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| GENDER RESOURCES AND LINKS ON THE INTERNET |
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The
United Nations Bodies
WHO
WHO's
gender web site. The
Gateway to UN related sites on Gender equality and women's
rights compiled and coordinated by Women's Watch/DAW. |
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Sub-Saharan overview, with regional briefs and information. http://www.worldbank.org/afr/findings/default.htm
The full text articles on work by the World Bank and member governments on Africa women's issues and other topics. Published by the World Bank. One can also search the entire World Bank web site. http://www.worldbank.org/afr/findings/default.htm World Bank Group. Sub-Saharan Africa - Gender http://genderstats.worldbank.org/menu.asp
Engendered statistics produced by the World Bank. http://www.worldbank.org/gender/resources/checklist.htm
Gender
resources and tools produced and developed by the World
Bank. World
Bank's overall web site on gender equality.
Resources and major UN documentation on the area of gender equality and gender mainstreaming produced by UNDP. http://www.undp.org/gender/datastats/ Engendered statistics produced by the UNDP. http://www.undp.org/gender/
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/gender/index.htm (***Highly
recommended - with very good links to related sources and
sites)
ILO's overall web site on gender equality. http://www.unrisd.org/engindex/links/links6.htm
UNRISD's web site on gender equality with links to related sites. http://www.unhchr.ch/
General access to UN adopted and ratified Charters and Treaties (UN)
Economic Council for Africa and its African Centre for Women
http://www.un.org/Depts/eca/divis/acw/index.htm
ACW
-African Centre for Women (ACW) web site. |
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http://www.thecommonwealth.org/
The Commonwealth overall web site. The site offers a wide range of useful links. Through entering http://www.thecommonwealth.org/gender/index1.htm you can obtain a lot of useful information and contacts in the area of gender mainstreaming. http://www.thecommonwealth.org/gender/index1.htm
Also on the Commonwealth Gender site you find the link budget were you will find guidelines, examples and useful directions on gender mainstreaming of national budgets and the budgetary process. http://www1.oecd.org/dac/gender/index.htm
OECD/DAC's web site on gender equality it contains policy information, links (thematic and regional) http://www.oneworld.net/partners/
Links and information (as well as news) on relevant topics, among others gender equality and women's rights -- useful search engine. http://www.oxfam.org.uk/policy/gender/links.htm
Oxfam's newsletter on Gender Equality online with topics on poverty, community development and AIDS. |
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Web site with information on women in Africa by women in Africa (with useful links). http://women3rdworld.miningco.com/cs/africa/
Links to NGO's and organization active in Africa on women's rights. Women and Law in Southern Africa Research Trust, active in seven countries of Southern Africa: Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The web site compiles, publications, news, list of National Offices and legal contact offices in Southern Africa. http://www.crlp.org/pub_bo_wowafrica.html Women of the World -- Laws and Policies for women's reproductive lives in Anglophone Africa and other publications on the issue of Women's Human Rights The web site of FLAME/FLAMME: Sisters on-line web site developed by 12 women's NGOs improve communication and spread information on the situation of the African women. http://www.wildaf.org.zw/index.html
Information and link the African region. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/index.html
African Studies Resources by Region or by Country. http://www.sardc.net/widsaa/sgm/1999/ie4-index.html
SADC's Gender site, with a general information and links to the member states and related areas. Also provides and update on the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and its Platform for Action by its members. Searches can be made under of topics such as Monitoring, Equality and Education, Women's Human and Legal rights, Gender based violence. The web site of the African Gender Institute, provides information useful links and contacts in many related areas. http://www.csiw.org/main.htm
Human Rights Watch in the Middle East and North Africa. http://womensissues.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.macmag-glip.org%2F
The
Machreq/Maghreb Gender Linking and Information Project
is a forum for debate, learning and exchange on women,
gender and development amongst interested groups in the
Middle East and Maghreb region. http://women3rdworld.miningco.com/cs/middleeast1/
Sites of women's organizations in the Middle East. Arab Women's Solidarity Association (AWSA) web site. |
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Web sites with information on women's rights in Angola. http://209.183.193.172/politics/womens.htm
Angola
(official) web site from the Ministry for Family and Promotion
of Women. http://women3rdworld.miningco.com/cs/bahrain/
News
and information about women's issues in Bahrain.
