Advocacy
The devil whispered in our ear, “You’re not strong enough to stand the storm”
Today we whispered in his ear, “We ARE the storm”.
– Unknown
Choose a region: North America | Latin America & The Caribbean | South America | Europe | Africa | Asia | Oceania
North America
Founded in 1937, Plan International is a development and humanitarian organization that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. Plan International has a bold new ambition to work with 100 million girls to transform their lives. Girls Get Equal is their global campaign demanding power, freedom and representation for girls and young women. The Activist Hub has inspiration, resources, and tools for campaigners. Share Your Power allows you to stand in solidarity with girls across the globe in the pursuit of gender equality.
Equality Now uses the law to protect and promote the human rights of women and girls around the world. With partners and supporters in nearly every country in the world, and staff in New York, London, Nairobi, Amman and Washington, D.C., Equality Now advocates locally, nationally and internationally to advance Legal Equality and Justice for Girls, and to End Sex Trafficking, Sexual Violence and Harmful Practices, including female genital mutilation (FGM) and child marriage. The Equality Now website has worldwide data, and numerous resources for education and advocacy, including clear and detailed fact sheets that can be cited as references when working with lawmakers.
RALIANCE is a national partnership dedicated to ending sexual violence in one generation to improve cultures and create environments free from sexual harassment, misconduct and abuse. RALIANCE helps leaders establish safe workplaces and strong communities by advancing research, influencing policy, and supporting innovative programs with resources from three leading national sexual violence prevention organizations into a single, unified force. As part of The Learning Exchange, their Sport and Prevention Center offers research and resources to support the belief that sport culture is uniquely positioned to set norms and standards that can create conditions in which sexual violence is not accepted.
The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women is one of the oldest international organizations working to end the trafficking and sexual exploitation of women and girls. Through an approach rooted in women’s rights and human rights principles, CATW advocates for strong laws and policies, raises public awareness and supports survivor leadership.
The UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women, managed by UN Women on behalf of the UN system, is the only global grant-making mechanism dedicated to eradicating all forms of violence against women and girls. Since its establishment in 1996 by UN General Assembly resolution 50/166, the UN Trust Fund has awarded USD 198 million to 609 initiatives in 140 countries and territories. Focusing on preventing violence, implementing laws and policies, and improving access to vital services for survivors, the UN Trust Fund invests in life-changing initiatives. The UN Trust Fund is committed to advocating for adequate, sustainable funding for efforts to end violence against women and girls, and funding organizations that are operating at the grassroots level, focused on women’s rights, and that are women-led.
Women for Women International is a multi-faceted organization that serves hundreds of thousands of women by providing skills, knowledge, and resources that create sustainable change for them, their families, and their communities. GGWW is particularly enthusiastic about Women for Women International because of their holistic and empowering approach that addresses the social and economic barriers to equality, gender-based violence and its increased incidence in conflict affected areas, and the extreme distress of women in poverty. GGWW and Women for Women International are aligned in the belief that strong women make strong nations.
The Joyful Heart Foundation is a leading national organization with a mission to transform society’s response to sexual assault, domestic violence, and child abuse, and support survivors’ healing. Joyful Heart carries out its mission through an integrated program portfolio of education and advocacy, paving the way for innovative approaches to treating trauma; igniting shifts in the way the public views and responds to sexual assault, domestic violence, and child abuse; and reforming and advancing policies and legislation to ensure access to justice for survivors.
End Violence Against Women International (EVAWI) advocates for victims and trains law enforcement personnel to better serve women who have been assaulted. EVAWI created the Start By Believing Campaign that is listed on GGWW’s Get Involved page .
Champion Women leads targeted efforts to aggressively advocate for equality, accountability, and transparency. Sports are an important opportunity for girls, but the lack of response to reports about predators like Larry Nassar and others has been profoundly negligent and damaging for thousands of athletes. Champion Women seeks to fearlessly address powerful and influential educational and athletic institutions that have fallen short in addressing critical gender equity issues.
Nobel Women’s Initiative uses the prestige of the Nobel Peace Prize and six courageous women peace laureates – Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Jody Williams, Shirin Ebadi, Tawakkol Karman, Leymah Gbowee, and Mangari Waathai – to magnify the power and visibility of women working in countries around the world for peace, justice and equality. It is their mission to use the visibility and prestige of the Nobel Prize to spotlight, amplify and promote the work of grassroots women’s organizations and movements around the world. 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence is a global annual campaign that brings attention to gender violence and highlights the work of activists all over the world. Every year, each day from November 25th to December 10th, Nobel Women’s Initiative highlights 16 grassroots women activists and peacebuilders working for peace, justice and equality.
Women Political Leaders is the global network of female politicians. The mission of WPL is to increase both the number and the influence of women in political leadership positions. WPL is an independent, international, post-partisan and not-for-profit foundation based in Reykjavik, Iceland – the world champion of gender equality.
Deliver for Good is an evidence based global campaign that applies a gender lens to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and promotes critical investments in girls and women to power progress for all. With a network of more than 500 supporting organizations, the Deliver for Good Campaign mobilizes advocates and decision-makers across sectors, issue areas, and generations to redefine the narrative around girls and women — from being described as victims and vulnerable, to being seen as powerful agents of change and critical drivers of progress.
The Association for Women’s Rights and Development is a global, feminist, membership, movement-support organization working to achieve gender justice and women’s human rights worldwide. AWID’s initiatives work to advance universal rights and justice, build feminist economies, and resource feminist movements.
Seneca Women is a global leadership platform and media company centered on the principle that advancing women and girls will fast forward us to a more equitable and prosperous world. Seneca Women focuses on driving impactful media and thought leadership, including at institutions such as the World Economic Forum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the World Bank, the U.S. State Department and the United Nations.
Every Mother Counts works to achieve quality, respectful, and equitable maternity care for all. By partnering with local organizations that serve historically marginalized communities, Every Mother Counts helps to deliver high-impact, low-cost solutions to improve maternal health outcomes.
Freedom Network USA is the nation’s largest coalition working to ensure that trafficked persons have access to justice, safety, and opportunity. FN USA is comprised of trafficking survivors, legal and social service providers, researchers, advocacy organizations, and expert consultants. Freedom Network USA influences policy, provides training and technical assistance, and increases the capacity of members and allies.
The Georgetown Law Center’s Initiative on Gender Justice and Opportunity focuses on supporting low-income girls and girls of color. The Initiative’s work identifies barriers to girls’ health and well-being, elevates girls’ unique assets and needs, and develops solutions to better support girls in our public systems: schools, healthcare, and juvenile justice.
The United State of Women is a national organization dedicated to convening, connecting, and amplifying voices in the fight for full gender equity. As a community for all women, gender nonconforming people, and allies who believe in full gender equity and want to work collectively to achieve it, USOW convenes organizations, advocates, organizers, and communities across the gender equity movement to raise collective voices.
The National Alliance to End Sexual Violence is the voice in Washington for the 56 state and territorial sexual assault coalitions and 1300 rape crisis centers working to end sexual assault and support survivors. NAESV educates the policy community about federal laws, legislation and appropriations impacting the fight to end sexual violence. Its team of experts and advocates, donating time away from their state and local groups, publish written analysis, track legislation, provide media interviews, and advise members of Congress and the executive branch.
The Guerilla Girls are feminist activist artist using facts, humor, and outrageous visuals to expose gender and ethnic bias as well as corruption in politics, art, film, and pop culture. Guerilla Girls’ anonymity keeps the focus on the issues, believing in an intersectional feminism that fights discrimination and supports human rights for all people, and undermining the idea of a mainstream narrative by revealing the understory, the subtext, and the overlooked.
