The Global Women’s Network (GWN) is the wikipedia of women's and girls' organizations. We strive to be the largest collaborative information source on women’s and girls’ organizations operating around the world. We create a virtual space for organizations working on issues related to women and girls to connect, collaborate, and create change at the local, national, and global level. GWN is in need of volunteers, what we call wiki-activists, to contribute to our site by adding information on women's and girls' organizations. By becoming a wiki-activist you can research organizations, educate yourself on the issues they work on, and contribute to the site by including them on the Global Women's Network. It's simple (no technological experience is needed), it's fun, and your work will help us become the largest and most in-depth information source on women's and girls' organizations around the world. Create an account, check out our user guide, and become a wiki-activist today!
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The Conference is proudly supported by the Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales and the Faculty of Law, University of Technology, Sydney Australia and aims to bring together academics, lawyers, researchers, students and activists from around the world to explore how women’s experiences have been structured, impacted, controlled, or ignored by law; the challenges posed by globalization, growing militarization and fundamentalism to the law and legal structures, and the possibilities and limits of realizing women’s rights through the law.
The conference will be held over three days at ILS Law College and will explore the following themes:
Feminist Litigation Women & Sexuality Feminization of Poverty Women & Trafficking Teaching Gender Women & Work Gender & Violence - Women & Militarization Women & the Environment - Women & Discrimination Women & Globalization - Women & Public Policy Women & Reproductive - Rights/Health.
Learn more about Girls for a Change. Girls For A Change (GFC) is a national organization that empowers girls to create social change. GFC invites young women to design, lead, fund and implement social change projects that tackle issues. Through GFC, girls develop the voice, ability and problem solving capacity to speak up, be decision makers, create visionary change and realize their full potential.
2012/01/24 Representatives of Equality Now, End Violence against Women, Object and Eaves Housing for Women tell the Leveson inquiry the press must take greater responsibility for the portrayal of women Read more at Guardian
2012/01/22 Today is the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. Nancy Keenan is the president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, the country’s oldest, abortion-rights advocacy organization, founded in 1969. In 2011, the group battled more abortion restrictions than it’s seen before in its four-decade history. States passed 69 laws curtailing abortion access in 2011, more than double the 34 such laws passed in 2010, according to a NARAL report released this week. We spoke Friday afternoon about the status of abortion rights in the United States, what changed last year and what to expect in 2012. A transcript of the discussion, lightly edited for length and clarity, follows. Read more at Washington Post
