Actors

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• Action Canada for Population and Development
  ACPD is a human rights advocacy organization that seeks to enhance the quality of life of women, men and children by promoting progressive policies in the field of international development with a primary focus on reproductive and sexual rights and health ...
• Advocacy for Women in Africa
  Advocacy for Women in Africa (AWA) was founded and incorporated in 1996 in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, as a network for advocacy on women’s issues on the African continent. Ambassador Gertrude Mongella is one of the founder members and its President. The a ...
• African Women's Development and Communication Network
  The African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) was set up in 1988 to share information, experiences, ideas and strategies among African women's non-governmental organisations (NGOs) through communications, networking, training and advoc ...
• Bridge
  Bridge was set up in 1992 as a specialised gender and development research service within the Institute of Development Studies. It supports gender advocacy and mainstreaming efforts of policymakers and practioners by bridging the gaps between theory, polic ...
• Caritas Internationalis
  Caritas Internationalis is a confederation of 162 Catholic relief, development and social service organisations working to build a better world, especially for the poor and oppressed, in over 200 countries and territories. Caritas works without regard to c ...
• Development Alternatives With Women For a New Era
  DAWN is a network of women scholars and activists from the economic South who engage in feminist research and analysis of the global environment and are committed to working for economic justice, gender justice and democracy. DAWN works globally and region ...
• Ford Foundation
  Founded in 1936, the foundation operated as a local philanthropy in the state of Michigan until 1950, when it expanded to become a national and international foundation. Since its inception it has been an independent, nonprofit, non-governmental organizati ...
• International Women's Tribune Centre
  The International Women's Tribune Centre (IWTC) is an international non-governmental organization established in l976 following the United Nations International Women's Year World Conference in Mexico City. With a commitment to empowering people and buildi ...
• North-South Institute
  For more than 20 years, the North-South Institute (NSI) has built a reputation for sound research and analysis of Canadian foreign policy, offered an independent voice on the urgent importance of world development issues, and brought those issues before th ...
• Norwegian Church Aid
  Norwegian Church Aid is a non-governmental and ecumenical organisation that works to ensure the individual's basic rights. Anchored in the Christian faith, NCA supports the poorest of the poor, regardless of gender, political conviction, religious affiliat ...
• State of the World Forum
  State of the World Forum was founded in 1995 with the purpose of working with partners worldwide to gather together the creative genius on the planet in a search for solutions to critical global challenges. What has emerged is a community of committed indi ...
• TRANSCEND
  To work for peace is to work against violence; by analyzing its forms and causes, predicting in order to prevent, and then act preventively and curatively since peace relates to violence like health relates to illness. Particularly important is genocide, o ...
• Women's Environment & Development Organization
  WEDO is an international organization that advocates for women’s equality in global policy. It seeks to empower women as decision makers to achieve economic, social and gender justice, a healthy, peaceful planet and human rights for all.
• World March of Women
  World March of Women was the initiative of the Fédération des femmes du Québec (Québec Federation of Women) and was quickly joined by some 6000 women's groups in 161 countries across the planet. The March representatives delivered 5,084,568 signatures coll ...