Zonta International envisions a world in which women’s rights are recognized as human rights and every woman is able to achieve her full potential. In such a world, women have access to all resources and are represented in decision making positions on an equal basis with men. In such a world, no woman lives in fear of violence. Zonta International is a global organization of professionals empowering women worldwide through service and advocacy in gender equality, GBV, and child marriage.
Women’s International Peace Centre seeks to restore hope and renew the spirits of conflict-affected women by documenting women’s specific realities, advocating for gender-responsive policies and programs, strengthening women’s leadership skills and building networks for women’s substantive participation in local, national and regional peace and post-conflict recovery processes. Progressive impact in parts of Africa, South East Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe has been achieved through work with local partners and women leaders to advance peaceful conflict resolution, peace building and post-conflict reconstruction.
Womankind Worldwide is a feminist women’s rights organization working in solidarity and partnership with women’s organizations around the world for a just world where the rights of all women are respected, valued, and realized. Womankind’s theory of change charts a course toward an end to all forms of violence against women and girls, equal access to economic rights and control over resources, and equal influence in decision making and ability to exercise political power.
Equal Rights Advocates fights for gender justice in workplaces and schools across the United States. ERA is building a world of true gender justice, by enforcing civil rights laws in court, fighting to end sexual violence in schools and workplaces, providing free legal advice and counseling to those who need it, and partnering with other advocacy organizations.
Women Moving Millions is a community of individuals giving $1 million or more to resource women and girls, elevating the power of women’s philanthropy to accelerate progress toward gender equality. WMM’s mission is to catalyze unprecedented resources for the advancement of women and girls, collectively having made commitments of nearly $800 million and is using the power of its voice and influence to inspire others to invest with a gender lens.
#NotInMyCity is a facilitative organization working to disrupt human trafficking by raising awareness, creating a platform for collective action, and mobilizing communities. #NotInMyCity’s work is guided by five strategic directions based on extensive engagement and consultation with local and national (Canada) stakeholders: empowering individuals, building community awareness and action, addressing unique needs of vulnerable groups, advancing leading practice, and supporting high risk youth.
Global Fund for Women envisions a world where movements for gender justice transform power and privilege for a few into equity and equality for all and funds bold, ambitious, and expansive gender justice movements to create meaningful and lasting change. Over the course of 30+ years, Global Fund for Women has supported feminist movements and grassroots organizers to end civil wars, get female Presidents elected, and secure laws giving new protection to millions.
Equality Fund is a Canadian-based organization working with a collective of partners to build a new model for sustainable investment in feminist movements globally. Equality Fund reaches across sectors, borders, and industries to ensure that meaningful resources and power flow to women’s rights organizations and feminist movements everywhere.
The Army of Survivors is the only national organization advocating for and supporting child athlete survivors of sexual violence. Created by a group of more than 40 survivors of sexual violence, the Army of Survivors’ goal is to end sexual assault against young athletes by ensuring perpetrators and enablers are held accountable, creating transparency in reporting, building an environment in which athletes do not fear retaliation when reporting abuse, and advocating for change to protect survivors.
The Equality Institute is a global feminist agency working to end violence against women and girls. Through the power of partnership, and with relationships across multiple sectors and diverse institutions, the EQI builds bridges and promotes collaboration in the field. EQI promotes research and learning, offers creative communications services, and shapes policy through strategic engagement and advocacy.
Latin America & The Caribbean
Girls Not Brides is a global partnership of more than 1500 civil society organisations from over 100 countries committed to ending child marriage and enabling girls to fulfill their potential. With its partners, Girls Not Brides collaborates to prevent child marriage and support girls who are, or have ever been married, raise awareness of the harmful impact of child marriage, mobilize all necessary policy, financial and other support to end child marriage.
https://www.girlsnotbrides.org/
Human Rights Watch opposes all marriage of children under the age of 18, without exception, because of the devastating consequences for children who marry, the vast majority of whom are girls. HRW investigates and reports on abuses happening in all corners of the world and directs advocacy towards governments, pushing them to change or enforce their laws, policies, and practices. HRW advocates for girls’ and women’s rights as human rights.
https://www.hrw.org/topic/womens-rights/child-marriage
Pro Mujer is a social enterprise in Latin America working to advance gender equality by focusing on health and well-being, financial inclusion, and skilling opportunities. In addition to its New York headquarters, Pro Mujer has offices in Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Bolivia, and Argentina.
Comisión Nacional de los Derechos México is an institution fighting for women’s rights as human rights by providing reports, conducting trainings, and collaborating internationally to disseminate rights. They advocate for three principles: gender equality, no discrimination, and no violence against women.
Centro por la Justicia y el Derecho Internacional (CEJIL) released the joint statement, “Coalition of Human Rights Organizations of the Americas.” They support democratic institutions and the impact on human rights in OAS member countries and aim to protect the human rights defenders (HRDs) in various countries, including Venezuela, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, Peru, and Ecuador, particularly those defending the environment, sexual and reproductive rights, women, children and youth, LGBTTTIQA+ individuals, and are committed to an Inter-American system. CEJIL works with feminist and women’s rights organizations to address the structural discrimination and violence faced by women.
https://cejil.org/en/press-releases/coalition-of-human-rights-organizations-of-the-americas/
Consenso de Montevideo sobre Población y Desarrollo is a regional monitoring program established by the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean. It follows population dynamics and sustainable development with equality and a rights-based approach, tracking topics like gender equality, adolescents, and sexual and reproductive health.
Alianza Intersectorial para Adolescentes y Jóvenes de El Salvador promotes actions to guarantee a comprehensive approach to the health of the next generation through a unified and intersectoral effort.
Red Latinoamericana de Mujeres Defensoras de Derechos Sociales y Ambientales serve the feminist mining territories of Anya Yala women in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay. They aim to expand South American alliances and resistance by influencing policies, projects, and practices that contribute to the defense of the rights of our people, nature, and human rights, as well as social rights violated by extractive mining projects that directly affect women.
Fòs Feminista is an intersectional feminist organization centered around the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women, girls, and gender-diverse people. They engage in healthcare, education, and advocacy around the world, including providing sexual and reproductive health services and implementing community-based strategies to improve accessibility to marginalized women and girls in Latin America and the Caribbean. They engage in comprehensive sexuality education and provide care to survivors of gender-based violence.
Red de Salud de las Mujeres Latinoamericanas y del Caribe (RSMLAC) is an organization supporting the Free Citizenships program; justice in comprehensive health, sexual health, and reproductive health; and body autonomy in terms of sexual and reproductive rights of all women in Latin America and the Caribbean. They fight against any discrimination, oppression, subordination or violence based on reasons of their age, due to their cultural identity (race/ethnicity), disability, race, sexual orientation, gender expression and identity, religious option, politics, socio-economic situation and geographical location.
Movimiento Amplio de Mujeres de Puerto Rico (MAMPR) is a feminist coalition advocating for the participation of women in the political sphere. They propose affirmative policies to advance the recognition of women as human beings and increase decision-making.
South America
Founded in 1937, Plan International is a development and humanitarian organization that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. Plan International has a bold new ambition to work with 100 million girls to transform their lives. Girls Get Equal is their global campaign demanding power, freedom and representation for girls and young women. The Activist Hub has inspiration, resources, and tools for campaigners. Share Your Power allows you to stand in solidarity with girls across the globe in the pursuit of gender equality.
Equality Now uses the law to protect and promote the human rights of women and girls around the world. With partners and supporters in nearly every country in the world, and staff in New York, London, Nairobi, Amman and Washington, D.C., Equality Now advocates locally, nationally and internationally to advance Legal Equality and Justice for Girls, and to End Sex Trafficking, Sexual Violence and Harmful Practices, including female genital mutilation (FGM) and child marriage. The Equality Now website has worldwide data, and numerous resources for education and advocacy, including clear and detailed fact sheets that can be cited as references when working with lawmakers.
