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Education for Peace in Iraq Center (EPIC)
"The Education for Peace in Iraq Center promotes freedom, security, and genuine democracy for the people of Iraq."

Adventure Divas
Your Globetrotting Revolution Onscreen and Online
"...Divas is a broad enterprise that unites adventure travel and modern-day heroines to create fresh new media for television and the web. Home base is Seattle...Our PBS television series captures the humor, debacle and discovery inherent in low-rent travel and explores cultures with divavision ó that is, through the lens of the independent women whose vision, individualism and actions will rule the future."
- PBS Online

Africabib.org
"The site consists of two bibliographic databases covering Africana periodical literature (Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database) and African Women's literature (African Women's Database). You will also find a comprehensive bibliography on women travelers and explorers to Africa (Women Travelers, Explorers and Missionaries to Africa: 1763-1999: A Comprehensive English Language Bibliography)."
Created and are maintained by Davis Bullwinkle, Director of the IEA Research Library

African Child Policy Forum

Center for Reproductive Law and Policy (English, Spanish or French)
"Priority Issues" include: Human Rights ; World Laws ; Abortion ; Contraception ; Adolescents ; FC/FGM.

Female Genital Mutilation: A Human Rights Information Pack - (dead link)
Amnesty International

FemBio - Notable Women International (English or German)
"Luise F. Pusch's Biographical Database contains information on more than 30,000 notable women worldwide. 600 of them are searchable online under "First Name," "Last Name," "Date of Birth," "Birthplace," "Date of Death," "Place of Death," "Nationality", "Profession" and fifteen more biographically relevant attributes like "was only child," "wrote autobiography," "loved a woman," "emigrated", etc.
The unique strength of this database is the information obtainable by connecting several attributes, for example, "Which singers / journalists born in Paris in the 1890's never married / wrote an autobiography / died in the 1940s?"
By Luise F. Push

First Monday
Peer-Reviewed Journal on the Internet

  • Globalization of Prurience: The Internet and the degradation of Women and Children - (dead link) (January 2004)
    By Indhu Rajagopal with Nis Bojin
  • Internet in the Lives of Turkish Women - (dead link) (March 2002)
    By Ayisigi B. Sevdik and Varol Akman

Foreign Affairs
Published by the Council on Foreign Relations

Friends of Tibetan Women's Association - (dead link)

Global Jurist Frontiers

  • What is Missing? (Female Genital Surgeries - Infibulation, Excision, Clitoridectomy - in Eritrea)
    By Lyda Favali - Vol.1:No. 2 (2001)
    "This article investigates female genital surgery in Eritrea (FGS). It places the practice within a broad, multidisciplinary context. After classifying different forms of surgery, I discuss the current situation using a survey and historical anthropological accounts. I then examine the explanations given for the practice and finally analyze the internal legal and political debate surrounding FGS."

Global Women's Rights
"...combines more than 1000 pages of my own materials about women's rights with links to the best resources available elsewhere on the Web. This new site also offers the best resources available on the web to stay inform about global conflicts, human rights, poverty and refugees issues...Global Women's Rights features a huge library of women's issues web resources (violence against women, statistics, issues, women's culture, information by country, and more) and updated bi-weekly. Plus there's 24-hour chat room and forum."

'Honour' Crimes Project
"Globally, the Project seeks to facilitate co-operation among activists, lawyers, academics and others and to develop and deepen understanding, explore theoretical frameworks and build upon diverse and multiple strategies, nationally, regionally and internationally, to combat impunity for those responsible for ëhonourí crimes and to challenge the climate of support for the practice amongst state institutions."
- Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Laws, University of London and International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights.

