Women's Human Rights Resources (DIANA database of links at the Bora Laskin Law Library, University of Toronto; includes links to articles, documents, web sites)
Womens Human Rights Net (Whrnet; links to advocacy tools, networks, and other resources)
Women's Human Rights in Conflict Situations Bibliography (by Stephanie Grenier, International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development (ICHRDD), Canada, May 1997; coverage begins with documents published in 1990; also available in French)
Women's Rights in Conflict Situations Bibliography (Update) (includes documents published from May 1997 to February 1999; by Rose-Marie Dubois & Ferroudja Nazef, International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development (ICHRDD), Canada; also available in French)
Women and Human Rights (University of Minnesota Human Rights Page; includes bibliographies of books and articles, documents, cases, treaties, etc.)
Guide to the International Women's Human Rights Movement (1995-2000) (Human Rights Internet (HRI), Canada)
The Human Rights of Women: A Reference Guide to Official United Nations Documents (Rita Maran ed., 3d printing March 1998; includes excerpts or full texts of documents; available also in French and Spanish; posting on the Internet is supported by Amnesty International- USA Special Initiatives Fund)
Women's Caucus for Gender Justice (site contains information about the Women's Caucus and its work on the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the Optional Protocol to CEDAW; includes recent papers and publications, such as position papers distributed at the Preparatory Commissions at the ICC, reports, articles, newsletter and their recent document on the ICC for the Beijing+5 review)
The Tokyo Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery (December 8-12, 2000; includes Public Hearing on Crimes from Recent Wars and Conflict Regions)
Commentary and Background Information on the CERD General Recommendation on Gender Dimensions of Racial Discrimination (CERD/C/54/Misc.31, 11 March 1999, Gay McDougall submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD))
General Recommendation on Gender Related Dimensions of Racial Discrimination (CERD/C/54/Misc.25, 9 March 1999; see also CERD/C/55/Misc.12, submitted by Theodoor van Boven, CERD 1333rd meeting, CERD/C/SR.1333, 5 August 1999, at 6)
A Rights-based Approach to Realizing Gender Equality (by Professor Savitri Goonesekere, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, in cooperation with the UN Division on the Advancement of Women (DAW)), October 1998)
Integrating the gender perspective into the work of United Nations human rights treaty bodies : a report : tenth meeting of persons chairing human rights treaty bodies, Geneva, 14-18 September 1998 ([New York, NY] : United Nations, 1998). HRI/MC/1998/6. Report by the Secretary-General. 22 p.
Anne Gallagher, "Ending the Marginalization: Strategies for Incorporating Women into the United Nations Human Rights System", 19 Human Rights Quarterly 283-333 (No.2, 1997). Need to be a Project Muse subscriber for electronic access.
A Life Free of Violence: It's Our Right (United Nations Inter-Agency Campaign on Women's Human Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean; site hosted by the United Nations Development Programme, Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNDP-RBLAC; includes link to Gender and Legislation in Latin America and the Caribbean book by Aparna Mehrotra (1998))
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW; part of the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW))
Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW; adopted by the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women, in New York, on 12 March 1999; E/CN.6/1999/WG/L.2 (10 March 1999))
CEDAW-IN-ACTION (United Nations Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women Working Group list; for more information, check the CEDAW-in-action List Archives; to subscribe, send e-mail to majordomo@edc-cit.org with only the following text in the body of the message:
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The Women's Watch, IWRAW's newsletter) Human Rights International Alliance (HRIA))
Guide to Women and the Law (Lex Mundi's Hieros Gamos page includes many links, including international law-related ones) Gender and the Law as part of International Legal Studies Program)
Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy
Women's Bar Organizations on the WWW (includes links to foreign and international women's bar associations)
Commission on Women in the Profession (American Bar Association (ABA))
INTWOMEN (Women in International Law; electronic discussion group of the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of International Law and Practice, Public International Law Division, to facilitate communication and to exchange information regarding the UN Fourth World Conference on Women; to subscribe, send e-mail to listserv@abanet.org with only the following text in the body of the message:
