
    In 2004, PSI works in more than 60 countries and not just in family planning (or "population") but also in HIV/AIDS, malaria, safe water/oral rehydration and nutrition/micronutrients.
  • AIDSVote http://www.aidsvote.org/index.shtml
    Aidsvote.org is a joint project supported by dozens of the nation's leading HIV/AIDS service, advocacy and research organizations. We have two goals: to educate and inform presidential candidates of the concrete steps necessary to ensure our country is the world leader on HIV/AIDS and public health, and to educate and inform voters on the stands taken by the candidates on these crucial issues. The aidsvote.org platform sets the standard for responsible leadership on HIV/AIDS at home and abroad. By pledging your support for the platform, you add your voice to the call for real progress in the fight against AIDS -- not just politics as usual.
  • Artists Against AIDS Worldwide (AAAW) http://www.aaaw.org/
    For centuries, artists have represented the concerns of society. In 2001, Leigh Blake founded Artists Against AIDS Worldwide (AAAW) to give contemporary musical artists a creative outlet through which to effect change in the worldwide battle against AIDS. AAAW is a non-profit organization designed to raise awareness and money for direct care for those affected by AIDS worldwide. "Young people get a lot of their information these days from the lifestyles and beliefs of their favorite pop stars," said Blake. "We've begun Artists Against AIDS Worldwide to give artists a viable outlet for their activism - an organization in which they could use their powerful voices toward change."
  • AVERT http://www.avert.org/
    AVERT is an international HIV and AIDS charity based in the UK, with the aim of AVERTing HIV and AIDS worldwide. AVERT has a number of overseas projects, helping with the problem of HIV/AIDS in countries where there is a particularly high rate of infection, such as South Africa, or where there is a rapidly increasing rate of infection such as in the Russian Federation. And through our highly successful web site, www.avert.org, we take education and information to people in almost every country in the world. But there is still no cure for HIV/AIDS, and many millions of people around the world are dying each year. It is through medical research that more effective treatment and a vaccine will one day be developed, and so AVERT continues with an HIV/AIDS medical research program in order that we contribute to the goal of one day finding a cure for AIDS.
  • The Body http://www.thebody.com/index.shtml
    An AIDS and HIV Information Resource
  • Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) http://www.caps.ucsf.edu/
    The Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) was established in 1986 to: Conduct local, national, and international interdisciplinary research on methods to prevent HIV infection and its consequences; Stimulate collaboration among academic researchers, public health professionals, and community-based organizations; Train new scientists to conduct AIDS prevention research; Disseminate knowledge, skills, and effective research and prevention models; Contribute to policy development related to the HIV epidemic at local, state, national, and international levels; Analyze and resolve ethical issues related to HIV research, prevention, and care; Collaborate with scientists from developing countries to conduct AIDS prevention research.
  • Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation (CADRE) http://www.cadre.org.za/
    CADRE is committed to fast-tracking appropriate and effective response to HIV/AIDS through developing coherent strategic models for interventions. Our work includes: Development and management of HIV/AIDS intervention strategies and models; Qualitative and quantitative socio-behavioural and communication surveys; Evaluation of HIV/AIDS interventions and communications research; Reviews of HIV/AIDS in developing countries; Development and management of the African Journal of AIDS Research (AJAR).
  • Centre for the Study of AIDS South Africa (CSA) http://www.csa.za.org/
    The University of Pretoria (UP) established the Centre for the Study of AIDS (CSA) in 1999 to "mainstream" HIV/AIDS through all aspects of University's core business activities. Its mission was to understand the complexities of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa and to develop effective ways of ensuring that all the students and staff of the University are prepared both professionally and personally to deal with HIV and AIDS as it unfolds in South African society.
  • The Communication Initiative http://www.comminit.com/index.html
    Goal is to advance the extent and quality of communication and change information.
  • Community HIV-AIDS Mobilization Project, NY, USA (CHAMP) http://www.aidsinfonyc.org/champ/
    CHAMP (Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project) was founded in 2003 by people with HIV, long-time community organizers, and policy advocates dedicated to building an effective movement bridging human rights, HIV/AIDS and struggles for social and economic justice in the United States. We will not let the gains of the AIDS movement be lost in a time of conservative power. Instead, we insist on expanding these gains to address the needs of all of the communities of people affected by HIV/AIDS in the United States. We seek local and national partners to bring additional insight, passion and resources to this goal, seeking to launch this initiative in January, 2004.
  • Development Gateway HIV/AIDS http://topics.developmentgateway.org/hiv
    The Development Gateway Foundation is an enabler of development. We help improve people's lives in developing countries by building partnerships and information systems that provide access to knowledge for development.
  • European AIDS Treatment Group (EATG) http://www.eatg.org/
    Founded in 1991 as a co-operative structure of people from different nationalities, the European AIDS Treatment Group is a growing group of treatment activists from 28 European countries. To secure its impartiality the EATG receives funding from a variety of private and public funders. The EATG is a non-profit organization registered under German law, with its secretariat in Brussels, Belgium.
  • Global AIDS Alliance (GAA) http://www.globalaidsalliance.org/
    GAA's advocacy in 2003 contributed to important policy changes which will help save lives and build hope in countries fighting AIDS. In all its work, GAA held firm to a key principle: that AIDS initiatives be measured against the terrible scale of the epidemic and what is needed to address it, not merely against what has or has not been done in the past.
  • The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria http://www.theglobalfund.org/en/
    website in Français, Español, Russian, Arabic, and Chinese
    The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was created to dramatically increase resources to fight three of the world's most devastating diseases, and to direct those resources to areas of greatest need. As a partnership between governments, civil society, the private sector and affected communities, the Global Fund represents an innovative approach to international health financing.
  • Global Health Council http://www.globalhealth.org/
    The Global Health Council is the world's largest membership alliance dedicated to saving lives by improving health throughout the world. Our diverse membership is comprised of health-care professionals and organizations that include NGOs, foundations, corporations, government agencies and academic institutions that work to ensure global health for all. The Council works to ensure that all who strive for improvement and equity in global health have the information and resources they need to succeed.
  • Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (GNP+) http://www.gnpplus.net/
    The Global Network of People living with HIV/AIDS (GNP+) is a global network for and by people with HIV/AIDS. The mission of GNP+ is to work to improve the quality of life of people living with HIV/AIDS. The central secretariat of GNP+ is based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  • Global Reproductive Health Forum (GRHF) http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/Organizations/healthnet/
    The Global Reproductive Health Forum@Harvard (GRHF) is an 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 through our clearinghouse as well as maintains an extensive, up-to-date research library. Our goal is to reach out to, involve and meet the needs of under served groups globally, the reproductive health community worldwide, academics and people who are dedicated to women's rights and gender issues. GRHF is the premiere reproductive health-focused internet project which encourages global discussion. We hope to create on-going dialogues, partnerships and strategic planning sessions which take place via the web within countries and across continents.
  • Grupo de Trabajo Sobre Tratamientos del VIH (gTt) http://www.gtt-vih.org/
    El Grupo de Trabajo sobre Tratamientos del VIH (gTt) es una organización no gubernamental sin ánimo de lucro y de carácter comunitario que trabaja para mejorar el acceso a y la información sobre nuevos tratamientos del VIH y el SIDA y de sus enfermedades asociadas
  • Health Action AIDS Campaign http://www.phrusa.org/campaigns/aids/
    The Health Action AIDS Campaign is a project of Physicians for Human Rights in coordination with Partners In Health. The Advisory Board is composed of HIV/AIDS experts from the fields of medicine, nursing and public health.
  • Health and Development Networks (HDN) http://www.hdnet.org/home.asp
    Health & Development Networks (HDN) is a non-profit organisation with substantial experience in managing and moderating electronic discussion forums and providing communication support to conferences.
