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Women's activism

Feminist http://www.feminist.com Feminist.com is a thriving online community fostering awareness, education and activism for women all across the world. The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) http://www.awid.org AWID is an international, multi-generational, feminist, creative, future-orientated membership organization committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable development and women's human rights. Division for the Advancement for Women (DAW) http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/committee.htm Grounded in the vision of equality of the United Nations Charter, the Division for the Advancement of Women advocates the improvement of the status of women of the world, and the achievement of their equality with men –as equal actors, partners, and beneficiaries of sustainable development, human rights, peace and security. The Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF) http://feministcampus.org FMF started the Campus Program to inform young feminists about the very real threats to abortion access, women’s rights, affirmative action, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights posed by right-wing extremists. FMF works with students on college campuses to effect change at the grassroots, national, and global levels. Global Fund for Women http://www.globalfundforwomen.org The Global Fund for Women is an international network of women and men committed to a world of equality and social justice. The organization advocates for and defends women’s human rights by making grants to support women’s groups around the world. Global Center for Women’s Politics (GLOW) http://www.glow-boell.de/en/web/index_en.html GLOW Feminist Institute is an experimental workshop focused on current women’s policy issues that reflects on traditional issues in a new way and on novel issues from an unconventional angle. International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) http://www.icrw.org Founded in 1976, ICRW has earned a reputation as the leading international institution on gender and development. ICRW tackles the complexities of the world's most pressing problems — poverty, hunger and disease — by demonstrating that a focus on women and gender is necessary for lasting social and economic change. The National Council for Research on Women http://www.ncrw.org The National Council for Research on Women is a network of more than 100 leading U.S. research, advocacy, and policy centers with a growing global reach. The Council harnesses the resources of its network to ensure fully informed debate, policies, and practices to build a more inclusive and equitable world for women and girls. European Women’s Lobby http://www.womenlobby.org The European Women’s Lobby aims at promoting women’s rights and equality between women and men in the European Union. EWL is active in different areas such as women’s economic and social position, women in decision-making, violence against women, women’s diversity, etc. United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) http://www.unifem.org UNIFEM is the women's fund at the United Nations. It provides financial and technical assistance to innovative programmes and strategies to foster women's empowerment and gender equality. Women in Development Europe (WIDE) http://www.wide-network.org WIDE is a European feminist network of women´s organisations, development NGOs, gender specialits and women´s rights activists. WIDE monitors and influences international economic and development policy and practice from a feminist perspective. Womankind Worldwide http://www.womankind.org.uk WOMANKIND Worldwide believes women in developing countries are a powerful force for change. WOMANKIND Worldwide is the only UK charity devoted to enabling women to achieve this. Women for Women International http://www.womenforwomen.org Women for Women International provides women survivors of war, civil strife and other conflicts with the tools and resources to move from crisis and poverty to stability and self-sufficiency, thereby promoting viable civil societies.