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V-Day websites
V-Day:www.vday.org
V-Day is a global movement to end violence against women and girls. V-Day is a catalyst that promotes creative events to increase awareness, raise money, and revitalize the spirit of existing anti-violence organisations. V-Day generates broader attention for the fight to stop worldwide violence against women and girls including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM), and sexual slavery.
V-Day Finland
www.vdayhelsinki.cjb.net
V-Day Iceland
www.vdagur.is
V-Day Lithuania
www.lygus.lt/ITC/smurtas.php?id=162
V-Day Poland
www.vday.za.pl
V-Day United Kingdom
www.vdayuk.org
International
Amnesty International Campaign to Stop Violence Against Womenhttp://web.amnesty.org/actforwomen/index-eng
On March the 8th 2004, Amnesty International launched a two-year campaign to stop violence against women. Amnesty International is calling on all governments as well as private actors, institutions and individuals to take immediate steps to put an end to violence against women and to redress the suffering it causes.
Coalition Against Trafficking in Women
www.catwinternational.org/
The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW) is a non-governmental organisation that promotes women's human rights. It works internationally to combat sexual exploitation in all its forms.
Equality Now
www.equalitynow.org/
Equality Now was founded in 1992 to work for the protection and promotion of the human rights of women around the world. Working with national human rights organisations and individual activists, Equality Now documents violence and discrimination against women and adds an international action overlay to support their efforts to advance equality rights and defend individual women who are suffering abuse.
European White Ribbon Campaign
www.eurowrc.org/
The WRC is the largest effort in the world of men working to end men's violence against women. It relies on volunteer support and financial contributions from individuals and organisations.
International Planned Parenthood Federation
www.ippf.org/
IPPF is the world’s largest voluntary organisation working to promote sexual and reproductive health and rights in over 180 countries. IPPF fights to reduce maternal deaths, help young people protect themselves from unwanted pregnancies and HIV/AIDS and provides family planning services in areas of need. Ensuring that women and girls live free from all forms of violence is crucial to ensure their sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Joyce Tenneson
www.tenneson.com/col/col_va_01.html
Joyce Tenneson is an highly talented photographer who has done wonderful portraits of V-Day supporters and Vagina warriors. She will soon publish a book in collaboration with Eve Ensler.
MisFortune500
www.misfortune500.org/
MisFortune500 is an exciting new web-based resource that will expose how corporate activities violate women's human rights, workers' rights and the environment and highlight what women worldwide are doing about it.
Stop Violence Against Women
www.stopvaw.org/Stop_Violence_Against_Women.html
The Stop Violence Against Women website (STOPVAW) is a forum for information, advocacy and change. STOPVAW was developed with support from and in consultation with the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the Open Society Institute's Network Women's Program. This site addresses violence against women as one of the most pervasive human rights abuses.
UNFPA
www.unfpa.org/gender/violence.htm
www.unfpa.org/intercenter/violence/
The Website has a section on violence against women, including an interactive population centre on violence against girls and women.
UNIFEM
www.unifem.org/index.php?f_page_pid=24
www.unifem.org/index.php?f_page_pid=57
www.unifem.org/filesconfirmed/2/283_at_a_glance_trust_fund.pdf
UNIFEM is the women's fund at the United Nations. It provides financial and technical assistance to innovative programmes and strategies that promote women's human rights, political participation and economic security. Its key tool to end violence against women is the UNIFEM Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence Against Women.
UN Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on violence against women, its causes and consequences
www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/7/b/women/
The United Nations Commission on Human Rights in resolution 1994/45, adopted on 4 March 1994, decided to appoint a Special Rapporteur on violence against women, including its causes and consequences. The current rapporteur is Dr. Yakin Ertürk (Turkey).
Urgent Action Fund
www.urgentactionfund.org/publications.html
Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights, the only international fund designed to respond on a short notice to the protection of women's human rights globally recently produced a book, Rising up in Response: Women's Rights Activism in Conflict, that explores women's rights activism in conflicts,looking at both the barriers and support to this activism, with a particular focus on security of activists.
White Ribbon Campaign
www.whiteribbon.com/
The WRC is the largest effort in the world of men working to end men's violence against women. It relies on volunteer support and financial contributions from individuals and organisations.
World Health Organisation
www.who.int/health_topics/gender_based_violence/en/
This page provides links to descriptions of activities, reports, news and events, as well as contacts and cooperating partners in the various WHO programmes and offices working on this topic. Also shown are links to related web sites and topics.
