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Womens Rights

Women´s rights.

Africawomen star[offsite link]
For and about the Women of Africa.

Amnesty~ Female Genital Mutilation star[offsite link]
An Amnesty International (AI) site that discusses female genital mutilation´s nature and causes, it also includes AI´s work against female genital mutilation and international laws and instrument condemning the practice.

Campaign for Afghan Women and Girls star[offsite link]
Campaign Objectives Expand peace-keeping forces Support the Afghan Ministry for Women´s Affairs, the Independent Human Rights Commission, and Afghan women-led non-governmental organizations (NGOs) Promote the leadership of women in post-Taliban Afghanistan Increase and monitor the provision of emergency and reconstruction assistance to women and girls

End Violence Against Women star[offsite link]
This site was developed by the staff of the Johns Hopkins Population Information Program as part of its ongoing effort to collect and share documentation and communication materials produced in the worldwide struggle to end violence against women. The site provides policy documentation, articles and publications, training materials and curricula, and videos, brochures, and posters related to violence against women.

Equality Now star[offsite link]
Equality Now works to end violence and discrimination against women through the mobilization of public pressure. Issues of concern to Equality Now include: RAPE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS TRAFFICKING FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION POLITICAL PARTICIPATION GENDER DISCRIMINATION

Eve Ensler's The Good Body star
Eve Ensler is the internationally known playwright whose work serves to bring into the light the struggles we as Women face.

Hot Peach Pages star[offsite link]
This website offers abuse information in 40 languages; specific information for teens, older adults, people with disabilities, rural women, same-sex partners, aboriginal and ethnic/minority communities, and men; and, a searchable database of agencies and organizations dealing with violence against women in over 165 countries.

Human Rights Watch~RAPE FOR PROFIT star[offsite link]
Trafficking of Nepali Girls and Women to India´s Brothels

Human Rights Watch~Women star[offsite link]
Our duty as activists is to expose and denounce as human rights violations those practices and policies that silence and subordinate women.

Living the Legacy star[offsite link]
Living the Legacy: The Women´s Rights Movement 1848 - 1998

RapeX- The World's First Anti-Rape Device star
Over 12,000 South African Women are raped each day. The newly released product RapeX touts itself as the worlds first anti-rape condom. But does it create more controversy than it actually solves?

The Burning Bride - Injustices Committed Against Indian Women star
India, spiritual mecca and land of enchantment has adopted many aspects of westernization engendered to bring them into the twenty-first century as an economic world force; But behind the saris and the silk facades, her women are suffering more than ever before.

The Case of Terri Schiavo star
Terri Schiavo has been in a vegetative state for fifteen years. Now President Bush is pushing to have her feeding tube put back.

UNICEF: Domestic Violence star[offsite link]
A site by the United Nations Children´s Fund featuring the study on the occurrence of domestic violence all over the world.

US Women Without Borders star[offsite link]
US Women Without Borders (USWWB) is a project of the Women´s Funding Network to help stop violence against women. The Women´s Funding Network wants a world where all women and girls are free from violence. We are working to build a voice of U.S. women equipped to influence our own foreign policy and media, particularly as it impacts violence against women and girls in other countries. We believe that when women and girls thrive, communities prosper. A key strategy for achieving community well-be

VDay star[offsite link]
Eve Ensler started VDay as a global movement aiming to stop violence against woman and children the world over.

Women Of Juarez 2007 star
Since 1993, over seven hundred women have gone missing or been found brutally slaughtered in Juarez Mexico. Who or what the cause is for these murders is still largely unknown to this day. What is critical is that we do not forget them.

Women´s Human Rights Net star[offsite link]
Founded in 1997, WHRnet aims to provide reliable, comprehensive, and timely information and analyses on women´s human rights in English, Spanish and French. WHRnet updates readers on women´s human rights issues and policy developments globally and provides information and analyses that support advocacy actions. A team of regionally based content specialists provides regular News, Interviews, Perspectives, Alert and Campaign information, and Web Highlights. The site provides an introducti

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