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Links United Nations http://www1/umn.edu/humanrts/instree/women/engl-womn.html A reference guide to official United Nations documents Amnesty International http://www.amnesty-usa.org/women/ Worldwide women still earn less than men, own less property than men and have less access to education, employment and health care than men. Pervasive discrimination continues to deny women full political and economic equality, and is often at the root of violations of their basic human rights. Women's Human Rights Net http://www.whrnet.org/home.htm The slogan WOMEN'S RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS emerged from women's movements worldwide in the 1980s, especially in the context of organizing around the issue of violence against women. The human rights framework, with its foundational principle of non-discrimination and its affirmation of the dignity and worth of every human being, provided a vocabulary and concrete arena within which women activists from all over the world could act to promote and protect women's rights as human rights. Madre http://www.madre.org/ MADRE was born out of a belief that together we can make a difference. In 1983 a group of women activists, poets, teachers, artists and health professionals traveled to Nicaragua to witness the impact of the US sponsored contra war. What they saw horrified and angered them. They met with women who showed them day care centers, schools and clinics that had been bombed by contras supported by the US government. These women returned to the US with a mandate from the women of Nicaragua: to bring the stories of Nicaraguan women and children to the attention of the US public and mobilize people to demand a change in US government policy. UNIFEM http://www.undp.org/unifem/hrights.htm UNIFEM promotes the principle that the protection of women's human rights is fundamental to ensuring women's self-realization and full participation in society. African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) http:www.africaonline.co.ke/femnet/ FEMNET stands for the African Women's Development and Communication Network. The Network is concerned with the sharing of information and ideas between African NGOs so as to enable a better and more effective NGO focus on women's development. Center for Women's Global Leadership http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~cwgl/ The Center for Women's Global Leadership (Global Center) develops and facilitates women's leadership for women's human rights and social justice worldwide. International Center for Research on Women http://www.icrw.org ICRW's work in the area of women's human rights is focused on operationalizing the enumerated rights of CEDAW and other human rights treaties within the context of international economic and social development. ICRW supports policy-relevent research concerning women, gender, and development in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern and Central Europe. ICRW's work in the area of women's human rights is focused on operationalizing the enumerated rights of CEDAW and other human rights treaties within the context of international economic and social development. ICRW supports policy-relevent research concerning women, gender, and development in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern and Central Europe. International Women's Rights Project http://www.web.net/~marilou The International Women's Rights Project (IWRP or "the project") has a specific focus on facilitating stronger implementation of international human rights standards to the benefit of women through research and activism. The Project's current project priorities are: 1.) to conduct a study resulting in a detailed comparative analysis of the impact of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) on national systems, and 2.) to assemble a special issue of Refuge to focus on trafficking in women, for publication early 1999. This site has expanded to include more information on our study, information on participating NGOs. WomenWatch http://www.un.org/womenwatch/ WomenWatch is the UN Internet Gateway on the Advancement and Empowerment of Women Tibetan Women's Association http:www.fotwa.org/twa.html Tibetan Women's Association is a non-governmental organization based in Dharamsala, India and has over 37 branches in India and abroad. Amongst the major concerns of the Organization are: - Violations of Tibetan Women's Rights in Tibet, especially their reproductive rights. - The increasing torture and imprisonment of Tibetan women. - Discrimination against Tibetans in education, health and employment in Tibet. Women for Women in Bosnia http:embassy.org/wmn4wmn/ Women for Women in Bosnia (WWB), an inter-faith, non-profit, humanitarian organization, helps women regardless of their nationality or religion. Forums and mailing lists Reproductive Rights, Human Rights http://www.whrnet.org/forums.html Reproductive Rights, Human Rights is a guided discussion forum focusing on the relationship between reproductive rights and human rights worldwide. Each week, the moderator will post an introductory message, describing the topic for that week and several questions related to that topic. It is the hope that participants will use these questions to formulate questions of their own, and continue the discussion on a variety of related issues. CEDAW-in-action Sponsored by UNIFEM and the International Women's Rights Action Watch (IWRAW) Asia-Pacific, this listserv is meant to support women's human rights advocates and others in sharing experience and knowledge on implementing the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). Affiliated website: http://www.undp.org/unifem To subscribe: see http://www.undp.org/unifem/cedawwg.htm IWTC Women's Globalnet A bi-weekly bulletin on activities and initiatives of women worldwide produced by the International Women's Tribune Centre. In the year leading up to the five-year review of the Beijing Platform for Action, the bulletin will be focusing on plans and preparations for the UN Special Session in June, 2000. To subscribe: See http://www.topica.com/read/home.html?alid=700000941 for details. IGC WomensNet http://www.womensnet.apc.org/womensnet/ IGC's WomensNet is a non-profit computer network for women, activists and organizations using computer networks for information sharing and increasing women's rights. WomensNet provides e-mail accounts, Internet access, and WWW publishing, consulting and training. WomensNet works with women, activists and organizations to adapt telecommunications tools to address their information and access needs. Members of WomensNet have access to unique information resources such as databases and electronic conferences not found on the Internet, and can create their own mailing lists, electronic conferences and WWW pages. The WomensNet homepage contains alerts, follow-up information for the FWCW, a list of WomensNet members, and a comprehensive directory of Internet resources for women, including information on activism, health/reproductive rights, women and technology, women's organizations, on-line publication, and training resources top Other hot topics: The UN System Human Rights Overview War-Affected Children Indigenous People's Rights Children's Rights Women's Rights The Media and Human Rights Human Rights NGOs Conflict Resolution Action Strategies