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Prisoners' Action Group & Justice Action
Address: 65 Bellevue, ST. Glebe NSW 2037 Australia
Tel: 61-2-9660-9111 Fax: 61-2-9660-9100
Email: ja@justiceaction.org.au
Web: www.justiceaction.org.au
Seeks to empower prisoners and provide a voice for incarcerated people. Focus includes the special needs of women prisoners to emphasize the relationship between domestic violence and the incarceration of women.
Women Living Under Muslim Laws -Asia Coordination Office
Address:c/o Shirkat Gah Women’s Resource Center, PO Box 5192, Lahore 15, Contact Person: Farida Shaheed, Email: farida@lhr.comstas.net.pk
It
is a worldwide network of women and
women's groups living in Muslim countries
and Muslim communities. It provides
information through dossiers and facilitates
between Muslim women and progressive
and feminist groups at large.
AGHS
Legal Aid Center
131
Gulberg III Lahore, Pakistan
Tel: 92-42-879-273 or 871-813
Fax: 92-42-576-3236
Email: aghs@brain.net.pk
Asia
Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development
(APWLD) Task Force on Violence Against
Women
Address:
189/3 Changklan Road,Amphoe Muang, Chiang Mai 50101, Thailand
Tel: (66) 53 284527, 284856
Fax: (66) 53 280847
Email: apwld@apwld.org
An independent non-governmental organization
committed to enabling women to use
law as an instrument of social change
for equality, justice and development.
Asian
Pacific Resource and Research Centre
for Women (ARROW)
Address:
2nd Floor, Block F, Anjung Felda,
Jalan Maktab, 54000 Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia
Tel: 603-292-9913
Fax: 603-292-9958
Email: arrow@arrow.po.my
A non-governmental
organization dedicated to the promotion
of women's rights. Provides public
education on women's health through
various publications including "ARROW
for Change" newsletter.
Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE)
Address: Blk 5, Dover Crescent, #01-22, Singapore 130005
Tel: 65-6779-7137
Fax: 65-6777-0318
Web: www.aware.org.sg
Email: aware@pacific.net.sg
A women's voluntary organization offers helpline assistance, legal advice and professional counseling to women in need. Advocates for change that will enable women's equality in all spheres of life.
International Women's Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW Asia-Pacific)
80-B Jalan Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur 59200
Tel: 603-2282-2255
Fax: Fax: 603-2283-2552
Email: iwraw-ap@iwraw-ap.org
Web: www.iwraw-ap.org
Promotes the domestic application of international human rights standards by building the capacity of women to claim their rights. Also creates new knowledge related to the effective monitoring and implementation of these standards. Works with the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and other human rights treaties.
ISIS International
Manila P.O. Box 1837, Quezon City Main, Quezon City 1100, Philippines
Tel: 632-928-1956 Fax: 632-924-1065
Email: isis@isiswomen.org
Web: www.isiswomen.org
INFORM
Address: 237/22 Vijaya Kumaratunga Mawatha, Colombo 5, Sri Lanka
Tel: 94-1-809-538
Fax: 94-1-809-467
Email: inform@slt.lk
A human rights organizations focusing on monitoring, documentation and training. Gathers information from human rights groups and other mass organizations that work at the local level on matters relevant to its work.
Legal Aid Society for the Empowerment of Indonesian Women
Address: LPH Perempuan, J1. Veteran 181B, Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia
Tel: 62-411-853-218 / 62-411-850-069
Email: lbhp2i@indosat.net.id
Mongolian National Centre Against Violence
Address: P.O. Box 525 Ulaanbataar, Mongolia
Tel: 976-11-318087 / 976-11-318086
Fax: 976-1-310991
Email: mongolcav@magicnet.mn
Web: www.owc.org.mn/ncav/
National network against violence. Raises public awareness on violence and advocates to change laws for gender equality. Promotes legal education and psychological counseling services for families dealing with violence.
NariPokkho
Address: House 51 Road 9/A, Dhanmondi R.A., Dhaka 1201, Bangladesh.