I To Eye: Portraits of Female Empowerment in Bangladesh
By Fariba Alam
"Mainstream media images of women in Bangladesh generally fall into two categories: the oppressed and the starving. The photographs in this online exhibition challenge these stereotypes by documenting the lives of active, independent, economically self-sufficient Bangladeshi women."
From Asia Source

Inter Press Service News Agency (IPS)

  • HIV/AIDS
    • Gender, HIV/AIDS and Rights (English or Spanish)
      "Recognising that gender is a key factor in understanding and tackling the causes and the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, IPS undertook a multi-media programme on these themes from June 2001 - December 2002...Find a full archive of stories, radio news briefs, publications, links and training materials."
    • Shaan online
      "IPS e-zine on Gender and Human Rights"
      Re: HIV/AIDS
    • Training Manual for the Media: Gender, HIV/AIDS and Rights (2003)
      "The manual has three modules: A Gender Analysis Framework for the Media; Gender and HIV/AIDS - The Missing Story; and Improved Knowledge and Skills. Hands on exercises and examples from the media offer a practical feel to the content of the modules."

(Inter)disciplining Chinese Women:
An Introduction to the English Language Literature on Women's Studies in China
By Patricia Arend, Ph.D. student, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, Northeastern University, 2000.
From Wisconsin Bibliographies in Women's Studies

International Crisis Group (ICG)

International Women's Day 2004
March 8, 2004
Theme: Women & HIV/AIDS
"As we mark this year's International Women's Day, we look at the devastating toll the global HIV/AIDS epidemic is taking on women, and the critical role of women in fighting AIDS."

International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC) - (dead link)
"...IWHC works to generate health and population policies, programs, and funding that promote and protect the rights and health of girls and women worldwide, particularly in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and countries in post-socialist transition."

  • Publications - (dead link)
  • With Women Worldwide: A Compact to End HIV/AIDS
    "Outlines priority actions for making global HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and care strategies work for women. Developed by a group of women advocates for use in 2006 negotiations on HIV/AIDS and beyond."

IranDokht
"In the spirit of global solidarity, IranDokht emphasizes Identity and celebrates ethnicity. It is an on line community of Iranian women that negotiates ;ethnicity and gender within the global community. It provides a unique blend of information, service, and support. The guiding principle in creating this community is inclusiveness, bringing together Iranian women from different ages, religious, ethnic, educational, and social backgrounds."

[Iraq] Education for Peace in Iraq Center (EPIC)
"The Education for Peace in Iraq Center promotes freedom, security, and genuine democracy for the people of Iraq."

Jenda - (dead link)
Journal of Culture and African Women Studies
"...an ejournal devoted to the promotion of research and scholarship of importance to the global African community and friends of Africa."

Ling Lung Women's Magazine
Published in Shanghai, China, 1931-1937
"...published in the 1930s in Shanghai, China at a time when womenís role in society, at least in that sophisticated and foreign-influenced metropolis, was in rapid transition...They were hungry for gossip about the glamorous movie stars they saw in the cinema, and eager for advice about social situations which their mothers could not have dreamt of...Ling Lung, a pocket-sized, slender, and inexpensive weekly, boldly ventured to meet these new needs by encouraging women to advance toward the good life through socially high-minded entertainment."
Digitization project of the East Asian Library, Columbia University

MADRE
An International Women's Rights Organization
"As a human rights organization, MADRE does much more than document and condemn abuses. We work with women who are affected by violations to help them win justice and, ultimately, change the conditions that give rise to human rights abuses. And we challenge US policies that undermine human rights."

Microcredit Summit Campaign
"Working to ensure that 100 million of the world's poorest families, especially the women of those families, are receiving credit for self-employment and other financial and business services by the year 2005."

The Nobel Peace Prize - (dead link)

The Nobel Peace Prize - (dead link)

  • 2004 Wangari Maathai
    "...for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace."

Nobel Peace Prize 2003 - Shirin Ebadi
"...for her efforts for democracy and human rights. She has focused especially on the struggle for the rights of women and children...Ebadi is a conscious Moslem. She sees no conflict between Islam and fundamental human rights. It is important to her that the dialogue between the different cultures and religions of the world should take as its point of departure their shared values."

Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF)
"...as the leading autonomous microcredit fund in Bangladesh has lent about US$ 300 million to 210 microfinance institutions (MFIs) covering more than 3.8 million borrowers. More than 90% of the borrowers are women.