    The mission of HDN is to mobilize a more effective response to HIV/AIDS and other health-and-development-related issues by improving information, communication and the quality of debate.
  • Health Global Access Project (Health GAP) http://www.healthgap.org/
    We are an organization of U.S.-based AIDS and human rights activists, people living with HIV/AIDS, public health experts, fair trade advocates and concerned individuals who campaign against policies of neglect and avarice that deny treatment to millions and fuel the spread of HIV. We are dedicated to eliminating barriers to global access to affordable life-sustaining medicines for people living with HIV/AIDS as key to a comprehensive strategy to confront and ultimately stop the AIDS pandemic. We believe that the human right to life and to health must prevail over the pharmaceutical industry's excessive profits and expanding patent rights.
  • HIV I-Base http://www.i-base.info/
    HIV treatment information for healthcare professionals and HIV-positive people.
  • HIV/AIDS and STI Project http://www.spc.int/aids/
    The HIV/AIDS and STI project is implemented by the HIV/AIDS and STI Section of the Public Health Programme of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC). SPC has identified responding to the epidemic as a major strategic priority for the organisation, and sees itself as being centrally involved in the region's response. This is also consistent with the commitment by SPC to working with the region to achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, one of which being "Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases". Controlling HIV/AIDS is also seen as fundamental to achieving the goal of "Healthy Islands", the principal that guides public health action in the Pacific. The purpose of our involvement is to work with PICTs, NGOs, other regional organisations and donors to substantially limit the future spread of the infection in the region.
  • HIV/AIDS Impact on Education Clearinghouse http://hivaidsclearinghouse.unesco.org/ev.php
    The HIV/AIDS Impact on Education Clearinghouse was established in February 2003 and is coordinated by the International Institute for Educational Planning/UNESCO supported with funds from UNAIDS. Its aim is to support professionals in educational planning and management in the context of HIV/AIDS by systematically collecting the latest studies and research, and disseminating the information through the website, its electronic newsletter and related products, CD-ROMs or hard copies of documents.
  • Housing Works, NY, USA http://www.housingworks.org/home_f.html
    Housing Works is a minority-controlled, community-based, not-for-profit corporation providing housing, health care, advocacy, job training, and vital supportive services to homeless New Yorkers living with HIV and AIDS. When Housing Works was founded nearly a decade ago, there were fewer than 350 units of supportive housing for the estimated 30,000 homeless people with AIDS and HIV who were living in New York City. AIDS was fast becoming the primary cause of homelessness in the United States. Thousands lived on the streets or in dangerous, squalid, and disease-ridden shelters, with no access to health care or social services. A woeful lack of effective HIV prevention/education programs-as well as an increasingly high incidence of intravenous drug use and survival sex, both as a cause of and a response to homelessness-led to tragically predictable and dramatic increases in HIV-infection among the city's homeless. Housing Works was founded in June 1990 as an outgrowth of the Housing Committee of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), to address the burgeoning crises of homelessness and AIDS, and to restore the fundamental human rights of homeless people with AIDS and HIV through innovative advocacy and direct service programs.
  • Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development (ICAD) http://www.icad-cisd.com/content/home.cfm?lang=e
    ICAD's mission is to lessen the spread and impact of HIV/AIDS in resource-poor communities and countries by providing leadership and actively contributing to the Canadian and international response.
  • International AIDS Trust http://www.aidstrust.org/
    The International AIDS Trust was established to create strategic opportunities for galvanizing leadership, mobilizing resources, and promoting effective interventions in the global battle against AIDS. The International AIDS Trust is a single-focused non-governmental organization (NGO) with both long-range vision and rapid response capability. While the Trust is new, its principals shaped the expanded US Government's response to this pandemic and now seek to bring the same energy and skill to a private sector venture.
  • International Coalition of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO) http://www.icaso.org/
    ICASO is the International Council of AIDS Service Organizations, a global network of non-governmental and community-based organizations. ICASO was formed in 1991 with secretariats in five geographic regions, and a central secretariat based in Canada. In 1995 ICASO was incorporated under Canadian law. ICASO is a non-governmental organization accredited to the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). Its mission is to: Mobilize communities and their organizations to participate in the response to HIV/AIDS; Articulate and advocate the needs and concerns of communities and their organizations; Ensure that community-based organizations, particularly those with fewer resources and within affected communities, are strengthened in their work to prevent HIV infection, and to provide treatment, care and support for people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS; Promote the greater involvement of people living with, and affected by, HIV/AIDS in all aspects of prevention, treatment, care and support, and research; and Promote human rights in the development and implementation of policies and programs responding to all aspects of
    HIV/AIDS.
  • International HIV/AIDS Alliance http://www.aidsalliance.org/
    The International HIV/AIDS Alliance (the Alliance) is an international development non-governmental organisation which was set up in 1993 by a consortium of international donors. The Alliance was established to respond to the need for a specialist, professional intermediary organisation which would work in effective partnership with non-governmental and community-based organisations in developing countries, as well as with national governments, private and public donors and the UN system. The Alliance's mission is to support communities in developing countries to play a full and effective role in the global response to AIDS. The mission of the International HIV/AIDS Alliance is to support communities in developing countries to play a full and effective role in the global response to AIDS.
  • International Rescue Committee http://www.theirc.org/
    Founded in 1933, the International Rescue Committee is a world leader in relief, rehabilitation, protection, post-conflict development, resettlement services and advocacy for those uprooted or affected by violent conflict and oppression. At work in 25 countries, the IRC delivers lifesaving aid in emergencies, rebuilds shattered communities, cares for war-traumatized children, rehabilitates health care, water and sanitation systems, reunites separated families, restores lost livelihoods, establishes schools, trains teachers, strengthens the capacity of local organizations and supports civil society and good-governance initiatives.
  • The Legal Assistance Center - AIDS Law Unit http://www.lac.org.na/projects/alu.php
    The Legal Assistance Centre (LAC) is a public interest law center that is committed to creating a human rights culture and promoting access to justice in Namibia. The LAC focus primarily on constitutional and human rights cases that we anticipate will have a broader impact on the Namibian society. Apart from general human rights cases, the LAC also deal with cases involving discrimination against people living with HIV and Aids and cases involving land and housing disputes.
  • Kaiser Family Foundation - HIV/AIDS Page http://www.kff.org/hivaids/index.cfm
    The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation is a non-profit, private operating foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the nation. The Foundation is an independent voice and source of facts and analysis for policymakers, the media, the health care community, and the general public.
  • Kaisernetwork.org http://www.kaisernetwork.org/
    The mission of the Kaiser Family Foundation is to provide timely, reliable, and non-partisan information on national health issues to policymakers, the media, and the general public. To advance that mission, the Foundation established kaisernetwork.org in November 2000. Kaisernetwork.org is the premier online resource for timely and in-depth coverage of health policy news, debates and discussions. This free and comprehensive multimedia service connects users to the events, people, information, and research that shape health policy.
  • Latin American Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (La Red La+) http://www.redla.org/
    La Red La+ es una organización joven, fundada en julio de 1998 y fue creada por representantes de algunas redes nacionales de personas viviendo con el VIH de América Latina y el Caribe hispano parlante, con el propósito de contribuir a mejorar la calidad de vida de las personas que viven con el VIH y con el SIDA en nuestra región, a través de la información, el cabildeo, la defensa de los Derechos Humanos y el desarrollo de las capacidades.
  • National Association of People with AIDS http://www.napwa.org/
    Founded in 1983, The National Association of People with AIDS advocates on behalf of all people living with HIV and AIDS in order to end the pandemic and the human suffering caused by HIV/AIDS. We are the oldest national AIDS organization in the United States and the oldest national network of people living with HIV/AIDS in the world.
