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List of women rights organisations

2008-07-15T08:49:00.001-07:00

Aviva - monthly listings of women's groups & events worldwide. Sponsorship/ Donations
www.aviva.org

Cairo and Beyond - Conference of reproductive rights and culture The link for the reproductive rights group. A virtual work place for a global network for reproductive rights an culture, an open forum for the permanent exchange of best practices an views.
www.reproductiverightsandculture.org

The Center of Concern's Global Women's Project
www.coc.org

The Coalition for Women's Human Rights in Conflict Situations, established in 1996, aiming to promote the adequate prosecution of perpetrators of crimes of gender violence in transitional justice systems based in Africa, launches its website:
www.womensrightscoalition.org

La Coalition pour les droits des femmesen situation de conflits, établie en 1996, lance son site internet: www.coalitiondroitsdesfemmes.org

The coordination of the Coalition’s activities is ensured by the Women’s Rights Programme at the Montreal-based Rights & Democracy
(www.ichrdd.ca).

Global Fund for Women
www.globalfundforwomen.org

New website for Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice. The Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice is an international women's human rights organisation advocating for gender-inclusive justice and working towards an effective and independent International Criminal Court (ICC). On the website you will find information about different ICC related reports and activities. See: www.iccwomen.org

ILO's Gender Web Site
www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/gender

International Alliance of WomenInternational NGO with consultative general status at the Economic and Social Council of the UN. Accredited at DPI, ILO, WHO, UNCTAD and the Economic Council Strassbourg.
www.womenalliance.com

International Federation of Universoity Women
www.ifuw.org

International Roma Women’s network - IRWNNewly founded on 8 March 2003. IRWN brings together for the first time Roma women’s groups from West and Eastern Europe.Website (still under construction
http:/www.romawomen.org

International Women´s ForumEmail:
communications@iwforum.org www.iwforum.org

The International Working Group on Gender, Macroeconomics and International Economics (GEM-IWG), an international network of economists which was formed in 1994
www.genderandmacro.org

MADREAn International Women's Human Rights Organization
www.madre.org

Women, Law & Development International
www.wld.org

The Role of Women in the Economy
www.oecd.org/els/women/women.htm

Women´s Human Rights NetFounded in 1997, WHRnet aims to provide reliable, comprehensive, and timely information and analyses on women's human rights in English, Spanish and French.
www.whrnet.org

Women's Human Rights Resources Web SiteThe purpose of the Women's Human Rights Resources Web Site is to provide reliable and diverse information on international women's human rights via the Internet.
www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/Diana/

Women International Parliaments
http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/world.htm

Women's Link WorldwideWomen's Link is a new organization that functions as a network, collaborating with women's rights and human rights groups in Western Europe and Latin America, to foster the implementation of international law and the use of international tribunals to advance women's rights. WLW's website maintains a database of judicial decisions related to women's rights with a special focus on sexual and reproductive health and rights and violence against women. This database is unique in that it provides both legal analyses and direct access to case law from national, regional and international tribunals.
www.womenslinkworldwide.org

WomenWatchThe UN Internet Gateway on the Advancement and Empowerment of Womenwww.un.org/womenwatch

Worldbank: Website on Gender Statistics
genderstats.worldbank.org/menu.asp

UNESCO Priority Women, Gender Equality Site
www.unesco.int/women

UNIFEM
www.unifem.undp.org

United Nations Economic Committee for Europe: Gender Activities
http://www.unece.org/oes/gender/Welcome.html

United Nations International Research and Training Institute for theAdvancement of Women, established in 1976 with the objective to promotegender equality and women's advancement worldwide through research, trainingand the collection and dissemination of information.
www.un-instraw.org

Women's eNewsA nonprofit independent news service covering issues of concern to women and their allies.
womensenews.org

The Women’s Rights Programme at the Montreal-based Rights & Democracy:
www.ichrdd.ca

