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The International Women's Tribune Centre (IWTC)

The International Women's Tribune Centre (IWTC) is an international non-governmental organization established in l976 following the United Nations International Women's Year World Conference in Mexico City. With a philosophical commitment to empowering people and building communities, IWTC provides communication, information, education, and organizing support services to women's organizations and community groups working to improve the lives of women, particularly low-income women, in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and Western Asia.

http://iwtc.org/

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The long road to gender equity

In every human society, there are given practices, relations, institutions and identities that make up a gender system, along with a sexual division of labour that transforms gender differences into inequalities. The first step towards gender equity is for societies and governments to first accept and understand that this system generates inequalities between men and women, and then to promote policies to address them. Social Watch's Gender Equity Index (GEI) provides conclusive evidence that women's opportunities in the economic and political spheres are still limited. (Social Watch, 2006)

http://www.socialwatch.org/en/informeImpreso/pdfs/longroadgenderequity2006_eng.pdf

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The Tsunami exacerbates Dalit women's sufferings from caste discrimination

Dalits are the lowest caste people in India , the so-called untouchables. Most Dalit villages in the northern districts of Tamil Nadu, from Tiruvallur to Nagapattinam, have been affected by the tsunami. Families who lost their houses are not eligible for housing assistance as for generations they lived on their land without land titles. Over a million Dalit survivors of the tsunami have been living as refugees in 'warehouse' type temporary shelters set up near graveyards or garbage dumps without sanitation and/or electricity. The relief supplies are handed to men who spend the money on alcohol leading to increased domestic violence. Even the tsunami failed to wash away caste discrimination in the Indian society. (Fatima Burnad, Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development)

http://www.apwld.org/tsunami_dalitwomen.htm

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Using Edutainment to Reach Sexual Minority People [pdf]

This paper shares the experience of producing two multidisciplinary communication projects that aim to raise awareness and discussion around lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBTI) rights, health, and HIV/AIDS. (by Tonya Graham, CMFD Productions, April 2008)

http://www.cmfd.org/cmfdpubs/usingedutainmenttoreachsexualminoritypeople.pdf

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Vital Voices

A Global Network to promote women's rights, participation and leadership in society.

http://www.vitalvoices.org

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Voices: Palestinian Women Narrate Displacement

70 people, mostly women, from different regions of historic Palestine tell their stories of loss of home. They are 'ordinary' Palestinians of varying ages and social backgrounds. This is a multi-media project, a digital book in which you can hear the speakers' voices, see portraits of their faces and surroundings, and read texts that describe individual speakers and give historical background.

http://almashriq.hiof.no/voices/

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What is empowerment?

Discrimination, inequality, gender bias, male chauvinism, absence of resources, and lack of acceptance and recognition were the buzzwords at the first summit of women councillors and mayors in Pakistan. Women put forward ideas about the problems they face and what can be done.

http://www.dev-zone.org/kcdocs/5896empowerment.html

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Who Benefits From Land Titling? Lessons from Bolivia and Laos (pdf)

Households in the developing world are becoming more feminised through the breakdown of marriages, the impact of civil war and HIV/AIDs. This research in Bolivia and Laos PDR shows, despite legal and policy contexts which support equal access to titling for both men and women, women still face significant social, political and cultural constraints to acquiring rights to land. (International Institute for Environment and Development, 2007)

http://www.iied.org/pubs/pdfs/14553IIED.pdf

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WOMANKIND Worldwide

Aiming to ensure that women's rights are recognized, we believe that the best people to help women are women themselves. We believe in working with local groups to find their own solutions, assisting them in their efforts to find a path that leads away from discrimination to equality.

http://www.womankind.org.uk

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Women and African Development

A Partial Bibliography and Reviews of Books Published in the 1990s. This social sciences bibliography was prepared as basis for a bibliographic essay on 100 books for CHOICE - the librarians journal dated February 2000. It is a work in progress, to be updated occasionally.

http://www.uct.ac.za/

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Women and Food Crises: How US Food Aid Policies Can Better Support their Struggles [pdf]

Over the last few decades, food crises have become distressingly common phenomena. Women are often at the center of these emergencies, though the disproportionate impact of hunger on women is too often hidden within the dire aggregate statistics. But the role of women in providing solutions to these crises is also too often overlooked. This discussion paper lays out some of the key issues in modern food crises and explores some opportunities for engaging women more actively in the quest for more effective answers (ActionAid International, March 20 2007).

http://www.actionaidusa.org/assets/pdfs/food_rights/report_women_and_food_crisis_paper300.pdf

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Women and Food Crisis: How US Food Aid Policies Can Better Support Their Struggles

Over the last few decades, food crises have become distressingly common phenomena. Women are often at the center of these emergencies, though the disproportionate impact of hunger on women is too often hidden within the dire aggregate statistics. But the role of women in providing solutions to these crises is also too often overlooked. This discussion paper from ActionAid USA's Karen Hansen-Kuhn suggests how such oversights may be corrected to the benefit of entire communities in crisis. Illustrated by case studies from Kenya and Malawi (Karen Hansen-Kuhn, ActionAid USA, 2007).