  • The New Mexico AIDS Info Net http://www.aidsinfonet.org/
    The New Mexico AIDS InfoNet is a project of the New Mexico AIDS Education and Training Center in the Infectious Diseases Division of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. The InfoNet was originally designed to make information on HIV/AIDS services and treatments easily accessible in both English and Spanish for residents of New Mexico. It has become an international resource for information on HIV/AIDS. The only information that relates specifically to New Mexico is in fact sheets in the "800" series, which describe New Mexico's HIV programs and services.
  • The Pan-African Treatment Access Movement (PATAM) http://www.patam.org/
    PATAM is a social movement comprised of individuals and organisations dedicated to mobilizing communities, political leaders, and all sectors of society to ensure access to antiretroviral (ARV) treatment, as a fundamental part of comprehensive care for all people with HIV/AIDS in Africa.
  • Positive Muslims South Africa http://www.positivemuslims.org.za/
    Positive Muslims is a South African group founded in June 2000. We are committed to raising awareness about Aids and offering support to Muslims living with HIV/AIDS. We have a small staff of four, guided by an Executive Committee and with an active volunteer membership base. We are committed to developing a theology of compassion; a way of reading the Qur'an and understanding the Sunnah (the path of Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him) that focuses on Allah who cares deeply about all creation. This is Allah who, according to Hadith (prophetic tradition), said at the time of creation, "Indeed, my mercy overcomes my anger." Such compassion, we believe, must be accompanied by a critique of, and challenge to, a society that forces people to the margins.
  • Positive Nation UK http://www.positivenation.co.uk/index.htm
    Positive Nation is the UK's HIV and sexual health magazine. It is published by the UKC - the UK Coalition of People Living with HIV and AIDS. Click on the UKC logo to find out more about our activities.
    The print edition of the magazine is FREE to anyone living with HIV/AIDS in the UK.
  • Sexual Health Exchange Newsletter http://www.kit.nl/frameset.asp?/ils/exchange_content/Default.asp&frnr=1&
    Sexual Health Exchange is a quarterly, 16-page newsletter produced by KIT in collaboration with SAfAIDS-Southern Africa AIDS Information Dissemination Service-in Harare, Zimbabwe. In line with current developments and thinking, HIV/AIDS and STDs are related to a wider reproductive and sexual health framework. The newsletter provides policy guidance and ideas for possible initiatives. It serves as a forum for the exchange of innovative programme experiences world-wide. Subscriptions for organizations and individuals in developing countries are FREE.
  • Sidaweb.com http://www.sidaweb.com/index.htm
    Ce site est réalisé par l'ALS - Association de Lutte contre le Sida.
  • Solidarity and Action Against the HIV Infection in India http://www.sidaweb.com/index.htm
    Vision is to stabilize and reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS in India and ensure that people living with HIV/AIDS receive unstigmatized, affordable and quality care, support and treatment. Mission is to facilitate and enhance effective participation of individuals and organizations in the fight against HIV/AIDS in India through information dissemination, advocacy, networking, research, capacity building, care, support and treatment services
  • Southern Africa HIV and AIDS Information Dissemination Service (SAfAIDS) http://www.sidaweb.com/index.htm
    SAfAIDS' mission is to promote effective and ethical development responses to the epidemic and its impact through HIV/AIDS knowledge management, capacity building, advocacy, policy analysis and research.
  • Stepping Stones http://www.steppingstonesfeedback.org/
    Stepping Stones is a training package in gender, HIV, communication and relationship skills. It is also a life-skills training package, covering many aspects of our lives, including why we behave in the ways we do, how gender, generation and other issues influence this, and ways in which we can change our behaviour, if we want to.
  • Steps for the Future http://dayzero.co.za/steps/
    A challenging, provocative, and unconventional collection of films about life in Southern Africa in the presence of HIV/AIDS
  • Stop Global AIDS http://dayzero.co.za/steps/
    The Campaign to Stop Global AIDS is about telling political leaders three things: Donate the Dollars! - that means providing more money to fight the disease with prevention, care, treatment, and research and making sure funds are used effectively; Treat the People! - that means making sure there's reliable access to affordable medication for all those living with AIDS; Drop the Debt! - that means providing deeper, fairer debt cancellation for impoverished countries so they can tackle problems including AIDS, hunger, education and more.
  • The Synergy Project http://www.synergyaids.com/
    The Synergy Project provides technical assistance and services to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to design, evaluate, and coordinate HIV/AIDS programs and identify and disseminate lessons learned from these programs. In April 1999, USAID awarded The Synergy Project to the former TvT Associates, Inc. (now Global Health and Development Strategies, a division of Social & Scientific Systems, Inc.) and its subcontractor, the University of Washington.
  • Taking It Global http://takingitglobal.org/home.html
    TakingITGlobal.org is a global online community, providing youth with inspiration to make a difference, a source of information on issues, opportunities to take action, and a bridge to get involved locally, nationally and globally. Membership is free of charge and allows you to interact with various aspects of the website, to contribute ideas, experiences, and actions.
  • Treatment Action Campaign South Africa (TAC) http://www.tac.org.za/
    The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) was launched on 10 December 1998, International Human Rights Day. Its main objective is to campaign for greater access to HIV treatment for all South Africans, by raising public awareness and understanding about issues surrounding the availability, affordability and use of HIV treatments.
  • United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on HIV/AIDS June 2001 http://www.un.org/ga/aids/conference.html
  • Union Aid Abroad - APHEDA (Australian People for Health, Education and Development) http://www.un.org/ga/aids/conference.html
    Australian People for Health, Education and Development Abroad (APHEDA) was created in 1984 as the overseas aid agency of the Australian Trade Unions. A commitment to justice and human rights is the cornerstone of the work of Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA, the ACTU's overseas aid organisation. Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA was established in 1984 by the ACTU in recognition of the union movement's responsibility to contribute directly to countries and regions of the world where men and women workers are disadvantaged through poverty, a lack of workplace / human rights and civil conflict.
  • United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) http://www.unaids.org
    The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS, is the main advocate for global action on the epidemic. It leads, strengthens and supports an expanded response aimed at preventing transmission of HIV, providing care and support, reducing the vulnerability of individuals and communities to HIV/AIDS, and alleviating the impact of the epidemic.
  • United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) http://www.undp.org/
    From politics to security to public health, from crime to the environment, a growing agenda of development issues can no longer be managed within the boundaries of any single nation. Global, regional and national coalitions for action are emerging centred around the United Nations' indispensable role. The UN can bring together governments, civil society, multinational corporations and multilateral organizations - coming together around particular issues of concern and looking for innovative ways to address them. -Mark Malloch Brown, Administrator of UNDP
  • XV International AIDS Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, July 2004 http://www.aids2004.org/
    The XV International AIDS Conference links community and science to galvanize the world's response to HIV/AIDS through increased commitment, leadership and accountability.
  • You and AIDS: The HIV/aids portal for Asia Pacific http://www.youandaids.org/
    YouandAIDS.org is an HIV/AIDS portal for Asia Pacific that seeks to address the strongly-felt information and services needs of the region, particularly in the overall development context, and act as a regional platform to synergise multisectoral responses against the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The Initiative, which began under the UNAIDS Inter Country Team (South Asia), has been expanded and is being taken forward by the UNDP Regional HIV and Development Programme for South and North East Asia (REACH Beyond Borders), as part of its Information and Communications Technology (ICT) activities. The portal also seeks to promote networking, strengthen advocacy and catalyse civil society responses.
  • Youth and HIV http://youthandhiv.org/
    Website in English, Italiano, Français and Español
    The knowledge resource on young people and HIV/AIDS.
  • YouthNet http://www.fhi.org/en/Youth/YouthNet/index.htm
    YouthNet is a global program to improve reproductive health and prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS among people 10 to 24 years old.
