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• Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID)
  AWID is an international membership organization connecting, informing and mobilizing people and organizations committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable development and women's human rights. Our goal is to cause policy, institutional and individual change that will improve the lives of women and girls everywhere.
• The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
  CEDAW was adopted in 1979 by the UN General Assembly, is often described as an international bill of rights for women. Consisting of a preamble and 30 articles, it defines what constitutes discrimination against women and sets up an agenda for national action to end such discrimination.
• Peacewomen
  A project of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, PeaceWomen monitors and works toward rapid and full implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security.
• Raising Voices
  Raising Voices works to strengthen programs that affect the lives of ordinary people in communities in East and Southern Africa. Through this program we aim to increase the number and quality of domestic violence prevention programs to ensure that the policy and advocacy work done at the national and international level, actually reaches the people who need it the most.
• Saving Women's Lives
  This initiative is an international collaboration of organizations dedicated to the health and well-being of the world's women. Led by Family Care International, Saving Women's Lives aims to educate and raise awareness of the broad range of women's global health and rights issues, including reproductive health, safe motherhood, poverty and economic development, violence against women, women's social status and education.
• Siyanda
  Siyanda is an on-line database of gender and development materials. It is also an interactive space where gender practitioners can share ideas, experiences and resources. Siyanda means "we are growing" (isiZulu)
• Unifem
  UNIFEM is an autonomous organisation that works in close association with UNDP, working for women's empowerment and gender equality.
• Women of Uganda Network (Wougnet)
  WOUGNET's mission is to promote and support the use of ICTs by women and women organisations in Uganda, so that they can take advantage of the opportunities presented by ICTs in order to effectively address national and local problems of sustainable development.
• Women's eNews
  Women's eNews is the definitive source of substantive news--unavailable anywhere else--covering issues of particular concern to women and providing women's perspectives on public policy. It enhances women's ability to define their own lives and to participate fully in every sector of human endeavor.
• Women's Human Rights Net (whrNET)
  whrNET is a collaborative Information & Communication Technology (ICT) project developed by an international coalition of women's organizations. whrNET aims to strengthen advocacy for women's human rights through the effective utilization of information and communication technologies.
• Women'sNet
  Women'sNet is a vibrant and innovative networking support program designed to enable South African women to use the Internet to find the people, issues, resources and tools needed for women's social activism.
• Women's Rights are Human Rights
  The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights attaches importance to practical and creative measures to realize the human rights of women - civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights.Our starting point is the recognition that there can be no human rights without women's rights, and this Office is committed to ensuring that the United Nations remains the uncompromising guardian of women's human rights.
• Women's World Summit Foundation (WSSF)
  WWSF, a humanitarian, non-governmental and international, non-confessional and non-profit organization with United Nations consultative status (ECOSOC, UNFPA and DPI), works for a new development paradigm with and for women and children.
  

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The value of organized conflict resolution processes
Zimbabwean civil society, in their segregated efforts, has been waging peaceful protests because of the deteriorating socio-economic and political environment. However, their efforts have largely been ineffectual and a recent workshop on conflict resolution unpacked a useful tool called Force-field Analysis to try and understand why civil society is currently in the state it is in. Read more from Natasha Msonza

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