International Women's Conferences, Concerns, and Resources

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 more than 18,000 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, Issues and Analyses, and more.
• See features of Human Rights Internet (above).
• Women's Human Rights Resources section of the DIANA Project. This is a massive annotated bibliography of articles, documents, and websites maintained by the University of Toronto Law School Library.
• Links to selected individual sites on women's human rights

Mega-Sites on Women and Economic Development

• Internet Resource Guide to women in development sites, from the Michigan State Univ. Women and International Development Program. (If the Resource Guide link has a vertical line covering some of the text, click instead on the link to it from the homepage for the program.)
• Progress of the World's Women is a bienniel report from UNIFEM. The report 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. Chapter 1 looks at economics through women's experiences, including unpaid housework, childcare, and volunteer work. Chapter 2 champions what's been ignored in the lists of goals that emerge from international conference platforms; namely, improving women's economic status and reducing the feminization of poverty. Chapter 3 assesses the educational level attained by girls as well as women's paid employment. Chapter 4 probes the gender gap in economic decision-making and in earnings. Chapter 5 looks at wages governments and businesses affect women's economic lives. Chapter 6 looks toward a reshaping of the effects of globalization through expanded use of microcredit, fair markets, and new marketing strategies, using. the case of Shea butter production in Africa as an example.
  
• ELDIS ia a gateway to development information, with a large Gender Resource Guide .
• The Development Gateway is a web portal with several parts devoted to gender, including Gender and Development.
• Links to Selected Individual Sites on Women/Gender and Development

Communications, Networking, Political Participation, and General Sites

• International Sites, list maintained by Jennifer Weintraub, as part of WSSLINKS project.
• International Sites list maintained by Joan Korenman.
• Progress of the World's Women is a bienniel book-length report from UNIFEM.
• Women of Various Countries, Ethnicities, Races, and Other Group Identities page within our site.
• 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.
• Links to Selected Individual Sites on Women's Political Participation, Networking, and News