Women’s Organizations Around the World

• Africa

African Women’s Media Association
www.awmc.com/

African Women’s Development and Communications Network (FEMNET)
http://www.femnet.or.ke/

Femmes-Afrique
www.enda.sn/synfev/fainfo/

Isis – Women’s International Cross-Cultural Exchange
www.isis.or.ug/

 

• Asia/Pacific

All China Women’s Federation (ACWF)
www.women.org.cn/womenorg/English/index.htm

Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD)
www.apwld.org

Asia Pacific Gender Equality Network (APGEN)
http://www.undp.org.ph/apgen/home1.htm

Asian Women’s Resource Exchange (AWORC)
www.jca.apc.org/aworc

Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW)
www.inet.co.th/org/gaatw

Guild of Women Achievers
www.womenachievers.com

International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW-AP)
www.asianexchange.org/Movements/94110296099581.php

Isis International – Manila
www.isiswomen.org

Pan-Pacific South-East Asia Women’s Association
www.ppseawa.org

SAKHI for South Asian Women
www.sakhi.com

South Asian Women’s Network (SAWNET)
www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/sawweb/sawnet/

 

• Europe

Be Active, Be Emancipated
www.babe.hr/eng/

Women Against Violence Europe
www.wave-network.org

 

• Latin America

Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action (CAFRA)
www.cafra.org

Comisión Interamericana de Mujeres (CIM)
www.oas.org/cim

Comité Latino Americano de Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer (CLADEM) /
Latin America and Caribbean Committee for the Defence of Women’s Human Rights
www.derechos.org/cladem

Coordinadora Paz para la Mujer
www.pazparalamujer.org

Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos (IIDH). Programa Mujer y
Derechos Humanos
www.iidh.ed.cr

Intermon
www.intermonoxfam.org/home.html

Isis International – Chile
www.isis.cl

Mujeres Acción
www.mujeresaccion.org

Mujeres en Red
http://www.nodo50.org/mujeresred/violencia.htm

Prolead
www.iadb.org/sds/prolead

Radio Internacional Feminista
www.fire.or.cr

Redes Humanizadas de Atendimento ás Mulheres Agredidas Sexualmente
www.rhamas.org.br

 

• Middle East

The Arab Regional Resource Center on Violence Against Women
www.amanjordan.org

Arab Women Connect
www.arabwomenconnect.org/english/main.html

Arab Women’s Solidarity Association (AWSA)
www.awsa.net

Jewish Women International
www.jewishwomen.org

Women’s Court: The Permanent Arab Court to Resist Violence Against Women
www.arabwomencourt.org

Women’s Studies Center
www.wameed.org/

 

• New Independent States

Alliance of American and Russian Women, Inc. (AARW)
www.aarwomen.org/

Association of the Independent Women’s Organizations
owl.ru/eng/women/aiwo/index.htm

Association of Women in Science and Education (AWSE)
mars.biophys.msu.ru/awse/default.htm

Femina Baltica Network – Baltic Region
http://www.qweb.kvinnoforum.se

Femina Borealis
syy.oulu.fi/fb/

NIS-US Women’s Consortium
http://www.winrock.org/general/publications/lhrd/niswomen/brochure.htm

Open Women Line
www.owl.ru (Russian)

or
www.owl.ru/index_e.htm (English)

 

• North America

Canadian Council of Muslim Women
www.ccmw.com

Muslim Women’s League
www.mwlusa.org

National Organization for Women (NOW)
www.now.org

 

• Global

The Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID)
www.awid.org

Center for the Strategic Initiatives of Women (CSIW)
www.csiw.org

Center for Women’s Global Leadership
www.cwgl.rutgers.edu

FemAid
www.femaid.org

Human Rights Watch / Women’s Rights Project
www.hrw.org/women/

International Women’s Media Foundation
www.iwmf.org

International Women’s Rights Action Watch (IWRAW)
www.igc.org/iwraw/

International Women Tribune Center
www.iwtc.org

League for Women Voters
www.lwv.org/

Madre
www.madre.org

Soroptomist International
www.sorop.org

UNIFEM
www.unifem.undp.org

WICEJ – Women’s International Coalition for Economic Justice
www.wicej.org

Womankind
www.womankind.org.uk

Women for Women International
www.womenforwomen.org

Women Living Under Muslim Law
www.wluml.org/

Women’s Caucus for Gender Justice
www.iccwomen.org/

Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children
www.womenscommission.org

Women’s Environment & Development Organization (WEDO)
www.wedo.org

Women’s Human Right’s Net
www.whrnet.org

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
www.wilpf.int.ch