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  • Inter Governmental Organizations
  • Non Governmental Organizations

    •  Inter Governmental Organizations
    • 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. Website

    • Working Group on Women and the Media
      In preparation of Beijing +5, WomenWatch sponsored and Women Action 2000 facilitated, a "Virtual Working Group" from 8 November 1999 to 17 December 1999 that looked at emerging issues in women, communications and media, with a focus on the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Website

    • 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). Website

    • 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". Website

    • Women on the Net
      A collaborative project between SID and UNESCO Website

     Non Governmental Organizations
    • APC Women's Programmes
      The Women's Networking Support Programme of the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) is a network of networks whose mission is to empower and support women's work in organizations, social movements, and individuals in the use of information and communication technologies. Website

    • 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

    • CGIAR Gender Program
      The Gender Research Network is sponsored by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). The CGIAR Gender Program links researcher of CGIAR centers, national research institutes, and universities who are involved in gender and infrahousehold research. Website

    • FGM Research
      The FGM Research page is dedicated to research pertaining to and related to Female Genital Mutilation. Website

    • 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

    • Virtual Sisterhood
      For help and discussions on using electronic communications in your work see this site of Virtual Sisterhood. Links to other women's resources on-line and how women's groups are organizing on-line. 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

    • WomenUs Communication Center
      United Kingdom focused information relating to the Beijing conferences and RWhat Women WantS campaign information. Website

    • Womenznet
      The womenUs network of Pegasus, the Pacific node for APC. Links to other womenUs information. Website