The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women is one of the oldest international organizations working to end the trafficking and sexual exploitation of women and girls. Through an approach rooted in women’s rights and human rights principles, CATW advocates for strong laws and policies, raises public awareness and supports survivor leadership.
The UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women, managed by UN Women on behalf of the UN system, is the only global grant-making mechanism dedicated to eradicating all forms of violence against women and girls. Since its establishment in 1996 by UN General Assembly resolution 50/166, the UN Trust Fund has awarded USD 198 million to 609 initiatives in 140 countries and territories. Focusing on preventing violence, implementing laws and policies, and improving access to vital services for survivors, the UN Trust Fund invests in life-changing initiatives. The UN Trust Fund is committed to advocating for adequate, sustainable funding for efforts to end violence against women and girls, and funding organizations that are operating at the grassroots level, focused on women’s rights, and that are women-led.
Women for Women International is a multi-faceted organization that serves hundreds of thousands of women by providing skills, knowledge, and resources that create sustainable change for them, their families, and their communities. GGWW is particularly enthusiastic about Women for Women International because of their holistic and empowering approach that addresses the social and economic barriers to equality, gender-based violence and its increased incidence in conflict affected areas, and the extreme distress of women in poverty. GGWW and Women for Women International are aligned in the belief that strong women make strong nations.
Nobel Women’s Initiative uses the prestige of the Nobel Peace Prize and six courageous women peace laureates – Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Jody Williams, Shirin Ebadi, Tawakkol Karman, Leymah Gbowee, and Mangari Waathai – to magnify the power and visibility of women working in countries around the world for peace, justice and equality. It is their mission to use the visibility and prestige of the Nobel Prize to spotlight, amplify and promote the work of grassroots women’s organizations and movements around the world. 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence is a global annual campaign that brings attention to gender violence and highlights the work of activists all over the world. Every year, each day from November 25th to December 10th, Nobel Women’s Initiative highlights 16 grassroots women activists and peacebuilders working for peace, justice and equality.
Women Political Leaders is the global network of female politicians. The mission of WPL is to increase both the number and the influence of women in political leadership positions. WPL is an independent, international, post-partisan and not-for-profit foundation based in Reykjavik, Iceland – the world champion of gender equality.
Deliver for Good is an evidence based global campaign that applies a gender lens to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and promotes critical investments in girls and women to power progress for all. With a network of more than 500 supporting organizations, the Deliver for Good Campaign mobilizes advocates and decision-makers across sectors, issue areas, and generations to redefine the narrative around girls and women — from being described as victims and vulnerable, to being seen as powerful agents of change and critical drivers of progress.
The Association for Women’s Rights and Development is a global, feminist, membership, movement-support organization working to achieve gender justice and women’s human rights worldwide. AWID’s initiatives work to advance universal rights and justice, build feminist economies, and resource feminist movements.
Seneca Women is a global leadership platform and media company centered on the principle that advancing women and girls will fast forward us to a more equitable and prosperous world. Seneca Women focuses on driving impactful media and thought leadership, including at institutions such as the World Economic Forum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the World Bank, the U.S. State Department and the United Nations.
Every Mother Counts works to achieve quality, respectful, and equitable maternity care for all. By partnering with local organizations that serve historically marginalized communities, Every Mother Counts helps to deliver high-impact, low-cost solutions to improve maternal health outcomes.
Zonta International envisions a world in which women’s rights are recognized as human rights and every woman is able to achieve her full potential. In such a world, women have access to all resources and are represented in decision making positions on an equal basis with men. In such a world, no woman lives in fear of violence. Zonta International is a global organization of professionals empowering women worldwide through service and advocacy in gender equality, GBV, and child marriage.
Women’s International Peace Centre seeks to restore hope and renew the spirits of conflict-affected women by documenting women’s specific realities, advocating for gender-responsive policies and programs, strengthening women’s leadership skills and building networks for women’s substantive participation in local, national and regional peace and post-conflict recovery processes. Progressive impact in parts of Africa, South East Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe has been achieved through work with local partners and women leaders to advance peaceful conflict resolution, peace building and post-conflict reconstruction.
Womankind Worldwide is a feminist women’s rights organization working in solidarity and partnership with women’s organizations around the world for a just world where the rights of all women are respected, valued, and realized. Womankind’s theory of change charts a course toward an end to all forms of violence against women and girls, equal access to economic rights and control over resources, and equal influence in decision making and ability to exercise political power.
Global Fund for Women envisions a world where movements for gender justice transform power and privilege for a few into equity and equality for all and funds bold, ambitious, and expansive gender justice movements to create meaningful and lasting change. Over the course of 30+ years, Global Fund for Women has supported feminist movements and grassroots organizers to end civil wars, get female Presidents elected, and secure laws giving new protection to millions.
Equality Fund is a Canadian-based organization working with a collective of partners to build a new model for sustainable investment in feminist movements globally. Equality Fund reaches across sectors, borders, and industries to ensure that meaningful resources and power flow to women’s rights organizations and feminist movements everywhere.
The Equality Institute is a global feminist agency working to end violence against women and girls. Through the power of partnership, and with relationships across multiple sectors and diverse institutions, the EQI builds bridges and promotes collaboration in the field. EQI promotes research and learning, offers creative communications services, and shapes policy through strategic engagement and advocacy.
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom uses advocacy as a tool to create concrete changes in practices, policies, laws, norms, programmes and systems for durable peace. Advocacy work focuses on governments and the United Nations to stop violence and work to abolish the causes of war, and working with others including non-state actors and civil society. WILPF undertakes nonviolent activism around the world from campaigns to protests, from peace art to political rallies.
The Prevention Collaborative is a global network of practitioners, activists, and researchers working to better equip ourselves and others with the vision, knowledge, and skills necessary to end violence against women and their children worldwide. The Prevention Collaborative serves as a resource and ally to women’s rights organizations, civil society groups, International NGOs, donors, and governments – strengthening their ability to deliver cutting edge prevention programs informed by research base evidence, practice-based knowledge, and feminist principles.
The International Civil Society Action Network promotes inclusive and sustainable peace in countries affected by violent conflict, extremism, militarism, and closing political space. Recognizing the gendered impact of conflict and the critical role of women peacebuilders, ICAN fulfills its mission through a dual strategy of shaping and influencing the peace and security policies of governments, and sustaining and strengthening a global movement of innovative locally rooted women peacebuilders to have voice and influence wherever matters of peace, violent conflict, rights, and human security are determined. ICAN brings the word and spirit of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 and the global women, peace and security agenda to life.
The Global Network of Women Peacebuilders builds equal, resilient and peaceful communities. GNWP is a coalition of over 100 women’s rights organizations from over 40 countries around the world experiencing humanitarian crises or conflict. By elevating the voices of local women leaders and helping young women and girls reach their full potential through education, GNWP works to ensure that women leaders get a seat at the table and have resources, knowledge, and skills to effectively lead response in their communities.
Every Woman Treaty is a campaign for a global treaty to end violence against women and girls. As a diverse coalition of more than 1,700 women’s rights advocates, including 840 organizations, in 128 countries working for a safer world for women and girls worldwide, Every Woman Treaty has drafted and calls on UN Member Nations to ratify an international agreement.
The Gender Security Project is a digital platform with a focus on gender, security, justice, and peace through research, reportage, and documentation. Operating from The Global South, the initiative aims at centering voices, scholarship, research, and reportage from the global south within the contexts of the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda and Feminist Foreign Policy.
Women7 (W7) is a group of civil society organizations that come together to promote proposals on gender equality and women’s rights within the G7 process. Building on feminist principles of intersectionality and inclusion, W7 aims to bring together voices from civil society around the world to critically reflect on and inform G7 outcomes. Its objective is to ensure that G7 leaders make concrete political and financial commitments that can have a tangible, lasting and transformative impact on the lives of women and girls in all their diversity. Women7 hosts rotate on an annual basis along with the G7 presidencies.
