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Within the framework of the Convention on the Elimination
of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the Asia Pacific
Gender Equality Network (APGEN) strengthens regional coordination and
cooperation towards addressing issues of feminization of poverty and gender
inequality in decision-making.
Canadian
International Development Agency
Equality between women and men, boys and girls, is integral to all CIDA
initiatives. The Agency will build on its experience and comparative advantage
in this area as it strengthens its programming in the Social Development
Priorities of health and nutrition, basic education, HIV/AIDS and child
protection. CIDA will ensure that all of these initiatives are planned
using sound gender analysis, building on opportunities for the empowerment
of women and men, respecting human rights, and working to help close gender
gaps that stand in the way of social development. TOP
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Global
Fund for Women
Noel
Foundation
The foundation encourages and supports the advancement of
women around the world through entrepreneurial and educational programs.
In Asia, it provides technical training and job skills to women in Thailand,
the Philippines and Cambodia to produce goods for sale on the global market.
Sara
Lee Corporate Citizenship and Foundations
In it's 20 years, the Sara Lee Foundation has established
its leadership role by enriching community life through building relationships,
addressing areas of need and directing Sara Lee's resources for the public
good.
Third
Wave Foundation
A US-based activist philanthropic organization of women
between the ages of 15 and 30. As a grant-making organization, it strives
to connect young women to the resources needed to counter any assault
on their personal freedoms.
United
Nations Development Fund for Women
UNIFEM promotes women's empowerment and gender equality
and works to ensure the participation of women in all levels of development
planning and practice, supporting efforts that link the needs and concerns
of women to all critical issues on the national, regional and global agendas.
Womankind
Wordlwide
It is dedicated to aiding women in developing countries in their efforts
to overcome poverty and ill health, to gain access to education and training,
and to gain greater control of their lives. Womankind, a nonprofit organization,
provides funding and information to developing communities worldwide
Women’s
Grants and Resources
Comprehensive listing of links to grant-making institutions
assisting women’s organizations, mostly in the United States.
ABC
News International Section
News from this major American TV network.
Abyz
News Links
Links to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio
and TV stations, and news services around the world.
Asia
Society
Asia
Today
Bangkok
Post
The Post's site features the full text of major stories,
an archive of past stories, travel information and more. TOP
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This regularly-updated site from the BBC features the latest
news and analysis, as well as special feature stories and foreign-language
broadcasts in Arabic, Russian, Spanish, and Chinese.
Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation Newsworld
ChinaVista
Newswire
For the latest news from many of China's primary news sources,
try this site where you'll find the headlines from more than thirty major
domestic and international news sources including ChinaDaily, the Hong
Kong Standard, the Shanghai Daily News and Guangzhou Daily.
Christian
Science Monitor
A portal on Southern civil societies.
Environmental
News Network:
Excellent for news, features, multimedia, and special reports.
EuroNews
Far
Eastern Economic Review
International
Herald Tribune
Japan
Times: English-language daily from Japan.TOP
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Kathmandu
Post
The daily English-language newspaper from Nepal's capital
features many of their articles online as well as an archive of past issues.
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Complete links to news media worldwide. Over 15,559 links to 213 countries.
Lankapage
This site offers news and news links for Sri Lanka, plus
basic weather information, exchange rates, and share price indices. TOP
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NewsDirectory.com
News
Feeds on Women Issues
Newspapers
Online
Worldwide listings by type and country.
Newspapers
of the World on the Internet
Oneworld
Online
Based in London, Oneworld is an excellent resource center for international
news, media, guides, education, partners, a gallery of artwork, and a
take-action bulletin. Oneworld is the recipient of the best non-commercial
site award. TOP
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Reuters
Top world and business news stories from this prestigious agency.
South
China Morning Post Interactive
The South China Morning Post, Hong Kong's premier source
for news, features much of their daily content on their site with an emphasis
on business information. And for those who miss know the Post well, they'll
be happy to find Nury Vittachi onsite in all his glory.
Voice
of America News
Washington
Post World Section
Wings:
Women’s International News Gathering Service
More news on women's health, women's rights, feminism, mothering, education, and female sexuality. TOP | HOME
Latest news from world news network. TOP | HOME
Source of substantive news covering issues of particular concern to women and providing women's perspectives on public policy. TOP | HOME
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TRAINING INSTITUTIONS
Center
for Development and Population Activities
The Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA)
is a women-focused nonprofit international organization founded in 1975.