http://www.actionaidusa.org/pdf/Report-Women_and_Food_Crisis_Paper300.pdf

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Women and Food Security: Overview and Situation in China

Marlen Arkesteijn, 1998. This paper provides an overview of women's role in food security, with a particular focus on China. It examines two aspects: a) women's role as agricultural producers and b) access of women farmers to resources for production. It highlights that women play an important role in sustaining and improving food security at global, national, community and household levels in various ways: Women are the majority of the world's agricultural producers, and in many places in the world women are responsible for providing the food for their families, if not by producing it, then by earning the income for its purchase. Finally, women are nearly universally responsible for food preparation for their families. However, these contributions many times go unnoticed due to the fact that they are not counted in surveys and statistics, since most of the work women perform in agriculture and the processing of food is unpaid. The author makes a series of recommendations, in particular the establishment of a Gender Unit within the Ministry of Agriculture, that would specialise in assisting the collection of gender-disaggregated data, monitoring of women's access to extension and training, doing constraints analyses, training of extensionists, researchers and policy-makers.

http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO/SUSTDEV/Wpdirect/Wpan0022.htm

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Women and urban governance

A draft policy paper prepared by UNCHS (Habitat) in November 2000. This paper addresses the concern that women in cities are in a much more vulnerable position than are men (OECD, 1995). The policy addresses two aspects: increased representation in local decision-making for women and a greater attention to issues that concern them.

http://www.gdrc.org/u-gov/gender/womgov.doc

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Women in Development Network(WIDNET)

Online database on Women and Development. Includes statistics, resources and searching via themes

http://www.focusintl.com/widnet.htm

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Women's Environment & Development Organization (WEDO)

WEDO is an international advocacy network actively working to transform society to achieve a healthy and peaceful planet with social, political, economic and environmental justice for all through the empowerment of women, in all their diversity, and their equal participation with men in decision-making from grassroots to global arenas.

http://www.wedo.org/

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Women's Feature Service

News, features and opinions from a gender perspective. Fresh updates from around the world every week. Women's Feature Service markets articles to print publications and websites.

http://www.wfsnews.org

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Women's Human Rights - World Report 2002

From the Human Rights Watch, this section specifically focuses on women's human rights.

http://www.hrw.org/wr2k2/women.html

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Women's Human Rights Resources

The Women's Human Rights Resources web site is a project of the Bora Laskin Law Library at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law. The site is produced by the Women's Human Rights Resources group in consultation and collaboration with law librarians, lawyers, students, researchers, activists and human rights experts around the world.

http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/diana/

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Women's Networking Support Programme

The APC WNSP supports women networking for social change. The mission of the Women's Networking Support Programme is to promote gender equity in the design, implementation, and use of information and communication technologies through the provision of research, training, information, and support activities in the field of ICT policy, skills-sharing in the access and use of ICT, and women's network-building. The APC Women's Programme team consists of women from more than 20 countries from North, South, East and West. They are women, groups and organisations working in the field of gender and ICT, who also actively support women's networking.

http://www.apcwomen.org/eng_index.html

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Women's Protests Against ChevronTexaco

What caused the rural women in the Niger Delta to hold a multinational oil corporation hostage last month, and how did they do it? CorpWatch explains how it all went down.

http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=3428

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Women's World

A global free speech network of feminist writers. Work includes research and public educatation about the scope and prevalence of gender-based censorship and the development of women's presses and journals, and strive to link them internationally

http://www.wworld.org/index.html

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Women'sNet

Women'sNet is a vibrant and innovative networking support program designed to enable South African women to use the Internet to find the people, issues, resources and tools needed for women's social activism. Women'sNet aims to empower South African women to use information and communications technologies (ICTs) towards advancing women's equality. It is a dynamic source of locally generated information and discussion on gender issues.

http://womensnet.org.za/

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Women, Ink

Women, Ink is a project of the International Women's Tribune Centre to market and distribute books on women and development with a focus on the perspectives of women from the Global South. It provides a marketing outlet for publications produced by information gathering groups and small presses in countries of the Global South.

http://www.womenink.org

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Women, Law & Development International

WLDI is a women's human rights organization. First established in 1979 as a program of OEF International; WLDI became an independent organization in 1993. WLDI is a non-profit, non-governmental organization in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. Prior to and since its independence, WLDI has worked on several fronts, making important contributions to the global movement for women's rights. Among its many accomplishments, WLDI has: * organized a number of agenda-setting global and regional forums that engaged key women leaders from around the world to articulate strategies for promoting and defending women's rights; * launched independent regional women's rights organizations in Asia, Africa and Latin America that today are recognized as leaders in advocating for women's rights locally and globally; * initiated and carried out ground-breaking participatory research projects on women's human rights issues including violence against women, legal literacy, and economic rights, among other themes, providing a basis for deeper understanding and broader recognition of women's human rights globally; and * created and disseminated innovative and practical strategy frameworks, "how-to" guides, case studies, fact sheets and other tools for advocacy, including A Women's Rights Agenda for the 90's and Beyond, Women's Human Rights Step by Step and others.

http://www.wld.org/

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