Centro de Promoción y Defensa de los Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos (PROMSEX) is a Peruvian feminist NGO advocating for sexual and reproductive rights in Latin America. They provide resources about adolescent health, sexual diversity, sexual violence, abortion, undesired pregnancy, human trafficking for sexual exploitation, and obstetric violence. They are also fighting for equitable education for girls. Through political advocacy, knowledge generation, and alliances, they aim to help people decide about their sexuality and reproduction with autonomy, dignity, justice, and equality.
Girls Not Brides is a global partnership of more than 1500 civil society organisations from over 100 countries committed to ending child marriage and enabling girls to fulfill their potential. With its partners, Girls Not Brides collaborates to prevent child marriage and support girls who are, or have ever been married, raise awareness of the harmful impact of child marriage, mobilize all necessary policy, financial and other support to end child marriage.
https://www.girlsnotbrides.org/
Human Rights Watch opposes all marriage of children under the age of 18, without exception, because of the devastating consequences for children who marry, the vast majority of whom are girls. HRW investigates and reports on abuses happening in all corners of the world and directs advocacy towards governments, pushing them to change or enforce their laws, policies, and practices. HRW advocates for girls’ and women’s rights as human rights.
https://www.hrw.org/topic/womens-rights/child-marriage
WOLA is a leading international research and advocacy organization advancing human rights in the Americas. They aim to promote public policies that protect human rights, recognize human dignity, and empower justice to overcome violence. WOLA tackles problems that transcend borders and demand cross-border solutions.
Colombia Peace is a non-governmental advocacy group for human rights in the Americas that specifically monitors progress in peace dialogues in Colombia. They promote women’s leadership and action to end gender-based violence.
Servicio Nacional de la Mujer y la Equidad de Género (SernamEG) is the organization that executes the policies, plans, and programs entrusted to it by the Chilean Ministry of Women and Gender Equality. They aim to strengthen women's autonomy and ensure the full exercise of rights of women's diversities through the implementation and execution of formal and substantive Equality Programs of rights, considering the territorial approach and intersectionality.
Europe
Founded in 1937, Plan International is a development and humanitarian organization that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. Plan International has a bold new ambition to work with 100 million girls to transform their lives. Girls Get Equal is their global campaign demanding power, freedom and representation for girls and young women. The Activist Hub has inspiration, resources, and tools for campaigners. Share Your Power allows you to stand in solidarity with girls across the globe in the pursuit of gender equality.
Equality Now uses the law to protect and promote the human rights of women and girls around the world. With partners and supporters in nearly every country in the world, and staff in New York, London, Nairobi, Amman and Washington, D.C., Equality Now advocates locally, nationally and internationally to advance Legal Equality and Justice for Girls, and to End Sex Trafficking, Sexual Violence and Harmful Practices, including female genital mutilation (FGM) and child marriage. The Equality Now website has worldwide data, and numerous resources for education and advocacy, including clear and detailed fact sheets that can be cited as references when working with lawmakers.
The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women is one of the oldest international organizations working to end the trafficking and sexual exploitation of women and girls. Through an approach rooted in women’s rights and human rights principles, CATW advocates for strong laws and policies, raises public awareness and supports survivor leadership.
The UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women, managed by UN Women on behalf of the UN system, is the only global grant-making mechanism dedicated to eradicating all forms of violence against women and girls. Since its establishment in 1996 by UN General Assembly resolution 50/166, the UN Trust Fund has awarded USD 198 million to 609 initiatives in 140 countries and territories. Focusing on preventing violence, implementing laws and policies, and improving access to vital services for survivors, the UN Trust Fund invests in life-changing initiatives. The UN Trust Fund is committed to advocating for adequate, sustainable funding for efforts to end violence against women and girls, and funding organizations that are operating at the grassroots level, focused on women’s rights, and that are women-led.
Women for Women International is a multi-faceted organization that serves hundreds of thousands of women by providing skills, knowledge, and resources that create sustainable change for them, their families, and their communities. GGWW is particularly enthusiastic about Women for Women International because of their holistic and empowering approach that addresses the social and economic barriers to equality, gender-based violence and its increased incidence in conflict affected areas, and the extreme distress of women in poverty. GGWW and Women for Women International are aligned in the belief that strong women make strong nations.
Nobel Women’s Initiative uses the prestige of the Nobel Peace Prize and six courageous women peace laureates – Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Jody Williams, Shirin Ebadi, Tawakkol Karman, Leymah Gbowee, and Mangari Waathai – to magnify the power and visibility of women working in countries around the world for peace, justice and equality. It is their mission to use the visibility and prestige of the Nobel Prize to spotlight, amplify and promote the work of grassroots women’s organizations and movements around the world. 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence is a global annual campaign that brings attention to gender violence and highlights the work of activists all over the world. Every year, each day from November 25th to December 10th, Nobel Women’s Initiative highlights 16 grassroots women activists and peacebuilders working for peace, justice and equality.
Women Political Leaders is the global network of female politicians. The mission of WPL is to increase both the number and the influence of women in political leadership positions. WPL is an independent, international, post-partisan and not-for-profit foundation based in Reykjavik, Iceland – the world champion of gender equality.
Deliver for Good is an evidence based global campaign that applies a gender lens to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and promotes critical investments in girls and women to power progress for all. With a network of more than 500 supporting organizations, the Deliver for Good Campaign mobilizes advocates and decision-makers across sectors, issue areas, and generations to redefine the narrative around girls and women — from being described as victims and vulnerable, to being seen as powerful agents of change and critical drivers of progress.
The Association for Women’s Rights and Development is a global, feminist, membership, movement-support organization working to achieve gender justice and women’s human rights worldwide. AWID’s initiatives work to advance universal rights and justice, build feminist economies, and resource feminist movements.
Seneca Women is a global leadership platform and media company centered on the principle that advancing women and girls will fast forward us to a more equitable and prosperous world. Seneca Women focuses on driving impactful media and thought leadership, including at institutions such as the World Economic Forum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the World Bank, the U.S. State Department and the United Nations.
Every Mother Counts works to achieve quality, respectful, and equitable maternity care for all. By partnering with local organizations that serve historically marginalized communities, Every Mother Counts helps to deliver high-impact, low-cost solutions to improve maternal health outcomes.
Zonta International envisions a world in which women’s rights are recognized as human rights and every woman is able to achieve her full potential. In such a world, women have access to all resources and are represented in decision making positions on an equal basis with men. In such a world, no woman lives in fear of violence. Zonta International is a global organization of professionals empowering women worldwide through service and advocacy in gender equality, GBV, and child marriage.
Centre for Women’s Justice envisions a society in which all state institutions work effectively to eradicate male violence against women and girls. CWJ seeks to hold the state to account and challenge discrimination in the justice system by undertaking strategic litigation, raising awareness, and monitoring and challenging trends in policy, practice, and the law. CWJ brings together specialist lawyers, academics, and other specialists to ensure access to justice for victims of male violence across England and Wales.
Women’s International Peace Centre seeks to restore hope and renew the spirits of conflict-affected women by documenting women’s specific realities, advocating for gender-responsive policies and programs, strengthening women’s leadership skills and building networks for women’s substantive participation in local, national and regional peace and post-conflict recovery processes. Progressive impact in parts of Africa, South East Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe has been achieved through work with local partners and women leaders to advance peaceful conflict resolution, peace building and post-conflict reconstruction.
Womankind Worldwide is a feminist women’s rights organization working in solidarity and partnership with women’s organizations around the world for a just world where the rights of all women are respected, valued, and realized. Womankind’s theory of change charts a course toward an end to all forms of violence against women and girls, equal access to economic rights and control over resources, and equal influence in decision making and ability to exercise political power.