Meetings

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• CIVICUS World Assembly, 4th
  In 2001, shortly after the “anti-globalisation” protests in Seattle, Genoa and Quebec City, the 4th CIVICUS World Assembly. This brought together over 730 people from 87 countries to reflect on “putting people at the centre,” and “the role of voluntary ac ...
• International Conference on Population and Development (ICDP)
  At the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, 179 countries agreed that population and development are inextricably linked, and that empowering women and meeting people's needs for education and health, including repro ...
• Mediterranean Social Forum
  The Social Forum of Mediterranean was born in Barcelona, inspired by the Charter of Principles of the WSF. Its aim is to become a workspace plural cross, open to the different sensitivities, cultures, religions and peoples, to become an area of regional co ...
• Women 2000: Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the 21st century, Special Session of the General Assembly
  The main issues were: peace, gender equality and development.
• World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace, the 4th
  Main issues: The advancement and empowerment of women in relation to women's human rights, women and poverty, women and decision-making, the girl-child, violence againts women and other ares of concern. Follow-up mechanisms: Beinjing+5
• World Social Forum 2005
  In 2005 the world edition of WSF came back to Porto Alegre. It was formed a Brazilian Organizing Committee comprised by 23 organizations, subdivided into eight open WGs (Work Groups). The new methodology approved by the International Council in April 2004 ...
• World Social Forum 2006
  The WSF 6th edition was decentralized. It was held in different places around the world : Bamako (Mali), Caracas (Venezuela) and Karachi (Pakistan). The Bamako event took place from January 19th to 23rd, 2006. The event in Caracas took place from January 2 ...
• World Social Forum 2007
  The first WSF world on the African continent was conducted in Nairobi, Kenya. About 75 thousand participants attended the WSF 2007 and it held 1.300 different kind of activities: self-organised, co-organised, cultural, film and youth. The methodology of c ...

Documents

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• An Open Letter on Women & UN Reform to the Secretary General and Member States
  The pattern of publicly adopted commitments and statements followed by lack of implementation sets a disheartening precedent which retards the work and reputation of the United Nations and impedes the urgently-needed progress of gender equality worldwide. ...
• Convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against Women
  On 18 December 1979, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. It entered into force as an international treaty on 3 September 1981 after the twentieth country had rat ...
• Further actions and initiatives to implement the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action
  This briefing note summarizes the steps leading up to the special session and immediate implications of its outcome for the work of the Commission on the Status on Women, one of the main functional commissions of ECOSOC and the main intergovernmental body ...
• Gender Equality Arquitecture and UN reforms
  This paper briefly outlines the successes and failures of the current UN system in adressing gender equality and women's rights, and puts forth several principles and characteristics that are critical to reforming the gender equality architecture in order ...
• Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women
  (Beijing, 4-15 September 1995)
• Social Watch Report 2006: Impossible Architecture
  Social Watch is an international coalition comprising 400 non-governmental organizations in some 60 countries. Its annual report is the world's most highly recognized independent study on social development. The Social Watch Report 2006 explains the probl ...
• Statement by June Zeitlin, WEDO, at the Informal Thematic Debate: Climate Change as a Global Challenge
  Climate change is indeed a global challenge. I would like to take a moment to put a human face on the impact of climate change—particularly a woman’s face—and highlight how women have been adapting to climate change in their communities before scientists g ...
• Unfinished story of women and the United Nations, The
  This book covers more than 85 years of history between women and inter-governmental organizations. Unrecorded by history and untold by the media, this book recalls the success story of women and the League of Nations and describes the unfolding history of ...
• United Nations Millennium Declaration
  In 2000, 189 Member States agreed to help the world's poorest countries significantly progress towards a better life for their people by the year 2015. A framework for progress consisting of eight Millennium Development Goals was derived from the Millenniu ...

Campaigns

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• 50/50 Campaign
  The 50/50 campaign aims to get the balance right. Launched in New York on June 8, 2000, during the five year review of the Beijing Platform for Action, the campaign's goals are to increase the percentage of women in local and national politics worldwide. S ...
• Beijing + 10
  The ten-year global review, dubbed Beijing +10, will be held during the 49th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women in March 2005. The session will assess governments’ efforts to implement the original action plan as well as the Beijing +5 Pol ...
• Plant a Tree Campaign
  The global campaign "Plant a Tree for Peace," celebrating Nobel Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai and commemorating International Human Rights Day, was launched on November 19, 2004 to make the connection between the environment, peace, human rights and gende ...
• White Ribbon Campaign
  The WRC is an effort of men working to end men's violence against women. A white ribbon becomes a symbol of men's opposition to men's violence against women. Each November 25th, and for one or two weeks, WRC encourages men and boys to wear a white ribbon.

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