| AAUW www.aauw.org |
American Association of University Women – membership organization of women graduates organized into local branches throughout the United States, using its voice on critical issues affecting women and girls. One of the founders of the IFUW; no longer affiliated. |
| AWID www.awid.org |
The Association for Women's Rights in Development - an international, multi-generational, feminist, future-orientated membership organization committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable development and women's human rights. As a network of women and men around the world, AWID members are researchers, academics, students, educators, activists, business people, policy-makers, development practitioners, and funders. |
| BPW www.bpwfoundation.org |
Business and Professional Women - worldwide network of business and professional women working to help women worldwide achieve economic independence and to create a powerful lobby for promoting women's issues. |
| CONGO www.ngocongo.org |
Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations - joins together non-governmental organizations from around the world. It facilitates the participation of NGOs in UN debates and decisions. CONGO is most active in the major UN centers of New York, Geneva, and Vienna, but extends its work to all regions of the world. |
| ICW www.icw-cif.org |
International Council of Women - works to promote equal rights and responsibilities for both men and women in all spheres by removing all forms of discrimination based on birth, race, sex, language or religion; to promote recognition and respect for Human Rights; to support all efforts to achieve peace through negotiation, arbitration and conciliation and to encourage the integration of women in development and in decision-making bodies. |
| FPA www.fpa.org |
Foreign Policy Association - a non-profit organization dedicated to inspiring the American public to learn more about the world. Founded in 1918, the Foreign Policy Association serves as a catalyst for developing awareness, understanding of, and providing informed opinions on global issues. Through its balanced, nonpartisan programs and publications, the FPA encourages citizens to participate in the foreign policy process. |
| FPIF www.fpif.org |
Foreign Policy in Focus - a "think tank without walls" connecting the research and action of more than 600 scholars, advocates, and activists seeking to make the United States a more responsible global partner. It is a project of the Institute for Policy Studies. FPIF provides timely analysis of U.S. foreign policy and international affairs and recommends policy alternatives, advocating diplomatic solutions, global cooperation, and grassroots participation to guide foreign policy. |
| LWV www.lwv.org |
League of Women Voters - Nonpartisan political organization, founded in 1920 to improve our systems of government and impact public policies through citizen education and advocacy. The League is a grassroots organization, working at the national, all fifty states and local levels. The League is wholeheartedly political and works to influence policy through advocacy. It is the original grassroots citizen network, directed by the consensus of its members nationwide. Over time, the League’s legislative priorities change to reflect the needs of society and critical issues of concern. The organization remains true to its basic purpose: to make democracy work for all citizens. |
| OAS www.oas.org |
Organization of American States – brings together the nations of the Western Hemisphere to strengthen cooperation on democratic values, defend common interests and debate the major issues facing the region and the world. The OAS is the region’s principal multilateral forum for strengthening democracy, promoting human rights, and confronting shared problems such as poverty, terrorism, illegal drugs and corruption |
| SI www.soroptimistinternational.org |
Soroptimist International - a worldwide organization for women in management and professions working through service projects to advance human rights and the status of women. |
| UNA-USA www.unausa.org |
United Nations Association-USA - a not-for-profit membership organization dedicated to building understanding of and support for the ideals and vital work of the United Nations. Its educational and humanitarian campaigns. Its policy and advocacy programs stress the importance of nations working together and the need for United States leadership in the United Nations. The association is affiliated with the World Federation of United Nations Associations. |
| VGIF www.vgif.org |
Virginia Gildersleeve International Fund - a charitable international fund that supports projects worldwide, focusing on women's educational activities, leadership training, community development and the advancement of understanding and cooperation among women. |
| WAND www.wand.org |
Women’s Action for New Directions – a nonprofit that empowers women to act politically to reduce violence and militarism, and redirect excessive military resources toward unmet human and environmental needs. Functions with chapters throughout the US. |
| WGG www.girlsrights.org |
NGO Committee on UNICEF, Working Group on Girls - is a group of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), associated with UNICEF and the NGO Committee on the Status of Women, based in New York and Geneva. WGGs works for the rights and future of girls, with a special focus on implementation of the specific provisions for girls in the Beijing Platform for Action. |
| WILPF www.wilpf.org in USA at: www.wilpf.org/US_WILPF |
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom – the oldest women's peace organization in the world having been founded in 1915 with Jane Adams as its first president. It is an international NGO with Sections in 37 countries, covering all continents. WILPF works to achieve through peaceful means world disarmament, full rights for women, racial and economic justice, an end to all forms of violence, and to establish those political, social, and psychological conditions which can assure peace, freedom, and justice for all. |
| ZI www.zonta.org |
Zonta International - is a worldwide organization of executives in business and the professions working together to advance the status of women |