Gender Action for Peace and Security is the UK’s Women, Peace and Security civil society network. GAPS is an organization of 19 multi-mandate international NGOs, peacebuilding organizations, women’s rights organisations, and human rights organisations, holding the UK government to account on its international commitments to women and girls in conflict areas worldwide.
Global Fund for Women envisions a world where movements for gender justice transform power and privilege for a few into equity and equality for all and funds bold, ambitious, and expansive gender justice movements to create meaningful and lasting change. Over the course of 30+ years, Global Fund for Women has supported feminist movements and grassroots organizers to end civil wars, get female Presidents elected, and secure laws giving new protection to millions.
Equality Fund is a Canadian-based organization working with a collective of partners to build a new model for sustainable investment in feminist movements globally. Equality Fund reaches across sectors, borders, and industries to ensure that meaningful resources and power flow to women’s rights organizations and feminist movements everywhere.
The Equality Institute is a global feminist agency working to end violence against women and girls. Through the power of partnership, and with relationships across multiple sectors and diverse institutions, the EQI builds bridges and promotes collaboration in the field. EQI promotes research and learning, offers creative communications services, and shapes policy through strategic engagement and advocacy.
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom uses advocacy as a tool to create concrete changes in practices, policies, laws, norms, programmes and systems for durable peace. Advocacy work focuses on governments and the United Nations to stop violence and work to abolish the causes of war, and working with others including non-state actors and civil society. WILPF undertakes nonviolent activism around the world from campaigns to protests, from peace art to political rallies.
The Prevention Collaborative is a global network of practitioners, activists, and researchers working to better equip ourselves and others with the vision, knowledge, and skills necessary to end violence against women and their children worldwide. The Prevention Collaborative serves as a resource and ally to women’s rights organizations, civil society groups, International NGOs, donors, and governments – strengthening their ability to deliver cutting edge prevention programs informed by research base evidence, practice-based knowledge, and feminist principles.
The International Civil Society Action Network promotes inclusive and sustainable peace in countries affected by violent conflict, extremism, militarism, and closing political space. Recognizing the gendered impact of conflict and the critical role of women peacebuilders, ICAN fulfills its mission through a dual strategy of shaping and influencing the peace and security policies of governments, and sustaining and strengthening a global movement of innovative locally rooted women peacebuilders to have voice and influence wherever matters of peace, violent conflict, rights, and human security are determined. ICAN brings the word and spirit of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 and the global women, peace and security agenda to life.
The Global Network of Women Peacebuilders builds equal, resilient and peaceful communities. GNWP is a coalition of over 100 women’s rights organizations from over 40 countries around the world experiencing humanitarian crises or conflict. By elevating the voices of local women leaders and helping young women and girls reach their full potential through education, GNWP works to ensure that women leaders get a seat at the table and have resources, knowledge, and skills to effectively lead response in their communities.
The National Women’s Council is a national representative organization for women and women’s groups in Ireland, with the ambition of an Ireland where every woman enjoys true equality, and no woman is left behind. NWC is a movement-building organization rooted in its membership and is part of the international movement to protect and advance women’s and girls’ rights.
No More Rape Myths campaigns in the UK for responsible media coverage on the issue of sexual violence. The No More Rape Myth campaign directly and publicly challenges reporting that perpetuates myths or undermines survivors, and recognizes and promotes responsible reporting.
Every Woman Treaty is a campaign for a global treaty to end violence against women and girls. As a diverse coalition of more than 1,700 women’s rights advocates, including 840 organizations, in 128 countries working for a safer world for women and girls worldwide, Every Woman Treaty has drafted and calls on UN Member Nations to ratify an international agreement.
The Gender Security Project is a digital platform with a focus on gender, security, justice, and peace through research, reportage, and documentation. Operating from The Global South, the initiative aims at centering voices, scholarship, research, and reportage from the global south within the contexts of the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda and Feminist Foreign Policy.
Women7 (W7) is a group of civil society organizations that come together to promote proposals on gender equality and women’s rights within the G7 process. Building on feminist principles of intersectionality and inclusion, W7 aims to bring together voices from civil society around the world to critically reflect on and inform G7 outcomes. Its objective is to ensure that G7 leaders make concrete political and financial commitments that can have a tangible, lasting and transformative impact on the lives of women and girls in all their diversity. Women7 hosts rotate on an annual basis along with the G7 presidencies.
Girls Not Brides is a global partnership of more than 1500 civil society organisations from over 100 countries committed to ending child marriage and enabling girls to fulfill their potential. With its partners, Girls Not Brides collaborates to prevent child marriage and support girls who are, or have ever been married, raise awareness of the harmful impact of child marriage, mobilize all necessary policy, financial and other support to end child marriage.
https://www.girlsnotbrides.org/
Human Rights Watch opposes all marriage of children under the age of 18, without exception, because of the devastating consequences for children who marry, the vast majority of whom are girls. HRW investigates and reports on abuses happening in all corners of the world and directs advocacy towards governments, pushing them to change or enforce their laws, policies, and practices. HRW advocates for girls’ and women’s rights as human rights.
https://www.hrw.org/topic/womens-rights/child-marriage
Africa
Founded in 1937, Plan International is a development and humanitarian organization that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. Plan International has a bold new ambition to work with 100 million girls to transform their lives. Girls Get Equal is their global campaign demanding power, freedom and representation for girls and young women. The Activist Hub has inspiration, resources, and tools for campaigners. Share Your Power allows you to stand in solidarity with girls across the globe in the pursuit of gender equality.
Equality Now uses the law to protect and promote the human rights of women and girls around the world. With partners and supporters in nearly every country in the world, and staff in New York, London, Nairobi, Amman and Washington, D.C., Equality Now advocates locally, nationally and internationally to advance Legal Equality and Justice for Girls, and to End Sex Trafficking, Sexual Violence and Harmful Practices, including female genital mutilation (FGM) and child marriage. The Equality Now website has worldwide data, and numerous resources for education and advocacy, including clear and detailed fact sheets that can be cited as references when working with lawmakers.
The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women is one of the oldest international organizations working to end the trafficking and sexual exploitation of women and girls. Through an approach rooted in women’s rights and human rights principles, CATW advocates for strong laws and policies, raises public awareness and supports survivor leadership.
The UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women, managed by UN Women on behalf of the UN system, is the only global grant-making mechanism dedicated to eradicating all forms of violence against women and girls. Since its establishment in 1996 by UN General Assembly resolution 50/166, the UN Trust Fund has awarded USD 198 million to 609 initiatives in 140 countries and territories. Focusing on preventing violence, implementing laws and policies, and improving access to vital services for survivors, the UN Trust Fund invests in life-changing initiatives. The UN Trust Fund is committed to advocating for adequate, sustainable funding for efforts to end violence against women and girls, and funding organizations that are operating at the grassroots level, focused on women’s rights, and that are women-led.
Women for Women International is a multi-faceted organization that serves hundreds of thousands of women by providing skills, knowledge, and resources that create sustainable change for them, their families, and their communities. GGWW is particularly enthusiastic about Women for Women International because of their holistic and empowering approach that addresses the social and economic barriers to equality, gender-based violence and its increased incidence in conflict affected areas, and the extreme distress of women in poverty. GGWW and Women for Women International are aligned in the belief that strong women make strong nations.
Nobel Women’s Initiative uses the prestige of the Nobel Peace Prize and six courageous women peace laureates – Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Jody Williams, Shirin Ebadi, Tawakkol Karman, Leymah Gbowee, and Mangari Waathai – to magnify the power and visibility of women working in countries around the world for peace, justice and equality. It is their mission to use the visibility and prestige of the Nobel Prize to spotlight, amplify and promote the work of grassroots women’s organizations and movements around the world. 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence is a global annual campaign that brings attention to gender violence and highlights the work of activists all over the world. Every year, each day from November 25th to December 10th, Nobel Women’s Initiative highlights 16 grassroots women activists and peacebuilders working for peace, justice and equality.