  • Youth Policy http://www.youth-policy.com/
    Launched in 2004, youth-policy.com is a joint effort of the POLICY Project and YouthNet, both supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development. The POLICY Project works with developing country governments and civil society groups to achieve a more supportive policy environment for family planning/reproductive health (FP/RH), HIV/AIDS, and maternal health. YouthNet is a global program to improve reproductive health and prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS among people 10 to 24 years old.

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Violence Against Women

  • Amnesty International (AI) - Stop Violence Against Women Campaign http://web.amnesty.org/actforwomen/index-eng
    AI's vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards. In pursuit of this vision, AI's mission is to undertake research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination, within the context of its work to promote all human rights. AI's Stop Violence Against Women Campaign highlights the responsibility of the state, the community and individuals to take action to end violence against women and impunity for the perpetrators. The campaign aims to show that women's self-organization bolstered by the solidarity and support of the human rights movement is the most effective way to overcome violence against women. The campaign is also designed to mobilize both women and men to organize in opposition to violence, and to use the power and persuasion of the human rights framework in the efforts to stop violence against women.
  • Asian and Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence http://www.apiahf.org/apidvinstitute/default.htm
    The Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence is a national network of advocates; community members; professionals from health, mental health, law, education, and social services; survivors; scholars; researchers; and activists from public policy, community organizations, youth programs, immigrants' rights networks, communities of color, women's groups, lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender communities, and other social justice organizations. We serve as a forum for, and clearinghouse on information, research, resources and critical issues about violence against women in Asian and Pacific Islander communities.
  • Association for the Promotion of Women in Romania (APoWeR) http://www.apfr.dnttm.ro/Html/Services.htm
    Since February 2001, in Timisoara, APoWeR has had in operation the first crisis telephone line for women and girls who are victims of domestic violence and sexual abuse. The name of the crisis line is the Blue Line and initial information on its existence and use was posted in various public locations including hospitals, police stations, busses and trolleys, beauty shops, lawyer's offices and other areas where potential clients would see them. In addition, the promotion of the existence of the telephone line on local and national television as well as on radio made it possible for people, not only in the city and county areas but even nationally to call for help when necessary. Since its inception, a total of 193 calls have been received. The majority were cases of physical, psychological or sexual violence but in a few cases they dealt with drug abuse or problems stemming from poverty. All were referred to our team of counselors for resolution.
  • Autonomous Women's Center - Serbia and Montenegro http://www.womenngo.org.yu/sajt/english/sajt/awcasv/awcav_index.htm
    The Autonomous Women's Center is a feminist, non-governmental organization against violence against women. Autonomous Women's Center Against Sexual Violence was founded in 1993 with the primary aim to work with women raped in war, as well as to support women survivors of all kinds of male violence against women. We believe that a life without violence is a basic human right and we support women to overcome situations of male violence.
  • BAOBAB for Women's Human Rights - Nigeria http://www.baobabwomen.org/
    BAOBAB works to promote and protect women's human rights principally via improving knowledge, exercise and development of rights under religious, customary and statutory laws.
  • Battered Women's Justice Project - US http://www.bwjp.org/
    The mission of the Battered Women's Justice Project is to promote systemic change within community organizations and governmental agencies engaged in the civil and criminal justice response to domestic violence that creates true institutional accountability to the goal of ensuring safety for battered women and their families. To this end, BWJP undertakes projects on the local, state, national, and international levels.
  • Be Active Be Emancipated (B.a.B.e.) - Croatia http://www.babe.hr/eng/
    We believe that gender democracy is an essential part of any democracy, and that a state, which denies equal rights to women and minority groups, cannot call itself democratic. We believe that the advancement of women is impossible unless and until their equal rights are fully protected. We lobby for the recognition and improved status of women's human rights, such as: the right to be free of violence, both at home and in the public sphere; the right to reproductive choice and reproductive health, including the decision of when to start a family, with whom and how to raise children; the right to equal and full participation in all aspects of society, especially in leadership roles and important decision-making bodies; we also support the civil scene in Croatia and cooperate with peace, human rights and ecological groups in Croatia.
  • California Coalition Against Sexual Assault - USA http://www.calcasa.org/
    We are the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault, a statewide coalition of rape crisis centers and prevention programs founded in 1980. The California Coalition Against Sexual Assault provides leadership, vision and resources to rape crisis centers, individuals and other entities committed to ending sexual violence. Our vision is a world free from sexual violence
  • Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights, LICADHO http://www.licadho.org/
    Since 1992, LICADHO has been at the forefront of efforts to protect the rights in Cambodia and to promote respect for civil and political rights by the Cambodian government and institutions. Building on its past achievements, LICADHO continues to be an advocate for the people and a monitor of the government through wide ranging human rights programs from its main office in Phnom Penh and 12 provincial offices.
  • CASA House - Australia http://www.rwh.org.au/casa/index.cfm?doc_id=4652
    CASA House is attached to the Royal Women's Hospital in Carlton, Victoria. It is a government funded organisation which provides services on a 24 hour basis. CASA House is committed to ensuring that the silence which surrounds sexual assault continues to be broken and that victim/survivors are provided with necessary support.
  • Center for Research on Violence Against Women and Children http://www.crvawc.ca/index.html
    The Centre promotes the development of community-centred, action research on violence against women and children. The Centre's role is to facilitate the cooperation of individuals, groups and institutions representing the diversity of the community to pursue research questions and training opportunities to understand and prevent abuse. It serves local, national and international communities by producing useful information and tools to assist in the daily work against violence toward women and children.
  • Centro Reina Sofia para el Estudio de la Violencia - Spain http://www.gva.es/violencia/
    To conduct a National Program for the Epidemiology of Abuse in the Family, with the aim of obtaining reliable figures on the incidence and prevalence of abuse in the family, and also victim and aggressor profiles for Spain. The ultimate objective is to prevent this type of abuse from occurring.
  • Civil Resource Development Center (CIRDDOC) - Nigeria http://www.cirddoc.org/research.htm
    CIRDDOC Nigeria is an independent, non-governmental and a non-profit organization established in 1996 and registered under Part C of Company and Allied Matters Act Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 1990; For the protection and promotion of human rights and women's human rights and the strengthening of civil society; Identifies issues and problems which militate against the enjoyment of human rights in particular and sustainable development in general; Addresses such issues by raising and promoting public awareness and initiating problem solving activities through community participatory actions.
  • Coalition for Women's Human Rights in Conflict Situations http://www.womensrightscoalition.org/index_en.htm
    French and English
    The main focus of the Coalition's work is to promote the adequate prosecution of perpetrators of crimes of gender violence in transitional justice systems based in Africa, in order to create precedents that recognise violence against women in conflict situations and help find ways to obtain justice for women survivors of sexual violence.
  • Coalition on Violence Against Women (COVAW) - Kenya http://www.covaw.or.ke/
    The Coalition on Violence Against Women - Kenya is a women's human rights organization that is committed to the eradication of all forms of violence against women and the promotion of women's human rights. COVAW(K) has continued to grow over the years and has locally spearheaded the Annual Sixteen Days of Activism Global Campaign which has been instrumental in placing violence against women in the public and political domain.
  • Comité de América Latina y el Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer (CLADEM) http://www.cladem.com/
    CLADEM, The Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of Women's Rights, is a women's and women's organizations network that in all Latin America and the Caribbean are committed in unite our efforts to achieve an effective defense of women's rights in our region.
  • End Violence Against Women: Information and Resources http://www.endvaw.org/
    This site was developed by the staff of the Center for Communication Programs (CCP) as part of its ongoing effort to collect and share documentation and communication materials produced in the worldwide struggle to end violence against women. CCP has established the Violence Against Women Resource Center at its offices in Baltimore, Maryland, and serves health professionals who seek information and resources on this subject.
