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UN-INSTRAW Global Directory
This UN organization offers a global directory of gender, peace and security research institutions. INSTRAW welcomes recommendations to make the database accurate and complete.

1000 PeaceWomen Across the Globe
In 2005 the project nominated 1000 women for the nobel peace prize. Though the women did not win, their lasting commitments to promoting peace and conflict resolution have been compiled in a book.


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Amnesty International
Largest human right's organization in the world

Amnesty International / USA
Special focus on women's human rights


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Center for Women´s Global Leadership
Located at the State University of New Jersey, the Center is led by Charlotte Bunch. The Center works on promoting women's empowerment within and outside the UN system

Coalition for Women's Human Rights in Conflict Situations
Ensures that crimes committed against women in conflict situations are adequately examined and prosecuted.

Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW)
An NGO that promotes women's human rights and works to combat sexual emploitation of women and girls, especially prostitution and trafficking.

Crisis Management Initiative
NGO based in Helsinki that campaigns for sustainable security globally. Focus on gender and peace.


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Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW)
The UN Division for the Advancement of Women. The aim is that women are equal participants and beneficiaries of sustainable development, peace and security, governance and human rights. Its mandate is also gender mainstreaming within and outside the UN system.

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Feminist Peace
The Feminist Peace Network works on ending violence towards women and children.

Women Without Borders
An advocacy organization that promotes women's rights and women's inclusion in decision-making processes around the world.

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Hague Appeal for Peace
International network of organizations and individuals against war and working for peace and supporting organization of the Global Campaign for Peace Education

Human Rights Watch
HRW is one of the most important international human rights organizations. The above link leads directly to the "Women's Rights" issue. 

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INSTRAW
United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women: Its Gender, Peace and Security Programme promotes gender equality and women’s full and equal participation in the realms of peacekeeping, peace processes, post-conflict reconstruction and the reform of security institutions

International Alert
Independant NGO that supports peace processes in conflict regions and countries

International Peace Bureau (IPB)
Founded in 1892, the IPB annually publishes a resource guide on International Women´s Day for Peace and Disarmament (May 24th).

International Peace Research Association (IPRA)
Very renowned transnational peace research institution with over 1300 members in approximately 90 countries

International Service for Peace (SIPAZ)
A Euro-American organization based in Santa Cruz, USA that supports the peace process in Chiapas, Mexico.

International Women's Tribune Center (IWTC)
IWTC provides communication, information, education and support services for women's organizations in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe

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NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security
Formed in May 2000 to demand a UN Security Council Resolution on women, peace and security. Once this occurred, the NGO has been working on the implementation of Resolution 1325.

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Peace Brigades International (PBI)
International human right's organization; PBI is known for accompanying threatened human right's activists by international volunteers. Currently, PBI runs projects in Columbia, Mexico, Guatemala, Indonesia and Nepal.

Peacewomen
One of the best-known and most comprehensive websites on women, peace and security. Their Internet portal offers an overview of the UN system, as well as NGO's around the world working on these issues.

Peace X Peace | Connecting Women for Peace
This women's network connects women around the world who promote at the grassroots level or in their daily lives. The organization calls on individuals to actively build their own local peace circles.

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Rights & Democracy
Rights & Democracy (International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development) is a non-partisan organization with an international mandate that also focuses on the rights of women in its work. The website offers extensive documentation.

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The Hague Appeal for Peace 
An international network dedicated to the stopping war

The Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research (TFF)
A critical think-tank on peace research and conflict resolution

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UNIFEM
The women's fund at the United Nations (UN); it provides financial and technical support to programs and strategies that foster women's empowerment and gender equality.

United Nations (UN)
The United Nations was formed as an international organization during World War II with the goal of preventing further warfare and establishing world peace.

Regional Information Center for Western Europe (UNRIC)
RUNIC is in charge of disseminating information and UN documents to governments, the media, NGOs, educational institutions and local authorities in Western Europe.

Urgent Action Fund for Women's Rights (UAF)
UAF finances short-term women's projects in three areas: peacebuilding during violent conflict, escalating violence or political instability; legislative action; and the protection of women's human right's activists.

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WEDO
An international NGO that works on women's equality and a stronger role of women in world politics

Womenaction
An NGO platform specialized in women's empowerment

Women and Armed Conflict Caucus
Based within Womenaction, the Caucus is a coalition of women's peace initiatives that lobbies the United Nations with specific demands

Women and Life on Earth
A women's network connecting ecology, peace and global justice that wants to promote the experience and knowledge of women and movements worldwide. WLOE acts as an international center of information with its multi-lingual website.

Women for International Peace and Arbitration
Politische Bildungsarbeit zur Förderung von Frieden, friedlicher Konfliktlösung und der Rolle von Frauen in Friedensprozessen

Women for Women
Offers financial and emotional support for women who have experienced violence during war and "peace," does political education on women's rights and works for the empowerment of women

Women for Women's Human Rigths (WWHR)
Autonomous women's NGO based in Turkey and founded in 1993 that works on improving the human right's situation of women and their participation in processes of social change

Women in Black
Women in Black views itself not as an organization, but a means for mobilization and a formula for action especially through silent vigils. Started in Israel in 1988 to protest against the Isreali occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, chapters have spread around the world.  

Women Living under Muslim Law (WLUML)
An international solidarity network that provides information, support and a collective space for women whose lives are shaped, conditioned or governed by laws and customs said to derive from Islam. The network's name was deliberately chosen to debunk the myth that there is one homogenous "Muslim world" with one legal system.

Women´s Commission for Refugee Women and Children
Works to protect and empower refugee and internally displaced women, children and adolescents

Women's Human Rights net
Provides a wealth of information and links; devoted to the fight against domestic violence and the implementation of women's rights

Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice
Grew out of the former "Women's Caucus for Gender Justice," which advocated for an inclusion of gender aspects in the establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC); based in the Hague, the initiative continues to advocate for the inclusion of gender-based crimes in the invesigations and prosecutions of the ICC.

Women's International Coalition for Economic Justice (WICEJ)
International coalition working to ground gender aspects in the macroeconomic political processes of inter-state organizations

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
WILPF is the oldest international women's peace organization and works today, for example, on implementing UN Security Council Resolution 1325

Women Waging Peace Network
A network of prominent women peace builders from conflict areas around the world

WomenWatch
This UN web portal is a central gateway to information and resources on the promotion of gender equality and women's empowerment throughout the UN system. Special emphasis is placed on the 1995 Beijing conference and its aftermath.

World March of Women
International coalition of women's initiatives that meet up around the world for discussion and to organize the international "world march of women" (website in English, French and Spanish)

World Peace Forum
The World Peace Forum took place for the first time in Vancouver, Canada in June 2006. Working groups on women took place alongside regional discussion groups.

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Aktualisiert: 01.08.2007, kra