Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies: Global Perspectives and Human Rights

Useful for historical purposes as these guides are no longer being published.

Useful web tool to compare government-related information. Designed by the Inter-American Development Bank.

Country information on population, biodiversity, energy resources, economics, climate, poverty and more.

Website specialized in development studies. Information can be found either by topic or country.

LibGuide by, Cathy Dwyer, University at Albany, Government Documents Librarian.

LibGuide by, Cathy Dwyer, University at Albany, Government Documents Librarian.

Contains information on Internet networks, statistics, and third world countries relating to women's issues, from the University of Pennsylvania.

An independent research and educational organization concerned with understanding and appreciating indigenous peoples and their cultures. Includes research on domestic and international policy. "The Fourth World Institute" and related sites indicate their emphasis on research, education, and policy analysis for Fourth World nations.

Use the home page button on the bottom of the page to access titles and reports like "Initial Impacts of Welfare Reform on the Incomes of Single-Mother Families."

Includes resources, organizations, Web sites, and a listserv relating to Chicana/Latino Studies.

Gender equality legislation, treaties, council reports, gender mainstreaming and other very useful documents from the European Commission.

Global Gateway is a searchable gateway to rich primary source materials relating to history and culture throughout the world. This Library of Congress site offers more than 80 thousand digital items. In addition, it is a portal to international research centers and collections, presentations, exhibitions with links to many important resources.

A UN site that describes what the United Nations has done for the equal treatment of women. It also lists committees within the UN responsible for supporting women's rights. The United Nations Charter was the first global treaty which called for equality between women and men.

Selected sites on women outside the U.S. and Canada.

"The New Japan Women's Association (NJWA or Shinfujin) was founded on October 19, 1962 at the call of 32 women including Hiratsuka Raicho (pioneer of the Japanese women's movement), Nogami Yaeko (writer), and Iwasaki Chihiro (artist of pictures for children). Shinfujin activities are carried out in over 10,000 groups, which are organized all over the country; in workplaces and communities, including rural areas. Shinfujin has a head office that unites chapters working in all the 47 prefectures and branches in 880 municipalities. Under the five objectives, Shinfujin works to realize all kinds of women's demands concerning such issues as women's rights, equality with men, better working and living conditions, measures to support child-care, education, environmental protection, peace and abolition of nuclear weapons."

News and Action alerts on global issues from the National Organization of Women.

Affiliated with Rutgers University. Some resources available in French and Spanish.

Transferred to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva.

"The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), adopted in 1979 by the UN General Assembly, is often described as an international bill of rights for women. Consisting of a preamble and 30 articles, it defines what constitutes discrimination against women and sets up an agenda for national action to end such discrimination."

http://www.ohchr.org/en/hrbodies/cedaw/pages/cedawindex.aspx

United Nations Women is the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women.

(UNIFEM merged with UN WOMEN as of 2011)

"UNIFEM Arab States Regional Office was established in Amman in 1994, as one of 15 regional offices of UNIFEM worldwide. Today UNIFEM Arab States Regional Office's mandate encompasses 17 Arab countries: Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya and Algeria." Contains news, press releases, and useful links."

Twentieth Anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 1979-1999.

HUMAN RIGHTS OF WOMEN:
Twentieth Anniversary of the adoption of the
United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 1979-1999.