Women Political Leaders is the global network of female politicians. The mission of WPL is to increase both the number and the influence of women in political leadership positions. WPL is an independent, international, post-partisan and not-for-profit foundation based in Reykjavik, Iceland – the world champion of gender equality.
Deliver for Good is an evidence based global campaign that applies a gender lens to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and promotes critical investments in girls and women to power progress for all. With a network of more than 500 supporting organizations, the Deliver for Good Campaign mobilizes advocates and decision-makers across sectors, issue areas, and generations to redefine the narrative around girls and women — from being described as victims and vulnerable, to being seen as powerful agents of change and critical drivers of progress.
The Association for Women’s Rights and Development is a global, feminist, membership, movement-support organization working to achieve gender justice and women’s human rights worldwide. AWID’s initiatives work to advance universal rights and justice, build feminist economies, and resource feminist movements.
Seneca Women is a global leadership platform and media company centered on the principle that advancing women and girls will fast forward us to a more equitable and prosperous world. Seneca Women focuses on driving impactful media and thought leadership, including at institutions such as the World Economic Forum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the World Bank, the U.S. State Department and the United Nations.
Every Mother Counts works to achieve quality, respectful, and equitable maternity care for all. By partnering with local organizations that serve historically marginalized communities, Every Mother Counts helps to deliver high-impact, low-cost solutions to improve maternal health outcomes.
Zonta International envisions a world in which women’s rights are recognized as human rights and every woman is able to achieve her full potential. In such a world, women have access to all resources and are represented in decision making positions on an equal basis with men. In such a world, no woman lives in fear of violence. Zonta International is a global organization of professionals empowering women worldwide through service and advocacy in gender equality, GBV, and child marriage.
Make Every Woman Count is an African woman-led organisation which serves as a mobilizing, networking, information, advocacy and training platform for African women by building their leadership capacities to influence policy and decision making. MEWC works to strengthen the voice, impact and influence of African women’s rights advocates and organizations. Existing primarily online, MEWC centralizes current, critical resources and tools, providing African women with a platform for sharing ideas and maximizing the advocacy and networking potential of the Internet and social media technology.
Women’s International Peace Centre seeks to restore hope and renew the spirits of conflict-affected women by documenting women’s specific realities, advocating for gender-responsive policies and programs, strengthening women’s leadership skills and building networks for women’s substantive participation in local, national and regional peace and post-conflict recovery processes. Progressive impact in parts of Africa, South East Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe has been achieved through work with local partners and women leaders to advance peaceful conflict resolution, peace building and post-conflict reconstruction.
Womankind Worldwide is a feminist women’s rights organization working in solidarity and partnership with women’s organizations around the world for a just world where the rights of all women are respected, valued, and realized. Womankind’s theory of change charts a course toward an end to all forms of violence against women and girls, equal access to economic rights and control over resources, and equal influence in decision making and ability to exercise political power.
AMPLIFY is a collective of community-driven organizations in Eastern Africa collaborating to create a community-based alternative to traditional development scale, focusing on the power and potential of adolescent girls. AMPLIFY utilizes intentional collaboration to share best practices, develop community driven metrics and create large scale joint advocacy campaigns in order to accentuate the unparalleled impact that community-driven organizations have in transforming the lives of adolescent girls. AMPLIFY is rooted in the belief that local community organizations are extremely effective in establishing long-term sustainable change. These organizations have the experience and tools to successfully deliver holistic programs and are uniquely positioned to collaborate with community leaders, families, girls and other decision makers.
Global Fund for Women envisions a world where movements for gender justice transform power and privilege for a few into equity and equality for all and funds bold, ambitious, and expansive gender justice movements to create meaningful and lasting change. Over the course of 30+ years, Global Fund for Women has supported feminist movements and grassroots organizers to end civil wars, get female Presidents elected, and secure laws giving new protection to millions.
Equality Fund is a Canadian-based organization working with a collective of partners to build a new model for sustainable investment in feminist movements globally. Equality Fund reaches across sectors, borders, and industries to ensure that meaningful resources and power flow to women’s rights organizations and feminist movements everywhere.
The African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) is a pan- African, feminist and membership-based network based in Nairobi with over 800 members across 49 African countries. FEMNET has strategically positioned herself as a convenor, organizer and facilitator on critical issues including women’s involvement in governance and leadership, promoting women’s economic justice, advocating for women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights, ending gender-based violence and harmful practices such as female genital mutilation and child marriage, and strengthening the women’s movement in Africa.
African Women Rights Advocates uses experience, networks, cultures, religions and languages to influence and transform local, national and global advocacy and policies shaping African women and girls everywhere. As a member-led movement, AWRA provides its members which include individuals and organizations with campaigns, social media and editorials, and academic partners. Leaders, grassroots activists, and entrepreneurs collaborate with allies, and impactful campaigns are created to massively shift policies and ensure that accountability measures are in place so that all African women and girls everywhere live a dignified and fulfilled life. Ending FGM is one of the causes of the founders.
The Equality Institute is a global feminist agency working to end violence against women and girls. Through the power of partnership, and with relationships across multiple sectors and diverse institutions, the EQI builds bridges and promotes collaboration in the field. EQI promotes research and learning, offers creative communications services, and shapes policy through strategic engagement and advocacy.
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom uses advocacy as a tool to create concrete changes in practices, policies, laws, norms, programmes and systems for durable peace. Advocacy work focuses on governments and the United Nations to stop violence and work to abolish the causes of war, and working with others including non-state actors and civil society. WILPF undertakes nonviolent activism around the world from campaigns to protests, from peace art to political rallies.
The Prevention Collaborative is a global network of practitioners, activists, and researchers working to better equip ourselves and others with the vision, knowledge, and skills necessary to end violence against women and their children worldwide. The Prevention Collaborative serves as a resource and ally to women’s rights organizations, civil society groups, International NGOs, donors, and governments – strengthening their ability to deliver cutting edge prevention programs informed by research base evidence, practice-based knowledge, and feminist principles.
The International Civil Society Action Network promotes inclusive and sustainable peace in countries affected by violent conflict, extremism, militarism, and closing political space. Recognizing the gendered impact of conflict and the critical role of women peacebuilders, ICAN fulfills its mission through a dual strategy of shaping and influencing the peace and security policies of governments, and sustaining and strengthening a global movement of innovative locally rooted women peacebuilders to have voice and influence wherever matters of peace, violent conflict, rights, and human security are determined. ICAN brings the word and spirit of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 and the global women, peace and security agenda to life.
The Global Network of Women Peacebuilders builds equal, resilient and peaceful communities. GNWP is a coalition of over 100 women’s rights organizations from over 40 countries around the world experiencing humanitarian crises or conflict. By elevating the voices of local women leaders and helping young women and girls reach their full potential through education, GNWP works to ensure that women leaders get a seat at the table and have resources, knowledge, and skills to effectively lead response in their communities.
Women’s Rights Watch is an international organization fighting to raise awareness, and one day, end sexual violence, slavery, FGM, and poverty in Africa. WRW believes the road to prosperity lies in the empowerment of women in the community, safety for women and girls in public areas, and promoting human rights with women’s voices.
Uganda Women’s Network (UWONET) is an advocacy organization that exists to coordinate collective action among women’s rights and gender equality stakeholders for the attainment of gender equality and equity in Uganda. UWONET focuses on galvanizing the capacity of women in leadership and governance, and enhancing economic justice and empowerment.
