WOMEN'S RIGHTS

NOW	As the grassroots arm of the women's movement, the National Organization for Women is dedicated to its multi-issue and multi-strategy approach to women's rights, and is the largest organization of feminist grassroots activists in the United States. NOW has hundreds of chapters and hundreds of thousands of members and activists in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Since our founding in 1966, NOW's purpose is to take action through intersectional grassroots activism to promote feminist ideals, lead societal change, eliminate discrimination, and achieve and protect the equal rights of all women and girls in all aspects of social, political, and economic life.
AWID	AWID is a global, feminist, membership, movement-support organization working to achieve gender justice and women's human rights worldwide.
MADRE	MADRE is an international women's human rights organization and feminist fund. We partner with community-based women's groups worldwide facing war and disaster. --Our mission is to advance women's human rights by meeting urgent needs in communities and building lasting solutions to the crises women face. --Our history is rooted in progressive movements for peace, justice and women's human rights.
Womankind Worldwide	Womankind Worldwide is an international organization for women's rights that works in solidarity and equal partnership with women's rights organizations and movements with a goal to transform the lives of women. The vision of the organization is a just world where the rights of all women are respected, realized and valued. Currently, the Womankind Worldwide works with women's rights organizations and movements in Ethiopia, Kenya, Nepal, Uganda and , advocating for international agencies and governments to promote and protects women's rights.
Center for Reproductive Rights	The Center for Reproductive Rights was established in 1992 with a goal to use the power of law to advance reproductive rights as fundamental human rights around the world. The organization envisions the world in which every person participates as an equal member of society, regardless of their gender, has access to quality reproductive healthcare and where any woman can take her own decisions free from discrimination and coercion.
Planned Parenthood	Planned Parenthood is a trusted health care provider, an informed educator, a passionate advocate, and a global partner helping similar organizations around the world. Planned Parenthood delivers vital reproductive health care, sex education, and information to millions of people worldwide.
Plan International	Plan International is a global development human rights and humanitarian organization working to advance rights of children and equality for girls. It closely works with young people, children and communities to tackle the root causes of discrimination against girls, vulnerability and exclusion and enables them to respond and prepare for adversity and practice. Plan International influence policies and practices at local, national and global levels by using knowledge, experience and reach.
Women for Women International	Women for Women International is an international women's rights organization that supports the most marginalized women in countries affected by war and conflict. The organization conducts projects that enable women to earn and save money, influence decisions in their communities and homes, improve their well-being and health and connect to networks for support. So far, the organization has helped to more than 478.000 women across the world to rebuild their lives after the war. Women for Women International uses its voice to call for global attention to the unique role that women play in advancing peace throughout society.
Equality Now	Equality Now is an international organization founded with the mission of using legal advocacy to protect and promote the human rights of women and girls. It uses law to create equal and just world for women and girls. It attracts global attention to media on individual cases of abuse and uses international human rights law to advocate with policymakers and puts pressure on national governments to adopt and enforce good laws. Equality now partners up with other organizations to ensure that individual cases are visible on the global agenda.
WEDO	Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) is a global advocacy organization created to promote and protect gender equality, human rights and the integrity of the environment. WEDO facilitates and connects movements to global agendas and in this way, it ensures that women's voices are heard, and women's leadership is advanced.
Global Fund for Women	Global Fund for Women is one of the world's leading organizations for gender equality, and human rights of girls and women. The organization was created with a mission to amplify the courageous work of women who are building social movements and challenging the status quo. The organization campaigns for zero violence, political and economic empowerment, and sexual and reproductive health and rights of women globally.
Rise Up	Rise Up works on activating women and girls to transform their lives, families and communities through investing in local solutions, strengthening leadership, and building movements. The network of the organization is composed of 500 leaders, which has directly benefited around seven million girls and impacted around 100 laws and policies in Africa, Latin America, South Asia and the US.
Equality Fund	Equality Fund was established in 1976 to match the needs of Canadian women with the needs and resources of women around the world. MATCH International supports women innovators through their breakthroughs of transforming farming practices, child nutrition, and anti-violence campaigns. The Fund works with 650 women's organizations in 71 countries and so far, it has invested in nearly 12 million dollars in women and girls.
Gender at Work	Gender at Work is an international feminist knowledge network working to build inclusive cultures and end discrimination against women. It partners up with researchers and activists across the world to produce new knowledge on inequality structures and embedded societal discriminatory norms and to produce innovative approaches and tools to transform them in organizations and communities.
International Alliance of Women	International Alliance of Women (IAW) is an international non-governmental organization comprising 41-member organizations involved in the promotion of the human rights of women and girls globally.
ACLU	Today, gender bias continues to create huge barriers for many women. Ongoing struggles include ensuring equal economic opportunities, educational equity, and an end to gender-based violence.
Amnesty International	Women's rights are human rights! We are all entitled to human rights. These include the right to live free from violence and discrimination; to enjoy the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health; to be educated; to own property; to vote; and to earn an equal wage.NBut across the globe many women and girls still face discrimination on the basis of sex and gender. Gender inequality underpins many problems which disproportionately affect women and girls, such as domestic and sexual violence, lower pay, lack of access to education, and inadequate healthcare.
Human Rights Watch	Women's Rights:Despite great strides made by the international women's rights movement over many years, women and girls around the world are still married as children or trafficked into forced labor and sex slavery. They are refused access to education and political participation, and some are trapped in conflicts where rape is perpetrated as a weapon of war. Around the world, deaths related to pregnancy and childbirth are needlessly high, and women are prevented from making deeply personal choices in their private lives. Human Rights Watch is working toward the realization of women's empowerment and gender equality-protecting the rights and improving the lives of women and girls on the ground
PAI	Join the movement to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights around the world.
UN Women	Violence against women and girls: the shadow pandemic
Blink Now	The goal of the Women's Center is to enable more women to find independence and take control of their livelihoods
The Fund For Global Human Rights	When women succeed, we all win. But across the globe, women and girls continue to face barriers, persecution, and violence-inside and outside their homes. The Fund supports bold feminist activists who demand equality and opportunity. These intersectional leaders are fighting for a better, fairer future for women and girls everywhere.
United Nations-Human Rights	"Patriarchy works to exclude us. We must push back, in solidarity and sisterhood with other women, and with all those affected by discrimination and oppression." Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, International Women's Day, 8 March 2021