United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)

Regional Office for Central and Eastern Europe

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International Links

Amnesty International
Amnesty International (AI) is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights.
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Development Gateway
The Development Gateway is an interactive portal for information and knowledge sharing on sustainable development and poverty reduction.

IIAV - International Information Centre and Archives for the Women's Movement

INSTRAW
Research, Training and Information for Women's Empowerment and Gender Equality

IOM - International Organisation for Migration

Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights
Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights is a volunteer-based, non-governmental, non-profit, organization dedicated to the promotion and protection of internationally recognized human rights.

PeaceWomen - Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
The PeaceWomen Project monitors and works toward rapid and full implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security.

DAW - United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women

UNDP - United Nations Development Programme

UNFPA - United Nations Population Fund

UNHCR - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

UNIFEM - United Nations Development Fund for Women

Women War Peace
Women War Peace is intended to address the lack of consolidated data on the impact of armed conflict on women and girls as noted by Security Council resolution 1325 (2000).

WomenWatch
The UN Internet Gateway on the Advancement and Empowerment of Women

World Bank

Regional links

ENAWA
European and North American Women Action is a network of media, ICT, information and advocacy organizations strengthening and integrating a feminist analysis in the information and media landscape in relation to social movements and the women's movement in our region and the world.

European Women's Lobby
The European Women's Lobby (EWL) is the largest co-ordinating body of national and European non-governmental women's organisations in the European Union, with over 2,700 member associations in the 15 Member States.

KARAT Coalition
KARAT is a regional coalition of organizations and individuals that works to ensure gender equality in the CEE/CIS countries, monitors the implementation of international agreements and lobbies for the needs and concerns of women in the region at all levels of decision-making fora.

NEWW-Polska
The Network of East-West Women links women across national and regional boundaries to share resources, knowledge and skills. NEWW's mission is to empower women and girls throughout the East (Central and Eastern Europe, and NIS and the Russian Federation) and the West by dialogue, networking, campaigns, and educational and informational exchanges. NEWW supports action and joint projects inspired by feminist principles.

Open Society Institute (OSI) Budapest
The Open Society Institute-Budapest is a private operating and grantmaking foundation that develops and implements a range of programs in civil society, culture, education, media, public administration, public health, and human and women's rights, as well as social, legal and economic reform. OSI-Budapest is part of the Soros foundations network, an informal network of organizations established and supported by investor and philanthropist George Soros, and active in more than 50 countries worldwide.

Regional Women's Lobby for Peace, Security and Justice in Southeast Europe
Founded in 2006, the Regional Women's Lobby for Peace, Security and Justice in Southeast Europe brings together women politicians and activists from the region who are committed to the goals of deepening human security, promoting women's rights and participation in decision-making processes and breaking barriers of ethno-centric politics.

Seeline-South Eastern European Women's Legal Iniative
The SEELINE women's network, initiated by B.a.B.e. (Be active Be, emancipated) from Croatia, is comprised of founding members from: Albania, Bosnia & Hercegovina, Bulgaria, Hungary, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Turkey and Yugoslavia works for influencing the legislation on regional level in order to make it more gender sensitive, unified and balanced.

Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe

STOPVAW
STOPVAW is a site developed by Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights, through the support of UNIFEM, as a tool for the promotion of women's human rights in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). This site addresses violence against women as one of the most pervasive human rights abuses worldwide. The STOPVAW site provides women's rights advocates with information focused on ending the most endemic forms of violence against women in the region.

UNDP Europe and CIS

UNDP Gender Virtual Library