CEDPA's mission is to empower women at all levels of society to be full
partners in development. It offers the following training courses for
women: Masters Trainer Certification and Women in Management. TOP
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International
Center for Research on Women
Institute
of International Studies
Leadership
Training Courses UK 
It provides advice and recommend sites where you can find: General advice
on becoming a better leader; Online tutorials on improving leadership
skills; and Training courses that help you to become a better leader.
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Women's
Studies Programs, Departments, & Research Centers
The IIAV is the source, the intermediary and the supplier
of information and documentation for all those who occupy themselves with
the position of women, whether it concerns books, periodicals, data, addresses,
archives, visual materials, current or historical, national or international.
Gender
Studies of South Asia
The topics covered in the following bibliographies are
somewhat specific, and not necessarily comprehensive. These include bibliographies
on history and culture of South Asia, on women development studies and
political economy.
Project
South Asia: Women's Studies
Housed at Missouri Southern State College, Project South Asia is a Web-based
digital library for improving the study and teaching of South Asia, focusing
especially on India and Pakistan. This section includes Encyclopedia of
South Asian Women's Studies, Source Documents in South Asian Women's Studies;
Image Bank for South Asian Women's Studies; Timeline of Important Events
in South Asian Women Studies; and important weblinks among others. TOP
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Resources
on Gender and Governance
This is an electronic database divided into following categories: gender
perspective, women's rights, women's participation in politics, advocacy
on women's issues, and women and electoral politics. Conceptualized
and maintained by the Philippine-based Center for Legislative Development
through the Asia-Pacific Women in Politics Research and Documentation
Project (APWIP-RDP).
South
Asian Women’s Library
Comprehensive listing of bibliographies
Women
In Asia: Publications from the Asian Studies Association of Australia
Online bookstore that features various books, research papers, case studies
and other documents on Asian women. TOP
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Women's
studies information sources
Women's
Studies Electronic Journal
The
Women's Library
The
Schlesinger Library
ONLINE LEARNING
MODULES
Learn
more about governance which is based on people-centered development, and
works towards addressing the
needs of all citizens, regardless of gender. Click the title above to
start learning.
ICT
Policy for Civil Society: Training Curriculum
The ICT Policy for Civil Society training course builds the capacity of
civil society organisations to understand policy and regulation related
to information and communication technologies (ICT) so that they can begin
to engage and influence policy processes affecting ICT adoption and implementation
at national, regional and global levels. TOP
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WOMEN
AND GENDER-RELATED SITES
The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) is an international
membership organization connecting, informing and mobilizing people and
organizations committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable development
and women's human rights. TOP
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Asia-Pacific
Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD)
Asociacion
de Comunicaciones Feminist Interactive Radio Endeavor (AC FIRE)
Aviva
It is a free webzine run by an international group of feminists based
in London. It provides free listings service for women everywhere. TOP
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Be
active, Be emacipated - BaBe
B.a.B.e. is a Women's Human Rights Group working in Croatia. It is a strategic
lobbying and advocacy group working for the affirmation and implementation
of women's human rights. TOP
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BRIDGE was set up in 1992 as a specialised gender and development research
and information service within the Institute of Development Studies, UK.
BRIDGE supports gender mainstreaming efforts of policymakers and practitioners
by bridging the gaps between theory, policy and practice with accessible
and diverse gender information.TOP
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Coalition
Against Trafficking In Women–Asia Pacific
The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women-Asia Pacific
is an international network of feminist groups, organizations and individuals
fighting the sexual exploitation of women globally.
Center
for Legislative Development (CLD)
CLD addresses the need for both capability-building of legislatures and
strengthening participation of civil society in legislative decision-making
to ensure the passage of responsive and gender-fair legislation. TOP
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Centre
For Women’s Research
Center
for Reproductive Law and Policy (CRLP)
A non profit organisation dedicated to promoting women's equality worldwide
by guaranteeing reproductive rights as human rights. Reproductive rights,
the foundation of women's self determination over their bodies and sexual
lives, are critical to all women's ability to achieve their full potential.
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Center
for Women’s Global Leadership (Global Center)
Centre
For Social Research
Commonwealth
Gender
This is the Commonwealth homepage on gender and development. You will
find information on the Commonwealth's core activities defined by the
1995 Commonwealth Plan of Action on Gender and Development. You can also
find out about programmes specifically designed to: Improve the relationships
between the 1.7 billion women and men in the Commonwealth; Promote the
sharing of best practices and partnerships; and Deal with issues of concern
to men and women in the 21st century. TOP
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Contemporary
Women World Leaders
This site provides the visitors with short profiles of women leaders which
have been in power from 1945 - 2001. The compilation includes queens,
presidents, prime ministers, governor-generals, parliamentary chairwomen
and party leaders.TOP
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FemAid
FemAid aims at bringing women together across the world and involving
them in ongoing projects in a practical way. Women’s rights, environment,
poverty, war victims are all fields where your help and input will be
valued. Because there are a lot of women fighting to get adequate medical
care, school books, basic toiletries and just friends. TOP
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FemiNet
Korea
FemiNet Korea is an online space established in November 1996. Its goal
is to develop the creative power of women through the "Movement for Women's
Information Empowerment" and to contribute to the establishment of an
electronic democracy through the spreading of an information culture.