  • Faith Trust Institute - USA http://www.faithtrustinstitute.org/
    This name adds the element of our faith-based mission, while our new tagline, "Working together to end sexual and domestic violence," describes succinctly what we do. While our name has changed, our mission has not. FaithTrust Institute will continue to be a leader in providing training and educational resources for clergy, lay leaders, seminary faculty, chaplains, policy makers of religious institutions, and community advocates on the faith aspects of sexual and domestic violence.
  • Family Place of Dallas, Texas - USA http://www.familyplace.org/home.html
  • Family Violence Prevention Fund http://endabuse.org/
    For more than two decades, the Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF) has worked to end violence against women and children around the world. Instrumental in developing the landmark Violence Against Women Act passed by Congress in 1994, the FVPF has continued to break new ground by reaching new audiences including men and youth, promoting leadership within communities to ensure that violence prevention efforts become self-sustaining, and transforming the way health care providers, police, judges, employers and others address violence.
  • Feminist International Radio Endeavor (FIRE) - Costa Rica http://www.fire.or.cr/
    El personal refleja el carácter internacional de Radio Feminista, específicamente la identidad latinoamericana y caribeña. Las co-directoras son Katerina Anfossi Gómez, originaria de Chile y María Suarez Toro, de Puerto Rico y Costa Rica. Ambas son productoras de Radio Internacional Feminista.
  • Fiji Women's Crisis Center http://www.fijiwomen.com/
    The Fiji Women's Crisis Centre (FWCC) provides crisis counselling and legal, medical and other practical support services for women and children who are sufferers and survivors of violence committed against them by men. The FWCC is also involved in public advocacy and community education on gender violence. The Centre's strategies are based on the conviction that violence against women is a fundamental human rights and development issue. The Centre's work addresses all forms of violence against women including rape, beating, sexual harassment and abuse of children.
  • Firelight Media http://www.firelightmedia.org/#
    Firelight Media is a New York City-based independent non-profit production company dedicated to telling stories of people, places, cultures and issues that are underrepresented in the mainstream media. Our goal is to use media to spur the discussion and action that will contribute to the struggle for social justice.
  • Flora Tristan - Peru http://www.flora.org.pe/
    Flora Tristán es una institución feminista que fue creada en 1979 como una asociación civil sin fines de lucro. Tiene como misión "combatir las causas estructurales que restringen la ciudadanía de las mujeres y/o afectan su ejercicio. En consecuencia se propone incidir en la ampliación de la ciudadanía de las mujeres y en las políticas y procesos de desarrollo para que respondan a criterios y resultados de equidad y justicia de género".
  • FOKUS Forum for Women and Development - Norway http://www.fokuskvinner.no/English
    FOKUS - Forum for Women and Development is a resource centre on international women's issues and a co-ordinating organ for women's organisations in Norway. Women around the world are challenging cultural, social, political, religious and economical barriers and are actively contributing to a better future for themselves, their families and society in general.
  • Fundación Mujeres en Igualdad (M.E.I.) http://www.mei.com.ar
    Website in English and Español.
    We believe that women can develop new ways of empowerment and leadership. This is why we train political women, share information and often carry out projects with other NGOs. We are a small but dynamic foundation which uses funding efficiently and tries to grow.
  • GABRIELA Network: A Philippine-US Women's Solidarity Organization (GABNet) http://www.gabnet.org/
    GABRIELA Network is a Philippine-US women's solidarity organization. GABNet provides the means by which Filipinas in the US can empower themselves, functions as training ground for women's leadership, and articulates the women's point of view. GABNet effects change through organizing, educating, fundraising, networking, and advocacy.
  • Gender-Based Violence Prevention Network - Horn, East, Southern Africa http://www.preventgbvafrica.org/
    This website is the virtual community or meeting place for Network members and other colleagues and friends interested in violence prevention on the Continent. It is a place for exchange, learning and dialogue. It is also a place where often hard to find regional and international resources about GBV prevention can be accessed. Organizations in the regions have been providing life-saving services for women and girls for many years. Increasingly, there is also the recognition that we must also invest our energy, intellect and resources into programs that work to prevent violence against women from occurring. It is our hope that the experiences shared and relationships built through the Network and this site will contribute to stronger GBV prevention programs throughout the regions.
  • Health Canada - Women's Health and Violence Against Women http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/english/women/facts_issues/facts_violence.htm
    Health Canada's role is to foster good health by promoting health and protecting Canadians from harmful products, practices and disease. Violence against women, a prime area of concern as a health issue, is rooted in the social, economic and political inequality of women. Health Canada's activities through the National Clearinghouse on Family Violence focus on synthesizing and disseminating best practices to prevent and treat family violence, including violence against women.
  • International Women's Development Agency (IWDA) http://www.iwda.org.au/index.htm
    International Women's Development Agency is an Australian non-government organisation working with women in developing countries to support their efforts to improve their life choices and those of their families and communities, and to advance women's human rights. We focus on groups of women that are particularly marginalised or suffer poverty or oppression.
  • International Rescue Committee http://www.theirc.org/
    At work in 25 countries, the IRC delivers lifesaving aid in emergencies, rebuilds shattered communities, cares for war-traumatized children, rehabilitates health care, water and sanitation systems, reunites separated families, restores lost livelihoods, establishes schools, trains teachers, strengthens the capacity of local organizations and supports civil society and good-governance initiatives.
  • Jane Doe Inc. Voices for Change: Massachusetts Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence - USA http://www.janedoe.org/
    Jane Doe Inc., The Massachusetts Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence brings together organizations and people committed to ending domestic violence and sexual assault. We create social change by addressing the root causes of this violence, and promote justice, safety and healing for survivors. JDI advocates for responsive public policy, promotes collaboration, raises public awareness, and supports our member organizations to provide comprehensive prevention and intervention services. We are guided by the voices of survivors.
  • Latin American Women's Rights Service (LAWRS) http://www.womeninlondon.org.uk/archive/lawrs312.htm
    Is intended to allow women's groups and other groups providing services, support, campaigns or media and art productions for women, the opportunity to use the internet to reach both individual women and other support services, in an immediate and direct way, at minimal cost and effort. Is an initiative of microsyster, a women's group providing computer services to other women's groups and women working in the voluntary and charity sector in London for since 1982.
  • Masimanyane Women Support Centre - South Africa http://womensnet.org.za/pvaw/organisations/masimanyane.htm
    Since its establishment, the centre has been well supported and has gained an excellent reputation for addressing the issues of violence against women in various ways. Some of the programmes which the centre now runs include a legal advice office in the East London magistrates court. This office provides legal advice, court support and it engages in advocacy with the police and related resource personnel in the justice department. The centre trains lay counselors, provides leadership training through skills development in the documentation of women's human right violations, organisational development, fundraising and gender sensitization for organisations working with women's issues.
  • Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse (MINCAVA) Electronic Clearinghouse http://www.mincava.umn.edu/
    The mission of the Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse (MINCAVA) is to support research, education, and access to violence related resources.
  • NANE Women's Rights Association - Hungary http://www.nane.hu/english/support.html
    NANE is still the only NGO running a hotline for battered women and children in Hungary. Since our beginnings in 1994 the range of our activities has grown considerably. We have initiated amendments to laws and public administration reforms in areas where the current regulations do not guarantee equal protection under the law for victims of domestic violence. We petitioned the Constitutional Court to declare that marital rape is a crime and therefore should be included in Hungarian criminal law. Our efforts, which turned into a vocal public movement, succeeded in 1997 when the Hungarian Parliament outlawed marital rape. As well as a crisis hotline, we also voice our views through several media channels, including the written and electronic.
  • National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence - US http://www.ncdsv.org/ncd_about.html
    When Deborah D. Tucker, MPA, and Sarah M. Buel, JD, founded the National Training Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence in 1998, their vision was to create an organization that encouraged and created unprecedented levels of collaboration among professionals working to end violence against women.