The
official web site of the Cameroonian Women Association
(in French). http://women3rdworld.miningco.com/cs/egypt/
Web
sites that provide information about women's rights in
Egypt. http://women3rdworld.miningco.com/cs/eritrea/
Links
to resources about the struggle of women in Eritrea
http://women3rdworld.miningco.com/cs/ethiopia/
Web
sites that provide information on women's rights and social
issues in Ethiopia. http://www.ethioembassy.org.uk/fact%20file/a-z/women-1.htm
National
Policy for Women in Ethiopia. http://women3rdworld.miningco.com/cs/jordan/
Web
sites that provide information about women's rights in
Jordan. Kenya News and information on women's rights in Kenya. http://www.oneworld.org/aas/igrik.htm
Info-bank
of gender related institutions in Kenya (IGRIK)
http://women3rdworld.miningco.com/cs/lebanon/
Web
sites on women's rights in Lebanon. http://women3rdworld.miningco.com/cs/morocco/
Web sites that provide information about women's issues in Morocco. Information
on the situation for women in Marocco. http://women3rdworld.miningco.com/cs/mauritania/
Sites
that provide information about women and children in Mauritania.
http://women3rdworld.miningco.com/cs/mozambique/
News and information on women's rights in Mozambique. http://www.tropical.co.mz/~wim/mulheres/index.html
Women in Mozambique a web site with links covering diverse areas. (In Portuguese) http://www.lac.org.na/about.htm
Namibia Legal Assistance Centre with a specific unit dealing with "gender advocacy" http://women3rdworld.miningco.com/cs/nigeria/
Sites that provide information about social (and women's) issues in Nigeria. National
Centre for Women Development, Abuja, Nigeria web site
provides useful links and sub-heading on gender issues
and women's rights in Nigeria. http://women3rdworld.miningco.com/cs/oman/
Information on women's rights in the Sultanate of Oman. http://women3rdworld.miningco.com/cs/qatar/
Links to resources about women's issues in Qatar http://women3rdworld.miningco.com/cs/saudiarabia/
Web
sites that provide information about the status of women
in Saudi Arabia. http://www.senegal-online.com/media/amina/amina.htm
News/Journal
(Amina) on and by women in Senegal. http://women3rdworld.miningco.com/cs/sierraleone/
Information on women's rights issues in Sierra Leone. The
commission of Gender Equality, South Africa. It seeks
to "promote gender equality and to advise and make recommendations
to Parliament or any other legislature with regard to
any laws or proposed legislation which affects gender
equality and the status of women. http://women3rdworld.miningco.com/cs/sudan/
Web
sites that provide information about women's rights in
Sudan. University of Sudan -- women's studies homepage and journal: "The Ahfad Journal: Women and Change". The Afhad University is a private university in Sudan dedicated to educating women, strengthening women's roles in national and rural development, and achieving equity for women in Sudan. Swaziland http://women3rdworld.miningco.com/cs/swaziland/ Web sites that provide information about women in Swaziland. http://women3rdworld.miningco.com/cs/tanzania/
Web sites that provide information about women and children's rights in Tanzania. TGNP (Tanzanian Gender Networking Programme) web site. http://www.tanzania.go.tz/genderf.html
Tanzania
Government web site on women's rights and gender equality.
Web
sites that provide information about women in Tunisia.
http://www.wougnet.org/documents.html#WomenBIB
Documents
on Women's Issues in Uganda, compiled by the Women in
Uganda Network, search on topics such as, Agriculture,
Aids, Conflict/Post conflict, Media, and Economics.
http://women3rdworld.miningco.com/cs/uae/
Links
to information about women's issues in the United Arab
Emirates. Country
by country information/resources http://www.focusintl.com/afriland.htm
Through
WIDNET information, resources and links on Africa, country
by country. Women
in parliament a country-by-country update (specific information
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The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) is an international membership organization connecting, informing and mobilizing people and organizations committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable development and women's human rights. http://women3rdworld.miningco.com/cs/thirdworld/index.htm
(***Highly
recommended) Links to organization working to improve women's lives in Africa. http://community.web.net/womensweb/index.html
Has a directory of African women's organizations http://community.web.net/womensweb/index.html ABANTU means people in different languages from 19 African countries and symbolizes our people-centred philosophy. The focus of our work is on training, providing information and advice on mobilizing resources towards sustainable development in Africa. http://www.focusintl.com/widnet.htm
WIDNET's (Women in Development Net work) homepage. Women's organization network based in South Africa. http://www.enda.sn/synfev/apcfemafr/indexapc.html
This site is presenting the documents produced though the activities of the APC-Africa-Women Network. http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/africa/toc.htm
NGO's and networks in Sub-Saharan Africa http://www.wildaf.org.zw/index.html
Information and link service for Africa Development Alternatives with Women for a New era (DAWN) is a network of women scholars and activists from the economic South. Information web site on women in Africa by women in Africa and useful links. |
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International/Regional
Resource bases and web sites
http://www.thecommonwealth.org/
Publications
on among other things gender mainstreaming guidelines
for a wide spectra of areas such as, Governance, Indicators,
Legal affairs, HIV/Aids, Public Services, Trade and Industry
and Gender based violence. The web site also offers a
wide range of links. Through accessing http://www.thecommonwealth.org/gender/index1.htm
you can obtain a lot of useful information and contacts
in the area of gender mainstreaming, within the mandate
for the Commonwealth. (***Highly
Recommended) The
Gateway to UN related sites on Gender equality and women's
rights compiled and coordinated by Women's Watch. The
web site includes links to UN agencies, Organizations
and Governments (under their country-by-country update
you will find the national action plans as well as contact
coordinates to many of the National Ministries on Women
Affairs and Gender Equality). Resources such as reports
and research are also available. http://www1.oecd.org/dac/gender/index.htm
OECD/DAC's
web site on gender equality contains policy information,
links (thematic and regional) as well as research and
information on various issues. All UN adopted or ratified Charters and Treaties on search engine.