Tel: 88-2-819-917 or 1431 or 6518
E-Mail: convenor@pradeshta.net / naripok@aitbd.net
Web: www.naripokkho.com
Project Against Domestic Violence (PADV)
Address: PO Box 2459, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Tel: 855-23-721654
Dedicated exclusively to the prevention and elimination of domestic violence. Conducts public awareness raising campaigns and research projects on violence in Cambodia.
Qianxi Women's Law Service Center
Address: Qianxi County, Hebei Province, PRC
Tel: 86-315-561-8305
Fax: 86-315-561-0821
E-mail: qxflzx@163.com
Web: www.qianxiwlsc.org
Non-governmental public welfare organization consisting of a group of social volunteers including lawyers and legal advisors, who are specialized in providing legal services for women and popularizing legal knowledge.
The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)
Address: PO Box 372, Quetta, Pakistan Email: rawa@rawa.org
Website: www.rawa.org
Independent political organization of Afghan women fighting for human rights and for social justice in Afghanistan. Conducts education, health and income generation activities as well as political agitation on behalf of women in Afghanistan.
Rifka Annisa Women's Crisis Center
J.Jambon IV/69A, Perum. Jatimulyo Indah, Yogyakarta, 55241 Indonesia
Tel: 62-274-553-333 Email: rifka@indosat.net.id Website: www.rifka-annisa.or.id A group of women and men dedicated to the problems experienced by female victims of violence such as sexual harassment, rape and domestic violence. Provides assistance a, advocacy and community awareness using an approach based on the woman's own importance and self-interests.
Saathi
Address: P.O. Box 7770, Kathmandu, Nepal
Tel: 977-1-441-1078 or 422-0390
Email: vaw@saathi.wlink.com.np / contact@saathi.org.np
Non-governmental organization working in the area of violence against women and girls through youth mobilization camps, community and social mobilization training, income generating victim support programs and women's rights advocacy campaigns.
Shirkat Gah Women's Resource Centre
Address: P.O. Box 5192 Lahore, Pakistan
Email: sgah@sgah.org.pk
Works towards women's empowerment for social justice and social justice for women's empowerment. Focuses on law and status, and women and sustainable development, including reproductive rights. They have offices in several cities including Peshawar and Karachi.
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National Council of Women of Canada (NCWC)
Address: 205-251 Bank Street Ottawa, Ontario K2P 1X3
Toll Free: 1-877-319-0993
Local: (613) 232-5025
Fax: (613) 232-8419 Email: ncwc@magma.ca Website: www.ncwc.ca
Non-profit, non-partisan, non-sectarian federation of voluntary women's organizations, working to improve the status of women, families and society, through education and advocacy.
Ontario Women's Justice Network
Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The goal of the Ontario Women's Justice Network (OWJN) is to promote an understanding of the law with respect to the issue of violence against women and their children.
Address: 158 Spadina Road, Toronto, Ontario, M5R 2T8, Canada
Phone: (416) 392-3148
Fax: (416) 392-3136
Email: owjn@web.ca Website: www.owjn.org
Sisterhood is Global Institute (SIGI)
4095 Chemin de la Côte-des-Neiges, Suite 12, Montreal H3H 1W9
Tel: (514) 846-9366
Fax: (514) 846-9066
E-mail: sigi@qc.aibn.com
Website: http://www.sigi.org
An international non-governmental, non-profit organization dedicated to the support and promotion of women's rights at the local, national, regional, and global levels. With members in 70 countries, and a network of more than 1300 individuals and organizations worldwide, SIGI works toward empowering women and developing leadership through human rights education. Springtide Resources
Address: Suite 220, 215 Spadina Avenue, Toronto M5T 2C7
Phone: 416-968-3422
Fax: 416-968-2026
E-mail: info@womanabuseprevention.org
The organization informs and educates the community about the issue of wife assault/woman abuse in order to decrease the incidence of physical, psychological, emotional and sexual violence against women and the effect that woman abuse has on children. back to top of page
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National Organization for Battered Women's Shelters in Sweden
Address: Hornsgatan 66, 1 trappa, Stockholm S - 11821 Sweden
Phone: 46-8-714-0960
Fax: 46-8-641-4648
Email: info@roks.se Website: www.roks.se
Mission: Organizes most of the women's shelters in Sweden. Educates, arranges conferences, publishes a magazine "Kvinnotryck" and books and pamphlets on all forms of sexual violence against women and girls, initiates feminist research and gives service to our member organizations and to the public.