  • National Coalition Against Domestic Violence - US http://www.ncadv.org/
    The Mission of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence is to organize for collective power by advancing transformative work, thinking and leadership of communities and individuals working to end the violence in our lives.
  • National Domestic Violence Hotline - US http://www.ndvh.org/
    When the phone lines to the National Domestic Violence Hotline opened in February 1996, victims of domestic violence across the nation finally had a resource available to them toll-free, 24-hours a day, 365 days a year. With a database of more than 4,000 shelters and service providers across the United States, Puerto Rico, Alaska, Hawaii and the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Hotline provides callers with information they might otherwise have found difficult or impossible to obtain. In fact, for approximately 60 percent of the callers, calling the Hotline is their first step in finding safety from the violence plaguing their lives.
  • National Latino Alliance for the Elimination of Domestic Violence - US http://www.dvalianza.org/
    The National Latino Alliance for the Elimination of Domestic Violence (Alianza) is part of a national effort to address the domestic violence needs and concerns of under-served populations. It represents a growing network of Latina and Latino advocates, practitioners, researchers, community activists, and survivors of domestic violence. Alianza's mission is to: promote understanding, initiate and sustain dialogue, and generate solutions that move toward the elimination of domestic violence affecting Latino communities, with an understanding of the sacredness of all relations and communities.
  • National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV) - US http://www.nnedv.org/
    The mission of the National Network to End Domestic Violence Fund (NNEDV Fund) is to create a social, political and economic environment in which violence against women no longer exists. This mission cannot be accomplished without the participation of battered women in the voting process.
  • National Organization for Women (NOW) and Violence Against Women - US http://www.ndcaws.org/sharedfiles/nativeamerican.asp
    It is the mission of the North Dakota Council on Abused Women's Services/Coalition Against Sexual Assault in North Dakota (NDCAWS/CASAND) to pursue and expose the causes of domestic violence and sexual violence, provide direct and immediate services to those who are victimized, and support those who provide such services. We work toward these goals without discrimination based on age, race, gender, religion, political philosophy, sexual orientation, national origins, or ethnic or cultural differences. We work for the major social changes necessary to eliminate personal and societal violence against all people. We are further committed to increasing public awareness about domestic violence and sexual assault and providing viable solutions to address issues of violence. Goals: To coordinate a statewide support and referral service for sexual assault and domestic violence victims and their families; To educate the public and helping professionals about issues of sexual assault and domestic violence; To work to affect public policy as it relates to the needs of domestic violence and sexual assault victims; To tabulate and disseminate statistical information from service providers; To work toward improving a coordinated systems response to domestic violence and sexual assault; including law enforcement, medical, legal, and religious victim service.
  • National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV) - US http://www.nrcdv.org/
    The National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV) was founded in 1993 as a key component in a national network of domestic violence resources. The NRCDV provides support to all organizations and individuals working to end violence in the lives of victims and their children through technical assistance, training and information on response to and prevention of domestic violence.
  • National Sexual Violence Research Center (NSVRC) - US http://www.nsvrc.org/
    The National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) opened in July 2000 as a national information and resource hub relating to all aspects of sexual violence. A project of the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape, the oldest and one of the largest state sexual assault coalitions, the NSVRC is funded through a grant from the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Violence Prevention. The NSVRC staff collects and disseminates a wide range of resources on sexual violence including statistics, research, position statements, statutes, training curricula, prevention initiatives and program information. With these resources, the NSVRC assists coalitions, advocates and others interested in understanding and eliminating sexual violence. The NSVRC has an active and diverse 21-member Advisory Council that assists and advises staff and ensures a broad national perspective. The NSVRC also enjoys a strong partnership with state, territory and tribal anti-sexual assault coalitions and allied organizations.
  • National Violence Against Women Prevention Research Center - US http://www.vawprevention.org/
    Recognizing the need for better information, the U.S. Congress included a provision in the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, which directed the National Research Council to develop research that would increase the understanding of violence against women. The National Research Council convened the Panel on Research on Violence Against Women. The Panel gathered information through hearings and research and released a report published by the National Academy of Sciences Press (Crowell, N.A., & Burgess, A.W., 1996, Understanding Violence Against Women, Washington, DC: National Academy Press).
  • National Women's Health Information Center - US http://www.4woman.gov/violence/index.htm
    This specialty page will provide you with information on all of these types of violence against women, including specific resources for each type of violence and information on how to get help. One important part of getting help is knowing if you are in an abusive relationship. Sometimes it can be difficult and confusing to admit that you are in an abusive relationship. But, there are clear signs to help you know if you are being abused.
  • Network for Resistance of Violence Against Women - Egypt http://www.cewla.org/en/projects/04/network.html
    The Center for Egyptian Women's Legal Assistance (CEWLA) is a non-governmental organization founded in 1995. Its goal is to offer Egyptian women legal support and assistance regarding their rights under the Egyptian Constitution, Egyptian laws and the international conventions. In addition, it provides women with a variety of skills that enable them to manage their lives and overcome their problems.
  • New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault - USA http://www.nycagainstrape.org/
    The mission of the New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault is to provide leadership in creating a society in which rape and sexual abuse are not tolerated, and in which survivors receive appropriate support and intervention. This is accomplished by uniting organizations, influencing policy and through advocacy, education and research. The Alliance is committed to inclusion and responsiveness to the needs of diverse populations in New York City.
  • North Dakota Counsel on Abused Women's Services (NDCAWS/CASAND) - US http://www.ndcaws.org/sharedfiles/nativeamerican.asp
    It is the mission of the North Dakota Council on Abused Women's Services/Coalition Against Sexual Assault in North Dakota (NDCAWS/CASAND) to pursue and expose the causes of domestic violence and sexual violence, provide direct and immediate services to those who are victimized, and support those who provide such services. We work toward these goals without discrimination based on age, race, gender, religion, political philosophy, sexual orientation, national origins, or ethnic or cultural differences. We work for the major social changes necessary to eliminate personal and societal violence against all people. We are further committed to increasing public awareness about domestic violence and sexual assault and providing viable solutions to address issues of violence.
  • Nursing Network on Violence Against Women International (NNVAWI) http://www.nnvawi.org
    The Nursing Network on Violence Against Women (NNVAW) was formed to encourage the development of a nursing practice that focuses on health issues relating to the effects of violence on women's lives. NNVAW was founded in November of 1985 during the first National Nursing Conference on Violence Against Women held at the University of Massachusetts/ Amherst. We now have international members and have added "International" to our name (NNVAWI). The abuse and exploitation of women is a social problem of epidemic proportions which adversely affects the health of millions of women each year. The Network's ethic fosters the ideal of nursing practice designed to provide assistance and support to women in the process of achieving their own personal empowerment. The ultimate goal of NNVAWI is to provide a nursing presence in the struggle to end violence in women's lives.
  • Office on Violence Against Women - US http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/vawo/
    Since its inception in 1995, the Violence Against Women Office, now the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) has handled the Department's legal and policy issues regarding violence against women, coordinated Departmental efforts, provided national and international leadership, received international visitors interested in learning about the federal government's role in addressing violence against women, and responded to requests for information regarding violence against women. The Office works closely with components of the Office of Justice Programs, the Office of Legal Policy, the Office of Legislative Affairs, the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, the Immigration and Naturalization Office, the Executive Office for United States Attorneys, U.S. Attorneys' Offices, and state, tribal and local jurisdictions to implement the mandates of the Violence Against Women Act and subsequent legislation.
  • Ontario Network of Sexual Assault Treatment Centres http://www.satcontario.com/
    This website provides information about the services offered at Sexual Assault Care and Treatment Centres in Ontario as well as information about sexual assault and domestic violence. Although the original mandate of our service revolved around the care for victims/survivors of sexual assault, our mandate is expanding to include service for victims/survivors of domestic violence.