Europe
Daphne II - EU programme to combat violence against children, young people and womenwww.europa.eu.int/comm/justice_home/funding/daphne/funding_daphne_en.htm
The Daphne II programme runs from 2004 until 2008 with a budget of EUR 50 million. It aims at supporting organisations that develop measures and actions to prevent or to combat all types of violence against children, young people and women and to protect the victims and groups at-risk.
European Info Centre on Violence Against Women
www.wave-network.org
The Info Centre is part of the WAVE Network which is Europe's largest association of women's NGOs combating violence against women.
European Women’s Lobby
www.womenlobby.org
The European Women's Lobby (EWL) is the largest coordinating body of national and European non-governmental women's organisations in the European Union, with over 3000 member associations in the 15 Member States. The EWL's goal is to achieve equality of women and men in Europe and to serve as a link between political decision-makers and women's organisations at EU level.
EWL Policy Action Centre on Violence Against Women www.womenlobby.org/Document.asp?DocID=46&tod=17045
In 1997, the first ever European Policy Action Centre on Violence Against Women was established to provide a forum for women’s NGOs to enable them to take a leadership role in engaging policy and decision-makers to take responsibility for violence against women.
IPPF European Network
www.ippfen.org
The IPPF European Network (IPPF EN) is one of six regions of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), the world's largest voluntary organisation in the field of sexual and reproductive health and rights, founded in Bombay in 1952. The IPPF European Network has Member Associations in 39 countries and is active in several more throughout Europe and Central Asia.
Rape Crisis Network Europe
www.rcne.com/
The aim of the Rape Crisis Network Europe is to support members and survivors through: counselling legal and support services in over 30 countries, providing an Europe-wide data collection and research, providing training for volunteers, workers and professionals, influencing curriculum development through educators and policymakers, lobbying for change in legal provisions, service standards, funding and resources and international linking for action through support and pressure.
Women Against Violence in Europe
www.wave-network.org/
WAVE is a network of European women's non-governmental organisations working in the field of combating violence against women and children (women's refuges, counselling centers, SOS hotlines/helplines, organisations focusing on prevention and training, etc.). Currently the network focuses specifically on violence in the family and in intimate relationships.
National
Belgium
Anti Trafficking Centrewww.atc.org.yu
The association "Anti Trafficking Center"(ATC) is a citizens' association whose mission is to promote universal human rights in Serbia and Montenegro and the region, with a special emphasis on the CAUSES of the problem of trafficking in human beings, such as gender-based violence, poverty, unemployment, and the lack of suitable opportunities.
Garance
www.garance.be
Garance is a non-profit organisation which aims at enabling women and girls to self-defense in all every day life situations.
Women's Issues Information Centre (WIIC)
www.lygus.lt
The Women's Issues Information Centre (WIIC) is the national information service in Lithuania on the position of women and it is the focal point for national and international exchange of information in Lithuania. The WIIC is a registered NGO established to promote equal rights. It also assists women's NGOs and individuals by providing information, publications, etc.
France
Le Bus des Femmeswww.busdesfemmes.free.fr
This association works directly with women victims of prostitution to help them living in dignity and access to social rights. Le Bus des Femmes also works on prevention of human trafficking.
Groupe Femmes pour l'Abolition des Mutilations Sexuelles (GAMS)
www.perso.wanadoo.fr/..associationgams
GAMS put together African and French experts to fight against female genital mutilations.
Le Mouvement du Nid
www.mouvementdunid.org/default.html
This movement fights against prostitution and helps prostitutes to escape prostitution.
Ni Putes Ni Soumises
www.niputesnisoumises.com/html/index.php
Ni Putes Ni Soumises is a mixed and grass roots movement created after the Women's March against ghettos and for equality which took place throughout France between the 1st of February and the 8th of March.
SOS Femmes Accueil
www.sosfemmes.com
SOS Femmes Accueil is a refuge center for women in need and/or victims of violence.
Unité de Reflexion et d'Action des Communautés Africaines (URACA)
http://www.uraca.org/
URACA's work focuses on the global health and social prevention in relation with the defense of African cultures.
Germany
BAF (Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft autonomer Frauennotrufe)www.frauennotrufe.de
Frauennotruf is a service provider for women victims of violence.
baKum
www.bakum-sv.de
baKum is an institution for self-defense which provides a wide range of courses and workshops in Berlin.
Ban Ying
www.ban-ying.de
Ban Ying is Thai for "house of women". The organization was founded in 1988 and now comprises two projects, a shelter and a coordination center for women from Southeast Asia.
BIG
www.big-interventionszentrale.de
The Berliner Interventionszentrale bei häuslicher Gewalt works at the structural and political level to develop and improve measures and strategies against domestic violence against women and their children.
Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Feministischer Projekte gegen sexuelle Gewalt an Maedchen und Frauen e.V.
www.bag-forsa.de/en/index.htm
BAG FORSA a German association of feminist projects opposing sexual violence against girls and women, is a trans-regional network representing the interests of associations throughout Germany that are committed to ending sexual violence against girls and women.
Luxembourg
Femmes en Détressewww.fed.lu/
Femmes en Détresse offers women and their children protection against men's violence.
Mouvement Luxembourgeois pour le Planning Familial et l'Education Sexuelle
www.ippfen.org/site.html?page=9&lang=en#85
The MLPFES promotes sexual and reproductive health and rights through medical and psychological consultations and information on sexuality in all its forms for everybody. MLPFES conducts advocacy and provides services for women and girls who have experienced violence.
United Kingdom
CWASUwww.cwasu.org
The Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit was founded in 1987 to develop feminist research methodologies, theory and practice, especially in relation to connections between forms of sexualised violence. CWASU now has a national and international reputation for its research, training and consultancy work, which involves a creative combination of large and small scale research projects, training, policy development and networking, bridging the worlds of academia, policy, practice and activism.
Foundation for Women's Health, Research and Development
www.forwarduk.org.uk
FORWARD is an international non-governmental organisation dedicated to improving the health and well-being of African women and girls wherever they reside. FORWARD promotes action to stop harmful traditional practices such as female genital mutilation (FGM) and early and forced marriages, which violate the human rights of women and girls and adversely affects their health and well-being.
Greater London Domestic Violence Project
www.gldvp.org.uk
GLDVP (part of London Action Trust) works to increase safety for survivors of domestic violence, and to hold abusers accountable for their behaviour by providing second-tier support and promoting joint working between direct service providers.
International Planned Parenthood Federation
www.ippf.org/index.asp
International Planned Parenthood Federation is the world's largest voluntary organisation working to promote sexual and reproductive health and rights in over 180 countries. IPPF fights to reduce maternal deaths, help young people protect themselves from unwanted pregnancies and HIV/AIDS and provides family planning services in areas of need. Ensuring that women and girls live free from all forms of violence is crucial to ensure their sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Justice for Women
www.jfw.org.uk/
Justice For Women is a feminist organisation that campaigns and supports women who have fought back against or killed violent male partners.
Newham Asian Women's Project
www.nawp.org
NAWP provides advice and support for Asian women and children experiencing domestic violence.
Tender
www.tender.org.uk
Tender is a venture promoting non-violence in relationships. It aims to reduce the level of domestic violence, wherever and whenever it may happen, by raising awareness through cultural events and educational projects.
Truth about Rape campaign
www.truthaboutrape.co.uk
The TAR campaign aims to challenge myths about rape, and bring the truth and realities of rape back onto the public agenda. Since the launch in November 2002 we been responsible for providing critical comment on a number of media related issues on rape.
Women's Aid
www.womensaid.org.uk
Women's Aid Federation of England (Women's Aid) is the national charity working to end domestic violence against women and children. Its mission is to advocate for abused women and children and to ensure their safety.
Cultural organisations and initiatives by, for and with women
Commercial productions of The Vagina Monologues
United KingdomMonologues Ltd
www.vaginamonologues.co.uk/main.htm
Publishers of The Vagina Monologues
English: Virago Presswww.virago.co.uk/
German:
Play: S-Fischer Verlag
www.fischerverlage.de/
Book: Nautilus
www.edition-nautilus.de/
Other interesting organisations
C.A.U.S.E. (Coalition of Artists United for Social Engagement)www.the-cause.org
C.A.U.S.E. is a Europe based CSO (Civil Society Organisation) founded by the Belgian-Philippine artist Gino d'Artali and aiming at creating awareness about violence towards women and children. This through "FacingFaces", an ongoing nomadic-organic art- and poetry project, established in 2001 and since traveling the world. The art- and poetry collection is also available to support theme related activities and events organised by third parties.
Intercultural women's music festival (Germany)
www.frauenmusikfestival.de
This is an intercultural women's music festival located in Hunsrück, Germany.
Ladyfest Europe
www.ladyfesteurope.org
Ladyfests are non-profit events organised mainly by women; they aims to showcase the talents of female artists and performers. The events are focused mainly on encouraging the talent of women and girls, but are open to everyone. Its roots are in the underground scene.
Moonday(Belgium)
www.moonday.org
Moonday is an association which aim is to promote women's creativity in very different areas such as dance, music, graphics, etc.
PeriHelion
www.perihelion.bravehost.com
The aim of the group is to produce multidisciplinary and multicultural art in Finland and abroad. At the moment, PeriHelion consists of a theatre group and a writing club.
With the support of the