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Feminist
Majority
The Feminist Majority is committed to empowering women and winning equality
through research, the sharing of information of value to feminists everywhere,
and effective action. The site is a gateway to other Internet resources
on feminism and gender equality. Mostly US-maintained websites. TOP
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Fiji
Women’s Crisis Centre (FWCC)
Fourth
World Conference on Women
A link site that is becoming the one-stop center for information related
to the UN conference. Major categories include late breaking news, background
information, lists of other Beijing-realted web sites, and copies of Earth
Negotiations Bulletin. Many of the documents are geared toward actual
conference participants (subway maps, visa information). TOP
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Gender
and Political Participation: International and Regional Weblinks
This page from the International Insitute for Democracy and Electoral
Assistance (IDEA) features 105 weblinks to non-profit organizations, academic
institutions and online resource centers from all over the world. TOP
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Great
Women
Short biographies of notable women of the world. TOP
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Global
Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW)
Global
Center for Women's for Women's Studies and Politics (GLOW)
Glow , a subsection of the Feminist Institute in the Heinrich Böll Foundation,
stands for global information, global discussion and learning for women
worldwide. It is a virtual center for women's studies and women's politics,
established by the Feminist Institute of the Heinrich Böll Foundation,
Berlin, Germany. TOP
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Global
Reproductive Health Forum
Maintained by the Harvard School of Public Health, the website 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 as well as
maintains an extensive, up-to-date research library. TOP
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International
Women's Democracy Center
The International Women's Democracy Center was established to strengthen
women's global leadership through training, education, research and networking
in all facets of democracy with a particular focus on increasing the participation
of women in policy, politics and decision-making. TOP
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International
Women's Forum
Forum History The IWF is a global organization of preeminent women of
significant and diverse achievement. Members come together across national
and international boundaries to share knowledge and ideas, to enrich each
other's lives, to provide a network of support and to exert influence.
Through the Leadership Foundation, the International Women's Forum helps
prepare future generations of women leaders. TOP
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Isis
International-Manila
Les
Penelopes
Mahilaweb is an electronic repository on women and gender
issues in Nepal. It features information on the 12 Critical Areas of the
Beijing Platform for Action as well as updates on post-Beijing activities
in Nepal.
Network
of Women in Media, India
An association which aims to provide a forum for women in media professions
to share information and resources, exchange ideas, promote media awareness
and ethics, and work for gender equality and justice within the media
and society. TOP
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Salidumay:
Women’s Voices Weaving
Sisterhood
is Global Institute (SIGI)
An international non-governmental, non-profit organization dedicated to
the support and promotion of women's rights at the local, national, regional,
and global levels. With members in 70 countries, and a network of more
than 1300 individuals and organizations worldwide, SIGI works toward empowering
women and developing leadership through human rights education. TOP
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South
Asian Women For Action (SAWA)
South
Asian Women’s Network
Taiwan
Women
Taiwan Women is a network founded in 1995 to facilitate communication
and co-operation among Taiwanese women studying or living in the U.S.
who are interested in gender issues and current situation of Taiwanese
women. TOP
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The
White House Project
The White House Project works to create a climate in America where it
is normal for women to be governors, CEOs and president. It is a national
non-partisan organization, is dedicated to advancing women's leadership
across sectors, enhancing public perception's of women's ability to lead
and fostering the entry of women into leadership positions, including
the presidency. TOP
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Wings:
Women’s International News Gathering Service
Women
Against Fundamentalisms (WAF)
WAF was launched in 1989 to challenge the rise of fundamentalism in all
religions. For them, fundamentalism does not mean religious observance,
(which is a matter of individual choice) but as modern political movements
which use religion as a basis for their attempt to win or consolidate
power and extend social control. TOP
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Women
and Islam
The website has en extensive collection of materials on women and Islam,
women in Qur'an and in the Sharia. TOP
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Women
Building Peace
The WBC Campaign works to: Raise global awareness of women's experiences
and perspectives of peace and conflict; Help women better realize their
potential as peacebuilders from the village to the national level; Get
more women included in all levels of peace processes; Affect the policy
of international agencies, and Gain a greater commitment by the international
community to gender considerations in peace-building and conflict transformation.