  • Open Door Network - Ireland http://www.opendoornetwork.net
    The Open Door Network is Kerrys response to violence against women and children. We believe in raising awareness through interagency co-operation and the co-ordination of responses throughout the County. We support existing services in their aim of providing accessible safe spaces and support for women and children who experience violence and abuse. We will support the development of policy and training programmes by working with our members and co-ordinating appropriate responses to community needs on a county-wide basis.
  • Österreichische Frauenhäuser, Informationsstelle gegen Gewalt - Austria http://www.aoef.at/
    The Austrian Women's Shelter Network is an affiliation of women working in the autonomous women's shelters and was founded in 1988. The network is a non-profit organisation and is funded by subsidies, research contracts and donations.
  • People Opposing Women Abuse (POWA) - South Africa http://www.powa.co.za/
    POWA's mission is to be a powerful, specialised and multi-skilled service provider that contributes towards the complete eradication of violence against women in society, in order to enhance women's quality of life. POWA's vision is to create a safe society that does not tolerant violence against women, and where women are powerful, self- reliant, equal and respected.
  • Persons Against Ritual Abuse and Torture - Canada http://www.ritualabusetorture.org/
    Relationship educators working for 11 years with persons who have experienced relationship violence, including ritual abuse-torture. We have conducted two years of interviews with survivors of torture by "non-state actors" - Ritual abuse-torture and spousal torture - a "kitchen table" research project which is evolving into a book entitled, The Torturers Walk Among Us.
  • Projeto Saúde e Direitos Humanos - Brazil http://www.mulheres.org.br/violencia/index.html
    O conteúdo original deste site foi um resultado do projeto 'Gênero, Saúde e Direitos Humanos', uma parceria do Coletivo Feminista e do Departamento de Medicina Preventiva da Faculdade de Medicina da USP, apoiado pela Fundação Ford. A atualização deste site é uma parceria entre o Coletivo Feminista e a União de Mulheres, com o apoio da Fundação Ford e do Instituto Avon.
  • Raising Voices - Uganda http://www.raisingvoices.org/
    Raising Voices is a registered non-profit project of the Tides Center working to create and promote community-based approaches to preventing violence against women and children. Raising Voices is committed to promoting the status of women and children. We envision families and communities where women and children's voices are heard, their rights respected, and they can live free of violence.
  • Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) - US http://www.rainn.org/
    The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) is the nation's largest anti-sexual assault organization. RAINN operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1.800.656.HOPE and carries out programs to prevent sexual assault, help victims and ensure that rapists are brought to justice. Inside, you'll find statistics, counseling resources, prevention tips, news and more.
  • Red Feminista Latinoamericana y del Caribe Contra la Violencía Doméstica y Sexual http://www.redfem.cl/
    La Red Feminista Latinoamericana y del Caribe contra la Violencia Doméstica y Sexual fue creada en 1990, durante el V Encuentro Feminista. Consolidada en agosto de 1992 en Olinda, Brasil, con la participación de organizaciones de mujeres de 21 países de la región. Desde esa fecha Isis Internacional funciona como sede central de información y comunicación. La Red busca fortalecer la capacidad de acción y de propuestas de las organizaciones que la conforman, potenciar la capacidad de impacto a nivel local, nacional y regional, fomentar iniciativas de atención, prevención e investigación, e incorporar el tema en las agendas públicas de los países de la región.
  • Reproductive Health for Refugees Consortium (RHRC) http://www.rhrc.org
    The Reproductive Health Response in Conflict (RHRC) Consortium is dedicated to the promotion of reproductive health among all persons affected by armed conflict. The RHRC Consortium promotes sustained access to comprehensive, high quality reproductive health programs in emergencies and advocates for policies that support reproductive health of persons affected by armed conflict. The RHRC Consortium believes all persons have a right to quality reproductive health care and that reproductive health programming must promote rights, respect and responsibility for all.
  • Safe Horizon - US http://www.safehorizon.org/index_flash.php
    Safe Horizon's mission is to provide support, prevent violence, and promote justice for victims of crime and abuse, their families and communities. Today, Safe Horizon is the nation's leading nonprofit victim assistance, advocacy, and violence prevention organization with more than 80 programs throughout New York's five boroughs and a staff of 900 dedicated professionals. Safe Horizon partners with others who help crime victims: the New York Police Department, the New York State Crime Victims Board, the Office of the Mayor, other social service agencies, hospitals, corporations, and more - to ease the burden on victims and enhance the aid that is available to them. Safe Horizon's hotlines and programs in community offices, shelters, courts, police precincts, and schools help more than 350,000 New Yorkers every year.
  • Sexual Violence Research Initiative http://www.svri.org/
    Sexual Violence is both a public health problem and a violation of human rights, but it has been a long struggle to have it recognised as a legitimate health issue. Sexual violence to date has received little attention from researchers, policy makers and programme designers. There are little reliable data, particularly from developing and middle income countries on the magnitude and nature of the problem, its health impacts, and its risk factors. These data are needed so that the burden of the problem can be estimated and knowledge of why it persists gained. There is also a need for evaluations of existing interventions and their effectiveness, to inform policy and interventions development. The Sexual Violence Research Initiative has been launched to address this problem. Objectives and focus: The SVRI is a project which aims to create a network of experienced and committed researchers, policy makers, activists and donors who will work together to ensure that the many aspects of sexual violence are addressed. The objective of the SVRI is to promote and disseminate action-oriented research to reduce and respond to sexual violence through identifying gaps, building capacity, supporting research, raising awareness and building partnerships.
  • Shirkat Gah - Pakistan (SG) http://shirkat.tripod.com/
    1975, International Womens Year: Shirkat Gah Womens Resource Centre (literally meaning a place of participation) is formed as a non-hierarchical collective to integrate consciousness raising with a development perspective and to initiate projects translating advocacy into action. Shirkat Gah (SG) has expanded well beyond the Collective to an organisation working in all four provinces of Pakistan with three offices and has ECOSOC status at the United Nations. Living up to its name, Shirkat Gah adopts a participatory approach I its internal functioning and all its activities.
  • SIVIC: Site Specializing in the Treatment of Domestic Violence for Health Care Professionals http://www.sivic.org/
    Website in English, Italiano, Portugues, Belgique, Français and Español
    This site discusses the various practical aspects relating to the detection and the medical monitoring of women who are victims of domestic violence. It is therefore directed towards all heath sector professionals who wish to have information on the subject of domestic violence and its consequences in health terms and who wish to know, as health professionals, what action they should take.
  • Speak Out - South Africa http://www.speakout.org.za/
  • Spiritual Alliance to Stop Intimate Violence, Center for Partnership Studies (SAIV) http://www.partnershipway.org/html/saivpage.htm
    A Public Service Project Coordinated by the Center for Partnership Studies. The Mission of SAIV is to stop intimate violence - the training ground for the violence of war, terrorism, political repression, and crime.
  • StopVAW http://www.stopvaw.org/
    The Stop Violence Against Women website (STOPVAW) is a forum for information, advocacy and change. Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights developed this website as a tool for the promotion of women's human rights in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Mongolia, and the U.N. Protectorate of Kosovo. STOPVAW was developed with support from and in consultation with the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the Open Society Institute's Network Women's Program. This site addresses violence against women as one of the most pervasive human rights abuses worldwide. STOPVAW provides women's rights advocates with information and advocacy tools focused on ending the most endemic forms of violence against women in the region.