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International Federation of Women Lawyers (IFWL; has permanent representatives in New York, Geneva, and Vienna and special consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council since 1954)
International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA - Association Internationale des Femmes Juristes - Ghana)
Women and the Law Committee (Lex Mundi)
Committee on Feminism and International Law (International Law Association (ILA))
Women's Rights Committee (Comité XX: Derechos de la Mujer; Inter-American Bar Association (IABA))
Women's Rights Advocacy Program (WRAP, International Human Rights Law Group (IHRLG))
Women's Human Rights (Amnesty International, Sweden)
Women's Rights Project (Human Rights Watch)
GENDER-LAW (Gender and Law; list to examine what the World Bank's role should be in the legal issues affecting women in developing countries and attempt to improve understanding of how the law can be used to improve gender equity; to subscribe, send e-mail to majordomo@jazz.worldbank.org with only the following text in the body of the message:
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Sexuality, Gender, and the Law: National and International (includes links to resources on lesbians and the law and gender issues)
Lesbian Rights Summit (National Organization for Women, 23-25 April, 1999, Washington, D.C.; "this national summit will be about political strategy, coalition building, skills sharing, and breaking the barriers that splinter [the feminist] movement; the diversity of the summit will include lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, straight, racial/ethnic identity, age, economic circumstance, religion, physical ability, and more")
National Women's Justice Coalition (NWJC, Australia)
Institute for Women and Children's Policy (IWCP)
Abortion Laws of the World (full texts via the Annual Review of Population Law web page; about 66 laws as of 14 May 1999)
World Abortion Policies 1999 (United Nations Population Information Network (POPIN); ground for legal abortion; abortion rates; fertility rates; maternal mortality; rate of contraceptive use by married women)
Population and Reproductive Rights (Women, Ink. books)
Schweizerische Vereinigung für Straflösigkeit des Schwangerschaftsabbruchs (SVSS; Union suisse pour décriminaliser l'avortement (USPDA); Unione svizzera per decriminalizzare l'aborto; women's reproductive rights; the SVSS is a pro-choice organisation that informs about legal, ethical and practical aspects of abortion and has links to related organizations around the world; information in German and French)
International Reproductive Rights Research Action Group (IRRAG)
Center for Gender and Refugee Studies (CGRS, University of California Hastings College of the Law; provides links to resources on cases involving women asylum-seekers, including summaries and full texts of gender asylum cases, related documents and web sites)
European Campaign for Women Asylum-Seekers (European Women's Lobby (EWL))
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM and international human rights law; Amnesty International report)
Gendercide Watch (information on gender-selective mass-killing and other human rights atrocities worldwide, with a focus on women and girls)
Revised draft Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children, Supplementing the Draft Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime (A/AC.254/4/Add.3/Rev.3)
Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000: Trafficking in Persons Report (also available as a 105-page PDF file; U.S. Department of State, July 2001)
Trafficking in Women and Children (APBnews.com three-part article series - Backgrounder by Amy O'Neill Richard - January 2001)
Stopping Traffic: Exploring the Extent of, and Responses to, Trafficking in Women for Sexual Exploitation in the UK (by Liz Kelly and Linda Regan; Carole F. Willis ed., London: Research, Development, and Statistics Directorate, Policing and Reducing Crime Unit, Home Office, 2000)(Police Research Series Paper 125). PDF file. 62p. ISBN 1-84082-466-2.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights. Trafficking of women and children in the international sex trade : hearing before the Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, first session, September 14, 1999 (Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 2000). 105p. ISBN 0160603854. Y4.IN8/16:T67/14.
Trafficking in Women (Directorate General for Research, European Parliament, March 2000)(Civil Liberties Series; LIBE 109 EN). Working Paper. Author: Carmen Galiana. Editor: Andrea Subhan. 4-2000.
The Sex Trade: Trafficking of Women and Children in Europe and the United States (PDF file; June 28, 1999 Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) hearing). 70p. Y4.SE2:106-1-9.
