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Gender Equality and Financing for Development

Financing for gender equality is a critical part of the discussion on financing for development, in that sustainable economic growth and human development require women’s full participation in the economy, making it necessary to tailor development finance to the needs of both women and men. Table of Contents 1 Monterrey Consensus and Gender Equality 2 […]

Women’s WORLD

Women’s WORLD, a global free speech network of feminist writers, was founded in 1994 to defend women writers under attack and to develop programs to enable them to have a stronger public voice. Table of Contents 1 Mission 2 Activities 3 History 4 Sources Mission Women’s World Organization for Rights, Literature, and Development, or Women’s […]

Women’s Suffrage

The term women’s suffrage refers to the economic and political reform movement aimed at extending suffrage, that is, the right to vote, to women. The right to women’s suffrage was enshrined in the 1948 and the 1979 . Table of Contents 1 Early history – 19th century movements 2 Suffrage in the 20th century 3 […]

Women’s Shelters

A women’s shelter is a place of temporary refuge and support for women escaping violent situations, such as , and . Shelters provide a safe place of refuge for battered women. Women who have experienced physical and / or psychological abuse may seek support and refuge at a shelter. Women seeking help may decide themselves, […]

Women’s Political Empowerment

Although most women around the world have the right to vote, there is still a big disparity between the number of women and men who are actively involved in politics. Table of Contents 1 Women as Elected Officials 2 Suffrage 3 Sources 4 See also Women as Elected Officials There is minimal correlation between women […]

Women’s Parliament (Israel)

Table of Contents 1 Women’s Parliament:  Platform for politics from another perspective 2 The impact of the Parliament 3 See also 4 References Women’s Parliament:  Platform for politics from another perspective Israel’s Women’s Parliament is a platform for critical and feminist debates on the prevailing policies and discourse in Israel. The Women’s Parliament was founded in […]

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)

The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is an international non government organization with national sections, covering all continents with an international secretariat based in Geneva, and a New York office focused on the work of the . Since its establishment in 1915, WILPF has worked to achieve through peaceful means world disarmament, […]

Women’s International Center (WIC)

Women’s International Center [WIC] was founded in 1982 as a non-profit education and service foundation with the mission  to ‘acknowledge, honor, encourage and educate women’. Living Legacy Awards Since its inception WIC has fulfilled its purpose in many ways. Beginning in 1983 the Living Legacy Awards (LLA) began to acknowledge and honour women. For twenty-four […]

Women’s Initiatives For Gender Justice

Table of Contents 1 History 2 Mission 3 Objectives 4 Projects 5 Publications 6 More Information History From 1997 until March 2003 the Women’s Caucus for Gender Justice brought together women’s human rights advocates from around the world to the negotiations towards the creation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to firmly ingrain the principles […]

Women’s Information Technology Transfer (WITT)

WITT is a European network working in the field of Gender, Transformation, and Information and Communication Technologies. WITT envisions Europe as a place of real democracy in power where genders are completely equal, and women are recognised as driving force of the continent and their inputs to the society are highlighted. Goals Raising the awareness […]

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