Gender Integration

National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs)
and Competent Authorities for Human Rights
International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions
for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (ICC).
Global Directory of NHRIs http://nhri.ohchr.org/EN/Contact/
NHRIs/Pages/Global.aspx This site links to NHRIs around the
world. In turn, the websites of individual NHRIs often link to
their human rights reports and recommendations.
Human Rights Defenders and Organizations
that Protect and Promote Human Rights
African Women’s Development and Communication
Network (FEMNET). http://femnet.co/. FEMNET is a
pan-African network of national women’s networks,
consortia, and umbrella organizations in over 30 countries
in Africa to advance African women’s development, equality,
and other human rights.
Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development
(APWLD). http://apwld.org/. The 180 members of APWLD
represent groups of diverse women from 25 countries in
the region.
Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID).
http://www.awid.org/. AWID is one of the larger international,
feminist, membership organizations and is committed to
achieving gender equality, sustainable development, and
women’s human rights.
International Indigenous Women’s Forum/Foro Internacional
de Mujeres Indígenas. http://www.fimi-iiwf.org/ Best known
by its Spanish initials, FIMI is a network of Indigenous women
leaders from Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
International Network of Women with Disabilities
(INWWD). http://www.internationaldisabilityalliance.org/
en/international-network-women-disabilities INWWD is
comprised of about 200 women from international, regional,
national or local organizations, groups or networks of women
with disabilities, as well as individual women with disabilities
and their allies.
Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defense
of Women’s Rights (CLADEM). www.cladem.org (website in
Spanish). CLADEM is a network of women’s organizations and
individuals united to achieve the effective defense of women’s
rights in Latin America and the Caribbean.
OutRight Action International formerly known as the
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
(IGLHRC). http://iglhrc.org/
Promundo. http://promundoglobal.org/ Promundo works globally
with men and boys to transform harmful gender norms
and unequal power dynamics, believing that redefining what it
means to be a man is critical to achieving gender equality and
ensuring human rights, including freedom from violence.
Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition
(WHRDIC). http://www.defendingwomen-defendingrights.org
/about/ WHRDIC is a global network of 32 organizations
working to defend those defending human rights.
Women Living under Muslim Laws (WLUML).
www.wluml.org WLUML is 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
demands for women’s equality and their rights, especially in
Muslim contexts.
Human Rights Issues and the Record on Human
Rights Protection
United States Department of State. Trafficking in
Persons Report. http://www.state.gov/j/tip/rls/tiprpt/
USAID and UNDP. 2014. Being LGBT in Asia.
http://www.asia-pacific.undp.org/content/rbap/en/home/
operations/projects/overview/being-lgbt-in-asia.html
Banda, Fareda and Christine Chinkin. 2004. Gender, Minorities
and Indigenous Peoples. London: Minority Rights Group
International. Available at http://minorityrights.org/publications
/gender-minorities-and-indigenous-peoples-august-2004/
De Silva de Alwis, Rangita. 2008. Disability Rights, Gender,
and Development: A Resource Tool for Action. Wellesley,
MA: Wellesley Centers for Women, with the Secretariat for
the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities of
the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, and UNFPA.
Available at http://www.un.org/disabilities/documents/
Publication/UNWCW%20MANUAL.pdf
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