The Strategic Initiative of the Horn of Africa aims to contribute to unlocking the massive potential of the women’s rights movement in the Greater Horn of Africa. SIHA works through and in support of broad coalitions of grassroots members to campaign and advocate for women’s rights and equality by aligning violence against women and girls laws with human rights, challenge economic marginalization, protect women and girls who cross borders and migrate for work, and building women’s movements.
Every Woman Treaty is a campaign for a global treaty to end violence against women and girls. As a diverse coalition of more than 1,700 women’s rights advocates, including 840 organizations, in 128 countries working for a safer world for women and girls worldwide, Every Woman Treaty has drafted and calls on UN Member Nations to ratify an international agreement.
The Gender Security Project is a digital platform with a focus on gender, security, justice, and peace through research, reportage, and documentation. Operating from The Global South, the initiative aims at centering voices, scholarship, research, and reportage from the global south within the contexts of the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda and Feminist Foreign Policy.
Asia
Founded in 1937, Plan International is a development and humanitarian organization that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. Plan International has a bold new ambition to work with 100 million girls to transform their lives. Girls Get Equal is their global campaign demanding power, freedom and representation for girls and young women. The Activist Hub has inspiration, resources, and tools for campaigners. Share Your Power allows you to stand in solidarity with girls across the globe in the pursuit of gender equality.
Equality Now uses the law to protect and promote the human rights of women and girls around the world. With partners and supporters in nearly every country in the world, and staff in New York, London, Nairobi, Amman and Washington, D.C., Equality Now advocates locally, nationally and internationally to advance Legal Equality and Justice for Girls, and to End Sex Trafficking, Sexual Violence and Harmful Practices, including female genital mutilation (FGM) and child marriage. The Equality Now website has worldwide data, and numerous resources for education and advocacy, including clear and detailed fact sheets that can be cited as references when working with lawmakers.
The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women is one of the oldest international organizations working to end the trafficking and sexual exploitation of women and girls. Through an approach rooted in women’s rights and human rights principles, CATW advocates for strong laws and policies, raises public awareness and supports survivor leadership.
The UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women, managed by UN Women on behalf of the UN system, is the only global grant-making mechanism dedicated to eradicating all forms of violence against women and girls. Since its establishment in 1996 by UN General Assembly resolution 50/166, the UN Trust Fund has awarded USD 198 million to 609 initiatives in 140 countries and territories. Focusing on preventing violence, implementing laws and policies, and improving access to vital services for survivors, the UN Trust Fund invests in life-changing initiatives. The UN Trust Fund is committed to advocating for adequate, sustainable funding for efforts to end violence against women and girls, and funding organizations that are operating at the grassroots level, focused on women’s rights, and that are women-led.
Women for Women International is a multi-faceted organization that serves hundreds of thousands of women by providing skills, knowledge, and resources that create sustainable change for them, their families, and their communities. GGWW is particularly enthusiastic about Women for Women International because of their holistic and empowering approach that addresses the social and economic barriers to equality, gender-based violence and its increased incidence in conflict affected areas, and the extreme distress of women in poverty. GGWW and Women for Women International are aligned in the belief that strong women make strong nations.
Nobel Women’s Initiative uses the prestige of the Nobel Peace Prize and six courageous women peace laureates – Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Jody Williams, Shirin Ebadi, Tawakkol Karman, Leymah Gbowee, and Mangari Waathai – to magnify the power and visibility of women working in countries around the world for peace, justice and equality. It is their mission to use the visibility and prestige of the Nobel Prize to spotlight, amplify and promote the work of grassroots women’s organizations and movements around the world. 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence is a global annual campaign that brings attention to gender violence and highlights the work of activists all over the world. Every year, each day from November 25th to December 10th, Nobel Women’s Initiative highlights 16 grassroots women activists and peacebuilders working for peace, justice and equality.
Women Political Leaders is the global network of female politicians. The mission of WPL is to increase both the number and the influence of women in political leadership positions. WPL is an independent, international, post-partisan and not-for-profit foundation based in Reykjavik, Iceland – the world champion of gender equality.
Deliver for Good is an evidence based global campaign that applies a gender lens to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and promotes critical investments in girls and women to power progress for all. With a network of more than 500 supporting organizations, the Deliver for Good Campaign mobilizes advocates and decision-makers across sectors, issue areas, and generations to redefine the narrative around girls and women — from being described as victims and vulnerable, to being seen as powerful agents of change and critical drivers of progress.
The Association for Women’s Rights and Development is a global, feminist, membership, movement-support organization working to achieve gender justice and women’s human rights worldwide. AWID’s initiatives work to advance universal rights and justice, build feminist economies, and resource feminist movements.
Seneca Women is a global leadership platform and media company centered on the principle that advancing women and girls will fast forward us to a more equitable and prosperous world. Seneca Women focuses on driving impactful media and thought leadership, including at institutions such as the World Economic Forum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the World Bank, the U.S. State Department and the United Nations.
Every Mother Counts works to achieve quality, respectful, and equitable maternity care for all. By partnering with local organizations that serve historically marginalized communities, Every Mother Counts helps to deliver high-impact, low-cost solutions to improve maternal health outcomes.
Zonta International envisions a world in which women’s rights are recognized as human rights and every woman is able to achieve her full potential. In such a world, women have access to all resources and are represented in decision making positions on an equal basis with men. In such a world, no woman lives in fear of violence. Zonta International is a global organization of professionals empowering women worldwide through service and advocacy in gender equality, GBV, and child marriage.
Women’s International Peace Centre seeks to restore hope and renew the spirits of conflict-affected women by documenting women’s specific realities, advocating for gender-responsive policies and programs, strengthening women’s leadership skills and building networks for women’s substantive participation in local, national and regional peace and post-conflict recovery processes. Progressive impact in parts of Africa, South East Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe has been achieved through work with local partners and women leaders to advance peaceful conflict resolution, peace building and post-conflict reconstruction.
Womankind Worldwide is a feminist women’s rights organization working in solidarity and partnership with women’s organizations around the world for a just world where the rights of all women are respected, valued, and realized. Womankind’s theory of change charts a course toward an end to all forms of violence against women and girls, equal access to economic rights and control over resources, and equal influence in decision making and ability to exercise political power.
Global Fund for Women envisions a world where movements for gender justice transform power and privilege for a few into equity and equality for all and funds bold, ambitious, and expansive gender justice movements to create meaningful and lasting change. Over the course of 30+ years, Global Fund for Women has supported feminist movements and grassroots organizers to end civil wars, get female Presidents elected, and secure laws giving new protection to millions.
Equality Fund is a Canadian-based organization working with a collective of partners to build a new model for sustainable investment in feminist movements globally. Equality Fund reaches across sectors, borders, and industries to ensure that meaningful resources and power flow to women’s rights organizations and feminist movements everywhere.
The Equality Institute is a global feminist agency working to end violence against women and girls. Through the power of partnership, and with relationships across multiple sectors and diverse institutions, the EQI builds bridges and promotes collaboration in the field. EQI promotes research and learning, offers creative communications services, and shapes policy through strategic engagement and advocacy.
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom uses advocacy as a tool to create concrete changes in practices, policies, laws, norms, programmes and systems for durable peace. Advocacy work focuses on governments and the United Nations to stop violence and work to abolish the causes of war, and working with others including non-state actors and civil society. WILPF undertakes nonviolent activism around the world from campaigns to protests, from peace art to political rallies.
The Prevention Collaborative is a global network of practitioners, activists, and researchers working to better equip ourselves and others with the vision, knowledge, and skills necessary to end violence against women and their children worldwide. The Prevention Collaborative serves as a resource and ally to women’s rights organizations, civil society groups, International NGOs, donors, and governments – strengthening their ability to deliver cutting edge prevention programs informed by research base evidence, practice-based knowledge, and feminist principles.