International
Research and Resources http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/index.html
African
Studies Resources by Region & Country compiled by
University of Colombia and their International Department.,
Colombia, USA. http://www.afrol.com/Categories/Women/msindex.htm
(***Highly
Recommended) See
the Alphabetic Country List,
for country information and news update. A very informative
and useful web site! Can also be found on http://www.afrol.com/Categories/Women/msindex.htm.
Information
and research on gender/women and development issues, from
the Institute for Development Studies at the University
of Sussex. Features, briefings and an electronic forum
to assist development professionals and organizations
to integrate gender concerns into their work. Of particular
interest are the links to the two major search engines
GENIE and Siyanda (see below).
(***Highly
recommended) One
of the best search engines on gender mainstreaming under
three (3) main categories you find access to Gender Resources,
Gender Country Profiles, and Gender Experts and Consultants.
(***Highly
recommended) An
excellent gender mainstreaming search engine from International
Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex and their
gender unit, Bridge. Well worth a visit! African
Resource Bases http://www.focusintl.com/afriland.htm
WIDNET
offers a wide variety of information, resources and links
in Africa, also on a country by country basis.
http://www.uct.ac.za/org/agi/
Research
as well as links to very useful and related sites are
available on this web site, including international links.(
Additional links can be found on http://www.africaaction.org/action/womenadd.htm).
http://allafrica.com/women/ http://www.jendajournal.com/jenda/
http://www.famafrique.org/
http://www.wld.org/hrlink.html
http://www.hrw.org/women/ http://www.hrw.org/women/
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/policy/gender/links.htm
http://www.dawn.org.fj/
http://www.iiav.nl/eng/index.html
http://www.icrw.org/
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THEMATIC
ISSUES http://www.fgm.org/
http://www.fgmnetwork.org/
Women,
Law and National Policies http://www.wld.org/hrlink.html
http://www.hrw.org/women/
http://www.hri.ca/women/guidewebsite.shtml
http://www.wlsa.co.zw/national%20offices.htm
http://www.wlsa.co.zw/
http://www.lac.org.na/about.htm
http://www.ipu.org/
http://www.crlp.org/pub_bo_wowafrica.html
Women
of the World -- Laws and Policies Affecting Their Reproductive
Lives in Anglophone Africa and other publications on the
issue of Women's Human Rights
The
Women's Legal Centre is a
non-profit, independently funded law
centre started by a group of women lawyers in South
Africa. The WLC has been established to
advance women's rights by conducting constitutional
litigation and advocacy on
gender issues.
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http://www.feminist.com/resources/links/links_vaw.html Education, Science and Technologies http://www.idrc.ca/acacia/outputs/womenicts.html
http://www.fawe.org/ http://www.fawe.org/femsa/Defaultold.htm
http://www.africaaction.org/docs99/aft9909.htm
http://www.thecommonwealth.org/gender/index1.htm
http://www.jendajournal.com/jenda/
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Gender
Equality in Politics and Decision making http://www.ipu.org/
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http://women3rdworld.miningco.com/cs/christianity/
http://women3rdworld.miningco.com/cs/womenandislam/
(***Highly
recommended) Annotated links and resources about the status of women in Islam. http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/humanrelations/womeninislam/
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/humanrelations/womeninislam/ http://www.unn.ac.uk/societies/islamic/_current/main.htm#WOMEN
http://womensissues.about.com/gi/dynamic/
http://womensissues.about.com/gi/dynamic/
http://www.jannah.org/mamalist/Women/
http://afrikaworld.net/afrel/
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Links
to organization working to improve women's lives in Africa
Information
web site on women in Africa by women in Africa and useful
links.
Has
a directory of African women's organizations http://community.web.net/womensweb/index.html
NGO's
and networks in Sub-Saharan Africa
With
a list of experts on: http://www.idrc.ca/acacia/outputs/appendices.html
(***Highly
recommended)
A
direct way to search for experts and consultants in the
area of gender mainstreaming and women's rights, a catalogue
of close to 400 experts are registered in this catalogue,
and you search on regional experience, language skills,
sector experience and other relevant keywords to find the
expert that suits your needs.
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