Comprehensive Antitrafficking in Persons Act of 1999 (S. 1842, sponsored by Senator Paul D. Wellstone, introduced on November 2, 1999; related bill is H.R. 3154, introduced by Representative Sam Gejdenson on October 27, 1999; hearings re on February 22, 2000 by the Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs; "a bill to combat trafficking of persons in the United States and countries around the world through prevention, prosecution and enforcement against traffickers, and protection and assistance to victims of trafficking")
Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 1999 (H.R. 3244, sponsored by Rep. Christopher H. Smith and Rep. Sam Gejdenson; introduced on November 8, 1999, "to combat trafficking of persons, especially into the sex-trade, slavery, and slavery-like conditions in the United States and countries around the world through prevention, through prosecution and enforcement against traffickers, and through protection and assistance to victims of trafficking")
P.L.106-113, Section 597 (H.R.3194 enacted on 29 November 1999), at 113 Stat. 1501A-127, amends Section 116 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to include a subsection covering trafficking in persons, especially women and children)
Freedom from Sexual Trafficking Act of 1999 (H.R.1356, sponsored by Rep. Christopher H. Smith, introduced on 25 March 1999, "to end international sexual trafficking, and for other purposes", 106th Congress)
International Trafficking of Women and Children Victim Protection Act of 1999 (H.R.1238, sponsored by Rep. Louise McIntosh Slaughter, introduced on 23 March 1999, 106th Congress)
International Trafficking of Women and Children Victim Protection Act of 1999 (S.600, a bill introduced in the 106th Congress by U.S. Senator Paul D. Wellstone on 11 March 1999; incorporated as Senate Amendment (S. Amdt.) 1123 to S.1234, which itself was incorporated later as an amendment to H.R.2606)
In Focus: Trafficking in Women (v.3, no.30, October 1998; briefing paper written by Jyothi Kanics, Global Survival Network, that includes information about related organizations and publications; "U.S. Foreign Policy in Focus" - A Project of the Institute for Policy Studies and the Interhemispheric Resource Center)
Initiative Against Trafficking in Persons (established as a project of the Women's Rights Advocacy Program (WRAP) of the International Human Rights Law Group (IHRLG) to combat the global trade in persons; includes links to IHRLG Recommendations)
Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST, Hae Jung Cho, project director; see also the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), Angelica Salas, acting executive director)
The Protection Project (now located at the Foreign Policy Institute of the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C.; released the Human Rights Report on Trafficking of Women and Children on March 8, 2001; contact information:

Formerly an initiative located at the Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP) of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; purpose to create a comprehensive legal database of national and international legislation; " Creating an International Framework for Legislation to Protect Women and Children from Commercial Sexual Exploitation"; Global Trafficking of Women and Children page)
Fight Against Trafficking in Human Beings (European Union SCADPLUS page on "Trafficking in Women for the Purpose of Sexual Exploitation")
UN Trafficking Treaty: Myths/Facts and Trafficking in Women and Children via the Trafficking in Women and Girls page of The President's Interagency Council on Women (PICW), U.S. Department of State (see also their Office of the Senior Coordinator for International Women's Issues page; see also Clinton Administration Anti-Trafficking Initiatives which also covers international anti-trafficking initiatives)
Human Trafficking Program (Global Survival Network (GSN); program ceased in 2000 with GSN's human trafficking reports, videos, and other materials being transferred to the organization, Witness located in New York)
STOP-TRAFFIC (list for discussion of trafficking in persons for forced labor, including domestic servitude, forced agricultural and textile work, etc.; includes discussion of trafficking of women); subscribe via http://www.stop-traffic.org/ or http://fpmail.friends-partners.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/stop-traffic (was on listproc, now on mailman; additional info at http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/stop-traffic/?):
Stop-Traffic is an open, facilitated, international electronic list
International Organization for Migration (includes documents and publications on trafficking in migrant women and children such as Trafficking in Migrants; see also their Counter-Trafficking page)
NEWW-RIGHTS (list created as part of the On-Line Legal Resources Service of the Network of East-West Women (NEWW) for the discussion of women's legal rights in the post-communist countries of Europe; was on majordomo@igc.apc.org until January 31, 1999, then on majordomo@neww.org; subscribe via the web at http://www.neww.org/mailman/listinfo/neww-rights/

Women: General Topics

Global WomenAction 2000 (collaborative project to provide NGO Beijing Plus Five websites and online dialogues for those who want to be involved in the Beijing review process)
European WomenAction 2000 (platform for European women's organizations to strategize around the Beijing Platform of Action review process)
The President's Interagency Council on Women (U.S. PICW; includes link to Women 2000: Beijing Plus Five page)
Beijing+5 ("Women: 2000: Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the 21st Century", Status of Women, Canada, Information Site)
Women in Politics (Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU))
Women in Parliaments Worldwide (statistics from the Inter-Parliamentary Union)
WomensNet (health, reproductive rights, violence against women links; Institute for Global Communications (IGC); also the Beijing+5 Global Forum Internet Working Groups:
Commission on the Status of Women (CSW; part of the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW))
UNIFEM (United Nations Development Fund for Women)
End Violence Against Women (March 8, 1999 videoconference sponsored by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM))
Fourth World Conference on Women
Further Actions and Initiatives to Implement the Beijing Declaration and the Platform of Action (23d Special Session, UN General Assembly, "Women 2000: Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the Twenty-first Century"). 10 June 2000. 44-page PDF file.