WAVE
European network of non-governmental women's organizations working to combat violence against women and children. Has huge database of European women’s groups.
Website: www.wave-network.org
Solidarity With Women in Distress (SOLWODI)
Address: Probestei-Strabe 2, Boppard, Hirzenbach 56154 Germany
Tel: 06 741-2232
Fax: 06-741-2310 Email: info@solwodi.de Website: www.solwodi.de
Provides counseling to victims of trafficking. Creates awareness of the problem of trafficking through media and lectures. Observes trials against traffickers, abusers and husbands. Has several offices.
Autonomous Women’s Center Against Sexual Violence
Tirsova 5A, Belgrade, Yugoslavia Tel: 381-11-264-5328
Fax: 381-11-268-7190
Email: awcasv@eunet.yu
Website: www.azccaz.org.yu
Center for Women War Victims
Address: Kralja Drzislava, 2/1, Zagreb 10000 Croatia
Tel: 385-1455-0313 and 1455-1128
Fax: 385-1455-1142
Email: cenzena@zamir.net
Web: www.czzze.hr
Responds to the needs of women refugees and displaced women in Zagreb region, escaping from the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Works to empower and educate women through individual and group work.
Centre on Violence Against Women, European Women's Lobby
18 Rue Hydraulique, B-1210 Bruxelles, Belgium
Tel: 32-22-17-9020 Fax: 32-22-19-8451
Email: ewl@womenlobby.org Website: www.womenlobby.org
KARAT Coalition
Address: ul. Karmelicka 16 M.13, 00-163 Warsaw, Poland
Email: karat@zigzag.pl
Tel/Fax: (48 22) 636-8307 Website: www.karat.org
A network of Eastern and Central European women's organization working to address the specific concerns of women in the region and raise awareness in the region and on the international level.
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Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action (CAFRA)
Address: PO Bag 442, Tunapuna, Trinidad and Tobago, WI
Tel: 868-663-8670 Fax: 868-663-6842
Email: info@cafra.org
Website: www.cafra.org
Promotes women's human rights in the Caribbean through research, public awareness-raising and advocacy.
Casa Amiga
Address: Peru Norte 878, Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico Tel: 52-615-3850 or 4123
Website: www.casa-amiga.org
Casa da Mulher Lilith
Address: Rua Dr. Vicente Giacaclini 391, Sala 10, Via Alpina CEP 03203-000 Sao Paolo
Tel: 55 11 6917-3710
Fax: 55 11 6917-3710
Email: casalilith@uol.com.br
Focuses on the issues of women's health, sexuality, reproductive rights and domestic violence. It provides training, direct services and are active in influencing policy-making, particularly with respect to the issue of the AIDS epidemic among poor women in low income communities.
Casa de Cultura da Mulher Negra
Rua Professor Primo Ferreira, 22 Santos, SP 11045-150 Brazil
55-13-3222-6068
Fax: 55 13 234-9976
Email: ccmnegra@uol.com.br
Website: www.casadeculturadamulhernegra.org.br
Provides legal aid for women escaping domestic violence to offering a variety of classes. Runs a gift shop and restaurant to help finance their projects.
CEFEMINA
Address: Apartado Box 5355-1000 San Jose Costa Rica
Tel: 506-22-3986
Email: acaecedo@cariari.ucr.ac.cr / mujeres.economia@cefemina.org
Working for human development and the promotion of the quality of life and equality in opportunities for women, through capacity building, research and raising public awareness.