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Women In
It features individual women or groups and organizations in different
fields each month.TOP
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Women
in Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)
WEDO is an international advocacy organization that seeks to increase
the power of women worldwide as policymakers at all levels in governments,
institutions and forums to achieve economic and social justice, a healthy
and peaceful planet, and human rights for all. TOP
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Women
in Politics
A section on the website of the Inter-Parliamentary Union that deals with
Women in Politics. The site features various studies and documents dealing
with the subject. It also includes a bibliographical database on WIP.
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Women
Learning Partnership (WLP)
WLP is an international, non-governmental organization (NGO) that empowers
women and girls in the Global South to re-imagine and re-structure their
roles in their families, communities, and societies. The website is rich
with online resources on women such as facts and figures on political
participation and economic decision-making. TOP
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Women
Living Under Muslim Laws
An international Network that provides information, solidarity and support
for all women whose lives are shaped, conditioned or governed by laws
and customs said to derive from Islam. The Network aims to increase the
autonomy of women by supporting the local struggles of women from within
Muslim countries and communities and linking them with feminist and progressive
groups at large; facilitating interaction, exchanges and contacts and
providing information aswell as a channel of communication. TOP
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Women's
Caucus for Gender Justice
A network of individuals and groups committed to strengthening advocacy
on women's human rights and helping to develop greater capacity among
women in the use of International Criminal Court, the Optional Protocol
to CEDAW and other mechanisms that provide women avenues of and access
to different systems of justice. TOP
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Women’s
Edge
Women's
Human Rights Network (WHRNet)
A collaborative Information & Communication Technology (ICT) project developed
by an international coalition of women's organizations that aims to strengthen
advocacy for women's human rights through the effective utilization of
information and communication technologies. TOP
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Women
in Local Government - Asia and Pacific
The Regional Information Resource Facility – Women In Local Government
(RIRF-WLG) is an internet-based resource facility which houses a compendium
of research output, conference papers, gender statistics and articles
on women in local governance across Asia and the Pacific. TOP
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Women
in Power
What does it take for a woman to succeed in world politics? Despite the
progress made in the last century, there are still few women leaders.
Hear these eleven women talk about how they achieved success. Find out
what motivates them and how they overcame the barriers they faced. Can
women have it all? Using exclusive material from recent interviews and
the BBC archive, follow these profiles to discover what it takes.
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Women's
International Center
Online home of the Center based in California, which was founded in 1982.
WIC mission is celebrate women and their positive, enduring contributions
to humanity through the Living Legacy Awards. It features biographies
of its past awardees like Corazon Aquino, Benazir Bhutto and Hillary Rodham
Clinton. TOP
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Women's
International League for Peace and Freedom
WILPF works to create an environment of political, economic, social and
psychological freedom for all members of the human community, so that
true peace can be enjoyed by all. TOP
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Women's
International Net
WIN is an Internet publication by and about women worldwide. It includes
important news and information about issues that affect all of us. TOP
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Women's
Voting Guide: Directory of Women in Politics in the US
A comprehensive list of links to web resources on women in politics in
the US that includes statistics, documents and directories of women organizations.
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Women
for Women International
Women
Watch
WomenWatch is a joint initiative of DAW, UNIFEM, & INSTRAW. The site serves
as a gateway to UN information and data on women worldwide and an evolving
forum on global women's issues in the follow-up to the FWCW and constitutes
an electronic space for exchange of information and ideas on women's issues.
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WoMen's
Statistics Watch
Serves as an international link collection of already accessible gender
and women statistics pages selected by topics and of related general statistics
sites and analysis pages. The W%W project was initiated to build by and
by an international detailed gender/women statistics internet database
easily accessible to the public and to researchers. The main aim is to
combat discrimination against women. TOP
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WorldWIT
(Women in Technology)
WorldWIT.org is a global, online community for women in technology. That
means technical women, and other women involved in the 'tech sector,'
including entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, sales/marketing/bizdev folks,
consultants, educators, journalists, freelancers and attorneys. TOP
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GOVERNANCE, LEADERSHIP & CITIZENSHIP DOCUMENTS
Called to
Speak: Six Strategies That Encourage Women’s Political Activism This
Research-in-Brief summarizes the findings of a larger report that analyzes
the experiences of women working as social justice activists within
nonprofit religious groups. The report is the second in a series on women,
religion, and public life.