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (University of Chicago Press). ISSN: 0097-9740.

     Founded in 1975, Signs is a leading international
     journal in women's studies.  Signs publishes articles 
     from a wide range of disciplines in a variety of voices - 
     articles engaging gender, race, culture, class, sexuality, 
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United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Population Index (web version of quarterly publication of the Office of Population Research at Princeton University; an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other material on population topics: a searchable and browsable database containing 41,103 abstracts of demographic literature published in Population Index in the period 1986-1998; includes listings of articles on women and the law, human rights, etc.)
Population and Gender (links to Internet resources via PopNet, "the source for global population information", a service of the Population Reference Bureau with funding assistance from the US Agency for International Development (USAID))
Ending Violence Against Women (Population Reports, Volume XXVII, Number 4, December, 1999, Series L, Number 11, Issues in World Health; Population Reports is published by the Population Information Program, Center for Communication Programs, The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (JHUCCP) in collaboration with the Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE)). 43p.
International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)
Women's International Network News (information about WIN NEWS)
H-WOMEN (History of Women list provided by H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences Online; to subscribe, send e-mail to listserv@h-net.msu.edu with only the following text in the body of the message:
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WSSLINKS: Women and Gender Studies Web Sites (maintained by the Women's Studies Section, Collection Development Committee, Association of College and Research Libraries)
Women's Studies (extensive page of links by Joan Korenman; a good starting point!)
International Gender Studies Resources (links page of the Institute of International Studies, University of California at Berkeley)
Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies (University of Leeds)
Women, State, Culture...in Former Yugoslavia (page of links by Kristina Mihalec; includes an extensive Bibliography; was at http://home.istar.ca/~kris/INDEX.HTM)
International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO; impact of the global economy on women and the environment)
Association for Women in Development (AWID)
Women's Foreign Policy Group (WFPG)
Women in International Trade (WIIT, Washington, D.C.; a chapter of the Organization of Women in International Trade (OWIT: "United Around the Globe to Foster Free Trade and the Advancement of Women in Business...members include women and men doing business in all facets of international trade including finance, public relations, government, freight forwarding, international law, agriculture, sales and marketing, import/export, logistics, and transportation"))
Women in International Security (WIIS; includes related links)
Women's Studies International Forum (Oxford; New York: Pergamon; tables of contents from 1995 to the present via Elsevier; "bimonthly journal to aid the distribution and exchange of feminist research in the multidisciplinary, international area of women's studies and in feminist research in other disciplines; [t]he policy of the journal is to establish a feminist forum for discussion and debate"; was formerly Women's Studies International Quarterly)
The Feminist Majority Foundation Online (includes the Feminist Internet Gateway with links on violence against women and sexual harassment, reproductive rights, and global feminism)
The National Organization for Women (NOW; includes Legislative Update (U.S. Congress) and links to information on abortion and reproductive rights, affirmative action, economic equity, sexual harassment, electoral politics, global feminism, legislation, lesbian rights, racial and ethnic diversity, violence against women, women in the military, women-friendly workplace, young feminism)
Be active, Be emancipated (B.a.B.e.; Budi aktivna, Budi emancipirana; Grupa za zenska ljudska prava = Women's Human Rights Group, Zagreb, Croatia; was at http://www.interlog.com/~moyra/; see also CROW, the first and only on-line magazine for and about women in Croatia, maintained by Nevenka Sudar from Zagreb, Croatia; CROW is in Croatian and English)
Israel Women's Network (IWN; includes legal information on sexual harassment, trafficking in women, violence against women, women in the army, and family law)
WomensNet (South Africa; includes page on Women and Human Rights with links to South African governmental and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) such as the Black Sash)
Women's Studies (University of Chicago Library; includes links to electronic databases, journals, and indexes, and sources on women's history and academic; has women-oriented artwork)
Center for Gender Studies (University of Chicago; includes information on the Lesbian & Gay Studies Project and the Feminist Studies Project)
Gay and Lesbian Studies (University of Chicago Library; includes international resources)

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