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Organisations

Association For Rural Advancement (AFRA)
http://www.afra.co.za
AFRA is dedicated to working on land rights and agrarian reform in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Behind the Mask
http://www.mask.org.za
A website magazine on lesbian and gay affairs in Africa.

Girls Power Initiative (GPI) Nigeria
http://www.gpinigeria.org/gpi.htm
GPI educates girls between the ages of 10-18 years concerning their health, rights, self reliance skills and needs from a gender perspective through information, communication, counselling and community intervention.

Hope Springs Institute
http://www.hopespringswomencenter.com
Hope Springs Institute, a retreat and learning center in Ohio,  is a vessel for Activism in its many forms; a place to encourage discourse, advocate, promote, and plan, a place for those who are involved in truly changing the world to retreat and revitalize themselves and their work. We are not just changing ourselves. We are working for peace, for the environment, and towards ending all “isms”.

International Peace Research Association (IPRA)
http://www.ipraweb.org
The purpose of IPRA is to advance interdisciplinary research into the conditions of peace and the causes of war and other forms of violence.

Intersex Society of North America (ISNA)
http://www.isna.org
The Intersex Society of North America (ISNA) is devoted to systemic change to end shame, secrecy, and unwanted genital surgeries for people born with an anatomy that someone decided is not standard for male or female.

World Social Forum 2008
http://wsf2008.net/eng/home
Since 2001, the World Social Forum is an open meeting place where civil society organizations opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital or by any form of imperialism come together to pursue their thinking, to debate ideas democratically, for formulate proposals, share their experiences freely and network for effective action.

Women in Black
http://www.womeninblack.org
Women in Black is a world-wide network of women committed to peace with justice and actively opposed to injustice, war, militarism and other forms of violence. As women experiencing these things in different ways in different regions of the world, we support each other’s movements. An important focus is challenging the militarist policies of our own governments. We are not an organisation, but a means of communicating and a formula for action.

Read about Women in Black, Leuven.
http://snellings.telenet.be/womeninblackleuven/index_english.htm

 


Publications

Women 'Go Missing' by the Millions
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/03/24/opinion/edali.php
Author: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Published: Tribune Media Services International, 25 March 2006

Men-Women, Gatekeepers, and Fairy Mounds
Link to article
Author: Randy P.L. Conner
Published: Parabola, SPRING, February 2000. Volume 25, No.1, pp. 71 - 77

Use Your Heart and Head When Giving
Link to article
Author: Perla Ni
Published: www.ft.com, March 15 2008

Women in an Insecure World: Violence Against Women - Facts, Figures and Analysis
English executive summary:
http://www.dcaf.ch/women/pb_women_ex_sum.pdf
French executive summary:
http://www.dcaf.ch/women/pb_women_ex_sum_fr.pdf
Order full document:
http://www.dcaf.ch/women/bk_vlachova_biason_women.cfm
Editors: Marie Vlachovà and Lea Biason
Published: Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces , September 2005

World's Women Have an Advocate. More Than Half the Globe's People Need Their Own UN Agency: Stephen Lewis
Link to abstract
Author: Olivia Ward
Published: The Toronto Star, Jul. 1, 2006

The Shadow Cast by Colonialism is Very, Very Long
Link to article
Author: Gordon Aeschliman
Published: Cape Times, June 26, 2007, Edition 1

 

 

 

Nowhere can I find what is male, nowhere can I find what is female. These are simply forms, no more separate from one another than a wave is from water. But since most buddhas have chosen to come [to earth] as a man, perhaps it would be more helpful if I became enlightened in a woman's body.

China Galland recounts the words of Wisdom Moon, the Mother of all Buddhas - known as Drolma or Mother in Tibet, Kwan Yin in Chinese, Tara (Liberator or Saviour) in Sanskrit, Wisdom or Sophia in the Old Testament, and the Goddess of Compassion everywhere.

 

 

 
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