OSU-WID LINKS

Women in Development Links

http://www.womensedge.org/
Women's EDGE is a dynamic coalition of individuals and respected organizations that is giving women and families around the world an economic edge. Women's EDGE organizes for economic, political and social change.

http://www.awid.org
AWID (Association for Women's Rights in Development) is a dynamic international membership organization that connects, informs and mobilizes people and organizations committed to achieving gender equality, just and sustainable development and women's human rights. AWID's goal is to cause policy, institutional and individual change that will improve the lives of women and girls everywhere.

http://www.unifem.undp.org
UNIFEM promotes women's empowerment and gender equality. It works to ensure the participation of women in all levels of development planning and practice, and acts as a catalyst within the UN system, supporting efforts that link the needs and concerns of women to all critical issues on the national, regional and global agendas.

http://www.womenink.org
Women Ink is a project of the International Women's Tribune Centre to market and distribute books on women and development with a focus on the perspectives of women from the Global south.

http://www.isp.msu.edu:80/WID/
Women and International Development program at Michigan State University. Established in 1978, the program was designated as a National Resource by the US Department of Education in 1994.

http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/gender/gender.htm
Eldis is a database and site that contains links to dozens of other sites at the U.N., World Bank, NGOs, discussion sites, etc.

http://www.ids.ac.uk/bridge/
BRIDGE, a gender and development information service, is based at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.

http://www.whrnet.org/
Women's Human Rights Net serves as a clearinghouse for women's rights issues like the International War Crimes tribunal. It is especially oriented to the UN and related avenues for human rights campaigns.

Activism and Organizing [return to top ]

http://mmf.lecarrefour.org/index_html/en
Women's World March/World March of Women headquarters, activities for 2005

http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/links_intl.html
Joan Korenman runs a number of websites, this one is a helpful links page with international women's websites.

Research and Academic Resources [return to top ]

http://www.icrw.org/
The International Center for Research on Women has publications and on-going research projects of interest.

Other Sites of Interest [return to top ]

http://www.thehungersite.com/
The Hunger Site focuses the power of the Internet on a specific humanitarian need - the eradication of world hunger. On average over 220,000 individuals from around the world visit the site each day to click the "donate free food" button and help feed the hungry. Founded in June 1999, The Hunger Site was the first "click-to-donate" site on the Web. The site also has links to the Rainforest Site, Child Health Site, and others.