The International Civil Society Action Network promotes inclusive and sustainable peace in countries affected by violent conflict, extremism, militarism, and closing political space. Recognizing the gendered impact of conflict and the critical role of women peacebuilders, ICAN fulfills its mission through a dual strategy of shaping and influencing the peace and security policies of governments, and sustaining and strengthening a global movement of innovative locally rooted women peacebuilders to have voice and influence wherever matters of peace, violent conflict, rights, and human security are determined. ICAN brings the word and spirit of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 and the global women, peace and security agenda to life.
The Global Network of Women Peacebuilders builds equal, resilient and peaceful communities. GNWP is a coalition of over 100 women’s rights organizations from over 40 countries around the world experiencing humanitarian crises or conflict. By elevating the voices of local women leaders and helping young women and girls reach their full potential through education, GNWP works to ensure that women leaders get a seat at the table and have resources, knowledge, and skills to effectively lead response in their communities.
Every Woman Treaty is a campaign for a global treaty to end violence against women and girls. As a diverse coalition of more than 1,700 women’s rights advocates, including 840 organizations, in 128 countries working for a safer world for women and girls worldwide, Every Woman Treaty has drafted and calls on UN Member Nations to ratify an international agreement.
Women’s Regional Network amplifies the voices of unheard, marginalized women, and addresses the interlinked issues of peace and security, justice and governance and growing militarization in South Asia. WRN presents an effective flexible platform for collaborating on research and analysis, joint advocacy and representation, and the implementation of well-designed initiatives. WRN develops and delivers specific advocacy campaigns to ensure that grassroots women’s concerns and their voices directly shape political discourse, policy development and program implementation.
The Gender Security Project is a digital platform with a focus on gender, security, justice, and peace through research, reportage, and documentation. Operating from The Global South, the initiative aims at centering voices, scholarship, research, and reportage from the global south within the contexts of the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda and Feminist Foreign Policy.
Women7 (W7) is a group of civil society organizations that come together to promote proposals on gender equality and women’s rights within the G7 process. Building on feminist principles of intersectionality and inclusion, W7 aims to bring together voices from civil society around the world to critically reflect on and inform G7 outcomes. Its objective is to ensure that G7 leaders make concrete political and financial commitments that can have a tangible, lasting and transformative impact on the lives of women and girls in all their diversity. Women7 hosts rotate on an annual basis along with the G7 presidencies.
Girls Not Brides is a global partnership of more than 1500 civil society organisations from over 100 countries committed to ending child marriage and enabling girls to fulfill their potential. With its partners, Girls Not Brides collaborates to prevent child marriage and support girls who are, or have ever been married, raise awareness of the harmful impact of child marriage, mobilize all necessary policy, financial and other support to end child marriage.
https://www.girlsnotbrides.org/
Human Rights Watch opposes all marriage of children under the age of 18, without exception, because of the devastating consequences for children who marry, the vast majority of whom are girls. HRW investigates and reports on abuses happening in all corners of the world and directs advocacy towards governments, pushing them to change or enforce their laws, policies, and practices. HRW advocates for girls’ and women’s rights as human rights.
https://www.hrw.org/topic/womens-rights/child-marriage
Diakonia works with about 400 local partners in 25 countries to support organizations that work for the rights of women and indigenous peoples as human rights, gender equality, and social and economic justice. They combat gender-based violence, especially violence against women, and support organizations that provide legal support and disseminate knowledge about gender-based violence and sexual and reproductive rights.
Dejusticia is an advocacy group based in Bogotá, Colombia, that achieves its goals through litigation, communications, education, and capacity building. Ultimately, they amplify the voice of the Global South and fortify the global human rights movement to promote positive social change.
Humanis works across Southeast Asia to support and empower vulnerable and marginalized groups and individuals, including women, girls, people with disabilities, sexual and gender minority groups, Indigenous communities, youth, and elderly people. They work to claim their rights and hold governments and other powerholders to account in three main areas: Gender Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (GEDI), Civic Rights in the Digital Age, and Climate Justice. Our programs currently focus mainly on Indonesia, the Philippines, Timor-Leste, and Myanmar.
Oceania
International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA) is an Australian-based organization that defends and advances the rights of diverse women and girls. IWDA and Womankind Worldwide have created “Plan Your Power: A Toolkit for Women’s Rights Advocacy Planning.”
The International Alliance of Women (IAW) is an international NGO comprising 44 member organizations involved in the promotion of the human rights of women and girls globally, with consideration of general consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council.
Gender at Work is an international feminist advocating for inclusive cultures and ending discrimination against women. While partnering with researchers and activists worldwide, they are educating communities about inequality structures and embedded societal discriminatory norms through Gender Action Learning, courses, consulting, and podcasts. They aim to produce innovative approaches and transformative tools.
Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) is a global advocacy organization that aims to promote and protect gender equality, human rights, and the environment. WEDO partners with leaders to facilitate global agendas to ensure women’s voices are heard and women’s leadership is advanced.
International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) is a global non-profit that challenges the causes and addresses the consequences of human rights violations, including gender justice. ICTJ works with victims to affirm their dignity, fight impunity, promote responsive institutions, hold those responsible to account, reform and build democratic institutions, and prevent the recurrence of violence or repression.
La Coordinadora de Organizaciones para el Desarrollo is a feminist cooperation seeking the transformation of the current capitalist, patriarchal, androcentric, colonial, and racist societies and governmental structures. They advocate economic, commercial, immigration, environmental, and social policy coherence to guarantee human rights and equality between people and protect the environment via the elimination of all forms of discrimination, violation of rights, and violence against women.
Say NO – UNiTE to End Violence against Women is a network of social mobilization platform that showcases advocacy efforts by civil society, activists, governments, and the UN system, through an interactive website and social media accounts.
International - https://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/ending-violence-against-women/unite
Regional - https://lac.unwomen.org/en/que-hacemos/fin-a-la-violencia-contra-las-mujeres/take-action/say-no
The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) is a global, feminist, membership, movement-support organization working to achieve gender justice and women’s human rights worldwide. Through strategically influence policy and practice, convening power to facilitate dialogue, and mobilize our members and the movements, they strive to allow all women to thrive, to be a driving force in challenging systems of oppression, and to co-create feminist realities.
Girls’ Globe is a global feminist media platform for gender equality, human rights, social justice, and sustainability. It amplifies changemakers’ voices worldwide by connecting underrepresented voices to a global audience that spans every country. Girls' Globe works with a broad range of partners to build momentum for movements of change.
Child’s Rights International Network (CRIN) is a creative human rights organization focusing on children’s rights. They press for rights and campaign for a genuine shift in how governments and societies view and treat adolescents. They encourage radical change by using research, policy, art, and advocacy to communicate their vision for the future. They advocate for environmental justice, ending the recruitment of child soldiers, and supporting abuse survivors to end impunity for institutional sexual violence against children in religious institutions in Latin America.
The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) is an organization of Advisors, Research, and Advocacy teams that collaborate closely to design and implement evidence-based programs that promote gender equality and empower women, girls, and structurally excluded populations. The center gender inequity to inform solutions from creating sustainable business practices, to expanding opportunities for youth, to addressing the ever-changing global health challenges.
Center for Women’s Global Leadership is a group from Rutgers University with an initiative to end gender-based violence and femicide while being committed to the progress of women at the university. They initiated the annual international 16 Days Campaign, comprised of 16 days of activism against Gender-Based Violence from November 25th, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and runs until December 10th, Human Rights Day.
The Center for Reproductive Rights is a global human rights organization of lawyers and advocates who ensure reproductive rights are protected in law as fundamental human rights for the dignity, equality, health, and well-being of every person around the world.
#EqualEverywhere brings together the United Nations Foundation and partners committed to achieving the urgent systemic change needed at all levels in all countries to end gender discrimination. Their aim is to build, nurture, and mobilize communities of support for girls and women across and between countries, sectors, and issues.