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- UNIFEM
The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) provides direct support for women's projects and promotes the inclusion of women in the decision-making process of mainstream development programmes. The site describes UNIFEM's mandate. Website
- WomenWatch
Women Watch is a UN-sponsored Internet space for the advancement and empowerment of women. It links the UN and its activities on women's advancement and empowerment with NGOs, academics foundations, woman advocates, policy-makers, media and other users of the Internet. The site set up is by the Division of Advancement of Women, UNIFEM, and INSTRAW aims to establish important links to the NGO community, as well as to academic institutions, foundations, other international organizations and media. The main objective of the space is to facilitate information exchange on the result of the Fourth World Conference on Women and provide, monitor and disseminate information on its follow-up. Website
- Gender and Food security
Gender and Food security provides a wide overview of all FAO activities focusing on women. The website
created last year on March 8 as FAO contribution to the International Women's Day.
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- UNESCO's Gender Equality web site
This site introduces you to UNESCO's work in promoting the status of women,
girls and gender equality in all of its areas of competence (i.e.
education, natural and human sciences, communication and culture).
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- UNESCO Communication - Women and the Media
List of UNESCO's tools to promote a stronger presence of women in the media, including the "Toronto and Beijing Platforms for action on women and the media".
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- Women on the Net
A collaborative project between SID and UNESCO
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- AVIVA
AVIVA - Women World Wide Web Site contains: details of hundred of institution with Women's Studies courses worldwide, details of over 1,000 Women's Groups worldwide, and links with 1000s of International Resources of Women. Website
- DWPress
DWPress is produced by the cooperative Quotidiana, based in Rome, Italy,
with the aim of looking at and informing about the world through women's
eyes. Articles cover work, economics, culture, ecofeminism, health,
bioethics, virtual reality, theology, peace, law, foreign affairs.
Sources are national and international legislative bodies; equal
opportunities commissions and commitees; unions and, most of all, the
experiences of women from Italy and abroad.
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- Global Fund of Women
The Global Fund for Women is an international grant making organization which focuses on female human rights. It supports issues as diverse as literacy, domestic violence, economic autonomy, and the international trafficking of women. Website
- Network of East-West Women (NEWW)
The Network of East-West Women is an international communication and resource network supporting dialogue, informational exchange and activism among those concerned about women's swiftly changing situation in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Website
- Society for International Development (SID)
The SID home page is now set up as an interactive site that can promote dialogue among civil society groups working in the fields of gender, democracy, sustainable livelihoods and reproductive rights. Website
- The Women's Cybrary
With over 1,000 links, you now have immediate access to a wide variety of women's writing on line. Find full texts of books, book and movie reviews, resources for women's studies and research, author's pages and resources for writers. Website
- WomensNet, Institute for Global Communications (IGC)
The site of WomensNet, the women's network of the Institute of Global Communications. Find a worldwide directory with e-mail addresses of women's groups on-line with the Association for Progressive Communications networks as well as information on services offered by WomensNet. The site links to women's organizations and US government follow-up activities to the World Conference on Women in Beijing as well as to United Nations Information. Website
- Women in Global Science and Technology (WIGSAT)
The site facilitates global networking among women scientists and technologists (both formal and informal) around the world for collaboration and coalition building. WIGSAT works for policy advocacy and action which recognizes and supports women's contributions to S&T for development. Currently its focus is on women's use of information technologies for networking in gender, sciences and technology for development. The site features a link to the Once and Future Action Network (OFAN) (http://www.wigsat.org/ofan/ofan.html), a global network of groups working in gender, science and technology for sustainable development. Website
- Worldwoman
Maybe the first virtual women's newspaper in the world. Its goal is "to know what's happening to the 51% of the population other papers tend to forget, to find new stories, develop new perspectives, make new links, tell new jokes and above all find solutions to the problems the male managers of this millenium have found intractable". Website
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