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Organizations and Other Sites Emphasizing Women's Communication, Networking, Political Participation, News, and Other Issues

• The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) is a "global Internet community for environment, human rights, development, and peace." One of its six constituent programs is Women's Networking Support Program, which offers training, research, advocacy and other means of support tapping information technology to enhance information access and sharing among the world's women.
• AWORC, the Asian Women's Resource Exchange, is an Internet-based women's information service and network in Asia.
• Center for Advancement of Women in Politics is based in the School of Politics and International Studies in Queen's University Belfast. The Center aims to foster "an appreciation of women's contribution to politics, government and public decision making in the UK and Ireland."
• Central and Eastern European (CEE) Network for Gender Issues assists women's organizations in networking and advocating full gender equality.
• Cultural Survival is an organization is dedicated to the rights of indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities. It publishes several publications, including Cultural Survival Quarterly. Issue 19.1 (1995) was entirely on "women and war," but a search for "women" throughout the site retrieves many articles on indigenous women.
• ENAWA (European and North American WomenAction) is a "network of media, ICT, information and advocacy organizations strengthening and integrating a feminist analysis in the information and media landscape in relation to social movements and the women's movement." Site includes news, reports, databases, etc.
• Gender Equality and Diversity section of InterAction (American Council for Voluntary International Action) promotes gender equity in the policy and practice of InterAction members and others.
• The Gender Equality Page of the Employment and Social Affairs Directorate of the European Community presents information on gender mainstreaming and other policies in the EC.
• Gender and Citizenship, by Shamim Meer with Charlie Sever (2004) is the title of a "Cutting Edge Pack" from BRIDGE/Development/Gender. See also Supporting Resources, by Charlie Sever.
• Gendwaar: Doorway to Gender Information in South Asia is a portal to information on women in South Asia.
• Open Women Line, East-West Women's Innovation Fund, (WIF) in Russia promotes women's activism and networking and maintains Women's Link database of organizations and contact information.
• Global Database of Quotas for Women surveys the use of electoral quotas for women on a country-by-country basis. Quotas are places reserved for women in legislative bodies and political parties, one mechanism for achieving gender equality in political institutions.
• Global Feminisms Project at the University of Michigan is a collaborative international project that examines the history of feminist activism, women's movements and academic women's studies in China, India, Poland, and the United States.
• Global Fund for Women is an international grantmaking organization.
• The Institute for Global Communications (IGC) is an international social change organization with many women-related activities and links from its website. One of the activist networks linked through the IGC is WomensNet, a "community of individuals and organizations using computer technology to advance the interests of women worldwide."
• International Indigenous Women's Forum coordinates activities of indigenous women activists throughout the world.
• International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) has a Women in Politics site. "IDEA is committed to contributing to the debate to advance gender and democracy issues in general, and to promote women's participation and representation in political life." Site includes a Global Database of Quotas for Women, co-sponsored with Stockholm University, that charts gender-based quotas in political parties, elections, etc.
• International Women's Democracy Center is an organization that was established to "strengthen women's global leadership through training, education, networking and research in all facets of democracy." Site includes program descriptions, timelines, and a calendar of upcoming events.
• The International Women's Tribune Centre is a women's information organization, which includes a book distribution arm called Women, Ink. The IWTC website focuses on women and development and follows actions taking place pursuant to the Beijing Platform for Action (PFA) and Beijing Plus Five follow-up plans and policies. The website also includes issues of Women's GlobalNet newsletter. (To receive the bi-weekly newsletter by email, send a blank message to iwtc-womensglobalnet-subscribe@igc.topica.com.)
• Isis International in the Philippines has many publications, particularly on women in Asia and the Pacific area. WE! is a bi-weekly newsletter. Another one online is Women in Action, with thematic issues including issue 1998 (2) on Women Communicating, issue 1998 (3) on Human Rights, issue 1999 (2) on Women and Work.,issue 1999 (3) on Women, Peace, and Justice, issue 2000 (1/2) on Gender Racism and Fundamentalism, issue 2000 (3) on Older Women, issue 2001(1) on Men’s Involvement in Women’s Empowerment , issue 2001 (2) on Women and Disabilities, issue 2001(3) on South-South Movements, and issue 2002 (2) on Communication. Sister organizations are Isis Chile (site is entirely in Spanish) and Isis-WICCE in Uganda.
• The International KnowHow Conference on the World of Women's Information, held in Amsterdam August 22-26, 1998, sponsored by the IIAV (the Internationaal Informatiecentrum en Archief voor de Vrouwenbeweging /International Information Center and Archives for the Women's Movement), resulted in a Declaration from participants concerning visibility of and access to women's information, and Mapping the World of Women's Information Services Project, an ongoing directory of libraries, archives, organizations, and other information service providers.
• Lola Press was an international feminist magazine published three times a year in English and Spanish, supported by Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung e.V., Berlin, Germany. In 2001 it became an electronic-only full-text publication, LOL@, and ceased publication in 2002.
• Network of East-West Women (NEWW) has projects in Central and Eastern Europe.
• Next GENDERation Network is a European group concerned with issues for "the next generation" in Women's Studies.
• One World community of global justice organizations site includes full-text news articles, including many collected in a gender section.
• OSKa: National Women's Information Center in Poland site (in Polish)
• Peace, Conflicts and International Women's Human Rights page
• Les Penelopes is a women's information exchange organization in France.
• Soros Foundation Women's Program works on women's issues in formerly Communist Eastern and Central European countries. Included on the site is a book-length report Bending the Bow: Targeting Women's Human Rights and Opportunities.
• United Nations Sites With Women and Gender Information
• WIN: Women's International Net, a monthly electronic magazine on worldwide issues, suspended publication in September, 2001.
• "Women and Migration," is a special issue of Migration Source Information, from the Migration Policy Institute. Women Immigrants in the United States: Proceedings of a Conference Sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Migration Policy Institute September 9, 2002, edited by Philippa Strum and Danielle Tarantola (186p.), is available through the MPI website on the list of publications.
• Women Immigrants, 1945 to the Present , by Eleanore O. Hofstetter, supplements and updates her book Women in Global Migration, 1945-2000: A Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Bibliography (Greenwood, 2001).
• WomenAction is a global information, communication and media network that enables NGOs to participate in the Beijing +5 process.
• Women's Feature Service is a network of women journalists around the world.
• Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is the oldest and largest women's peace and justice organization in the world.
• Women's Worlds Congresses
  • Paper by Marilyn Safir on the founding and history of the Women's Worlds Congresses.
  • 7th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, Tromsø, Norway, 20-26 June 1999, Proceedings.
  • 8th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, 21-26 July, 2002.
  • 9th Congress, Seoul, Korea, June, 2005.
  • 10th Congress, Mexico City, Mexico, July, 2008
• World March of Women was the initiative of the Fédération des femmes du Québec (Québec Federation of Women) in 2000 and was quickly joined by thousands of organizations around the world. It continues to work towards equality for men and women.

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