The Maasai Girls Education Fund (MGEF) was created to improve the literacy, health, and economic well-being of Maasai women in Kenya through education. To achieve its mission, the organization is committed to the complete education of a majority of Maasai girls over the next 20 years. Through this long-term effort, the next generation of Maasai […]

ISIS International- is a NGO committed to creating spaces within information and communication structures and systems, that promote the many voices of women, particularly those from the South. ISIS believes women’s access and capacity to participate in generating and disseminating their own knowledge and experiences through various mediums of communication can lead to transformation of […]

The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) is the world organisation of parliaments of sovereign states. Table of Contents 1 Objectives 2 IPU and Gender Equality 3 References 4 See Also Objectives Established in 1889 as the focal point for worldwide parliamentary dialogue, IPU works for peace and co-operation among peoples and for the firm establishment of representative […]

The International Criminal Court (ICC), governed by the Rome Statute, is the first permanent, treaty based, international criminal court established to help end impunity for the perpetrators of the most serious crimes of concern to the international community. The ICC is an independent international organisation, and is not part of the system. Its seat is […]

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The International Labour Organization (ILO) is the global body responsible for drawing up and overseeing international labour standards. Working with its Member States, the ILO seeks to ensure that labour standards are respected in practice as well as principle. ILO is devoted to advancing opportunities for women and men to obtain decent and productive work […]

I.M.O.W. is a social change museum that connects and inspires people with powerful ideas and new ways of thinking that transform women’s lives and the world. With its focus on cultural change, I.M.O.W. advances the human right to gender equity worldwide. Table of Contents 1 Mission 2 History 3 Activities 4 Projects 5 See Also […]

Founded in 1976, ICRW is one of the leading international institutions on gender and development. ICRW seeks to promote a world free of poverty in which women and men, girls and boys have equal opportunities to achieve their potential and realize their rights. ICRW tackles the complexities of the world’s most pressing problems — poverty, […]