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Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger |
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Achieve universal primary education |
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Promote gender equality and empower women |
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Reduce child mortality |
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Improve maternal health |
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Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases |
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Ensure environmental sustainability |
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Develop a global partnership for development |
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| Women's Rights around the World |
Women's Right and Human Rights in the 21st Century
The University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann gives the opening keynote address at the 18th International Congress on Womens Health Issues: Cities and Womens Health: Global Perspectives. The address was given on April 7, 2010 at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. |
| Directory International Women's Rights Organizations |
UN Women
United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
The establishment of the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women — to be known as UN Women— is a result of years of negotiations between UN Member States and advocacy by the global women’s movement. It is part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact.
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United National Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
UNIFEM (part of UN Women) is the women's fund at the United Nations, dedicated to advancing women’s rights and achieving gender equality. It provides financial and technical assistance to innovative programmes and strategies that foster women's empowerment. UNIFEM works on the premise that it is the fundamental right of every woman to live a life free from discrimination and violence, and that gender equality is essential to achieving development and to building just societies.
www.unifem.org
UNHCR - Refugee Women
In the last few years, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has developed a series of special programmes to ensure women have equal access to protection, basic goods and services as they attempt to rebuild their lives.
www.unhcr.org/pages/49c3646c1d9.html
National Council of Women’s Organizations
The National Council of Women's Organizations (NCWO) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit umbrella organization of more than 200 groups, which collectively represent over 10 million women across the country. It is the only national coalition of its kind.
www.womensorganizations.org
Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition
The WHRD IC is a resource and advocacy network for the protection and support of women human rights defenders worldwide. An international initiative created out of the international campaign on women human rights defenders launched in 2005, the Coalition calls attention to the recognition of women human rights defenders. It asserts that those advocating for women's human rights - no matter what gender or sexual orientation they claim - are in fact human rights defenders. Their gender or the nature of their work has made them the subject of attacks, requiring gender-sensitive mechanisms for their protection and support. The Coalition involves women activists as well as men who defend women's rights and lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, and transgender (LGBT) defenders and groups committed to the advancement of women's human rights and sexual rights.
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Women International Center
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’. Since its inception, WIC has fulfilled its purpose in many ways. For twenty-eight years we have brought people together to celebrate the accomplishments and positive and lasting contributions of women -- in so doing, many now know, understand, appreciate, and hopefully incorporate the gifts women have given to improve the world.
www.wic.org
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom was founded in 1915 during World War I, with Jane Addams as its first president. WILPF works to achieve through peaceful means world disarmament, full rights for women, racial and economic justice, an end to all forms of violence, and to establish those political, social, and psychological conditions which can assure peace, freedom, and justice for all.
www.wilpf.org
CEDAW
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is a landmark international agreement that affirms principles of fundamental human rights and equality for women around the world. CEDAW is a practical blueprint for each country to achieve progress for women and girls. The CEDAW agreement was adopted in 1979 by the United Nations General Assembly and entered into force in 1981. Almost all countries have ratified CEDAW - 186 out of 193 countries. Only seven have not ratified including the United States, Sudan, Somalia, Iran, and three small Pacific island countries (Nauru, Palau and Tonga).
www.cedaw2010.org |
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