Comite de America Latina y El Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer (CLADEM)
Address: Apartado Postal 11-0470 Lima 11 Peru
Tel: 51-14-639-237
Fax: 51-14-639-5898
E-mail: oficina@cladem.org/
clademperu@cladem.org
A network of women and women's organization joining force to defend the human rights of women in the Latin American/Caribbean region.
Flora Tristan
Address: Parque Hernan Velarde 42 Lima 1 Peru
Tel: 51-14-333-457
Fax: 51-14-339-500
Email: postmast@flora.org.pe Website: www.flora.org.pe
Dedicated to the improvement of the living condition of Peruvian women and the promotion of actions that improve and strengthen their organization and presence in society.
PLAFAM
Planned Parenthood of Venezuela, Caracas, Distrito Federal, Venezuela.
Address: Calle Minerva, Qta. Villa Alicia, Urb. Las Acacias, Caracas, Distrito Federal, 1040, Venezuela
Contact Person: Gisela Diaz
Phone: (582) 6939358 / 6935262
Fax: (582) 693-9757
Email: gdiaz@plafam.org
To promote family planning and sexual and reproductive health, especially among poor people of Venezuela, through medical assistance and educational programs. Medical programs include prenatal, contraception, fertility, women's health, adolescents, etc. And educational programs include teenagers pregnancy prevention, violence against women, AIDS prevention, etc.
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KIDMA
Address: The University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa, 31905
Israel Contact Person: Claudia Goodich-Avram
Tel: 972-4-8240318 Fax: 972-4-8249014
Email: kidma@psy.haifa.ac.il Website: www.kidma.haifa.ac.il Project for the Advancement of Women in Israel, Haifa, Israel, provides women from all sectors of Israeli society opportunity, information and access to subjects that can help them advance personally, professionally, financially and socially. The Women who come to project KIDMA include among others Jews and Arabs, new immigrants, students, and professionals dealing with women's issues such as sexual harassment. KIDMA is a non profit organization located at The University of Haifa.
Legal Research and Resource Center for Human Rights
Address: 7 Al Higaz Street, Roxi Heliopolis Cairo, Egypt
Tel: 202-452-0977
Fax: 202-259-6622
Email: lrrc@frco.eun.eg / lrrc@brainy1.ie-eg.com
Creates a sensitive and well-informed public on the issue of human rights through public awareness efforts aimed at Egyptian society, through emphasizing respect for legal sovereignty as well as establishing the principles of human rights as set out in the international instruments.
Women's Solidarity Association of Iran
Address: P.O. Box 13165-117 Tehran, Iran
Tel: 98-21-641-3636
Fax: 98-21-640-6840
Email: wsa_iran@hotmail.com
A women's human rights organization working for the progress of the women of Iran through advocacy and awareness raising on the national and international levels.
The New Woman Research and Study Centre
Address: 90D Ahmed Orabi Street Cairo Egypt
Tel: 202-304-8085
E-mail: nwrc@intouch.com
Campaigns for women's equality and human rights, information, networks with local, regional and international women's and human rights organizations.
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Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association (EWLA)
Address: c/o P.O. Box 13760 (or P.O. Box 100043), Addis Ababa
Tel: 251-1-466-1648 and 466-1627
Fax: 251-1-465-3716
E-mail: ewla@ehtionet.net
Web: www.etwla.org
Network of women lawyers in Ethiopia dedicated to the promotion of human rights of women. Active in efforts to change Ethiopian laws that discriminate against women.
International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA)
Network of women lawyers working for the promotion of women's human rights. Offices throughout Africa include:
International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA-Kenya)
P.O. Box 46324 Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: 254-2-387-3511, 387-0444 and 387-6991
Fax: 254-2-387-6372
E-mail: info@fidakenya.org / fida@swiftkisumu.org
International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA-Nigeria)
National Secretariat, 16, Makoko Road, Yaba, Lagos
Email: fidanigeria@justice.com
International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA-Cameroom)
P.O. Box 126 Limbe, Cameroon
Tel/Fax: 237-3-332-517
Email: fidacam@cameroon.org
Web: www.fidacameroon.org
International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA-Uganda)
PO Box 2157, Kampala Uganda Tel: 256-41-530-848
International Women's Resource Centre
based in Kampala, Uganda (Isis-WICCE)
Address: Isis-WICCE, PO Box 4934, Kampala, Uganda.