List of human rights organisations

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Source: World Movement for Democracy (WMD)
GLOBAL:
http://www.amnesty.org/ Amnesty International (AI)
http://www.awid.org Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID)
http://www.forefrontleaders.org/ Forefront
http://www.hrea.org/ Human Rights Education Associates (HREA)
http://www.humanrightshouse.org/ Human Rights House Network
http://www.huridocs.org/ Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems, International (HURIDOCS)
http://www.hri.ca/index.aspx Human Rights Internet (HRI)
http://www.hrw.org Human Rights Watch
http://www.fidh.org International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
http://www.ihrnetwork.org/ International Human Rights Network
http://www.newtactics.org New Tactics in Human Rights
http://www.universalrights.net/main/index.htm Universal Rights Network
http://www.omct.org/ World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT)

AFRICA:
http://ajn.rti.org/ African Judicial Network (AJN)
http://www.anppcan.org/index.htm African Network for Prevention and Protection Against Child Abuse and Neglect (ANPPCAN)
http://www.hurinet.or.ug/ Human Rights Network (Uganda) - HURINET (U)
Contact: civilsociety2004@yahoo.com Mano River Union Civil Society Movement
http://www.hri.ca/partners/uidh/ Union Interafricaine des Droits de l'Homme (UIDH)
Contact: crs@yorku.ca West Africa Human Rights Defenders Network

ASIA:
http://www.forumasia.org/ Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA)
http://www.aphrn.org/ Asia Pacific Human Rights Network (APHRN)
http://www.banglarights.net/ Banglarights, the Bangladesh Human Rights Network
http://nkgulag.org/english/ Democracy Network against the North Korean Gulag (NKGulag)
http://www.humanrights.net.nz/ Human Rights Network
http://www.nknet.org/en/NKnet.asp Network for North Korean Democracy and Human Rights (NKnet)
http://www.hrdc.net/sahrdc/ South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre (SAHRDC)
http://www.vnhrnet.org/ Vietnam Human Rights Network

AMERICAS:
http://www.derechos.org/ Derechos
http://www.mhrn.org/ Montana Human Rights Network
http://www.ushrnetwork.org/home.cfm US Human Rights Network

EUROPE AND NEW INDEPENDENT STATES:
http://humanrights.britishcouncil.org/ British Council Human Rights Network
http://www.eyhr.net.lv/eng/eyhr.php European Youth Human Rights Network (EYHR-Net
http://www.hfhrpol.waw.pl/en/ Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights
http://www.spring96.org/English/ Human Rights Center "Viasna,"
http://www.ihf-hr.org/index.php International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights
http://www.justiceunion.org/ Jalal-Abad Regional Human Rights Organization "Spravedlivost" (Justice)
http://www.kchr.org/index.html Kyrgyz Committee for Human Rights (KCHR)
http://www.memo.ru/ Memorial
http://www.yhrm.hrworld.ru/7_what/7_1_what.shtml Youth Human Rights Movement
http://zaprava.ru/en/ Za Prava Cheloveka (ZPC)

MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA:
http://www.aihr.org.tn/ Arab Institute for Human Rights (AIHR)
http://www.hrinfo.net/en/ Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (Hrinfo)
http://www.aohr.org/ Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR)
http://www.aphra.org/ Arab Program for Human Rights
http://www.euromedrights.net/english/engelsk.html Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN)

PROFESSIONAL NETWORKS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS:
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/humanrights/Network_Description.html International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies
http://www.phrusa.org/index.html Physicians for Human Rights (PHR)
http://scholarsatrisk.nyu.edu/index.htm Scholars at Risk (SAR)

Sites of higher rating

2008-06-12T19:12:00.000-07:00

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

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http://www.friendsreunited.com/ 15 million user
http://www.blogger.com/ 18.5 million unique visitors
http://www.youtube.com/ 100 million clips watched a day
http://www.napster.com/ 500,000 paying subscribers
http://www.wikipedia.com/ 912,000 visits per day
http://www.ebay.com/ 168 million users