PBS - American Experience - Daughter from Danang (April 2003)
Web companion to the TV broadcast.
American Award Nominee - Best Documentary.
"A Vietnamese mother and her Amerasian daughter are reunited after years apart...cuts between mother and daughter as the two recall the pain of their separation, and retraces Hiep's journey from Vietnam to Pulaski, Tennessee, where she is adopted by a single woman and renamed Heidi."
Sections include: Transcript ; Primary Sources ; Further Readings

Population Research Institute Working Papers

Reflections on Fieldwork Among the Sinai Bedouin Women
By Ann Gardner

Tibetan Women's Association
A non-governmental organization based in Dharamsala, India with 37 branches in India and abroad.
Includes the National Report on Tibetan Women, and Tibetan Women's Delegation Final Report on UN Fourth World Conference on Women, and other documents

United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)

  • International Women's Day
    Theme: Women & HIV/AIDS
    "As we mark this year's International Women's Day, we look at the devastating toll the global HIV/AIDS epidemic is taking on women, and the critical role of women in fighting AIDS."
  • Gender and HIV/AIDS
    "UNIFEM, in collaboration with UNAIDS, has developed this comprehensive gender and HIV/AIDS web portal to provide up-to-date information on the gender dimensions of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The site aims to promote understanding, knowledge sharing, and action on HIV/AIDS as a gender and human rights issue."
  • The Impact of Armed Conflict on Children (English or French)
    "A Critical review of progress made and obstacles encountered in increasing protection for war-affected children."
    By Grace Machel
  • WomenWarPeace.org
    A Portal on Women, Peace & Security
    Sections include: Countries on the Security Council Agenda ; Current UN Peace Operations ; UNIFEM Peace and Security Programming.

United Nations World Conference on Women - (dead link)

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

UNICEF

UNU - WIDER
U.N. University - World Institute for Development Economic Research

WIDNET (Women in Development NETwork)
An international directory of resources and links in English and French.

Widows' Law File (WLF) - (dead link)
"...a legal tool to assist all victimised Third World widows, their organisations and lawyers to secure their fundamental human rights in accordance with the law...aims to extend, clarify and build on the growing body of women's human rights jurisprudence by disseminating information on law and policy reform, case-law, and empowerment strategies."

Winmagazine - (dead link)
Women's International Net Magazine

  • Fatma's Story - (dead link)
    Part 1: Issue 43 and Part 2: Issue 45, 2001
    By Ann Gardner, Egypt

Women in Chinese History
Bibliography.
By Marilyn Shea, Dept. of Psychology, University of Maine

Women Today in China - (dead link)
Document created for the UN Fourth World Conference on Women by the Pubic Information Committee of the China Organizing Committee.

Women's Alliance for Democratic Iraq
"...is an international non-partisan and not-for-profit women rights organization. WAFDI dedicated to a free and democratic with full and equal individual rights for women. "

Womenspace - (dead link)
"Online Activism for Women's Rights and Civic Participation"
Sections include: Canadian Women's Internet Directory [includes Aboriginal Women - (dead link)] ; The E-Quality Project ; Women's Internet Campaign ; Women'space Magazine ; Equality Tools.

WomenWatch
 "The UN Internet Gateway on the Advancement and Empowerment of Women."

World Education
"...is dedicated to improving the lives of the poor through economic and social development programs."

  • Girls' and Women's Education Initiative
    "...aims to harness the potential of girls and women to learn, lead and act on their vision of change for themselves, their families, and their communities."

World's Indigenous Women's Foundation - (dead link)
"You are invited to examine this site, become a member, sign our guest book, contribute articles and testimony to our on-line journal, Smoke Signals, participate in scheduled chat sessions concerning issues of interest and concern to indigenous women and review the news related to indigenous women and women in third world countries. Men of goodwill, committed to the struggle of indigenous women, are invited to interact and collaborate with us in an effort to implement a global agenda for the rights of women of all ages throughout the world."

ZAN = Woman in Farsi - (dead link)
"...is an interactive Directory / Anthology of the arts and ideas of Iranian Women, free from any political or religious affiliations. It is inclusive of all ages, religions, races, colors, classes, sexual orientations, and anything else that you can think of !!"

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