Tel: (256 41) 543-953 Fax: (256 41) 543-954
E-mail: Isis@starcom.co.ug
Website: www.isis.or.ug
Working to eliminate injustice based on unequal power relations to improve women's economic, social and political situation.
Masimanyane Women's Support Centre
Address: 35 St Marks Road, Southernwood, East London, 5200, South Africa 5201
Tel: 27-43-743-9176
Fax: 743-9169
Email: maswsc@iafrica.comWeb: www.masimanyane.org.za
Contact Person: Lesley Ann Foster, Executive Director
Addresses violence against women in the Eastern Cape region of South Africa by providing gender-specific services to victims and survivors of gender-based violence in the region.
Women's Network-Angola
Tel: 244-234-9513E-mail: dwang@angonet.org / rede.mulher@netangola.com
Network for exchange of information and experience in gender and development, lobby and advocate in the government, empower women and provide training to member organizations.
CNLPE (Comite national de lutte contre la pratique de l'excision)
Address: B.P. 515 / 01, Ougadougou 01 Burkina Faso
Tel: (226) 307915
E-mail: cnlpe@fasonet.br
www.sp-cnlpe.gov.bf
National organization working against Female Genital Mutilation [FGM].
Comite National du CI-AL
Address: c/o CIRAD-CA/TCHAD, B.P. 764, N'Djamena, Chad.
A national organization dedicated to the struggle against Female Genital Mutilation [FGM].
Ghanaian Association for Women's Welfare
Address: PO Box 9582, Airport, Accra
Tel: 233-21-255-259
Fax: 233-21-225-297
Email: gaww255@yahoo.co.uk
Works to increase women's reproductive rights awareness. Musasa
Project
P.O. Box A7 12 Avondale Harare, Zimbabwe
Tel: 263-4-725-881 or 734-381 Fax: 263-4-794-983
Email: musasa@telco.zw / musasaproj@africaonline.co.zw
National NGO working on Domestic Violence through raising public awareness and advocacy.
CPTAFE (Cellule le de Coordination sur les Pratiques Traditionnelles Affectant la Sante de Femmes et des Enfants)
Address BP 3185, Conakry Guinea
Tel: 224 462 805
Fax: 224 441682.
Awareness-raising on the negative effects of harmful traditional practices, including FGM, on the health of women and children in Guinea.
Coalition on Violence Against Women (COVAW)
An initiative of Women in Law and Development in Africa (WILDAF)
Address: PO Box 10658-00100, Nairobi
Tel: 254 2-574 357,8,9
Fax: 254-2-726-648
Email: COVAW@iconnect.co.ke
Works to end violence against women through awareness-raising and advocacy.
ABANTU, For Development
Address: Regional Office for East & Southern Africa Sebeteyiet House, P.O. Box 56241, Nairobi.
Tel: 245 2 570 343 Fax: 254 2 570 668 E-mail: abantu@africaonline.co.ke
A network of women's organizations dedicated to women's human rights in development. Abantu also has offices in Nigeria (Kaduna Office for Nigeria) and London.
Rape
Crisis, Cape Town
Address:
P.O. Box 46 Observatory 7935 South
Africa Email: zandile@rapecrisis.org
Website: www.rapecrisis.org.za
Provides services for survivors of
sexual assault and advocates for an
end to sexual violence in South Africa.
BAOBAB
for Women’s Human Rights
PO
Box 73630, Victoria Island, Lagos,
Nigeria
Tel: 234-1-496-2302, 234-1-474-7931
Fax: 234-1-898-0834
Email: baobab@baobabwomen.org /
baobabwomen@yahoo.com
WLUML
(Women Living Under Muslim Laws)
International Coordination Office,
PO Box 28445, London N19 5NZ United
Kingdom
Tel: 44-207-263-0285 Fax: 44-207-561-9882
Email: wluml@wluml.org
Website: www.wluml.org
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