  • Swadhina - India http://www.swadhina.org/
    On these lines of development interaction we are working in four states of the country, where Swadhina has her full-time staff co-ordinators, namely, in Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Orissa and West Bengal. Following is the village-based pattern of involvement - Tamil Nadu in 20 villages, - Orissa in 100 villages, spread over in 3 districts, - West Bengal in 30 villages, - Bihar in 20 villages, and 15 slums in the city of Calcutta. Activities: Swadhina works through over these 185 Women's Groups and also through 170 Non formal Education Centers for children which also act as action centers. It also conducts field level trainings on skill enhancement, peace/value education and development orientation, for other organizations. Funding: Swadhina is funded by local friends and overseas grants. The overseas friends may send in their financial support to our Bank Account in India or through KurveWustro Account in Germany. Affiliation: At the International level Swadhina is affiliated with the WRI- War Resisters' International, UK. At the National level Swadhina is affiliated with NAVA- Networking Alliance for Voluntary Actions, India.
  • Take Back the News http://www.takebackthenews.net/
    Many survivors are burdened by keeping their stories hidden from a world that tends to disbelieve, discredit, and stigmatize them. Perhaps you've felt this too, but sexual violence is not a rarity. According to the UN Commission on the Status of Women, one in three women and girls in the world will be beaten or sexually abused in her lifetime. This is an epidemic. To the discredit of the mainstream media, rape is under-represented and mis-represented. There's something you can do to change this - TAKE BACK THE NEWS! Stories may appear in print media in your state, but only with your permission. This may happen if a local anti-rape group or independent paper hosts a Take Back the News. You will be contacted by e-mail before your story is printed, and most stories will not be printed. Of course, all submitted stories will be displayed on the web site. And in order to respect your privacy, sharing your name is optional, though encouraged if you feel comfortable doing so.
  • Toolkit to End Violence Against Women http://toolkit.ncjrs.org/
    To provide concrete guidance to communities, policy leaders, and individuals engaged in activities to end violence against women, the National Advisory Council on Violence Against Women developed the Toolkit To End Violence Against Women. The recommendations contained in the Toolkit were reviewed by numerous experts in the fields of sexual assault, domestic violence, and stalking.
  • A Life Free of Violence: It's Our Right - United Nations Interagency Campaign on Women's Human Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean http://www.undp.org/rblac/gender/
    This new web site is brought to you by the United Nations Development Programme, Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean as part of its contribution to the United Nations Inter-Agency Campaign on Women's Human Rights. Work on this site is on-going and several sections, such as those for regional products and national campaign activities, shall be updated periodically. As well, homologous national reports on gender violence are being produced by UNDP country offices in 19 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. At the present time thirteen have been completed for the following countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Chile, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Panama, Trinidad & Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela. We will be adding newly completed reports as they become available. We invite you to join, formally and informally, as individuals and institutions, in the partnership to eliminate gender violence within our lifetimes. Welcome to our site.
  • United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) - Violence Against Women: A Public Health Priority http://www.unfpa.org/intercenter/violence/
    UNFPA implements various interventions to help ending Gender Based Violence, including advocacy, data collection on prevalence, indicators of change, male involvement and prevention, training for the police, and support to legislative and policy changes. Addressing Gender Based Violence at health facilities is new to UNFPA programs, and rarely found even outside UNFPA.
  • VAWnet, National Electronic Network on Violence Against Women - US http://www.vawnet.org/
    The goal of the National Electronic Network on Violence Against Women (VAWnet) is to harness and use electronic communication Technology as a resource for those working to end violence against Women. In order to accomplish this goal, VAWnet staff and consultants collect, analyze, prepare and electronically disseminate information and materials on domestic violence, sexual assault, and related issues via VAWnet's web site and facilitated listserv discussions.
  • V-DAY http://www.vday.org/main.html
    V-Day is a global movement to end violence against women and girls. V-Day is a catalyst that promotes creative events to increase awareness, raise money, and revitalize the spirit of existing anti-violence organizations. V-Day generates broader attention for the fight to stop worldwide violence against women and girls including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM), and sexual slavery.
  • WOMANKIND Worldwide http://www.womankind.org.uk/
    WOMANKIND Worldwide is a UK charity dedicated to working internationally to raise the status of women. WOMANKIND works with 70 partner organisations in 20 countries, spaning Africa, South Asia, Central and South America, and Europe. We work directly with women and men across the world to develop and transform communities - meeting women's day-to-day needs and tackling the causes of inequality between women and men. Women's rights are at the core of our work and we strive to change women's lives for good, enabling them to gain skills, knowledge and opportunities so they can control their own lives and move out of poverty. Our vision is of a future society in which women can take their place as equal partners in determining the values, direction and governance of their community and country. Aiming to ensure that women's rights are recognised, we believe that the best people to help women are women themselves.
  • Women Against Violence Europe (WAVE)/ European Info Center Against Violence http://www.wave-network.org/
    The Info Centre is part of the WAVE Network which is Europe's largest association of women's NGOs combating violence against women (see WAVE Network). We are based in Vienna, on the premises of the Austrian Women's Shelter Network. We are four part-time employed women: Birgit Appelt, Verena Kaselitz, Marinela Vecerik - and Sabrina C. Kaselitz.
  • Women's Aid http://www.womensaid.org/
    Women's Aid is a voluntary organisation which provides support and information to women and their children who are being physically, emotionally and sexually abused in their own homes. Women's Aid is a feminist, political and campaigning organisation committed to the elimination of violence and abuse of women through effecting political, cultural and social change. Women's Aid provides direct support services to women experiencing male violence and abuse. This work underpins and informs all other goals and actions of the organisation.
  • Women's Aid Organization of Malaysia (WAO) http://www.wao.org.my/
    Mission: To promote and create respect, protection and fulfillment of equal rights for women. To work towards the elimination of discrimination against women, and to bring about equality between women and men. Objectives: To provide on request to women and their children suffering from mental, physical and sexual abuse, temporary refuge services that empower and enable them to determine their own future; to offer emotional and social support to any women who request for it, resident or otherwise, and offer support and after-care; to undertake and encourage research into any of the factors that contribute to the inequality and subordination of women; to undertake and advocate with government and non-government organisations the eradication of factors that contribute to the inequality and subordination of women through law, policy and institutional reforms; to create an awareness and better understanding among individuals, public and relevant agencies on the issues of violence against women and the underlying inequalities.
  • Women's Initiative for Self-Empowerment (WISE) - Ghana http://www.wise-up.org/
    WISE provides counseling and support services to women and children survivors of violence. Our vision is to break the cycle of violence and sexual assault for women and children. We work in cooperation with our partners and clients to develop culture-specific and community-based solutions. Our focus is always to ensure the safety and well being of our clients. We are a womanist organization that is rooted in the belief that men and women are equal. We are also committed to providing the space for survivors to speak their truths and be heard with respect and without bias.
  • Women's Justice Center/Centro de Justicia para Mujeres - US http://www.justicewomen.com/
    Website in English and Español.
    Mission is to To provide advocacy, free of charge, for victims of rape, domestic violence, and child abuse, particularly in the Latina and other under served communities of Sonoma County. To provide advocacy training and community education. To coordinate the Task Force on Women in Policing with the goal of increasing the number of women and minorities in our law enforcement agencies. To commit to equal justice for all women and girls.
  • Women's Rehabilitation Centre (WOREC) - Nepal http://www.worecnepal.org/
    Since 1991, WOREC has been working in partnership with grassroots people in order to resolve the major socioeconomic, cultural and human rights injustices prevalent in Nepal and to work towards the attainment of social justice and sustainable livelihood at the community level. While WOREC's main goal is to prevent the trafficking of persons from a human rights perspective, because of the complex underlying causes of trafficking, WOREC works from a holistic perspective in order to achieve human rights for all Nepali persons.
  • World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) http://www.omct.org/index_en.cfm?CFID=1069460&CFTOKEN=83843882
    The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) is the world's largest coalition of non-governmental organisations fighting against arbitrary detention, torture, summary and extrajudicial executions, forced disappearances and other forms of violence. Its global network comprises nearly 300 local, national and regional organisations, which share the common goal of eradicating such practices and enabling the respect of human rights for all.

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