International Women's Conferences, Concerns, and Resources

Researching International Gender and Women's Studies Topics

Mega-Sites on Human Rights

Large General Human Rights Sites That Can Be Searched for Women/Gender Information

• HURISEARCH searches and links to human rights documents mounted by 1500 sites in 58 languages (search can be limited by language). It is from Huridocs Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems, Switzerland.
• Human Rights Internet site contains a searchable database of human rights organizations that can be used to identify organizations that work on women/women's rights. Use the drop-down menu under "Organization Type" to find women's organizations, use the menu under "Issues that these organizations deal with" to find organizations that work on women's and related issues. Select "women," "women's rights," "domestic violence," "elections," "food/hunger," etc.). Limit to a country of interest or residence, if desired.
• University of Minnesota Human Rights Library links to thousands of items, including bibliographies, treaties, U.S. human rights documents, U.N. documents, material on human rights education, regional information, and more. Includes a page of Women and Human Rights links, a massive Bibliography for Research on International Human Rights Law, compiled by David Weissbrodt and Marci Hoffman, the African Human Rights Resource Center, topical guides, and much more.

MegaSites Specifically on Women's Human Rights

• Association of Women's Rights in Development (AWID). The site includes news analysis and more.
• See features of Human Rights Internet (above).
• Women's Human Rights Resources section of the DIANA Project. This is a massive database maintained by the University of Toronto Law School Library of articles, documents, and websites pertaining to international and Canadian women's rights law.

Mega-Sites on Women and Economic Development

• Michigan State Univ. Center for Gender in a Global Context has numerous publications, including a series of Gendered Perspectives on International Development Working Papers and a Resource Bulletin.
• Progress of the World's Women is a bienniel report from the UN. The report for 2008/9 focuses on accountability, and for 2005 is on Women, Work, and Poverty, which "makes the case for an increased focus on women's informal employment as a key pathway to reducing poverty and strengthening women's economic security." The report for 2002 is in two parts: Women War, and Peace and Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals. Progress of the World's Women 2000 focuses on economic factors.
  
• ELDIS ia a gateway to development information, with a large Gender Resource Guide.
• World Survey on the Role of Women in Development is prepared at 5-year intervals for the UN General Assembly.
• Zunio.org Gender page (Zunia is a site for sharing development information.)

Communications, Networking, Political Participation, and General Sites

• Global List of Women's Organisations, a country-by-country list compiled by Denise Osted. She includes organizations that are not entirely women-focused if they have a women's program (or programs). Not all countries are represented, even though they may have women's organizations.
• Women in Politics bibliographic database of books and articles on women's participation in political life worldwide. Mounted and maintained by the Inter-Parliamentary Union.